Robin Chatterjee রবীন চ্যাটার্জি | |
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Born | 8 January 1918 (1918-01-08)[1] Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India |
Died | 2 April 1976 (1976-04-03) (aged 62) Calcutta, West Bengal, India |
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Occupation(s) | Music director, composer |
Years active | 1942-1976 |
Robin Chatterjee was an Indian music director and sound recordist who scored music for about ninety films. Starting from the 1942 film Parineeta, he has composed music for evergreen soundtracks such as Godhuli, Bipasha, Sagarika, Kamallata, Dwiper Nam Tiya Rang, etc.[2][3]
In 1955, he composed music for the film Godhuli which contained a song "Piya Piya Piya Ke Dake Amare". In 1957, he composed music for Uttam-Suchitra starrer superhit Sagarika. In that film, Shyamal Mitra sang "Amar Swapne dekha Rajkanya".[4]
In the 1950s and 1960s, Chatterjee frequently composed scores for director Agradoot, including:[5]
Chatterjee worked with many Bengali singers, such as Hemanta Mukherjee, Manna Dey, Shyamal Mitra, Aarti Mukherjee, Sandhya Mukherjee, Pratima Banderjee, Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle, Geeta Dutt, Arundhati Holme Chowdhury, and Utpala Sen Kishore Kumar