Happy birthday RD Burman: Celebrate the musical genius with these 10 songs perfect for your monsoon playlist

On RD Burman’s 80th birthday, listen to his 10 best and most melodic songs. Add these your playlist and listen to them on a cool summer night.

Updated on: Jun 27, 2019, 08:55:49 IST

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By HT Correspondent

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Thursday marks the 80th birth anniversary of one of the country’s most loved music directors, RD Burman. Pancham Da, as he was fondly known among his fans, gave Bollywood some really beautiful melodies that we sing, hum and dance to, even today.

RD Burman was known as Pancham Da among fans and contemporaries.

He entered the music industry in the 1950s with the great expectations one would have from the son of Sachin Dev Burman. But it didn’t take RD long to blaze his own trail and go on to compose the music for a long string of classic films. It is said he got the name ‘Pancham’ as he used to cry in five different notes when he was a child.

He learnt his art from masters like Ustad Ali Akbar Khan and Ashish Khan and made music that the country had never heard before. Here are some of his most beautiful songs, perfect for listening late at night when you have nothing but your thoughts to yourself:

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