{"id":6440,"date":"2022-02-19T00:00:02","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T18:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/?p=6440"},"modified":"2024-05-01T19:14:47","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T13:44:47","slug":"manna-dey-a-story-of-amazing-versatility-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/manna-dey-a-story-of-amazing-versatility-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Manna Dey: A Story of Amazing Versatility – Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Continued from Part 1…<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Composers\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n
\"Manna

Manna Dey at a concert (Pic courtesy: Twitter)<\/p><\/div>\n

Manna Dey was fortunate to have enjoyed the rare opportunity of working with all the eminent music directors of the time. The variation of melodies that distinguished one music director from another had always been<\/p>\n

[1] a source of eternal fascination for him,<\/p>\n

[2] responsible for his perennially changing taste in music, and<\/p>\n

[3] a motivating factor in sustaining interest in the world of music.<\/p>\n

Manna Dey worked with 195 music directors starting in 1942 with KC Dey (film Tamanna<\/em>) to the last one in 2005 Sameer Tandon (film Umar<\/em>).<\/p>\n

Figure Y<\/strong> shows a bar chart plots of the new music directors composing for Manna Dey over time. The data shows his popularity rose from the 1940s, stayed consistently high during the next 30 years and was steady even into the 1980s.<\/p>\n

\"manna-dey-careergraph\"<\/p>\n

Table X<\/strong> summarises a selected list of key music directors and their films with hit songs of Manna Dey.<\/p>\n

Table X: Worked with a Variety of Composers in Popular Films<\/strong><\/p>\n