Pankaj Mallik

Pankaj Mullick, also known as Pankaj Kumar Mullick, Pôngkoj Kumar Mollik; 10 May 1905 – 19 February 1978), was a popular Bengali Indian music composer and playback singer, who was a pioneer of film music in Bengali cinema and Hindi cinema at the advent of playback singing, as well as an early exponent of Rabindra Sangeet

He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1970,followed by the Dadasaheb Phalke Award (India’s highest award in cinema, given by the Government of India) in 1972 for lifetime contribution to Indian cinema.

He started his career with the Indian Broadcasting Corporation in Calcutta in 1927, the forerunner of All India Radio (AIR), along with composer R. C. Boral, where he contributed as a music director and artist for nearly fifty years.

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