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Some of his songs are surprisingly very simple (easily sung or played) yet tremendously catchy like ‘Hai apna dil to awara’ from Solva saal, which has a delightful mouth-organ solo as its interlude, ‘Hum aapke aankhon mein’ and ‘Jaane woh kaise log the’ from Pyaasa, ‘Jeevan ke safar mein rahi’ from ‘Munimji’ and several others through which he conveyed his sheer genius with a handful of repetitive notes. Incidentally, Aradhana is the same film that has the number ‘Roop tera mastana’ and the famous ‘Mere Sapnon ki Rani’ (in which Sachin Karta made son RD play the mouth organ) which was the anthem of romance for the youth in the late sixties and early seventies and to some even today ? He won the National Award for best male playback singer in the year 1970 for Aradhana. He also sang a few songs like ‘ O re majhi’ from Bandini, ‘Allah Megh De’ from Guide and ‘Safal hogi teri Aradhana’ in his unique raspy voice that had a very pleasant rustic touch to it. “Jaane woh kaise log the “ by Hemant Kumar (Hemanta Mukhopadhyay) and “Yeh duniya agar mil bhi jaye to kya hai” by Rafi from Pyaasa describe heart wrenchingly the agonies of a struggling poet. In 2004, the soundtrack for Pyaasa was chosen as one of “The Best Music in Film” by ‘ Sight & Sound’, the British Film Institute magazine. His music immortalized movies like Pyaasa, Bandini and Devdas. ‘ Dil pukare’ from Jewel Thief, ‘ Kora kaagaz’ from Aradhana, ‘ Gata Rahe Mera Dil’ from Guide and ‘ Dil ka bhanwar’ from Tere Ghar ke Saamne are a few songs in Pahadi. He used the very east Indian folk sound of Raag Pahadi frequently in his compositions. Songs like ‘Poocho na kaise maine’ in Raag Ahir Bhairav from the film ‘ Meri Surat Teri Aankhen’ are indicators of the fact that Sachin Da was profilic in classical music also. All the songs in Bandini are of an authentic rural nature. He composed some beautiful folk songs like ‘O re majhi’ from Bandini, and ‘ Chal Ri Sajni’ from Bombay ka Babu, the latter being soulfully sung by Mukesh. His huge repertoire of folk tunes of the different traditions in the Tripura Kingdom majorly influenced his film compositions. His first major hit was ‘ Mera Sundar Sapna Beet Gaya’ from Do Bhai (1947) sung by Geeta Dutt. Dey, Ustad Badal Khan (Sarangi player) and Ustad Alauddin Khan.Īlthough he started his career off with East Bengali and Tripuri folk-music, he soon made a reputation for himself in folk and light classical music. He learnt under several eminent musicians comrprising K.C. He was of the royal lineage and began his initial training under his father ( Nabadwipchandra Dev Burman) who was a sitarist and a hindustani classical singer. He composed music for 100 movies, including Bengali films. S D Burman, one of the best composers in Hindi films through the 50s and 60s hails from Tripura.