Datta Naik, also credited as N. Dutta, is a Hindi

Hindi

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 film music director. Born in the then Portuguese

Portugal

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 colony of Goa

Goa

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, Naik, started his career as an assistant to the music director Sachin Dev Burman

Sachin Dev Burman

Sachin Dev Burman , also credited as Burman da, Kumar Sachindra Dev Barman, Sachin karta or S. D. Burman, was one of the most famous music composers for Hindi movies and a Bengali singer and composer. His son Rahul Dev Burman also achieved great success as a Bollywood music director in his own...

. His partnership with song writer Sahir Ludhianvi

Sahir Ludhianvi

Sahir Ludhianvi was a popular Urdu poet and Hindi lyricist and songwriter. Sahir Ludhianvi is his pseudonym...

was popular and successful. He died on 30 December 1987.

Major films

• Milaap : debut film with Raj Khosla (Debut Director) : (1955)
• Black Cat
• Sadhana
• Chandrakanta

Dhool Ka Phool 1959
Nach Ghar 1959

• Chandi Ki Deewar
• Marine Drive
• Dharmaputra
• Mr. X

Aag aur Daag 1970
Didi 1959

• Chehre Pe Chehre (1980)-
• -gyrah hazar ladkiyan

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