 The US government honoured Hemanta by conferring him with the citizenship of Baltimore, Maryland; the first ever singer of India to get USA citizenship.In the early to mid-1970s, two major music composers in Bengal, Nachiketa Ghosh and Robin Chatterjee, who had worked closely with Hemanta, since the early 1950s, died.Simultaneously, music composed by Hemanta for Bengali films like "Phuleswari", "Raag Anurag", " Ganadebata " and "Dadar Kirti" established him as the major film music composer in the Bengal movie scene.