Hemant Kumar

Name : Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay
Birthday : June 16, 1920
Star Sign: Gemini

Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay (Hemonto Kumar Mukhopaddhae) also known as Hemanta Mukherjee (June 16, 1920 – September 26, 1989) was an Indian singer, composer and producer. He sang in Hindi films under the name Hemant Kumar.
Hemanta recorded his first song for All India Radio in 1933. Hemanta migrated to Mumbai in 1951 and joined the Filmistan Studios. Hemanta scored music for a few Filmistan movies like Shart in subsequent years, the songs of which received moderate popularity. Simultaneously, Hemanta also gained popularity in Mumbai as a playback singer. His songs playbacked for actor Dev Anand under music director Sachin Dev Burman in movies like Jaal, House No. 44, and Solva Saal became quite popular. In the next decade, Hemanta's production company was renamed Geetanjali productions and it produced several Hindi movies such as Bees Saal Baad, Kohraa, Biwi Aur Makaan, Faraar, Rahgir and Khamoshi – all of which had music by Hemanta.
In September 1989, he travelled to Dhaka, Bangladesh to receive the Michael Madhusudan Award. He performed a concert in Dhaka as well. Immediately after returning from this trip, he suffered a major cardiac arrest on September 26 and breathed his last at 11:15 pm in a nursing home in South Calcutta.

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