Khemchand Prakash
Khemchand Prakash ( Hindi : खेमचंद प्रकाश Khemacand Prakāś ; born December 12, 1907 in Sujangarh , † August 10, 1950 in Bombay ) was an Indian film composer of Hindi films .
Life
Khemchand Prakash was born the son of Pandit Govardhan Prasad - a court singer and dancer of the Jaipur Gharana at the palace of the Maharajas of Jaipur . He grew up in Jaipur and learned Kathak and singing from his father . At the age of 19, the Maharaja von Bikaner hired him as a court singer, and later he also served at the Nepalese royal court. Then he went to Calcutta , where he worked for the radio and met the composer Timir Baran . This brought him into contact with the film industry. Prakash worked for the New Theaters film company in Calcutta from the mid to late 1930s . As Baran's assistant, he was involved in Devdas (1935), among others . In Phani Majumdar's directorial debut Street Singer in 1938 he had a small acting role as a street singer .
In 1940, Prakash switched to the Hindi film industry and worked for Ranjit Studios in Bombay . He had his first successes as main composer with the film music for Abdul Rashid Kardar's Holi and Pagal (both 1940). In these and other films of the early 1940s, the singer and actress Khurshid was the main interpreter of his songs. He wrote the music for Jayant Desai's successful Saigal / Khurshid film Tansen (1943) and for several films by the director Kidar Nath Sharma - Gauri (1943), Vish Kanya (1943) and Bhanwara (1944). In Shaheed Latif's Ziddi (1948), Prakash established Kishore Kumar as the playback singer for the actor Dev Anand .
The music for Kamal Amrohi's Mahal (1949) is considered to be his most important work . This large-scale production of the Bombay Talkies also includes his leitmotif song Ayenga anevala, sung by Lata Mangeshkar . For the singer Shamshad Begum , Prakash wrote some of her most famous songs for the film Rimjhim (1949). His compositions were last used in Phani Majumdar's Tamasha (1952), one of the last Bombay Talkies productions.
Filmography
- 1939: Gazi Salauddin
- 1939: Meri Aankhen
- 1940: Aaj Ka Hindustan
- 1940: Diwali
- 1940: Holi
- 1940: Pagal
- 1941: Bambai Ki Sair
- 1941: Pardesi
- 1941: Pyaas
- 1941: Shaadi
- 1941: Ummeed
- 1942: Baraat
- 1942: Chandni
- 1942: Dukh Sukh
- 1942: Fariyad
- 1942: Iqraar
- 1942: Khilona
- 1942: Mehmaan
- 1943: Tansen
- 1943: Chirag
- 1943: Gauri
- 1943: Qurbani
- 1943: Vish Kanya
- 1944: Bhanwara
- 1944: Bhartrahari
- 1944: Mumtaz Mahal
- 1944: Shahenshah Babar
- 1945: Dhanna Bhagat
- 1945: Prabhu Ka Ghar
- 1947: Chalte Chalte
- 1947: Gaon
- 1947: Mera Suhaag
- 1947: Mulaqat
- 1947: Samaj Ko Badal Dalo
- 1947: Sindoor
- 1948: Ziddi
- 1948: Asha
- 1949: Mahal
- 1949: Rimjhim
- 1949: Sawan Aya Re
- 1950: Bijli
- 1950: Jaan Pehchan
- 1950: Muqaddar
- 1950: Sati Narmada
- 1951: Jai Shankar
- 1951: Shri Ganesh Janma
- 1952: Tamasha
literature
- Entry to Khemchand Prakash . In: Ashish Rajadhyaksha, Paul Willemen: Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema , p. 178
Web links
- Khemchand Prakash in Internet Movie Database (English)
- Birth Centenaries ( Memento from August 1, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 378 kB) in the brochure of the International Film Festival of India 2007
Individual evidence
- ↑ He keeps coming! in The Hindu on February 5, 2010
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Prakash, Khemchand |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | प्रकाश, खेमचंद (hi); Prakāś, Khemacand (IAST) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Indian film composer of Hindi films |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 12, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sujangarh |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 10, 1950 |
| Place of death | Bombay |