In Bollywood, RD Burman is remembered as a composer who mesmerized the audience with his magical music. RD Burman was born on 27 June 1939 in Calcutta (now Kolkata). His father SD Burman was a well -known film musician. Due to the film atmosphere in the house, he also turned towards music and started teaching music from his father.
RD Burman also studied Sarod playing from Ustad Ali Akbar Khan. RD Burman, popularly known as Pancham Da in the film world, received this name when he conveyed the five Sur SARG of music to actor Ashok Kumar. At the young age of 9, Pancham Da made his first tune ‘A Meri Tap Palt Ke Aa’ and later his father Sachin Dev Burman used him in the 1956 film ‘Funtush’ released in 1956. Apart from this, his tune ‘Sir Jo Tera Chakray’ was also used for Gurudutt’s film ‘Pyaasa’.
RD starts his cine career Burman along with his father as a musician assistant. These films also include superhit films like ‘Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi’ 1958 and ‘Paper Ke Phool’ 1959. As a musician, he started his cine career in the year 1961 with Mahmud’s film ‘Chhota Nawab’ but through this film he could not make any special identity.
Meanwhile, RD with his father Burman also gave music for films like Bandini (1963), ‘Teen Deian’ (1965) and ‘Guide’ as a musician assistant. Pancham Da, who was a musician from the film ‘Bhoot Bangla’ released in 1965, was somewhat successful in making his mark in the film industry. The song ‘Aao Twist Kare’ from this film became very popular among the audience.
RD looking for his existence Burman had to struggle in the film industry for almost ten years. In the year 1966, he reached the Buddhist of fame as a musician through the evergreen songs like ‘Aaja Aaja Main Hoon Pyaar’ and ‘O Hasina Zulfon Wali’ from the producer director Nasir Hussain’s film ‘Third Manzil’.
The year 1972 proved to be an important stage of Pancham da’s cine career. This year, he had music in many films like ‘Sita Aur Geeta’, ‘Mere Jeevan Saathi’, ‘Bombay to Goa’, ‘Introduction’ and ‘Jawani Deewani’. In the year 1975, Pancham Da tied a different support by singing the song ‘Mehbooba Mehbooba’ from Ramesh Sippy’s superhit film ‘Sholay’, while in many films like ‘Anthi’, ‘Wall’, ‘Khushboo’, the magic of his music in many films like the listeners.
RD, who specializes in experimenting with music Burman prepared a new tune by mixing the music of the east and the West. However, he used to have a lot of criticism for this. To sing such tunes, he was looking for a voice that settled in his music. He received this voice in the playback singer Asha Bhosle. For a long period, both of them played together in music and finally fascinated the audience with their superhit songs for a lifetime.
After the failure of the film ‘Sagar’ released in 1985, producer directors took their face mode. Along with this, he got another shock when producer director Subhash Ghai signed composer Laxmikant Pyarelal in his place in the film ‘Ramlakhan’. After this, however, his music was well liked in ‘Paar Pai’, ‘Leibas’, ‘Parinda’, ‘1942 A Love Story’.
Apart from music direction, Pancham da also gave his voice for many films. Rich RD of versatility Apart from music direction and singing, Burman also made the audience crazy with his performances in films like ‘Bhoot Bangla’ (1965) and ‘Pyaar Ka Mausam’ (1969). RD Burman gave music for 300 Hindi films in his more than four decades of long cine career.
Apart from Hindi films, RD Burman also drunk the audience with the magic of his music in Bangla, Telugu, Tamil, Oriya and Marathi films. Pancham da was awarded the Filmfare Award for Best Composer three times in his cine career. These include ‘Sanam Teri Kasam’, ‘Masoom’ and ‘1942 A Lovestory’.
Along with film music, Pancham da was also able to win the hearts of audience with non-film music. His manufactured album ‘Pantera’ with famous American music composer Jose Flores was very popular. Pancham Da, who has enlivened the audience with melodious music waves for four decades, said goodbye to this world on 4 January 1994.
