His family soon moved to Calcutta and Kumar pursued his primary, secondary and college education in Bengal.
Kumar was born in Benaras (Varanasi) on 16 June 1920. On his 99th birth anniversary, on Sunday, ThePrint remembers this legendary cultural icon.Īlso read: Mrinal Sen, the cinematic genius who had the courage to bring social realities on celluloid Melody queen Lata Mangeshkar had once said, “Listening to Hemanta da, I feel as though a sadhu is sitting in a temple singing bhajan”. Also known as Hemanta Mukhopadhyay in West Bengal, Kumar is an exponent of Rabindra Sangeet too and has left behind a rich legacy of soulful music.
Kumar was among a handful of artists in the capacity of a singer, music director, composer and a film producer who straddled both the worlds of Bengali and Hindi films with elan. Hemant Kumar’s sonorous voice lends nothing less than magic to it and at once catapults before us his tall, dhoti-shirt clad figure. Fifty years since, this song still resonates in the hearts of people and recreates a kind of carefree romanticism that belongs only to lovers. Inside, a slick Biswajeet Chatterjee beckons the shy Waheeda Rehman in this 1964 song from the film Kohraa.
A wind-blown mansion and a haunting melody. New Delhi: ‘Yeh nayan dare dare, ye jaam bhare bhar…’.
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