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Name
S.D. Burman
Date of Birth
1st October, 1906
Birth Place
Comilla, British India (Now in Bangladesh)
Father’s Name Sh.
Nabadwipchandra Dev Burman
Mother’s Name Smt.
Nirmala Devi
Spouse
Smt.
Meera Dasgupta
Children
(1 Son) Rahul Dev Burman
Education
B.A. from Calcutta University
Music Training
Sh. K.C. Dey,
Kahifa Badal Khan (Sarangi Player) and
Ustad
Allauddin Khan
Kumar Shri Sachin Dev Burman also credited as
Burman Da, Kumar Sachindra Dev Barman, Sachin Karta or S. D. Burman,
was one of the most famous music composers for Hindi Movies and a Bengali
singer and composer. S.D. Burman's compositions have been mainly sung to a
large extent by the likes of Lata Mangeshkar, Mohammad Rafi, Geeta Dutt,
Manna Dey, Kishor Kumar, Asha Bhonsle, Shmshad Begum, Mukesh and Talat
Mahmood have also sung songs composed by him. He also sang about 20 film
songs (inclusive of Bengali films) for which he composed music though he may
not have been the music director of the films.
Sachin was the youngest of the five sons, of his parents,
who had nine children in all. He started working as a radio singer on
Calcutta Radio Station in 1932. His first record was also released
(Hindustan Musical Product), with Khamaj semi classical, E Pathery
Aaj Eso Priyo on one side and the folk Dakle Kokil Roj Bihane. In
1944, he moved to Bombay, at the request of Sasadhar Mukherjee of Filistan,
who asked him to give score for two Ashok Kumar starrers, Shikari
(1946) and Aath Din, but his first major breakthrough came the
following year with the company's Do Bhai (1947). The song Mera
Sundar Sapna Beet Gaya sung by Geet Dutt was her breakthrough song into
the film industry.
He also wrote music for the Guru Dutt classics - Pyaasa
(1957) and Kaagaz Ke Phool (1959). The soundtrack of Devdas (1955) was also
composed by him. House No. 44 (1955), Funtoosh (1956), and Solva Saal (1958)
were other S.D. Burman hits. In 1959 came Sujata, a masterpiece by Bimal
Roy, and S.D. created magic again with Jalte Hai Jiske Liye by Talat
Mamood.
In 1957, S.D. Burman fell out with Lata Mangeshkar and
adopted her younger sister Asha Bhonsle as his lead female singer. The team
of S.D. Burman, Kishor, Asha and lyricist Majrooh Sultanpur became popular
for their duet songs. Thus, he was responsible along with O.P. Nayyar for
shaping Asha Bhonsle as a singer of repute, who became his daughter-in-law
after she married Rahul Dev Burman.
Early on in his career, he refused to allow his voice be
lip-synced on film by actors, as a result, even later on, in Hindi Cinema,
his thin yet powerful voice was often used as bardic commentary to haunting
results, as in Ore Majhi Mere Sajan Hai Us Paar (1963), Wahaan
Kaun Hai Tera from Guide (1965) and finally Safal Hogi
Teri Aradhana from Aradhana (1969), for which he received the National
Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer.
S.D. Burman went into coma soon after recording the song
Badi Sooni Sooni. He died on 31st October,
1975 in Bombay. |
