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Manna Dey is a Playback Singer Indian born on 1 may 1919 at Kolkata (Inde)

Manna Dey

Manna Dey
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Birth name Prabodh Chandra Dey প্রবোধ চন্দ্র দে
Nationality Inde
Birth 1 may 1919 at Kolkata (Inde)
Death 23 october 2013 (at 94 years)
Awards Padma Shri, Padma Bhushan, Dadasaheb Phalke Award

Prabodh Chandra Dey (1 May 1919 − 24 October 2013), known by his stage name Manna Dey, was an Indian playback singer. He debuted in the film Tamanna in 1942, and went on to record more than 4000 songs from 1942 to 2013. The Government of India honoured him with the Padma Shri in 1971, the Padma Bhushan in 2005 and the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 2007.

Dey sang in all the major regional Indian languages, though primarily in Hindi and Bengali. His peak period in Hindi playback singing is from 1953 to 1976.

Biography

In December 1953, Manna Dey married Sulochana Kumaran. She was originally from Kannur, Kerala. Together they had two daughters - Shuroma (b. 1956) and Sumita (b. 1958). Sulochana died in Bengaluru in January 2012. She had been suffering from cancer for some time. After her death Dey moved to Kalyan Nagar in Bengaluru after spending more than fifty years in Mumbai.

Usually with

Lata Mangeshkar
Lata Mangeshkar
(29 films)
Asha Bhosle
Asha Bhosle
(29 films)
Mohammed Rafi
Mohammed Rafi
(26 films)
Raj Kapoor
Raj Kapoor
(8 films)
Shailendra
Shailendra
(10 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Manna Dey (51 films)

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The Victor
The Victor (1982)

Directed by Govind Nihalani
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Shashi Kapoor, Rekha, Amrish Puri, Supriya Pathak, Kunal Kapoor, Om Puri
Roles Playback Singer
Rating76% 3.821953.821953.821953.821953.82195
Vijeta (The Victor) is the coming-of-age story of Angad (Kunal Kapoor). Confused like any other teenager trying to find himself and caught in between the marital problems of his Maharashtrian mother Neelima (Rekha) and Punjabi father Nihal (Shashi Kapoor), it is time for him to decide what he wants to do with his life. Angad chooses to become a fighter pilot with the Indian Air Force. What follows is his struggle to become a victor both with his self and the outer world. Angad is attracted to Anna Verghese (Supriya Pathak), who is the daughter of his flying instructor (Amrish Puri). Angad must learn to adapt to flying, leaving his mom and dad for long periods of time, as well as try and woo Anna who helps him overcome his fears and realize his potential as a fighter pilot. Nihal is a clean shaven Sikh, Neelima is a Hindu, Angad is a Sikh and Anna a Christian, while Angad's fellow officers represent all religion.
Rahu Ketu
Rahu Ketu (1978)

Directed by B. R. Ishara
Genres Drama, Action
Actors Shashi Kapoor, Prem Nath, Aruna Irani, Rekha, Bindu, Pran Krishan Sikand
Roles Playback Singer
Rating58% 2.9341452.9341452.9341452.9341452.934145
Deewaar
Deewaar (1975)
, 2h56
Directed by Yash Chopra
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Actors Shashi Kapoor, Amitabh Bachchan, Parveen Babi, Neetu Kapoor, Nirupa Roy, Satyen Kappu
Roles Playback Singer
Rating79% 3.996483.996483.996483.996483.99648
The film opens with a depiction of the strong leadership of trade unionist Anand Verma (Satyen Kappu), who works hard to enhance the lives of struggling laborers. He lives in a modest home with his wife, Sumitra Devi (Nirupa Roy), and their two young sons, Vijay (Amitabh Bachchan) loosely based on Haji Mastan, and Ravi (Shashi Kapoor). Anand, however, is blackmailed by a corrupt businessman who threatens to kill his family if Anand does not cease his protest activities. Forced into compliance, Anand is thus attacked by the very same laborers who then jeer him for his betrayal, unaware that he was blackmailed. His family is also persecuted by the angry workers. Out of shame, Anand leaves town, leaving Sumitra to care for their sons alone in poverty. Several of the angry workers kidnap Vijay and tattoo his arm with the Hindi words "मेरा बाप चोर है" (translated into "My Father Is A Thief"). Not knowing what else to do, Sumitra brings her children to Mumbai and struggles as a day laborer to care for her now homeless sons.
Samaya
Samaya (1975)

Genres Drama
Actors Sriram Panda, Prashanta Nanda, Bhanumati Devi, Jayshree T., Asit Sen
Roles Playback Singer
Rating69% 3.4610253.4610253.4610253.4610253.461025
A newly-wed Oriya couple's life is disrupted when the husband is overcome with amnesia. The wife gets sympathy from a doctor friend, but the relationship is misunderstood and ridiculed by others, including the doctor's Bombay-born wife who gets involved with another good-for-nothing Bombayite.
Sholay
Sholay (1975)
, 3h24
Directed by Ramesh Sippy
Genres Action, Musical, Western
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood, Buddy films
Actors Sanjeev Kumar, Dharmendra, Amitabh Bachchan, Hema Malini, Jaya Bachchan, Amjad Khan
Roles Playback Singer
Rating80% 4.047314.047314.047314.047314.04731
In the small village of Ramgarh, the retired policeman Thakur Baldev Singh (Sanjeev Kumar) summons a pair of small-time thieves that he had once arrested. Thakur feels that the duo—Veeru (Dharmendra) and Jai (Amitabh Bachchan)—would be ideal to help him capture Gabbar Singh (Amjad Khan), a dacoit wanted by the authorities for a ₹ 50,000 reward. Thakur tells them to surrender Gabbar to him, alive, for an additional ₹ 20,000 reward.