Manna Dey

Manna Dey
Manna Dey
Birth name Prabodh Chandra Dey
Born May 1, 1919 (1919-05-01) (age 92)
Calcutta, British India
Genres Playback singing
Occupations Singer
Instruments Vocalist
Years active 1929–present
Website http://www.mannadey.in

Prabodh Chandra Dey (born 1 May 1919)[1], better known by his nickname Manna Dey (Bengali: মান্না দে), is a playback singer in Bengali Assamese and Hindi films. Along with Mohammed Rafi, Kishore Kumar, Mukesh, he was a part of Indian film playback music from the 1950s to the 1970s. He has recorded more than 3500 songs over the course of his career. The Government of India honoured him with the Padma Shri in 1971, the Padma Bhushan in 2005 and the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 2007[2] .

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Biography

Dey was born to Purna Chandra (father) and Mahamaya Dey (mother) on 1 May 1919. Besides his parents, his youngest paternal uncle Sangeetacharya (meaning "Venerable Teacher of Music" in Sanskrit), K. C. Dey highly inspired and influenced him. Dey received his early education in a small pre-primary school named Indu Babur Pathshala. Thereafter he attended Scottish Church Collegiate School and Scottish Church College,[3] followed by Vidyasagar College where he received his graduate education.

During Dey’s years at Scottish Church College, he sang to entertain his classmates. He began taking singing lessons from his uncle, Krishna Chandra Dey and Ustad Dabir Khan. During this period, Manna Dey stood first for three consecutive years in three different categories of inter-collegiate singing competitions.

In 1942, Dey accompanied Krishna Chandra Dey on a visit to Bombay. There he started working as an assistant, first under Krishna Chandra Dey, and then under Sachin Dev Burman. Later he assisted other music composers and then started to work independently. While working independently as a music director for various Hindi movies, Manna Dey continued to take musical lessons in Hindustani classical music from Ustad Aman Ali Khan and Ustad Abdul Rahman Khan.

Dey started his career in playback singing with the movie, Tamanna, in 1943. The musical score was by Krishna Chandra Dey and Manna sang a duet with Suraiya. The song was an instant hit. He sang a solo composed by Sachin Dev Burman, Upar Gagan Vishal, in the 1950 movie, Mashal. Its lyrics were written by Kavi Pradeep. In 1952, Dey sang for a Bengali and a Marathi movie with the same name and storyline, Amar Bhupali. This established him as a leading playback singer.

Dey recorded a popular duet, Ketaki Gulab Juhi, with classicist Bhimsen Joshi. With Kishore Kumar, he sang duets of different genres such as, Yeh Dosti Hum Nehi Torenge (Sholay) and Ek Chatur Naar (Padosan), "Babu Samjho Ishare" (Chalti ka naam Gadi). With Md Rafi, Dey sang 58 duets like "Isq Isq" (Barsat ki raat) "Tu hai mera prem Devta (Kalpana), "Mama o mama" (Parvarish). With Lata Mangeshkar, Manna recorded 113 duets including Yeh raat bhigi bhigi,"Pyar hua iqrar hua", "Aja madhur sanam", "Ritu aye". With Asha Bhosle, Manna recorded more than 100 duets including "Re man sur me ga", "Tu chupi hai kahan", "Zindegi hai khel". Dey sang with singer/composer, Hemant Kumar (Hemanta Mukherjee), in Bengali movies, and also for some other Bengali composers like Nachiketa Ghosh and Sudhin Dasgupta. He sang a duet, "Ke Prothom Kachhe Esechi", with Lata Mangeshkar in the movie Sankhyabela. He also performed Rabindra Sangeet and has recorded over 3500 songs.

He was presented the Filmfare Life Time Achievement Award in 2011.

Personal life

On 18 December 1953, Manna Dey married Sulochana Kumaran from Kerala. They have two daughters: Shuroma, born on 19 October 1956; and Sumita, born on 20 June 1958. Manna Dey currently lives in Bangalore in the township of Kalyannagar after spending more than fifty years in Mumbai. He also maintains a Calcutta address. He still travels widely in the world to present musical programs.

His Bengali-language autobiography, Jiboner Jalsaghorey, has been published by the renowned Ananda Publisher in the year 2005 which has been translated in English as Memories Come Alive, in Hindi as Yaden Jee Uthi and in Marathi as Jiboner Jalsaghorey.

Jibaner Jalsaghore, a documentary on Dey's life, was released in 2008. Manna Dey Sangeet Academy is developing a complete archive on Manna Dey. In association with Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, the Manna Dey Music Archive has been developed in the Sangeet Bhawan.

He has also lent his voice for Madhushala, composed by Late Harivansh Rai Bachchan

Accolades and awards

Dey has been honored with the titles Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan.

The following is the list of Manna Dey's other awards:

Filmography

References

  1. ^ http://www.mannadey.in/
  2. ^ Dey, Manna. "Manna Dey official websie". Manna Dey. http://www.mannadey.in/. 
  3. ^ "Music Singer Colossus". Screen. 28 July 2009. http://www.screenindia.com/old/print.php?content_id=10431&secnam=music. Retrieved 28 July 2009. 

External links

v · d · eDadasaheb Phalke Award
1969–1980

Devika Rani Chaudhuri Roerich (1969) · B. N. Sircar (1970) · Prithviraj Kapoor (1971) · Pankaj Mullick (1972) · Ruby Myers (1973) · Bommireddy Narasimha Reddy (1974) · Dhirendranath Ganguly (1975) · Kanan Devi (1976) · Nitin Bose (1977) · Rai Chand Boral (1978) · Sohrab Modi (1979) · Paidi Jairaj (1980)
1981–2000

Naushad Ali (1981) · L. V. Prasad (1982) · Durga Khote (1983) · Satyajit Ray (1984) · V. Shantaram (1985) · Bommireddy Nagi Reddy (1986) · Raj Kapoor (1987) · Ashok Kumar (1988) · Lata Mangeshkar (1989) · Akkineni Nageswara Rao (1990) · Bhalji Pendharkar (1991) · Bhupen Hazarika (1992) · Majrooh Sultanpuri (1993) · Dilip Kumar (1994) · Rajkumar (1995) · Sivaji Ganesan (1996) · Pradeep (1997) · B. R. Chopra (1998) · Hrishikesh Mukherjee (1999) · Asha Bhosle (2000)
2001–present

Yash Chopra (2001) · Dev Anand (2002) · Mrinal Sen (2003) · Adoor Gopalakrishnan (2004) · Shyam Benegal (2005) · Tapan Sinha (2006) · Manna Dey (2007) · V. K. Murthy (2008) · D. Ramanaidu (2009) · K. Balachander (2010)
v · d · eNational Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer
1968–1980

Mahendra Kapoor (1968) · Manna Dey (1969) · Sachin Dev Burman (1970) · Manna Dey (1971) · Hemant Kumar (1972) · K. J. Yesudas (1973) · K. J. Yesudas (1974) · Mukesh (1975) · M. Balamuralikrishna (1976) · K. J. Yesudas (1977) · Mohammed Rafi (1978) · Shimoga Subbanna (1979) · S. P. Balasubrahmanyam (1980)
1981–2000

Anup Ghoshal (1981) · S. P. Balasubrahmanyam (1982) · K. J. Yesudas (1983) · S. P. Balasubrahmanyam (1984) · Bhimsen Joshi (1985) · P. Jayachandran (1986) · Hemant Kumar (1987) · K. J. Yesudas (1988) · S. P. Balasubrahmanyam (1989) · Ajoy Chakrabarty (1990) · M. G. Sreekumar (1991) · K. J. Yesudas (1992) · Rajkumar (1993) · K. J. Yesudas (1994) · P. Unni Krishnan (1995) · S. P. Balasubrahmanyam (1996) · S. P. Balasubrahmanyam (1997) · Hariharan (1998) · Sanjeev Abhyankar (1999) · M. G. Sreekumar (2000)
2001–present

Shankar Mahadevan (2001) · Udit Narayan (2002) · Udit Narayan (2003) · Sonu Nigam (2004) · Udit Narayan (2005) · Naresh Iyer (2006) · Gurdas Maan (2007) · Shankar Mahadevan (2008) · Hariharan (2009) · Rupam Islam (2010) · Suresh Wadkar (2011)
v · d · eFilmfare Award for Best Male Playback Singer
1959–1960

No Award (1959) · Mukesh (1960)
1961–1980

Mohammed Rafi (1961) · Mohammed Rafi (1962) · No Award (1963) · Mahendra Kapoor (1964) · Mohammed Rafi (1965) · No Award (1966) · Mohammed Rafi (1967) · Mahendra Kapoor (1968) · Mohammed Rafi (1969) · Kishore Kumar (1970) · Mukesh (1971) · Manna Dey (1972) · Mukesh (1973) · Narendra Chanchal (1974) · Mahendra Kapoor (1975) · Kishore Kumar (1976) · Mukesh (1977) · Mohammed Rafi (1978) · Kishore Kumar (1979) · K. J. Yesudas (1980)
1981–2000

Kishore Kumar (1981) · Amit Kumar (1982) · Kishore Kumar (1983) · Kishore Kumar (1984) · Kishore Kumar (1985) · Kishore Kumar (1986) · No Award (1987) · No Award (1988) · Udit Narayan (1989) · S. P. Balasubrahmanyam (1990) · Kumar Sanu (1991) · Kumar Sanu (1992) · Kumar Sanu (1993) · Kumar Sanu (1994) · Kumar Sanu (1995) · Udit Narayan (1996) · Udit Narayan (1997) · Abhijeet (1998) · Sukhwinder Singh (1999) · Udit Narayan (2000)
2001–present

Lucky Ali (2001) · Udit Narayan (2002) · Sonu Nigam (2003) · Sonu Nigam (2004) · Kunal Ganjawala (2005) · Himesh Reshammiya (2006) · Shaan and Kailash Kher (2007) · Shaan (2008) · Sukhwinder Singh (2009) · Mohit Chauhan (2010) · Rahat Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (2011)
v · d · eFilmfare Award for Lifetime Achievement
1991 – 2000

Amitabh Bachchan (1991) · Dev Anand (1992) · Dilip Kumar (1993) · Lata Mangeshkar (1994) · Shammi Kapoor & Waheeda Rehman (1995) · Ashok Kumar, Sunil Dutt & Vyjayanthimala (1996) · Dharmendra, Mumtaz & Pran(1997) · Sharmila Tagore (1998) · Manoj Kumar & Helen (1999) · Vinod Khanna & Hema Malini (2000)
2001 – 2010

Feroz Khan & Asha Bhosle (2001) · Gulzar & Asha Parekh (2002) · Jeetendra (2003) · Sulochana Latkar, Nirupa Roy & B.R. Chopra (2004) · Rajesh Khanna (2005) · Shabana Azmi (2006) · Javed Akhtar & Jaya Bachchan (2007) · Rishi Kapoor (2008) · Bhanu Athaiya & Om Puri (2009) · Shashi Kapoor & Khayyam (2010)
2011 - present
Manna Dey (2011)

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