A giant in Bengali music and Rabindrasangeet, it was Hindi cinema that introduced Hemanta Mukhopadhyay, popularly known as Hemant Kumar, to the larger masses. KOLKATA: Legendary singer and music ...

Hemanta Mukhopadhyay's first film song was for Nimai Sanyasi in 1941. Hemanta Mukhopadhyay was among the very few artists in the capacity of a singer, music director, composer and a film producer who ...

A quarter of a century ago, on September 26, 1989 to be exact, not only we Bengalis but the people of the entire sub-continent lost one of the most popular and versatile singers and composers -- ...