Entertainment News Desk – Today is the 49th birth anniversary of SD Burman, who played an important role in the Indian cinema and music world. Singer and music director SD Burman’s real name was Sachin Dev Burman. The most special thing about the versatile SD Burman was that he could compose music according to any situation. Very few people know about him that he belonged to a king’s family, but despite this, one thing that was widely discussed about him in the industry is that SD Burman is very stingy. Let us tell you why he was called so.
SD Burman belonged to the royal family
Music director Sachin Dev Burman was born on 1 October 1906 into the royal family of Tripura. His father MRN Dev was a well-known sitar player and dhrupad. Let us tell you that SD Burman’s father was the son of the Maharaja of Tripura. His mother Nirmala Devi was the princess of Manipur. But despite this, Eddie Burman lived a very simple life. After completing his studies from Calcutta University, the musician joined Kolkata Radio Station as a singer in 1932.
SD Burman’s early career
SD Burman entered the world of music as a sitar player. After this, in the initial days he also sang songs for many Bengali and Hindi films. But then he came to Mumbai in the year 1944. Two years after coming here, i.e. in 1946, SD Burman got an offer to give music for the film Shikari and for eight days. After this the musician never looked back.
This fear used to haunt Eddie Burman
SD Burman achieved the heights of success with his hard work and ability. But one thing was famous about him that music composer SD Burman was very stingy. In those days, an incident related to this was much discussed that whenever the musician went to the temple, he was always afraid of losing a pair of his slippers. For this he had found a solution. Whenever he went to the temple, he never took off both his slippers together. When he was asked about this, he said that incidents of slipper theft have increased in the city these days. On this his friend asked what would happen if the thief gets both the slippers? Then SD Burman said that, if the thief gets both the slippers out of so many, then he really deserves it.
