Pankaj Kumar Mullick, born on 10 May 1905 in Calcutta, Bengal Presidency,
British India, was an Indian composer, playback singer and actor whose career
helped launch playback singing in Bengali and Hindi cinema. He began training in
classical music under Durgadas Bandyopadhyaya and made his first commercial
recording of Rabindra Sangeet "Nemecche Aaj Prothom Badal" with the Videophone
Company in 1926. Mullick joined the Indian Broadcasting Corporation in 1927,
working with R. C. Boral and later spending 25 years at New Theatres Calcutta,
composing for films and shaping the sound...