 Asoktaru Bandopadhyay, Chinmoy Chattopadhyay, Sagar Sen, Sumitra Sen and Ritu Guha were the other leading exponents of Rabindra Sangeet at that time.In the 1970s, Hemanta's contribution in Hindi films was nominal.He scored music for a handful of his home productions, but none of these movies were successful nor their music.