Dwijen mukherjee biography books
Dwijen Mukherjee
Dwijen Mukherjee first came into limelight due his very "Hemanta-Like" voice.
Dwijen mukherjee biography books Shyamal boroni ogo kanyaa. Mukhopadhyay had also performed the devotional song 'Jaago Durga' as a part of the musical play 'Mahisasura Mardini' The Annihilation of the Demon , which is a radio programme broadcast by All India Radio AIR , Kolkata , every year on the day of 'Mahalaya' marking the beginning of the autumn festival of ' Durga Puja '. The first recording of this song back in created such an impression with the Bengalees that they found the new jazzed-up version a far cry from the original song. For all syndication related queries, contact Pramod Shinde.Of course he was also an excellent singer and quickly established himself as an accomplished "rabindrasangeet" singer. His friendship with Salil started in the late '40s through their common association with IPTA. Hemanta was also in the IPTA at that time. His next big break came when he recorded the path breaking songs "shyamal boroni ogo kanya" and "klaanti naame go" for Salil.
As a composition "shyamal boroni" was a masterpiece and "klaanti naame go" was unique. This album helped Dwijen tremendously.
Biography books for 4th graders Mukhopadhyay was a member of the "Experts Committee" and the "Selections Committee" at Visva-Bharati Music Board in Kolkata, which was responsible for certifying the purity and authenticity of Tagore songs, sung by any artist anywhere in the world. Mukhopadhyay had not been keeping well since August this year. In he entertained the soldiers of the Indian Army with his songs at Ladakh. Awarded with the prestigious Padma Bhushan in , Mukhopadhyay had been a recipient of several awards and honours.Its phenomenal success followed with other very successful Salil compositions such as "akdin phire jaabo chole", "pallabini go sancharini" etc. One of his rare and beautiful records must be Salil's brilliant composition of Michael Madhusudan Datta's two poems - "rekhomaa daasere mone" and "aashaar chhalane bhooli".
He became a close friend of Salil and Salil later invited him to Bombay to sing in a few Hindi films notably Madhumati, Maya, Honeymoon, Jawahar,and Sapan Suhaane.
For some strange reason Salil re-recorded some of Dwijen's old songs like "shyamal boroni ogo kanya" in the early '80s with disastrous results.
Ignoring that quite a few of Dwijen Mukherjee's songs will always remain popular.
Hnd = Hindi; Mal = Malayalam; Tam = Tamil; Tel = Telegu; Kan = Kannada; Bng = Bengali; Oth = Other
| Song DM1and DM2 were rerecorded by Dwijen in with very different arrangement by Salil. Specially, 'Shyamal baroni ogo kanya' has a new choir arrangement in the backgound which didn't go down very well with the first recording of this song back in created such an impression with the Bengalees that they found the new jazzed-up version a far cry from the original song.
By the way, not many people realise that the first two lines of the other well-known Dwijen song 'Klaanti naame go' is based on 'Happy birthday to you' ! Salil changed the 4/4 rhythm to 3/4 and created an unforgettable composition with separate melody for each line. |