BEST RABINDRA SANGEET BY SHREYA GHOSHAL MOVIE

Indrani Sen’s magical voice transforms this song to a different level altogether, which is performed on screen by the very beautiful, Aparna Sen. And in a sort of first, Ghatak cut the song with a sound effect of lashes – a leit motif in the film of the protagonist’s misfortunes.īhalobashi bhalobashi – Shwet pathorer thala The male & female voices are simultaneously mellifluous and tragic while the camera moves as a lurking shadow on her misfortune. In the film, this song happens on the eve of her sister’s wedding to her boyfriend as she tries to learn it and sing it at the wedding. The tragic story of the eldest daughter of a refugee family would have degenerated into melodrama with any lesser director. But the case Ritwik Ghatak puts up is unassailable. Je raatey mor duaarguli – Meghey Dhaka TaraĪs a life-long devotee of Ray, it is a little difficult for me to accept that the best picturisations of Rabindrasangeet is not done by him. To solve the small matter that Kishore Kumar could not read a score sheet, Bijoya Ray (Satyajit’s wife) recorded the song which he heard and sang in one clean take.Īnd just in case you are wondering, the piano was played by Ray himself.

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Kishore – Bollywood’s busiest playback singer – did not have time to go the loo, let alone Calcutta despite being terribly keen to sing. Satyajit Ray was hell-bent on getting Kishore Kumar to sing this song. Probably the greatest Bengali actor lip-syncs to the voice of the greatest Bengali singer under the helm of the greatest Bengali director – in a story by Tagore himself.

BEST RABINDRA SANGEET BY SHREYA GHOSHAL MOVIE

And in one sequence, Mini performs in a dance programme that has her Kabuliwala and the audience enthralled.įor the life of me, I cannot locate the movie clip so you will have to make do with the audio. Chhabi Biswas – in the title role – sees his daughter in Mini, one of the cutest child actors ever to grace the silver screen (played by Tinku Tagore, Sharmila’s younger sister). The first on the list is also my earliest memory of a Rabindrasangeet on screen.

This is not pristine Rabindra Sangeet but interpretations by filmmakers from different genres and brought to life on screen by extremely charismatic actors. To correct – or more accurately, try to correct – this notion, I thought I will put down a list of my favourite Tagore songs as depicted on film. It is also considered slightly soporific, slightly maudlin and therefore, slightly boring. Having spent a lot of time out of Calcutta, I found that Rabindra Sangeet is by and large considered as the mandatory art form to be perfected by Bengali women (and displayed when prospective grooms come calling) that is also to be accompanied by Bengali men on the tabla. I had been toying with the idea of this post for some time and the demise of Suchitra Mitra was the sad – but appropriate – trigger that forced me write it down.

Best rabindra sangeet by shreya ghoshal