Kanu Roy

{{Short description|Indian actor}}

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| birth_date = 9 December 1912

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| death_date = 20 December 1981

| death_place =Calcutta, West Bengal, India

| yearsactive = 1943–1983

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|occupation = music director

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Kanu Roy (1912-1981) was an Indian actor and music composer in Hindi and Bengali films.

He gave music for most of Basu Bhattacharya's films.

His most famous compositions are for Geeta Dutt, such as Aaj ki kaali ghata in Uski Kahani (1966), Lyrics: Kaifi Azmi, and the songs of Geeta Dutt's last film as a singer, Anubhav (1971) – "Koi Chupke Se Aake", "Mera Dil Jo Mera Hota" and "Meri Jaan Mujhe Jaan Na Kaho".{{cite news |title=All Time Greats: Geeta Dutt: Too short a lifespan for a nightingale |url=http://www.thedailystar.net/2005/06/30/d506301404103.htm |work=The Daily Star |date= 30 June 2005}}{{cite book |title=Routledge Handbook of Indian Cinemas |author=K. Moti Gokulsing, Wimal Dissanayake|publisher= Taylor & Francis|year=2013|isbn=9781136772849 |pages=254 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=djUFmlFbzFkC&dq=kanu+roy+music+director&pg=PA254 }} He also gave two hits to Manna Dey in Anubhav – "Phir Koi Phool Khila" and in Avishkaar – "Hansne Ki Chaah Ne Kitna Mujhe Rulaya Hai" and "Machal Ke Jab Bhi Aankhon Mein" by Bhupinder Singh in Griha Pravesh (1979).{{cite news |last1=LOKAPALLY |first1=VIJAY |title=Griha Pravesh (1979) |url=https://www.thehindu.com/features/friday-review/griha-pravesh-1979/article7792918.ece |work=The Hindu |date=22 October 2015}} In his early struggling years in Mumbai, he did small film roles, and gave film music whenever he got a chance.{{cite web |title=The Struggle Stories (Column: B-Town) |url=https://www.outlookindia.com/newsscroll/the-struggle-stories-column-btown/1807226 |publisher=Outlook magazine}}

The Jagjit and Chitra Singh rendition of "Babul Mora Naihar Chhooto Jaye" in Avishkaar (1973) is also fairly well known. His other films were not so successful, however.{{fact|date=July 2022}}