Hemant Kumar is a Bollywood legend, renowned for his work as an award-winning
playback singer and Indian music director. He was born as "Hemanta Mukhopadhyay"
on June 16, 1920, in Varanasi, India. Released in 1940, the Bengali film
Rajkumarer Nirbbasan marked his debut as a composer, while 1947's Abhiyatri
found him working as a music director for the first time. By the mid-1950s, he
was composing music for multiple films each year, as well as appearing in an
equal number of films as a playback singer. In 1956, he received the Filmfare
Best Music Director Award for Nagin, which w...