New Delhi,June 01: Music composer Anil Biswas, who introduced great playback singers Mukesh and Talat Mehmood and the concept of orchestra into the Indian celluloid world, passed away here on Saturday morning. He was 89 and is survived by two sons and a daughter. The cremation would take place on Sunday, his daughter Shikha Vohra said. The unforgettable music composed by Biswas for Dil jalta hai to jalne do sung by Mukesh for the movie Pehli Nazar in 1945 propped him as a singer who was to dominate playback singing for many decades to come. It was Biswas again who gave chance to Talat Mehmood in Arzoo in 1949 to sing one of the best songs Aye dil mujhe aisi jagah le chal jahan koi na ho. Born in 1914 in village Barisal in then East Bengal, Biswas became a freedom fighter at a young age but his artistic talents drew him to Kolkata and he got associated with famous Bengali poet Qazi Nurul Hasan and the Rang Mahal theatre. Like anybody trying a career in films, he went to Mumbai in 1934 to begin his career as a music composer. He did not have to wait much. He composed music for Dharam Ki Devi the very next year. And there was no looking back for him.
His other numbers were Hato aie dooniya waalo hindustan hamara hai; Dheere dheere aare badal; Mera bulbul so raha hai shorgul na macha, the last sung by Ashok Kumar in Kismet.


He gave Lata Mangeshkar and Suraiyya some of their most memorable songs (intezaar aur abhi, aur abhi).