सुंदर दास भाटिया

Sunder Das Bhatia was a music director of India's earliest talkie era, known through his score for Roop Basant (1933), a Saroj Movietone production directed by A. P. Kapoor. He composed the film's full soundtrack of more than a dozen songs — song databases also spell his credit 'Sundar Das Bhatiya' — working with lyricist Munshi Gulam Zilani 'Sham'; the singer-actress Sardar Akhtar was among the voices heard in the film. His Roop Basant songs show the range expected of a 1933 score, when film composers drew directly on classical and theatrical traditions: ghazal settings such as 'Ishq Wo Nakhl Hai Jispe Naa Laga Phal Ek Baar' and 'Naa Puchho Humdamo', the devotional 'Ram Sumir Ram Sumir', monsoon and Krishna-themed numbers like 'Barsan Laagi Ri Hai Badariyaa' and 'Shyam Ghunghat Pat Khole', and the patriotic 'Hamare Desh Ki Mitti Jawahir Se Badhkar Hain'. Roop Basant remains his only film documented in accessible song archives, and — as with many composers of the first talkie years — his personal details, including birth, death, and musical training, have not survived in public records.