Rai Chand Boral is often credited to be the pioneer of Indian film music.

He and Pankaj Mullick

Pankaj Mullick

Pankaj Mullick, also known as Pankaj Kumar Mullick was a Bengali Indian music director, who was a pioneer of film music in Bengali cinema and Hindi cinema at the advent of playback singing, as well as an early exponent of Rabindra Sangeet.He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1970, followed by the...

 were in charge of New Theatres' music department. New Theatres set standards in film music

Film score

A film score is original music written specifically to accompany a film, forming part of the film's soundtrack, which also usually includes dialogue and sound effects...

 which have rarely been approached since. They also shaped film music in its early days and their format was followed for the most part for first 20–30 years in Hindi film

Bollywood

Bollywood is the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai , Maharashtra, India. The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema; it is only a part of the total Indian film industry, which includes other production centers producing...

 music. He was also responsible for shaping Saigal's budding career. Anil Biswas

Anil Biswas

Anil Biswas was an Indian politician. He was the secretary of the West Bengal State Committee of Communist Party of India and member of the party's Polit Bureau beginning in 1998. He was the editor of Marxbadi Path the theoretical quarterly in Bengal...

 called Boral 'Bhishma Pitamah of film music'.

Boral was a recipient of Dadasaheb Phalke

Dadasaheb Phalke

Dhundiraj Govind Phalke, popularly known as Dadasaheb Phalke was an Indian producer-director-screenwriter, known as the father of Indian cinema...

award in 1978.

Partial filmography

• Mahobbat Ke Aansu (1932)
• Puuran Bhagat (1933)
• Chandidas
• Devdas (Bengali edition)
• Dhoop Chhaon
• Manzil
• Vidyapati
• Street Singer
• Saugandh
• Waapas
• Hamrahi
• Wasiyatnama (1945)
• Swami Vivekanand (1955)