10/05/2018
Pankaj Kumar Mullick was one of the earliest and pioneering film music directors of Indian cinema in the Sound Era. Started off as a Singer in 1926, he debuted in the studio to record a Rabindrasangeet with the Videophone Company. A year later he started working Indian Broadcasting Corporation as an singer and composer along with Rai Chand Boral, a phenomenal artiste of that time. During his college days Mullick came close to Dinendranath Tagore, Rabindranath’s grand nephew and in turn came close to Tagore himself. Mullick’s perks didn’t fail to impress Tagore and earn appreciation. Mullick worked IBC later renamed as All India Radio, for nearly fifty years. Mullick became the busiest composer in the film industry soon. He has worked as music director for more than 38 years and collaborated with artistes like K.L. Saigal, S.D. Burman, Hemanta Mukherjee, Geeta Dutt and Asha Bhosle. Along with Film director Nitin Bose and his sound engineer brother Mukul Bose, Mullick introduced playback singing for the first time in Indian Cinema.
We remember the timeless genius on his 113th birth anniversary
