Arguably the most versatile musician in the world of Indian cinema. He had composed for over 75 Hindi Films, around 45 Bengali Films, 26 Malayalam Films and several Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Gujarati, Marathi, Assameese and Oriya Films. He has composed some memorable background music for a number of documentaries produced by Films Division of India and other independent Film Producers such as Dr. Krishnaswamy of Chennai. Besides, he composed music for a number of TV-Serials and TV-Films. To the music connoisseurs he was better known as the non-conformist music composer whose unceasing search for perfection towered above everything else in his life.His meticulous attention to details, a scrupulous ear for musical content, an insatiable desire for improvisation - it all remained with him till his last days. His phenomenal flair for instruments prompted even an expert like Jaikishen to refer to him as a The Genius. Raj Kapoor once said He can play almost any instrument he lays his hands on, from the tabla to the sarod, from the piano to the piccolo. He was in fact a composers composer, because unlike his market-driven counterparts, he never really set prose to music. To him the melody was sacrosanct and had to precede the words. To the music connoisseurs he was better known as the non-conformist music composer whose unceasing search for perfection towered above everything else in his life.His meticulous attention to details, a scrupulous ear for musical content, an insatiable desire for improvisation - it all remained with him till his last days. He was not only an outstanding composer, an accomplished and gifted arranger, poet and writer but above all an intellectual. A master multi-instrumentalist, he played excellent flute, Esraj, violin and piano , with a deep and well-studied understanding of several other instruments as is evident from their creative use in his music Salil Chowdhury was born on November 19, 1922 (although his year of birth is disputed and often published as 1923 or 1925) . Regards.
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