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Pankaj Mullick is a Sound Indian born on 10 may 1905 at Kolkata (Inde)
Pankaj Mullick, also known as Pankaj Kumar Mullick (Bengali: পঙ্কজ কুমার মল্লিক Pôngkoj Kumar Mollik; 10 May 1905 - 19 February 1978) was a Bengali Indian music director, who was a pioneer of film music in Bengali cinema and Hindi cinema at the advent of playback singing, as well as an early exponent of Rabindra Sangeet.
He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1970, followed by the Dadasaheb Phalke Award (India's highest award in cinema, given by the Government of India) in 1972 for lifetime contribution to Indian cinema.
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Nationality Inde
Birth 10 may 1905 at Kolkata (Inde)
Death 19 february 1978 (at 72 years) at Kolkata (Inde)
Awards Padma Shri, Dadasaheb Phalke Award
Birth 10 may 1905 at Kolkata (Inde)
Death 19 february 1978 (at 72 years) at Kolkata (Inde)
Awards Padma Shri, Dadasaheb Phalke Award
Pankaj Mullick, also known as Pankaj Kumar Mullick (Bengali: পঙ্কজ কুমার মল্লিক Pôngkoj Kumar Mollik; 10 May 1905 - 19 February 1978) was a Bengali Indian music director, who was a pioneer of film music in Bengali cinema and Hindi cinema at the advent of playback singing, as well as an early exponent of Rabindra Sangeet.
He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1970, followed by the Dadasaheb Phalke Award (India's highest award in cinema, given by the Government of India) in 1972 for lifetime contribution to Indian cinema.
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Yahoodi Ki Ladki (1957)
Genres Drama
Actors Madhubala, Pradeep Kumar, Krishna Kumari, Gajanan Jagirdar, Helen Khan, Tun tun (Uma Devi Khatri)
Roles Music
Yatrik (1952)
Actors Abhi Bhattacharya, Basanta Chowdhury, Arundhati Devi, Manorama, Tulsi Chakraborty
Rating28%
Two Generations (1945)
, 1h50Genres Drama
Actors Chhabi Biswas, Ahindra Choudhury, Tulsi Chakraborty, Chandrabati Devi
Roles Music Director
Rating50%
Nutubehari, called Nutu, is a poor but educated social worker who sticks to his life's ideals and fights against the wealthy Zamindar for people's rights. He falls in love with Kalyani, the Zamindar's daughter. The enraged Zamindar has Nutu put in jail. When he gets out of jail, he finds Kalyani has been married off to someone else. Nutu marries Bimla, and starts a school in the village. He and Bimla have a son called Arun. Kalyani's husband dies and her in-laws throw her out of the house along with her infant daughter. She comes back to the village and takes shelter with Nutubehari who lets her run the school.
My Sister (1944)
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Kundan Lal Saigal, Tulsi Chakraborty, Chandrabati Devi
Roles Original Music Composer
Dikshul (1943)
Directed by Premankur Atorthy
Genres Drama
Actors Tulsi Chakraborty, Chhabi Biswas
Roles Music
Zindagi (1940)
, 2hDirected by P.C. Barua
Genres Drama
Actors Riya Sen, Kundan Lal Saigal, Jamuna Barua, Pahari Sanyal, Jamuna, Manorama
Roles Music
Rating25%
Nartaki (1940)
, 2h30Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating63%
Roopkumari (Leela Desai) a famous court dancer is forbidden entry into a temple monastery run by a strict disciplinarian Priest, Gyananandji (Wasti), who demands celibacy from his monks. To avenge her insult she gets the help of the king but fails in her mission to enter the temple. She then tries to seduce the priest’s son, Satyasundar, who is set to take the main priest’s place as the chief priest. Roopkumari and Satyasundar fall in love and the priest turns his son out of the monastery. Roopkumari takes him to her house and nurses the now ill Satyasundar back to health. In the process she too undergoes a spiritual transformation, looking for a divine love. Satyasundar finally leaves Roopkumari and returns back to the monastery.
President (1937)
, 1h58Directed by Nitin Bose, D.D. Kashyap
Genres Drama
Actors Kundan Lal Saigal, Geeta Bali, Pran Krishan Sikand, Rehman, Suraiya, Kuthiravattam Pappu
Roles Music
Shyama (Suraiya) gets a job as a servant so she can pay for her younger sister, Kiran's (Geeta Bali) education in the city. Kiran, though, is in love with a rogue, Ajit (Pran). Ajit makes Kiran splurge all the money Shyama sends her on them. Meanwhile, Shyama meets and falls in love with Shyam (Rehman), the son of the family she works for and who is a doctor who wants to treat the poor. With both of being ill-treated by the woman of the house, who is Shyam's step mother, they decide to elope. However, Kiran comes to her, abandoned and impregnated. Shyama goes along with her without informing Shyam in order to find Ajit. They find Ajit but he escapes from them. The two sisters then relocate to another town. Kiran has the child, Shyama works in another house, where in order to get Kiran settled with the young man of the house and to prove her to be without blemish, she takes it upon herself to claim to be the mother of the child. This causes further complications with Shyam, who has managed to trace her out and now believes that she has been unfaithful to him. Wallowing in grief, he falls ill. Finally, with the help of a kindly army colonel, also Ajit's uncle (Ulhas), all ends well that well with a repentant Ajit marrying Kiran and Shyama reunited with Shyam.
President (1937)
, 2h32Directed by Nitin Bose
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Actors Kundan Lal Saigal, Prithviraj Kapoor, Chandrabati Devi
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating63%
Prabhavati’s (Kamlesh Kumari) parents died when she was very young and the onus of looking after the Prabhavati Cotton Mills Ltd. has come to her. Her entire focus is on the factory and she is a strict and hardworking proprietor. Her only close companion is Dr. Sethi but even here there is a reserve. Prakash (K. L. Saigal) works at one of the machines in the mill. He finds that the machines they are working on are old and dangerous. He designs a safer and more efficient one and takes the design to the President of the company. She gets angry at his suggestion that the machines in her factory are dangerous and fires him. Prakash is out of a job and looking desperately for any form of income. He meets a young girl Sheela (Leela Desai) outside a girl’s hostel with whom he gets friendly. The girl unknown to him is Prabhavati’s younger sister.
Dharti Mata (1937)
, 2h45Directed by Nitin Bose
Actors Kundan Lal Saigal, Krishna Chandra Dey
Ashok (K. L. Saigal) and Ajay (Jagdish Sethi) have different notions about the progress of the country. Ashok supports agriculture and going back to the villages while Ajay is in favour of industrialisation and technology. Ajay is from a rich family and has to go to UK for further studies in engineering. He asks Ashok to come with him. Ashok refuses and decides to go the village and help the farmers. Ajay’s sister Pratibha (Kamlesh Kumari) is in love with Ashok who is unaware of her feelings. When Ashok faces hardships in the village she secretly assists him by sending money to buy new machinery for the farm. Ashok and his colleague are frustrated in their attempts several times by Chowdhary, the village headman. Ashok meets and falls in love with a village girl Gauri (Uma Shashi) who stays with her blind father (K. C. Dey). Ajay returns from abroad and is told of a rich coal mine. This is located under Ashok’s field. Ajay forgoes mining the land and decides to buy the land that Ashok has been farming to safeguard it for him. Ashok tells Ajay his plans of marrying Gauri. Ajay is stunned and upset for his sister. For the farmers there is distress when the monsoons fail. They face a drought situation. This is when Ajay decides to mine the field for coal. However the disagreements are sorted out and Ajay helps out with new ideas and approves Ashok’s method of co-operative farming.
Devdas (1936)
, 2h19Directed by P.C. Barua
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about alcoholism, Medical-themed films, Films about music and musicians, Films about drugs, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Kundan Lal Saigal, Jamuna Barua, P.C. Barua, Thanjavur Ranganayaki Rajakumari, Rajkumari, Phani Sarma
Rating59%
Devdas (K. L. Saigal) falls in love with Parvati (Jamuna) with whom he has played since childhood and who is the daughter of a poor neighboring family. Devdas goes away to Calcutta for University studies. Meanwhile, Parvati's father arranges her marriage to a much older man. Though she loves Devdas, she obeys her father to suffer in silence like a dutiful Hindi wife. Devdas as a result takes to drink. Chandramukhi (Rajkumari), a dancing girl or 'prostitute' he has befriended in Calcutta, falls for him and gives up her profession to try to save him. Parvati, hearing of his decline, comes to see him to steer him away from a life of drinking. Devdas sends her back saying in his hour of final need he will come to her. She returns to her life of duty. Realising his end is near, Devdas decides to keep his promise and meet Parvati. He journeys all night, reaches her house and is found dead outside the high walls of her house. Inside Parvati hears that Devdas is dead.
Yahudi Ki Ladki (1932)
, 2h17Directed by Premankur Atorthy
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Kundan Lal Saigal, Pahari Sanyal, Rattan Bai, Ghulam Mohammed
Prince Ezra (Nawab) is a Jewish merchant persecuted by the Romans, especially the Roman Priest Brutus. Ezra lives with his seven-year-old son Yameen. One day while playing with his catapult, Yameen manages to unintentionally hit the Priest Brutus as he’s walking past. The boy is taken prisoner and no imploring can change Brutus’ punishment. He has the boy thrown to the animals. Elias, Ezra’s devoted slave kidnaps Brutus’ young daughter Decia and brings her to a grief-stricken Ezra for revenge. Unable to harm her and missing Yameen, Ezra brings Decia up as his daughter and names her Hannah.