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Hemant Kumar’s duets with ‘other’ singers
A coverage to Hemant Kumar contemplate his 99th birth go to (16 June 1920 – 26 Sep 1989)
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Best Hindi film songs of Subir Sen
When I did a post on Kamal Barot it was natural that I should do one on Subir Sen as well. One connection between the two was that among the most famous Kamal Barot songs is a duet with Subir Sen Dil le ke jate ho kahan. Another similarity would be that he was also not among the top singers. But there was a vital difference between the two. While Kamal Barot had a distinct voice which you could recognise miles away, Subir Sen’s was indistinguishable from Hemant Kumar. Not much biographical detail is available about him except that he was also like Hemant Kumar a popular and prolific singer in Bengali. Many of his Hindi film songs are quite well known, but unless you know that he was the singer, you might attribute them to Hemant Kumar.
Not that he was making any conscious effort to copy Hemant Kumar like some top singers who, at least at the beginning of their careers, consciously imitated the style of whoever was their idol at the time. Subir Sen was what I would call an involuntary Hemant Kumar clone. You could tell apart CH Atma from KL Saigal, Suman Kalyanpur from Lata Mangeshkar, but it was almost impossible to distinguish Subir Sen from Hemant Kumar. So one reason for doing this post was also to remember his best songs, which are ob
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Last year on Lata Mangeshkar’s 90th birthday I started a series based on Lata’s association with forgotten and lesser known composers. It continued for a few months, I covered around 100 composers in a series of eight posts. I tried to cover till the late 1980s. Though I could have continued it in the 1990s, I didn’t feel enthusiastic about it, so I dropped the idea for the time being.
The year 2020 started with a series of bad news and soon the corona pandemic took over. It was and still is a very stressful scenario for all. While I was busy with my duties and the other posts on the blog, I completely forgot that it was Hemant Kumar’s birth centenary year. I missed the golden opportunity to have an entirely dedicated series. But better late than never. Though all of us are eagerly waiting for the year 2020 to get over soon, I decided to club Hemant Kumar’s 31st death anniversary (26th September 2020) with Lata Mangeshkar’s 91th birthday today.
The result is that I’ve come up with a post dedicated to the duets sung by the legendary singers.
Hemant Kumar was a combination of singer and composer. While some of his fans consider his one specialty superior over the other, I was never able to finalize whether he was a better composer o