Hansraj Behl was an Indian music composer who was born on November 19, 1916. Born in Ambala, British Punjab, composer of music for Hindi and Punjabi films. Pandit Chunnilal taught Hansraj his first musical lessons. In his neighbourhood, his father was a zamindar (landlord). Hansraj Behl established a music school in Anarkali Bazaar, Lahore, Punjab, British India, and issued a few non-film albums under the imprint His Master's Voice (HMV). In 1944, Hansraj travelled to Bombay with his younger brother Gulshan Behl and, subsequently, poet and film song lyricist
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to seek a career as a music director in the Hindi film business. With the film Pujari (1946), directed by
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, he made his debut as a composer.
He introduced the well-known playback singer
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, who made her Hindi cinema debut with the song Saawan Aaya for Hansraj Behl's film Chunariya, which she co-wrote with Zohrabai Ambalewali. During his four-decade career, he collaborated with cinema song lyricists like
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, and
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, and scored music for over 67 films. He is well known for Teen Sardar Composer (1965),
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: Ironman Composer (1964), Ek Din Ka Badshah Composer (1964), and Jatt Da Gandasa Composer (1982).
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