PRAFULLA KAR

About:

• Prafulla Kar (1939 – 2022) was an Odia musician, singer, lyricist, writer and columnist.
  
  
• He has composed music in more than 70 films, hundreds of Odissi dance dramas and ballets.
  
  
• Kar, popularly known as ‘Kamala Deshara Rajkumar’ for his immortal composition on the same lyrics, he has been a patron of Odisha’s rich traditions and recorded Odia Bhagabat, Chhanda and folk and light songs.
  
  
• He received Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award by the Government of India in 2015 for his contribution in the field of arts.