Rabindra Sangeet
They played Je Raate Mor Duaarguli on Worldspace early this morning, which made me want to see the song from Megha Dhaka Tara once again. Here it is.
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Here is Akash Bhora from Ghatak’s Komal Gandhar. Full of glorious light and open space, it’s a contrast from the heartbreaking stillness of the song from Megha Dhaka Tara. Both songs were sung by Debabrata Biswas for Anil Chatterjee. (In Manna Dey’s autobiography, which I read recently, Dey describes Debabrata Biswas’s renditions of Rabindra Sangeet as “perhaps the best possible tribute one could have paid the poet”).
Here is a version of Je Raate Mor Duaarguli sung by Hemanta Mukherjee.
Here are two Tagore songs from Satyajit Ray, both sung by Kishore Kumar for Soumitra Chatterjee: Ami Chini Go Chini Tomare Ogo Bideshini sung by Amal in Charulata, and Bidhir Badhon Katbe Tumi sung by the revolutionary Sandip in Ghare Baire.
