Hemant Kumar

Birthday: 6/16/1920
Deathday: 9/26/1989
Place of birth: Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
Fame for: Sound
Also known as: Hemanta Mukhopadhyay, হেমন্ত মুখোপাধ্যায়

Biography

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.