Controversy erupted when the 2019 film ‘
Mahalaya
’ showed the relation between
Hemanta Mukhopadhyay
and
Pankaj Mullick, the two music stalwarts, in a troubled way. Well, it didn’t go well with the Family members of Hemanta Mukhopadhyay.
On the music legend’s birth anniversary today, we spoke to
Gautam Mukherjee, Hemanta Mukhopadhyay’s son-in-law (
Ranu Mukherjee
’s husband), and he shares with us how upset they were over the controversy that insinuated that the legendary singer had a tiff with musical stalwart Pankaj Mullick.
The Mumbai-based voice trainer who worked with Hemanta Mukhopadhyay on several occasions said in an exclusive chat with
ETimes
, “Hemantababu used to worship Pankaj Mullick. They shared a fantastic relationship.”
Gautam, who assisted Hemanta on a few projects, said that he once had a word with his father-in-law about the Mahalaya program — Debing Durgatiharinim — that he composed music for. “Hemantababu and I had discussions about it. He treated it like an assignment that came his way. I remember him saying that Mahisasuramardini was a landmark creation by Pankajda. And like his many other works, Debing Durgatiharinim was just another assignment for Hemanta Mukherjee. Nothing more than that. I was quite surprised at him being portrayed in such a manner in a Bengali film Mahalaya,” Gautam revealed.
According to him, Hemanta had ‘uninterrupted’ and ‘undisputed’ respect for Pankaj Mullick. “Time and again he mentioned how he had learned so much from Pankajda. I am 100% sure, he never had any ego or acrimony against Pankajbabu. If there was any tiff at all, he would have expressed it to someone at some point. Such things cannot be hidden all life,” added Gautam.
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