All about Salil Chowdhury - biography, filmography, photos

SALIL CHOWDHURY was a famous Bengali composer and poet. He was born on November 19, 1923 and died on September 5, 1995, just before his 72nd birthday. He spent his early childhood in Harinavi village. Much of Salil Chowdhury's early childhood was spent in the tea gardens of Assam, where his father was a medical doctor. He spent his childhood in listening to the Western Classical collection of his father, which shaped his musical thinking. Salil's father was reputed to stage plays with coolies and other low-paid workers of the tea-gardens. His father's strong anti-British feelings and constant concern for the condition of the tea-estate workers were a source of inspiration to him. He graduated from Bangabashi College, Kolkata and it was during this period of time that his political ...By Neetal» read full biography

Salil Chowdhury never filmed a song on Amitabh Bachchan. In Anand, Amitabh had no song. Same happened in Kaala Patthar too, where Salil only did the background music.By Making things happen :)

Yesudas, a talent discovered by Salil Chowdhury and nurtured by Ravindra Jain, has sung more than 40,000 songs for many languages including Hindi, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Bengali, Malayalam, Gujarati, Oriya, Marathi, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Tulu, Russian, ArabicBy Divya Solgama