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Later, at the sets, in Boral’s presence, Bose played the same song from a record and asked Pankaj Mullick to sing along with it. Mullick attained greatness and immortality and was decorated with so many awards and accolades, that a short essay can hardly do any justice to even a part of that vast panorama.

NS Rajan recalls how he grew up listening to Pankaj Mullick’s music right from the 30s and enjoys them just as much today.

He had a deep and mellifluous voice which enhanced one’s listening experience when he sang emotional songs of love and sadness.

Career

Tagore's song, Nemecche Aaj Prothom Badal became his first commercial recording, with the Kolkata-based Videophone Company in 1926, at the age of eighteen. But, for sheer class and output, Pankaj Mullick was head and shoulders above anyone else of that era.

The director told me to audition for his voice,” Pankaj Mullick had recalled in a Films Division documentary. And yes, we are firmly set on the path we chose when we started… our twin magazines Learning and Creativity and Silhouette Magazine (LnC-Silhouette) will be accessible to all, across the world.

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He was honoured with the Bengal Film Journalists’ Association or BFJA award for his work as music director in films, quite a number of times. More people are reading and supporting our creative, informative and analytical posts than ever before. It was great sound and harmony with the least fuss.

Tere mandir ka hoon deepak jal raha (Non-film, 1940) Pankaj Mullick / Pandit BC Madhur / Pankaj Mullick — This is a visual interpretation of this ethereal bhajan by a 17-year-old girl Anshula.

Mullick told him he was merely humming a song that was being played on a gramophone nearby. Mahisasuramardini was so popular that the Gramophone Company released an LP of the same in 1978, after having acquired the tapes from the AIR archives. Rabindranath Tagore, in turn, grew fond of him, and soon Mullick became known as one of the leading exponents of Tagore’s songs.

Think of Saraswati Devi (Khorshed Minocher-Homji), Jaddan Bai (mother of actor Nargis), Ghulam Haidar from Punjab and Pankaj Mullick, KC Dey and RC Boral, all from Bengal. After a few minutes, Bose asked him to just move his lips with the song, without using his voice. Shows how relevant and everlasting Pankaj Mullick’s songs are, even for the millennium generation

My highly receptive and fertile young mind soaked up all these songs (besides his many other Hindi film and  ‘private’ songs) like a sponge and they struck a deep chord in me, remaining in my memory ever since.

While his achievements are formidable in terms of statistics alone, it is the range and depth of his compositions and singing that leave one staggered; from mere film songs (which he enriched with his inimitable, characteristic touch), to songs based on the classical, religious, Rabindra Sangeet, and invocations in Sanskrit.

He likes to write and has contributed articles, short stories and letters to newspapers and magazines, some of which have been published in Silhouette Magazineand LnC. He works actively to keep himself engaged in some mental pursuit or the other and is mentally and physically fit at the ripe old age of 90. His abiding love for travel and photography inspired him to write an illustrated book on his trip to the USA, Go West Odyssey: How I Saw America in 19 Days, including in it a large number of pictures taken by him during his trip.

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