Bhupen Hazarika: A personality who received all the highest-ranked national awar
Jaipur: Bhupen Hazarika was born on 8th September 1926 in Sadiya, Assam. He was an Indian playback singer, lyricist, musician, singer, poet and filmmaker. He was popularly known as Sudhakantha. He was multitalented as he himself wrote and sung in the Assamese language. His songs are even translated in many languages and most notably in Bengali and Hindi. He is also acknowledged to have introduced the culture and folk music of Assam and Northeast India to Hindi cinema at the National level. At the age of 10, he was discovered by Jyotiprasad Agarwala, the noted Assamese lyricist, playwriter and the first Assamese filmmaker.
He is a personality who has received all the highest national awards and the are Padma Shri (1977), Padma Bhushan( 2001), Padma Vibhushan (2012), Bharat Ratna( 2019 ) and many more to count.
His famous Assamese songs include Bistirno Parore, Moi Eti Jajabor, Ganga Mor Maa and many more.
He also became the Secretary of the Reception Committee of Indian People’s Theatre Association in 1955. He had even briefly worked at the All India Radio Station at Guwahati.
Hazarika was hospitalized in the Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital and Medical Research Institute in Mumbai in 2011. He died of multi-organ failure on 5 November 2011. His funeral was attended by an estimated half a million people.
