Khemchand Prakash
Khemchand Prakash (Hindi: खेमचंद प्रकाश / खेमचन्द प्रकाश, Khemacand Prakas; born December 12, 1907 in Sujangarh; † August 10, 1950 in Mumbai ) was an Indian film composer of Hindi film.
Life
Khemchand Prakash was the son of Pandit Govardhan Prasad - born - a court singer and dancer of the Jaipur Gharana at the Palace of the Maharaja of Jaipur. He grew up in Jaipur and learned from his father Kathak and singing. At the age of 19 years he was engaged the Maharaja of Bikaner as a minstrel, and later he also served on the Nepalese royal court. After that he went to Calcutta, where he worked for the radio and the composer Timir Baran met. This brought him into contact with the film industry. Prakash worked from the mid to late 1930s for the film company New Theatres in Calcutta. As assistant of cash he was involved there, among others, Devdas (1935 ). In Phani Majumdar's directorial debut, Street Singer, he had a small representational role as a street singer in 1938.
1940 moved Prakash in the Hindi film industry and was an employee of Ranjit Studios in Mumbai. The first successes as a major composer he had with the film scores to Abdul Rashid Kardars Holi and Pagal (both 1940). In these and other films of the early 1940s, the singer and actress Khurshid was the Hauptinterpretin his songs. He wrote the music for Jayant Desai's successful Saigal / Khurshid film Tansen (1943) and for some movies of the director Kidar Nath Sharma - Gauri (1943 ), Vish Kanya (1943) and Bhanwara (1944). In Shaheed Latif's Ziddi (1948 ) Prakash Kishore Kumar established as a playback singer for actor Dev Anand.
When his most important work is the music for Kamal Amrohis Mahal (1949 ). This large-scale production of Bombay Talkies also contains its sung by Lata Mangeshkar theme song Ayenga anevala. For the singer Shamshad Begum Prakash wrote some of her most famous songs of the movie Rimjhim (1949 ). His compositions were last in Phani Majumdar's Tamasha (1952 ) used one of the last productions of Bombay Talkies.