Hemant Kumar - Hai Apna Dil To Awara - Solva Saal [1958]

"Solva Saal" is a 1958 Hindi movie. Produced by Chandrakant C Desai the film is directed by Raj Khosla. The film stars Dev Anand, Waheeda Rehman, Jagdev, Kammo, Bir Sakuja, Sunder, Bipin Gupta and Tun Tun.

The films music is by Sachin Dev Burman and the lyrics by Majrooh Sultanpuri....

Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay (Bangla: Hemonto Kumar Mukhopaddhae) also known as Hemanta Mukherjee (June 16, 1920 September 26, 1989) was an Indian singer, composer and producer. He sang in Hindi films under the name Hemant Kumar.

Hemanta was born in the city of Varanasi, India. His family hailed from a village named Baharu in West Bengal. They migrated to Calcutta in the early 20th century. Hemanta grew up there and attended Mitra Institution school of Bhawanipore area. There he met his longtime friend, Subhas Mukhopadhyay who later became a Bengali poet. After passing the intermediate examinations (12th grade), Hemanta was admitted to Jadavpur University to study Engineering. However, he quit academics to pursue a career in music, despite parental objection. He briefly tried his hand at literature and also published a short story in a prestigious Bengali magazine called Desh, but by the late-1930s he was committed entirely to music.

His first Hindi film songs were in Irada in 1944 under Pt. Amarnath's music direction. Lyrics were by Aziz Kashmiri.
His first movie as a music director was the Bengali film Abhiyatri in 1947. Although many of the songs Hemanta recorded in during this time received critical acclaim, major commercial success still eluded him, right until 1947. Some contemporary male singers of Hemanta in Bengali around that period were Jaganmay Mitra, Robin Majumdar, Satya Chowdhury, Dhananjay Bhattacharya, Sudhirlal Chakraborty, Bechu Dutta and Talat Mahmood.

In September 1989, he travelled to Dhaka, Bangladesh to receive the Michael Madhusudan Award. He performed a concert in Dhaka as well. Immediately after returning from this trip, he suffered a major cardiac arrest on September 26 and breathed his last at 11:15 pm in a nursing home in South Calcutta. Interestingly, even 15 years after his death, Gramophone Company of India releases at least one album by him every year, repackaging his older songs, because of the commercial viability of his songs. His legacy still lives on through the numerous songs he has recorded, music he has composed and through many male singers in Bengal and the rest of India who continue to imitate his singing style...........
[Wikipedia and IMDb]

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[Manuoverdrive]

You re doing a great job..thanks a lot yuan..U ve no idea

[yuanyuanyuanyin]

@Manuoverdrive - Thnak you my dear Trivandrum friend for your extremely kind words.

May God bless you.

[analyst666]

I love this song.It takes me back to the good old days when I was a kid.With Dev Anand having left us ,the song has attained a higher place than before.Thanks for bringing past into present.

[yuanyuanyuanyin]

@analyst666 - You are most welcome, my dear friend.

[MusafirHoonYaro]

@yuanyuanyuanyin - I have told you numerous times how your music selections are like panacea to an ailing person with no hope for recovery! I think God put you on this Earth for a purpose - which is - to give people like me such solace through music. These are songs I grew up on!

[premacharitra65]

i love this song so dearly .........my dear Dev anand Sir , we all miss you so much.....you gave so much to the Cinema World......what can we ask more, let ´s all live in good memories of a great Actor and soul . you will always remain in our hearts....Lets´Cherish this melodies

[9910193137]

very good

[rita147001]

Lovely song and great expressions by ever lovable dev anand

[TheSigns22]

hard to believe he's gone....miss u Dev saab

[vinodkumar2478av]

Very beautiful song. Echoes in very youth's heart. Hemant Kumar's voice makes it even more innocent.

[033anand]

Anand shaib ko iss anand ka salam great song ....