Abhijit Banerjee

Abhijit Banerjee (July 24, 1931 – February 21, 2022; Bengali: অভিজিৎ বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়, romanized: Abhijit Bandyopadhyay) was an Indian composer and lyricist, who primarily composed music for Bengali non-film songs (singles). He worked with musicians such as Hemanta Mukhopadhyay, Lata Mangeshkar, Manna Dey, Asha Bhosle, Pratima Bandyopadhyay, and Pulak Bandyopadhyay. He was a close associate and assistant of Salil Chowdhury and a music teacher at Bani Chakra school.

Some of the albums whose songs he composed were Surer Ek Nam Vivekananda, Antar Mondire Jago, Megher Somuddure, Nirudessher Pothik, etc. He excessively worked on composing songs written by Prabir Mazumdar, Anal Chatterjee and Pulak Banerjee.

Banerjee was born in Kolkata in 1931 and took interest in Rabindra Sangeet. He was brought into music by his friend Prabir Mazumdar and first played xylophone while in class eight. He played near a railway station where meetings were held, and from there got to know Salil Chowdhury. His first composition was when his brother asked him to compose two poems. His second poem was acknowledged by Salil Chowdhury, who took the song to Saregama. It was sung by Shyamal Mitra. He inspired songs by Salil Chowdhury like "Dhitang Dhitang Bole" and "Ranar." Later, he worked with Pulak Bandyopadhyay and composed film songs with him like "O Pakhi Ure Aay" by Asha Bhosle and "Ekhono Sarengita Bajche" by Haimanti Shukla. He died in 2022 from health issues of old age. Mamata Banerjee, Shukla and others responded to his death.

Source: Wikipedia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abhijit_Banerjee_(composer)