Pulak Bandyopadhyay was born on 2 May 1931, in Salkia, Howrah. He was a Bengali Indian lyricist and songwriter of Bengali cinema.
His family had close links with art circles, in particular in drama, literature, and music. He was a graduate of the Scottish Church College, in Calcutta.
He experimented with various genres and in the process contributed richly to the evolution of musical compositions in Bengali cinema during the 1960s and 1970s.
In the 1966 film Sankhabela, he wrote two evergreen songs- “Ke Prothom Kachhe Esechhi” (Lata Mangeshkar and Manna Dey) and “Aaj Mon Cheyechhe” (Lata Mangeshkar). In the 1969 film Prothom Kadam Phool, he wrote “Ami Shri Shri Bhojo Hori Manna”.
On 7 September 1999, he committed suicide by jumping off a launch into the Hooghly River.
