Samar Das
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Born | Independence Day Award | 10 December 1925
Samar Das (
Early life
Samar Das was born into a Bengali Christian family in the Nabadwip Basak Lane of old Dhaka.[1] His family was deeply involved with music and he received his initial training at home. He started his musical career playing the bansi (Indian flute), guitar and piano at the Dhaka center of All India Radio.[citation needed]
Career as leading music director
In 1953, he joined HMV as a pianist in their backing orchestra. He became chief music director in 1966 of the Cultural Academy located in Karachi, Pakistan.[citation needed] Also in 1966, he led the Pakistan Delegation to the Commonwealth Music Festival in London. In 1967, he was appointed a music director at Dhaka Radio.
He was the music director for over 50 Bengali and Urdu films in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. He was the first music director of the first movie of Bangladesh "Mukh-o-Mukhosh" directed and produced by Abdul Jabbar Khan. His most famous score for an Indian film was for the Bengali film from
He was chosen to be the music director for the South Asian Federation Games, held in Dhaka, in both 1985 and 1995, where his orchestrations were seen and heard by an estimated audience of over 500 million across the
Samar Das was the founding president of the Bangladesh Sangeet Parishad. In the year of 1987 Samar Das was appointed as chief music teacher to train up the students of
Role as a freedom fighter
Samar Das played a prominent role in the
When
Until a paralyzing stroke one year before his death, Samar Das was actively involved in cultural activities to highlight the Bangladesh Liberation War. In 1985, for instance, he worked with the Muktijoddha Kalyan Trust (Freedom Fighter Benevolence Trust) to compile a collection of songs from the liberation war featuring the original singers from the Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra, to raise funds for the families of injured freedom fighters.[citation needed] The album was released in a set of two LP discs titled Ekti Phool Ke Bachabo Bole.
Prizes and awards
- Ekushey Padak
- Independence Day Award(1979)
See also
- Bangladesh liberation war
References
- ^ a b c Komol, Khalid Hasan (2012). "Das, Samar". In Islam, Sirajul; Jamal, Ahmed A. (eds.). Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Second ed.). Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.