Cinemaazi remembers Sanmukh Babu Upadhyay on his birth anniversary

Sanmukh Babu Upadhyay moved to Bombay in 1942 and worked at All India Radio Bombay for a few years, before he joined composer and lyricist Avinash Vyas as an assistant. Upadhyay started composing music with the film Lalkar in 1956. As a solo composer, he went on to score music for Amar Singh Rathaur (1957), Naag Padmini (1957), Sati Pariksha (1957), Raaj Pratigya (1958), Amar Prem (1960) and Hameer Hath (1964). Hameer Hath, which was his last Hindi film as a composer, is popular for its solos rendered by Mubarak Begum and Suman Kalyanpur.

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