Salil Chowdhury - Composer

Tributes to Salil Chowdhury on his 21st D.A. ( 19 November 1923 – 5 September 1995) Indian music composer . He was also a poet and a playwright. He is affectionately called Salilda by his admirers.He was an accomplished composer and arranger who was proficient in several musical instruments, including flute, the piano, and the esraj.Salil's music was a blending of Eastern and the Western music traditions. He was also widely acclaimed and admired for his inspirational and original poetry in Bengali language.His first Bengali film "Paribortan" ("Transformation") was released in 1949.The singer of his debut song was Debabrata Biswas. 

Salil da's debut in the Hindi Film Industry came in 1953 as the Music Director for Do Bigha Zamin( story was written by Salil Chowdhury himself) Directed by Bimal Roy It also took his career to new heights when it became the first film to win the Filmfare Best Movie Award and won the international Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. He went on to compose for over 75 Hindi films, over 40 Bengali films, around 27 Malayalam films, and several Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Gujarati, Oriya and Assamese films.Salil Chowdhury was married to Jyoti Chowdhury (who lives at Bandra in Mumbai, with whom he had two daughters) and later he married to Sabita Chowdhury also, with whom he has two daughters Antara, Sanchari and son Sanjoy Chowdhury who is a successful music composer himself and scored music for over a 100 feature films. Sabita Chaowdhury was a singer and their daughter, Antare is currently a performing artist. Salil being a composing exponent, he even sensed the talent of a guitarist who played in his orchestra and uttered that, "I think he’s going to be the best composer in India". The guitarist eventually turned out to be Maestro Ilaiyaraaja....................................................