Manna Dey was born Prabodh Chandra Dey on 1st May 1919 and died on 24th October 2013.
He debuted in the film Tamanna in 1942, by this song "Upar Gagan Bishal" and went on to record more than 4,000 songs from 1942 to 2013. The Government of India honoured him with the Padma Shri in 1971, the Padma Bhushan in 2005 and the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 2007.
Dey sang in all the major regional Indian languages, though primarily in Hindi and Bengali. His peak period in Hindi playback singing was from 1953 to 1976.
Dey started his career in playback singing with the movie Tamanna, in 1942. The musical score was by Krishna Chandra Dey and Manna sang a duet named "Jago Aayee Usha Ponchi Boley Jago" with Suraiya which was an instant hit. But it was only in 1943 that he got his first solo break with Ram Rajya.
He sang for first time songs composed by Sachin Dev Burman, Upar Gagan Vishal and Duniya Ke Logo in the 1950 movie Mashal, which became popular and from here his association with S.D.Burman began. In 1952, Dey sang for a Bengali and a Marathi movie with the same name and storyline, Amar Bhupali. This established him as a leading playback singer in Bengali films and Marathi films as well by 1953. Manna Dey was regularly used by music composers Anil Biswas, Shankar Rao Vyas, S.K.Pal, S.D.Burman, Khem Chand Prakash, and Mohd.Safi from 1947 to 1957.
His first duet with the then upcoming singer Lata Mangeshkar was "Lapat Ke Pot Pahaney Bikral" composed by Vasant Desai for Narsingh Avtar (1949), and with Kishore Kumar it was "Subaho Ki Paheli Kiran" from 1951 film Anadolan composed by Pannalal Ghosh. His first duet with Geeta Roy (Dutt) was "Dhonyo Dhonyo He Ayodh Puri" from the film Ram Vivah (1949) composed by Shankar Rao Vyas, first duet with Umadevi (Tun Tun) was "Hay Ye Hain" from Jangal Ka Jaanwar (1951) composed by Ghantshala. His first duet with the then struggling singer Asha Bhosle was "O Raat Gayee Fir Din Aya" from 1953 film Bootpolish.
By 1954, Manna Dey became popular among musical circle across film industries of various Indian languages. He became nationally famous after release of Do Bigha Zamin (1953) where two of the songs sung by him and composed by Salil Choudhury became hits.
Salil Choudhury worked with Dey from 1953 to 1992 in Hindi films and made Dey sing even in Bengali and Malayalam films right from the late 1950s to early 1990s. His association with Shankar-Jaikishan and producer Raj Kapoor had begun while working for Awara, but their combination became famous while working together for Boot Polish in 1954. The trio worked in many films together from 1954-1971.
He worked extensively with other music directors like Naushad, K.Dutta, Vasant Pawar & Ram, Vasant Desai, Ravi, S.K.Pal, Avinash Vyas, S. N. Tripathi, Sanmukh Babu, Nissar Bazmi, Husanlal Bhagatram, B.N. Bali, Sushanta Banerjee, O.P. Nayyar, G.Ramanathan, T.G.Lingappa, Nirmal Kumar, Ghulam Mohhammed, Bipin Dutta, Rabin Banerjee, Roshan, Sapan Jagmohan from 1954 to 1968.
New age composers like Kalyanji-Anandji started recording songs with Manna Dey from 1958 and Laxmikant Pyarelal from 1964. Rahul Dev Burman made Manna Dey sing the westernised songs – "Aao Twist Karen" and "Pyar Karta Ja" which became chartbusters in 1965.
Since 1992, Dey withdrew himself from Hindi film music. But he continued to sing in Bengali movies, bhajans and gazals in different languages and appeared in live performances during 1992 to 2012 . His last live performance was in 2012 in Mumbai.
मन्ना डे जी जिनकी प्रतिभा का एक किस्सा जब वो संगीत अपने चाचा के सी डे जी से सीख रहे थे ! चाचा जी उन्हे गाना तो सिखा रहे थे साथ साथ मे ये भी सीख देते रहते थे की पढाई मे ध्यान दो ! मन्ना दा भी चाचा जी की बात मानते थे ओर पूरा ध्यान पढाई मे देते थे ! अब एक बार एक दिन मन्ना दा स्कूल की क्लास मे पीछे बैठ कर दोस्तों के साथ टेबल बजा रहे थे ओर गा भी रहे थे ! स्कूल के प्रिन्सपल ने उन्हे सुन लिया .......ओर बुला कर कहा की तुम अच्छा गाते हो ..मैं चाहता हूँ तुम स्कूल के म्यूजिक कम्पिटिशन के कार्यक्रम मे पार्टिसिपेट करो ! मन्ना दा ने प्रिन्सिपल साब से कहा मुझे अपने चाचा जी से पूछना पडेगा , ओर वो पर्मिशन देंगे नही ..
ये बात सुनकर प्रिन्सिपल साब ने मन्ना दा के चाचा जी को एक पत्र लिखा ओर उनसे अनुरोध किया की आप पर्मिशन दे दें ! लेटर पढ कर मन्ना डे जी के चाचा जी ने पहले तो उन्हे डाँटा कहा की तुम प्रिन्सपल से कहलवा कर तुम मेरी पर्मिशन माँग रहे हो ..????? इसके पीछे तुम्हारी सोचि समझीसाज़िश लगती है ! पर थोडा समझाने के बाद चाचा जी मान गये ओर पूछा मुझे बताओ कितनी कैटगरी मे कम्पिटिशन होना है ..? तब मन्ना दा ने 10 कैटगरी के नाम गिना दिये! जिसे सुनकर चाचा जी ने उनसे कहा अगर तुम्हे भाग लेना है तो एक ही शर्त है ..तुम हर कैटगरी मे अपना नाम दो !
अब मन्ना दा घबरा गये ..मगर चाचा जी के आगे एक ना चली !! ओर उन्हे कम्पिटिशन की 10 की 10 कैटगरी मे अपना नाम लिखाना पडा !! चाचा जी के मार्गदर्शन मे उन्होने सभी कैटगरी मे पार्टिसिपेट किया ओर ..ओर ..ओर ,ओर ये जानकर आपको आश्चर्य होगा की 10/10 मे से उन्होने 10/10 मे प्रथम स्थान हासिल किया !! (होनहार पूत के होत चीकने पात) .
ओर ये सिल्सिला अगले तीन सालों तक चला ओर मन्ना दा हर कैटगरी मे अव्वल आते रहे !!
बाकी तो इतिहास है ..मन्ना दा का जवाब नही ..ना था .न होगा .
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