Kanu
Roy was a music composer in Hindi and Bengali films.
Contrary to the popular belief, he is not a brother
of Geeta Dutt. Mukul Roy who composed the music for
Detective and Sailab is her brother. Kanu Roy gave music
for most of Basu Bhattacharya’s films. His major work
was for films Uski Kahani (1966) , Anubhav (1971) ,
Avishkaar (1973) and Griha Pravesh (1979). Interestingly,
Kanu Roy never used the voice of Lata Mangeshkar. For
his films after Geeta’s demise, he used the voice of
Asha Bhonsle.
Geeta Dutt sang a total of only four songs for him and
even today they are his most famous compositions, apart
from the two divine solos he composed for the legendary
Manna Dey (Hansne ki chaah ne and Phir kahin koi phool
khila).
All these four songs of Kanu Roy (sung by Geeta ji)
have certain common factors like meaningful lyrics,
minimum use of orchestra, use of Xylophone, deep rendition
of the song by Geeta Dutt and an emotional bonding these
songs share with the listener. |