Q. Bengalis ruled the hindi film music and films then and now too...kishor kumar , manna dey , geeta dutt, hemant kumar , anand bakshi , ashok kumar , mala sinha , sharmila tagore , jaya bhaduri , aparna sen , pradeep kumar , S mukherjee, mausumi chaterjee, raakhee, shakti samanta , bimal roy , asit sen , basu bhattacharya , basu chatterjee, hrishikesh mukherjee , bappi lahiri , shan , kumar sanu , abhijeet ...the list goes on.....
:  A. anand baksi is not bengali.there should be more names in the list (including two great from tripura, sd and rd)k c dey, salil choudhury, mithun...... more