S. D. Burman - The Biodiary

S.D Burman

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S.D Burman

Name :S.D Burman

Nickname :Burman da, Kumar Sachindra Dev Barman, Sachin Karta, Grand old man of music

DOB :01 October 1906
(Age 69 Yr. )

Died :31 October 1975

Personal Life

Height	in centimeters- 170 cm in meters- 1.7 m in feet inches- 6'0
Eye Color	Black
Hair Color	Black

Marital Status	Married
Childern/Kids	Son- R. D. Burman (Singer)

Color	White
Food	Fish and Paan
Sport	Football, Tennis, Cricket and Hockey
Singer	Kishore Kumar, Manna Dey
Actor	Dev Anand, Guru Dutt

Sachin Dev Burman is a legendary singer and music director of Bollywood.
He was born in the Royal family of Tripura.
He got initial training in music from his father. Later, he took formal training in singing from K.C. Dey, and learned to play various musical instruments from the experts.

He was a popular football referee and centre forward player. He also played cricket for the YMCA club. He loved playing Tennis, but his guru asked him to choose between Tennis and singing. So he selected singing over his favourite game.
Once, S.D. Burman was travelling with his friends on a train, and they did not have enough money to pay the fare. So, the ticket inspector took them to the lockup. One of his friends suggested him to sing ‘bhajans,’ incase inspector got impressed by his songs, he will let them go. And he was right! they liked his songs and released them soon.

He used to roam in jungles after his father’s death, and there he used to learn more about regional music from the localities of Bengal.
He started his professional career in 1932, as a singer in the Calcutta radio station. He released almost 131 songs in Bengali in the next few years.
The music lovers from different regions used to call him by many names. People from Kolkatta called him ‘Sachin Karta’, for Mumbians he was ‘Burman Da,’ for Bangladeshians and radio listeners of West Bengal he was ‘Sochin Deb Burman’. This tells how popular he was in every region.In 1930, he set up a music school ‘Sur Mandir’. Amid all his students, was Meera Dasgupta, he used to like the simplicity of her and soon they both started liking each other.

Later, in his career, he refused to lent his voice to the actors for lip-syncing, but he did bardic commentary in the movies.
The tune of the song ‘Allah Megh De’ (Guide, 1965) was initially recorded in the 1940s by the Bengali singer-composer ‘Abbasuddin Ahmed’ for the renowned music company Saregama. This song became very popular, and S.D. Burman decided to use this song in the movie Guide.
The lyrics were composed by Shailendra and S.D. lent voice for it. This was such a big hit that further its various versions were released by Laxmikant-Pyarelal in the film Palkon Ki Chhaon Mein (1977), and Bappi Lahiri’s song ‘De De Pyar De’ from the movie Amaanat (1994) is a variation of it.

Sachin was a big fan of football and used to support the East Bengal team. He used to stop eating and cry when his favourite team lost. When he was in comma, one day, he opened his eyes on hearing the news that East Bengal has won.
He was the one who launched actor Danny Denzongpa and Anuradha Paudwal as singers.
He used to make the tune first and then lyrics, it was his own style of creating music.
He was very fond of Paan and had some favourite vendors at Khar Station (his bungalow) “The Jet” and Bharati Vidya Bhavan.
After a stroke, he went in a coma and left this world on 31st October 1975, in Bombay (now Mumbai).
Sachin Tendulkar‘s grandfather was a big fan of S.D. Burman. So, he decided to keep his grandson’s name as Sachin.
His contribution to the regional and Hindi music industry is still reminded. On 1 October 2007, on his 101st birth anniversary, Indian Postal Department released his commemorative postage stamp in Agartala.
In 2018, there was a news that full-length statues of legendary music composers and singers, S. D. Burman and Kishore Kumar, will be installed by a fan club in Kolkatta. These statues have been installed near to R. D. Burman’s statue. The location which they have selected is South End Park, where S. D. Burman used to live with his wife in the early 1950s, before, coming to Mumbai. It was inaugurated by Kishore Kumar’s son- Amit Kumar.

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