Hemant Kumar
An image from Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam, one of the productions that also features Hemant Kumar.
Hemant Kumar

Hemant Kumar

June 16, 1920 — Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India

Hemanta Mukhopadhyay, known professionally as Hemant Kumar, was an Indian Bengali singer and music director who sang in Bengali, Hindi and other Indian languages like Marathi, Gujarati, Odia, Assamese, Tamil, Punjabi, Bhojpuri, Konkani, Sanskrit and Urdu. He was an artist of Bengali and Hindi film music, Rabindra Sangeet, and many other songs. He was the recipient of two National Awards for Best Male Playback Singer.

Hemanta Mukhopadhyay was the exclusive singing voice of Uttam Kumar. He was also popular as being the voice of actors Biswajit Chattopadhyay, Anil Chattopadhyay, Anup Kumar Das, Soumitra Chattopadhyay, Pradeep Kumar Batabyal and Dev Anand.

Siddhartha

Siddhartha

1972

Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam

Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam

1962

Anupama

Anupama

1966

The Wedding Day

The Wedding Day

1960

Dadar Kirti

Dadar Kirti

1980

Ganadevata

Ganadevata

1978

Palatak

Palatak

1963

Sriman Prithviraj

Sriman Prithviraj

1973