Mumbai: Bhupen Hazarika's life in pics
Legendary singer-composer Dr Bhupen Hazarika, undergoing treatment at a hospital in Mumbai, has passed away. He died at 4.37 p.m. today at the Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital.
"It was a multi-organ failure. The end came around 4.30 pm," said Jayanta Narayan Saha, in-charge of media relations at the hospital.
His health deteriorated on October 23 after he developed pneumonia. He had to undergo a minor surgery in which doctors inserted a food pipe into his system.
A balladeer who composed his own lyrics and music, Dr Hazarika lent his voice to the film Gandhi To Hitler, where he sang Mahatma Gandhi's favourite bhajan, Vaishnava Jana To.
A lesser known fact about the musical genius was that he was a trained journalist, who had studied Mass Communications from the prestigious Columbia University in the forties. As a reporter, he covered the Chinese War, which is where he wrote the poignant Koto Juwanor Mrityu Hol sitting in the Bomdila Club with a heap of dead bodies of Indian soldiers.
He composed the music for several outstanding Bengali films, such as Jiban Trishna, Jonakir Alo, and Chameli Memsaab.
Dr Hazarika, who had a genius for weaving a magical tapestry out of traditional Assamese music and lyrics, was regarded as one of the greatest living cultural communicators of South Asia.
He was awarded the Padma Bhushan (2001), the Dadasaheb Phalke Award (1992), the Asom Ratna (2009) and the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award (2009).
Dr Hazarika was also recognised as the first Indian music director for Best Music internationally for the film Rudaali at the Asia Pacific International Film Festival in Japan in 1993.
He was also the winner of the All India Critic Association Award for the Best Performing Folk Artist (1979).
This year he celebrated his birthday, sadly, in the ICU of the hospital on September 8 when he cut a cake with fans who sang his favourite numbers.
Legendary singer-composer Dr Bhupen Hazarika, undergoing treatment at a hospital in Mumbai, has passed away. He died at 4.37 p.m. today at the Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital.
"It was a multi-organ failure. The end came around 4.30 pm," said Jayanta Narayan Saha, in-charge of media relations at the hospital.
His health deteriorated on October 23 after he developed pneumonia. He had to undergo a minor surgery in which doctors inserted a food pipe into his system.
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A balladeer who composed his own lyrics and music, Dr Hazarika lent his voice to the film Gandhi To Hitler, where he sang Mahatma Gandhi's favourite bhajan, Vaishnava Jana To.
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A lesser known fact about the musical genius was that he was a trained journalist, who had studied Mass Communications from the prestigious Columbia University in the forties. As a reporter, he covered the Chinese War, which is where he wrote the poignant Koto Juwanor Mrityu Hol sitting in the Bomdila Club with a heap of dead bodies of Indian soldiers.
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He composed the music for several outstanding Bengali films, such as Jiban Trishna, Jonakir Alo, and Chameli Memsaab.
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Dr Hazarika, who had a genius for weaving a magical tapestry out of traditional Assamese music and lyrics, was regarded as one of the greatest living cultural communicators of South Asia.
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He was awarded the Padma Bhushan (2001), the Dadasaheb Phalke Award (1992), the Asom Ratna (2009) and the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award (2009).
Dr Hazarika was also recognised as the first Indian music director for Best Music internationally for the film Rudaali at the Asia Pacific International Film Festival in Japan in 1993.
He was also the winner of the All India Critic Association Award for the Best Performing Folk Artist (1979).
This year he celebrated his birthday, sadly, in the ICU of the hospital on September 8 when he cut a cake with fans who sang his favourite numbers.
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