RD Burman Birth Anniversary: In the 60’s, a musician came into the industry who transformed music. A music director who used to make music from raindrops, tinkling of glass and the sound of everything. The name of that legend was Rahul Dev Burman, whose 85th birth anniversary is today. He started his career as a music director.
RD Burman’s songs were superhit and he composed songs till the end. He suffered from loneliness in his last days but his wife Aashu Bhosle supported him completely. Let us tell you some interesting things about RD Burman.
RD Burman’s family background
Rahul Dev Burman was born on 27 June 1939 in a Bengali family in Kolkata. His father was Sachin Dev Burman i.e. SD Burman who was a legendary music director of Hindi cinema and Bengali films. His mother Meera Dev Burman was a lyricist of Bengali films.
Rahul Dev Burman was commonly known as RD Burman and his fans called him ‘Pancham Da’. RD Burman married Rita Patel in 1966 and divorced her in 1971. He married Asha Bhosle in 1980, with whom he remained till his last days. RD Burman had no children.
RD Burman’s first hit film
RD Burman got his musical sense from his father SD Burman and mother Meera Dev Burman. RD Burman’s first film as a music director was Teesri Manzil (1966) whose songs were hits. RD Burman started giving music in back to back films at the beginning of his career which includes films like ‘Sholay’, ‘Yaadon Ki Baaraat’, ‘Pyar Ka Mausam’, ‘Baharon Ke Sapne’, ‘Jewel Thief’ and ‘Prem Pujari’.
RD Burman superhit songs
RD Burman’s style of composing songs used to be quite different. He used to extract music from everything. For example, the tune that you hear in the beginning of the song ‘Chura Liya Hai Tumne Jo Dil Ko’ came to his mind while drinking.
According to media reports, Burman was thinking about composing music for this song from the film Yaadon Ki Baaraat and were drinking together. Then a sound came from the glass glasses and he composed the tune.
He created many such music in which he created music from raindrops, people’s voices and many other things which became hits. According to reports, RD Burman gave music in more than 331 films in his career and all of them were superhits.
RD Burman passes away
RD Burman started falling ill in his last days. He had also stopped making music. The film 1942: A Love Story, which was released in 1994, was his last film made with RD Burman’s music. The makers of the film had persuaded RD Burman a lot for this. It is said that RD Burman started living alone in his last days. RD Burman breathed his last on 4 January 1994.
