KOLKATA, (IANS) – “You should have been named Hemant Kumar because you sing so well,” the tetchy heroine of the night-long caper film ‘Solva Saal’ (1958) snaps at the interloping hero after being ...
Music director and singer Hemant Kumar belonged to two cities—Bombay gave him fame, and Kolkata gave him peace. In the late 1940s, during his early years in Hindi cinema, he struggled to find success ...