1. Kamal Dasgupta later married Feroza Begum, a noted Nazrul Sangeet singer, converting to Islam and taking the name Kamal Uddin Ahmed.
10 Facts About Kamal Dasgupta
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Kamal Dasgupta earned his doctorate in music from Banaras Hindu University in 1943 for his work on Meerabai, the composer and singer of Bhajans.
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Kamal Dasgupta took his first music lessons from his brother, Bimal Das Gupta.
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Kamal Dasgupta sang modern songs in Bengali, Urdu, Hindi, and Tamil.
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Kamal Dasgupta was a composer, composing the music for about eight thousand songs.
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Kamal Dasgupta's work was based on classical music and tended towards the Thungri style, though he drew inspiration from other sources.
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Kamal Dasgupta composed the music for about eighty Bangla films, among them Tufan Mail, Jhamelar Prem, Ei Ki Go Shes Dan.
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Kamal Dasgupta composed the background music for an American film, War Propaganda.
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In 1935, Kamal Dasgupta joined the Gramophone Company of India as a music director.
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The gramophone records for which Kamal Dasgupta composed music were notable in the 1950s and 1960s.