<span style="color: #222222;">Hemanta Mukhopadhyay, popularly known as Hemant Kumar born on 16th June 1920. He was an Indian Bengali singer and music director who sang in Bengali, Hindi and other Indian languages like Marathi, Gujarati, Odia, Assamese, Tamil, Punjabi, Bhojpuri, Konkani, Sanskrit and Urdu. He was an artist of Bengali and Hindi film music, Rabindra Sangeet, and many other songs. He was the recipient of two National Awards for Best Male Playback Singer.</span><br />” <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />” <span style="color: #222222;">Hemant Kumar was the exclusive singing voice of Uttam Kumar. He was also popular as being the voice of actors Biswajit Chattopadhyay, Anil Chattopadhyay, Anup Kumar Das, Soumitra Chattopadhyay, Pradeep Kumar Batabyal and Dev Anand.</span><br />” <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />” <span style="color: #222222;">Mithun Chakraborty, born as Gouranga Chakraborty 0n16 June 1950. He is a Bollywood actor, singer, producer, writer, social worker, entrepreneur, television presenter who works predominantly in Hindi and Bengali films. He is a former Rajya Sabha Member of Parliament. He is the recipient of two Filmfare Awards and three National Film Awards.</span><br />” <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />” <span style="color: #222222;">Chakraborty made his acting debut with the art house drama Mrigayaa (1976), for which he won his first National Film Award for Best Actor. Chakraborty played Jimmy in the 1982 film Disco Dancer, which was commercially successful in India and the Soviet Union and Russia. Besides Disco Dancer, Chakraborty is also remembered for his performance in films such as Surakksha, Sahhas, Wardat, Wanted, Boxer, Pyar Jhukta Nahin, Pyari Behna, Avinash, Dance Dance, Prem Pratigyaa, Mujrim, Agneepath, Yugandhar, The Don, and Jallaad.</span><br />” <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />” <span style="color: #222222;">In 1991, he won the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Krishnan Iyer Nariyal Paniwala in the film Agneepath.</span><br />” <br />” <span style="color: #222222;">He later won two more National Film Awards for his performances in Tahader Katha (1992) and Swami Vivekananda (1998). Chakraborty has appeared in more than 350 films, including Bengali, Hindi, Odia, Bhojpuri, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Punjabi pictures.</span><br />” <br />
News On AIR | June 16, 2021 2:34 PM | Today is birthday of Hemanta Mukhopadhyay & Mithun Chakraborty
Today is birthday of Hemanta Mukhopadhyay & Mithun Chakraborty