Bulo C Rani (6 May 1920 – 24 May 1993) was an
Indian music director. He was a music director in Bollywood from the 1940s until the 1960s. He scored music for 71 films from 1943–72, including some evergreens like "hame to loot liya mil ke husn waalo ne" and others.
Early life
Bulo C Rani was born in
Hyderabad
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,
Sindh province
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,
British India
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(now in
Pakistan
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) on 6 May 1920.
His birth name was Bulo Chandiram Ramchandani. His father was also a music director. After completing his B.A. degree he joined
Ranjit Movietone
Ranjit Studios, also known as Ranjit Movietone, was an Indian film production company with studio facilities located in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. It produced films between 1929 and mid-1970s. The studio was founded by Chandulal Shah along with ...
in 1939.
Career
Bulo's career started in 1939 under Ranjit Movietone. His initial days in Bollywood were full of struggle and hard work. As he started to work, he met some very big personalities who were very prominent names in music then such as
Ghulam Haider,
D. N. Madhok
Dina Nath Madhok (22 October 1902 – 9 July 1982) was a prominent lyricist of Bollywood in the 1940s to 1960s. He started his career with the 1932 film ''Radhey Sham''. He wrote over 800 songs in his career spanning four decades and was regarded ...
etc. In the early 1940s, Bulo worked in some films as an assistant to
Khemchand Prakash
Khemchand Prakash (12 December 1907 – 10 August 1949) was a music composer in the Hindi film industry. He had few peers in 1940s, the decade for Indian film music which started with Saigal very active on the scene and ended with Lata Mangeshkar ...
. He assisted Khemchand in the movies like ''
Tansen
Tansen ( – 26 April 1589), also referred to and commonly known as Sangeet Samrat () , was a Hindustani classical musician. Born in a Hindu Gaur Brahmin family, he learnt and perfected his art in the northwest region of modern Madhya Pr ...
'', ''Chandni'', ''Sukh Dukh'' (1942) and ''Shahenshah Babar'' (1944). He sang his first playback song "Ruth Na Pyaar Mein" under Khemchand in the film ''Mehmaan'' (1942). Though he was an assistant music director, he composed the song "Dukhiya Jiyara" in the film ''Tansen'', sung by
Khursheed. The song's credit went to Khemchand Prakash, the composer of that soundtrack. In 1943, he worked as an assistant to
Gyan Dutt
Gyan Dutt was one of the most prominent music directors in Bollywood in the 1940s. He was music director for films such as ''Thokar'' (1939), ''Achhut'' (1940), '' Bhakta Surdas'' (1942), '' Sunehre Din'' (1949) and '' Ghayal'' (1951). Many of hi ...
in two films- ''Paigham'' and ''Shankar Parvati''. Despite him composing the song, it was credited as a Gyan Dutt composition. However, he managed to sing in six films that year.
His first film as a composer was ''Caravan'' (1944). The same year, he sang in a film ''Pagli Duniya''. In that film, he changed his name temporarily to Bhola. But later on he sang many songs under this name till the end of his career. But he continued as Bulo C Rani for music direction. In 1945, he composed songs in films like ''Moorti'' and ''Pehli Nazar''. ''Moorti'' was a popular musical and Mukesh sang one of his first hit songs in the film, "Badariya Baras Gai Us Paar".
Some of Rani's other hits in the forties include ''Rajputani'' (1946) and ''Anjuman'' (1948). His best work till date came in the early 1950s - ''
Jogan'' (1950), ''Wafa'' (1951) and ''Bilwamangal'' (1954). Bilwamangal was one of his last soundtracks which contained classic songs of
Suraiya
Suraiya Jamal Sheikh (15 June 1929 – 31 January 2004), popularly known by the mononym Suraiya, was a popular actress and playback singer in India's Hindi-language films. She was active from 1936 to 1963, and was the most celebrated actress ...
and
C. H. Atma
C.H. Atma was a Bollywood playback singer, ghazal singer and film actor. He was born in 1923 in Hyderabad (Sind), now in Pakistan. His real name was Atma Hashmatrai Chainani. He was the first singer from India to tour and sing outside India in N ...
. The songs of that film became popular with one number in particular, "Hum Ishq Ke Maron Ko", which was sung by Suraiya with lyrics by
D. N. Madhok
Dina Nath Madhok (22 October 1902 – 9 July 1982) was a prominent lyricist of Bollywood in the 1940s to 1960s. He started his career with the 1932 film ''Radhey Sham''. He wrote over 800 songs in his career spanning four decades and was regarded ...
.
As the new generation of composers like
Shankar Jaikishan Shankar may refer to:
People
*Shankar (name), including a list of people with the name
* Sankar (writer) (Mani Shankar Mukherjee), Bengali writer
* L. Shankar, Indian violinist
* S. Shankar, Indian film director commonly credited as Shankar
*Sanka ...
,
Salil Chowdhury
Salil Chowdhury (19 November 1925 – 5 September 1995) was an Indian music director, songwriter, lyricist, writer and poet who predominantly composed for Bengali, Hindi and Malayalam films. He composed music for films in 13 languages. This i ...
,
O. P. Nayyar
Omkar Prasad Nayyar (16 January 1926 – 28 January 2007) was an Indian film music composer, singer-songwriter, music producer, and musician. He is considered to be one of the most rhythmic and melodious music directors of the Hindi film indust ...
were becoming prominent in Indian cinema, Bulo was no longer as active by the late 1950s. However, he continued to compose for films till the mid-sixties. Some of his songs in this period were hits such as "Humein Toh Loot Liya" (Al Hilaal, 1958), "Mangne Se Jo Maut Mil Jati" (Sunehre Qadam, 1966).
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Filmography
Selected list of films from about total 77 films:
Death
Bulo C Rani's death remained largely unreported in the press. Lack of assignments in later life left him frustrated. He committed suicide on 23 May 1993 at the age of 73 years in Mumbai
Mumbai (, ; also known as Bombay — the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra and the ''de facto'' financial centre of India. According to the United Nations, as of 2018, Mumbai is the secon ...
, after his family sold their house at Shivaji Park and moved to Versova.
References
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1920 births
1993 deaths
Hindi film score composers
People from Hyderabad, Sindh
20th-century Indian composers