KOLKATA: Ahead of his 98th birth anniversary on Saturday, rare recordings of legendary singer-composer Hemanta Mukherjee from Bangladesh have been unearthed by way of a mathematics professor in the town. The recordings – one which dates again to 1971 and the opposite being the ultimate ‘elementary track’ recorded earlier than his dying in 1989 – have possibly by no means been seen or heard in India.
Joydeep Chakraborty, the former visitor lecturer at Rabindra Bharati Univerity (RBU) who now teaches in Murshidabad’s Nagar College, had earlier accumulated Mukherjee’s first recording of a Rabindra Sangeet in Pakistan. “The 45 rpm document of ‘Ami jalbona mor’ was once made by way of the Gramophone Company of Pakistan in 1961. It was once recorded in cooperation with the Visva-Bharati Music Board. I accumulated this from a Muslim family in Murshidabad,” Chakraborty said.
Two months again, he chanced upon the rare 1971 video recording from a friend. “After the liberation struggle of 1971, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman had invited Mukherjee over to Dhaka. During that discuss with, he had carried out a Rabindra Sangeet – ‘Tui phele eshechhis kare, mon, monre amar’ - for the state-owned tv community in Bangladesh. My good friend in Rajshahi sourced the recording for me,” Chakraborty said.
When Chakraborty was once teaching at RBU, he came across a pupil from Bangladesh who wanted his assist to covert some recordings in her family’s ownership to the virtual structure. “While doing the work, I chanced upon a cassette that had a recording of a person composing a track. The voice looked like that of Mukherjee,” Chakraborty said. His guess was once showed by way of the scholar’s grandfather in Dhaka. “The recording was once performed in 1989 when Mukherjee was once in Bangladesh and looking to set to music the track ‘Lokhi jokhon ashbe ghore’. Nobody with the exception of that family has ever heard this recording,” he insisted.
During that very same time, Chakraborty also chanced upon every other rare recording of Mukherjee. “The track was once ‘Bhalo kore mele dyakho drishti/Bujhbe Bangladesh bidhatar koto boro srishti’. The track was once penned by way of Abdus Sattar and set to music by way of Golam Mustafa. This was once the ultimate recorded ‘elementary track’ of his,” Chakraborty knowledgeable.
However, it isn’t just these recordings from Bangladesh that make his Mukherjee archive interesting. In his kitty are some rare jingles that Mukherjee had recorded for Colgate toothpaste, PC Chandra jewellers and Lipton tea. “I sourced his jingle for Eveready torch from a roadside seller. An outdated employee helped me get hold of his Bata jingle. I actually have a 1958-recorded jingle for Pundinhara that he had sung for Salil Chowdhury. I sourced his 1979-London recording of Ramayana in Hindi from an Anglo-Indian girl from Park Street,” he said.
That apart, Chakraborty also has 200 letters of the legend in his ownership, a postcard document of Mukherjee singing for the coronation of the king of Nepal in 1964, recording of a 1973-programme in Rabindra Sadan which had Mukherjee singing are living for the entire characters in ‘Chandalika’, a harmonium utilized by Mukherjee right through the overdue 1930s and Mukherjee’s personal choice of books.
Keen to showcase his assortment, Chakraborty might be satisfied to assist if the government plans to host this type of display.
Joydeep Chakraborty, the former visitor lecturer at Rabindra Bharati Univerity (RBU) who now teaches in Murshidabad’s Nagar College, had earlier accumulated Mukherjee’s first recording of a Rabindra Sangeet in Pakistan. “The 45 rpm document of ‘Ami jalbona mor’ was once made by way of the Gramophone Company of Pakistan in 1961. It was once recorded in cooperation with the Visva-Bharati Music Board. I accumulated this from a Muslim family in Murshidabad,” Chakraborty said.
Two months again, he chanced upon the rare 1971 video recording from a friend. “After the liberation struggle of 1971, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman had invited Mukherjee over to Dhaka. During that discuss with, he had carried out a Rabindra Sangeet – ‘Tui phele eshechhis kare, mon, monre amar’ - for the state-owned tv community in Bangladesh. My good friend in Rajshahi sourced the recording for me,” Chakraborty said.
When Chakraborty was once teaching at RBU, he came across a pupil from Bangladesh who wanted his assist to covert some recordings in her family’s ownership to the virtual structure. “While doing the work, I chanced upon a cassette that had a recording of a person composing a track. The voice looked like that of Mukherjee,” Chakraborty said. His guess was once showed by way of the scholar’s grandfather in Dhaka. “The recording was once performed in 1989 when Mukherjee was once in Bangladesh and looking to set to music the track ‘Lokhi jokhon ashbe ghore’. Nobody with the exception of that family has ever heard this recording,” he insisted.
During that very same time, Chakraborty also chanced upon every other rare recording of Mukherjee. “The track was once ‘Bhalo kore mele dyakho drishti/Bujhbe Bangladesh bidhatar koto boro srishti’. The track was once penned by way of Abdus Sattar and set to music by way of Golam Mustafa. This was once the ultimate recorded ‘elementary track’ of his,” Chakraborty knowledgeable.
However, it isn’t just these recordings from Bangladesh that make his Mukherjee archive interesting. In his kitty are some rare jingles that Mukherjee had recorded for Colgate toothpaste, PC Chandra jewellers and Lipton tea. “I sourced his jingle for Eveready torch from a roadside seller. An outdated employee helped me get hold of his Bata jingle. I actually have a 1958-recorded jingle for Pundinhara that he had sung for Salil Chowdhury. I sourced his 1979-London recording of Ramayana in Hindi from an Anglo-Indian girl from Park Street,” he said.
That apart, Chakraborty also has 200 letters of the legend in his ownership, a postcard document of Mukherjee singing for the coronation of the king of Nepal in 1964, recording of a 1973-programme in Rabindra Sadan which had Mukherjee singing are living for the entire characters in ‘Chandalika’, a harmonium utilized by Mukherjee right through the overdue 1930s and Mukherjee’s personal choice of books.
Keen to showcase his assortment, Chakraborty might be satisfied to assist if the government plans to host this type of display.
Mathematics prof finds Hemanta’s rare recordings
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