Music Composer - Rai Chand Boral

Rai Chand Boral was born in 1903 at Calcutta. His father Lal Chand Boral was a classical musician (expert of Dhurpad). He had three sons and Rai Chand was the youngest. Musicians from Gawalior and Rampur were invited for lessons. These include Ustad Mushtaq Hussain Khan, Masit Khan – tabla player, Ustad Hafeez Ali Khan – sarod player. Raichand learnt “Sath Sangat” on tabla and attended music conferences at Luckhnow, Allahabad and Banares. Rai Chand joined the Indian Broadcasting Co. in the year of its inception, 1927. Later (1931) he shifted to the New Theatres Ltd. in the silent era for supporting the stage with live music. He dissolved the Ghazal style of singing from the Northern India into 19th century Bengali tunes with string instrument medium.

His famous films were Puran Bhagat, Chandidas, Dhoop Chhaon, Manzil, Anath Ashram, Vidyapati, President, Abhaagan, Jawani ki Reet, Sapera, Haar Jeet, Lagan, Saugand, Wapas and Wasiat Nama. Anjangarh (1948) was his last famous film with New Theatres. He is known for introducing play-back singing for the first time in the Hindi feature film Dhoop Chhaaon (1935). The song 'Main Khush Hona Chahun Ho Na Paaun..' had an all women chorus led by Parul Ghosh with Suprova Sarkar and Harimati picturised in a dance sequence. Other playback singers of New Theatre were Radha Rani, Ila Gosh, Dhananjay Bhattacharya.

He is correctly complemented by late Anil Biswas as the father of Indian Cinema Music. He had directed music of 150 films including Hindi and Benagli films. His music compositions for the film “Vidayapati” are considered to be the best of any time in Indian Cinema. He has depicted a scene of storm through music “Doley Hirde Ki Nayia..” sung by Kanan Devi.

He came to Bombay in the year 1935. After coming to Bombay (1953) he composed music for Dard-e-Dil with Lata's songs. Music for some basic records was also composed by him. He received National Award “Sagar Sangam” in 1958 and “Sangeet Natak Akedemi Award” in 1978. Dada Sahib Phalke Award was received by him in 1978 at the age of 75. He passed away in 1981.

Sr.	FILM TITLE	YEAR OF RELEASE	Sr.	FILM TITLE	YEAR OF RELEASE
1	Mohabbat Ke Aansu	1932	17	Street Singer	1938
2	Subah Ka Tara	1932	18	Jawani Ki Reet	1939
3	Pooran Bhagat	1933	19	Sapera	1939
4	Rajrani Meera	1933	20	Haar Jeet	1940
5	Chandidas	1934	21	Lagan	1941
6	Daku Mansoor	1934	22	Saughandh	1942
7	Roop Lekha	1934	23	Waapas	1943
8	After The Earthquake	1935	24	Hamrahi	1945
9	Dhoop Chhaon	1935	25	Wasiyatnama	1945
10	Maaya	1936	26	Anjaan Garh	1948
11	Manzil	1936	27	Pehla Aadmi	1950
12	Karorpati	1936	28	Dard-E-Dil	1953
13	Anath Ashram	1937	29	Shri Chaitnya Mahaprabhu	1953
14	President	1937	30	Amar Saigal	1955
15	Vidyapati	1937	31	Swami Vivekanand	1955
16	Abhagan	1938	-	-	-

RAI CHAND BORAL

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