{"id":5218,"date":"2019-10-02T16:13:19","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T10:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/?p=5218"},"modified":"2019-10-08T13:11:09","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T07:41:09","slug":"raah-bani-khud-manzil-the-lingering-effect-of-hemant-kumar-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/raah-bani-khud-manzil-the-lingering-effect-of-hemant-kumar-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Raah Bani Khud Manzil \u2013 The Lingering Effect of Hemant Kumar Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Continued from Part 1<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n
\"Hemant<\/a>

Hemant Kumar and Geeta Dutt rehearse with Rahul Dev Burman, then the youngest music director in 1961 (Pic: SMM Ausaja)<\/p><\/div>\n

THE MUSIC DIRECTOR<\/b><\/p>\n

Anand Math<\/em> (1952)<\/b><\/h2>\n

Impressed by Hemant Mukherjee\u2019s music score for a Bengali film, the owner of Filmistan, Sashadhar Mukherjee called him over to Bombay (through Hemen Gupta, the film director) to compose music for his upcoming film Anand Math<\/i> which was based on a novel of the same name by Bankim Chandra. S Mukherjee also gave Hemant Mukherjee the name Hemant Kumar and a position as a music director in his Famous Studios which had earned a reputation for quality and success at the box-office.<\/p>\n

Hemant Kumar was quite successful as the music director for his first Hindi film. The two compositions, Jai Jagadish Hare<\/i> and Vande Mataram<\/i> highlighting the theme of the film, were splendid compositions.<\/p>\n

Vande Mataram<\/i> sung by Lata Mangeshkar in her high-pitched voice made the song emotionally charged and invokes the spirit of patriotism in the listener.<\/p>\n

Vande Mataram<\/i><\/b> Lata Mangeshkar with chorus\/ Bankim Chandra Chatterjee<\/span><\/p>\n