With the death of Manna Dey, the music world has lost an outstanding singer who sang around 4,000 beautiful melodious songs during his six decades of colorful career. Mohammed Rafi, Kishore Kumar, Mukesh and Manna Dey made the ‘famous quartet’ of singers who dominated the Hindi film’s music industry from the 1950s to 1970s. Manna Dey’s duet with Lata Mangeshkar ‘Pyar hua ikraar hua’ played as background to film of actor Raj Kapoor and Nargis on a rainy night under an umbrella in ‘Shri 420’ is among the most popular songs of Bollywood and still being hummed by thousands of music lovers.

A disappointed fan of Manna Dey protested: “It’s very painful that a legend of Manna Dey’s stature deserved a national mourning, sometimes we never realize the void left by such great personalities.” Manna Dey enriched the Indian cinema with his superb and classical songs for decades and with his death an era has come to an end. — S.H.Moulana, Riyadh