Pregnant time has its toll  on my inner self. The self in me saturated with subtle sequences over the passage of time, having its footprints on my skin. Although I was born in an ambience of singing with my mother and elder sister crooning sweet nothings, the faculty of singing in me encountered a hostility of dimensional horizons. The self got dissected with pangs when I discovered an incompatible relationship with music and the turbulent times. So,my psyche’ was torn  between traditional sleep-inducing Bengali songs and the percussionist protest of the youth on the other hand.

An urge to resurrect was developing that records the protests. Contradictions in my milieu left a deep impression that honed my skill to represent the exact expression of the generation next who did not feel at home with melodies that swayed the ears of the Bengalees of the previous generation. So my search to create a composition for the growing generation consolidated. No doubt, I felt a passionate feeling to make my composition based more on rhythms and beats.

So,the turbulent time  has its toll on me.I tried to break the traditional lullaby type Bengali song composition with more colloquial hypes that preferred the lips of teenagers and invariably the metallic lyrics. However I did not forget  a nugget of my search that Rabindrasangeet was played for a cocooned band of listeners and as such it did not reach the masses who had a different perception of  troubadour(folk)lyrics. As it happened,I also sang Rabindrasangeet for a rickshaw puller or a fisherman in  an isolated village.

My experiments with  reality in realm of Bengali songs made me a little bohemian in nature.But suddenly,I  had my dream come true when providence had it that  a section of young college students invited me to sing for them with an offer of Rs 100 as remuneration. That ended my quest for a liberation of Bengali song from its melodious past and no wonder I  became a singer with my own effort.


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"I am a dreamer,I collect all the smiles from My yesterday,
Neatly pack them into words and hide them in my heart,
I call them "MEMORIES" Music has no boundary.

Sanskriti proudly presents a magical muscial evening featuring NACHIKETA & Group on 24th September 2006 to mark the occasion of Durga Puja 2006 . This will be a rare musical extravaganza that you simply cannot affort to miss.

Naciketa, needs no introduction; ever since making a mark with his jibon-mukhi songs during the mid-9os,  his career has left a blazing trail of successes and a string of hit songs year after year. Among other things said about Nachiketa Chakrabarty, he is attributed with the delirious popularity of 'Jiban Mukhi' songs (taking a close look into the traditional/established values of life) with some songs like 'Nilanjana' topping the charts of both sides of Bengal for several years. For more details on Nachiketa or hear snippets of his music, please visit his





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"I am a dreamer,I collect all the smiles from My yesterday,
Neatly pack them into words and hide them in my heart,
I call them "MEMORIES" Music has no boundary.

Honest music
Soon after Chandrabindoo act, Nachiketa Chakraborty, one of the most popular singers in Bengal, put in a very entertaining performance. Nachiketa, who is inspired by Lata Mangeshkar on the one hand and Che Guevara on the other, peppered his songs and speech on love, relationships and politics with a lot of humour. "In each of these entertainment is important, but there should also be commitment, seriousness and honesty in what you communicate. If you are honest about what you want to say, people will like it. They can see it in your eye," says Nachiketa of his style of performance.





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"I am a dreamer,I collect all the smiles from My yesterday,
Neatly pack them into words and hide them in my heart,
I call them "MEMORIES" Music has no boundary.

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"I am a dreamer,I collect all the smiles from My yesterday,
Neatly pack them into words and hide them in my heart,
I call them "MEMORIES" Music has no boundary.

Ekla Chalo
Nachiketa Chakraborty, Sonu Nigam

Ekla Chalo - I've never been a Sonu Nigam admirer. This one made me. Classy Vocals leading to a high pitch and you hear the quick run of piano keys as the pitch comes down. Though the tune seems very similar to a song which I couldn't identify the mix of bengali lines by Nachiketa Chakraborty made it to the top.





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"I am a dreamer,I collect all the smiles from My yesterday,
Neatly pack them into words and hide them in my heart,
I call them "MEMORIES" Music has no boundary.

Calcuttaweb.com - Previous Poll 4
Poll Title: Who is favourite Bengali male modern song singer ?

Manna Dey 19.9% (313 Votes)
Hemanta Mukherjee 19.5% (307 Votes)
KishoreKumar Ganguly 18.3% (288 Votes)
Suman Chatterjee 16.7% (262 Votes)
Srikanta Acharya 5.8% (92 Votes)
Nachiketa Chakraborty 5.2% (83 Votes)
Anjan Dutta 4.7% (74 Votes)
Shyamal Mitra 1.5% (25 Votes)
Manabendra Mukherjee 1.2% (20 Votes)
Kumar Sanu 0.9% (15 Votes)
Satinath Mukherjee 0.9% (15 Votes)
Bhupen Hazarika 0.8% (13 Votes)
Sachin Dev Burman 0.7% (12 Votes)
Indranil Sen 0.7% (11 Votes)
Anup Ghosal 0.3% (6 Votes)
Rahul Dev Burman 0.3% (6 Votes)
Akhilbandhu Ghosh 0.3% (5 Votes)
Dhananjoy Bhattacharya 0.1% (3 Votes)
Jaganmoy Mitra 0.1% (3 Votes)
Tarun Banerjee 0.1% (3 Votes)
Subir Sen 0.1% (2 Votes)
Jaganmoy Mitra 0.1% (2 Votes)
Pratul Mukherjee 0.1% (2 Votes)
Babul Supriyo 0.1% (2 Votes)
Sudhirlal Chakraborty 0% (1 Votes)
Pintu Bhattacharya 0% (1 Votes)
Jwatileswar Chatterjee 0% (1 Votes)
Dwijen Mukherjee 0% (1 Votes)





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"I am a dreamer,I collect all the smiles from My yesterday,
Neatly pack them into words and hide them in my heart,
I call them "MEMORIES" Music has no boundary.

Omkara (film)
Music
The film has eight songs composed by Vishal Bharadwaj:
·     Omkara - Sukhwinder Singh
·     O Saathi Re - Shreya Ghoshal & Vishal Bharadwaj
·     Beedi - Sunidhi Chauhan, Sukhwinder Singh, Nachiketa Chakraborty & Clinton Cerejo
·     Jag Ja - Suresh Wadkar
·     Namak - Rekha Bharadwaj & Rakesh Pandit
·     Naina - Rahat Fateh Ali Khan
·     Laakad - Rekha Bharadwaj
·     The Tragedy of Omkara - Instrumental





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"I am a dreamer,I collect all the smiles from My yesterday,
Neatly pack them into words and hide them in my heart,
I call them "MEMORIES" Music has no boundary.

Closing ranks against calamity
SUDESHNA BANERJEE

Usha Uthup at the rehearsal for a video album on tsunami at choreographer Sukalyan Bhattacharya?s studio in Dhakuria on Friday. Picture by Aranya Sen  
A guitar lies on the beach, caressed by the lapping waves. A familiar figure bends down to retrieve the instrument and walks into the horizon. A familiar voice recites: ...From the grief and tears and pain/ Will rise again/ A new world united in hope.

The figure is that of singer Usha Uthup, while the baritone belongs to Amitabh Bachchan. Big B is among the 84 artistes from across the country who have come on board an album in the aftermath of tsunami.

?This is, perhaps, the first time that the musical fraternity in India has come together on such a scale after a natural calamity,? said S.F. Karim, business manager, Saregama India, which has released the album entitled We Believe in Now.

The credits list is a virtual who?s who: Shaan, Sonu Nigam, Shreya Ghoshal, Udit Narayan, Alka Yagnik, Shankar Mahadevan, Kavita Krishnamurthy? from Bollywood, S.P. Balasubramaniam and Chitra heading the 10-singer list from the south, members of local bands like Cactus, Bhoomi, Chandrabindoo and Krosswindz and a host of singers including Nachiketa, Shilajit, Indrani Sen, Sriradha Bandyopadhyay and Rupankar from Bengal.

And why only singers? Actors Jeet, Indrani Halder, Koel Mullick, June and Sabyasachi Chakraborty have pitched in as well for the second phase of the venture ? video recordings of the songs. ?Every artiste, right from Mr Bachchan, readily agreed and without any remuneration,? said Usha Uthup, whose brainchild the project is.

Recalling the interaction with Bachchan in Mumbai, she says: ?He took less than a minute to say yes but getting his date was the problem.? The recording ultimately happened in October.

While the music (by Sobhan Mukherjee, Andy Park and Raja Deb) was recorded here, voices of the outstation singers were recorded in Mumbai and Chennai.

Recalls Hariharan, speaking from Mumbai: ?I enjoyed singing for the project. When a disaster of this magnitude occurs, it is everyone?s duty to do his bit in whichever way.?

The project has brought the actor out of Nachiketa. Other than his voice and pen, he has lent himself to the role of a singer who has lost his family to the killer wave in the video that accompanies one of the 10 songs in the album.

Its Tamil and Malayalam version has singers from the south facing the camera.

?We are trying to bring out a VCD as these days, songs have to seen as well as heard,? said Uthup. A shoot with the Bollywood singers is also on the cards, revealed Karim.

The album has songs in Hindi and English as well, with musicians Bikram Ghosh, Tanmoy Bose, Nondon Bagchi, Anjum Katyal and Jayshree Singh pitching in. ?Such a project has a national audience,? Uthup points out.

The singer had started penning the songs three days after disaster in 2005.

?A year may have passed, but the extent of damage is such that rehabilitation will go on forever. I hope to take the show to every tsunami-hit part of the country, from Port Blair to Vailankani,? she tuned off.





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"I am a dreamer,I collect all the smiles from My yesterday,
Neatly pack them into words and hide them in my heart,
I call them "MEMORIES" Music has no boundary.

The Bong Connection

The story of two young men trying to achieve their dreams in a foreign land. For one, Kolkata is dying and stagnant. For the other, Kolkata is still the mecca of culture and arts. Two stories that run parallely, eratically, never quite merging; yet colliding. A warm hearted, hilarious, yet deeply touching drama about two men in this crazy, global world.



Written and Directed by Anjan Dutt.

Story Conceptualized and Produced by Joy Brata Ganguly.

Co-produced by Shauvik Kundagrami & Soumo Ganguly.

Starring Raima Sen, Shayan Munshi, Parambrata Chattopadhyay, Peeya Rai Choudhuri, Victor Banerjee, Soumitra Chatterjee, Mamata Shankar, Samrat Chakraborty, Shauvik, June Maliah, Arindam Sil, Biswajit Chakraborty, Saswata Chatterjee, Mir, Avijit Dutt, Bikram Ghosh, Barun Chanda, Jordan Graham, Travis Ammons, Junie Hoang, Michelle Vaneges and others.

Music Direction by Neel Dutt.

Songs sung by Anjan Dutt, Rupankar, Nachiketa Chakrabarty, Pervez Qadir, Swapan Basu, Dibyendu Mukherji, Shaan and Shreya Ghoshal.





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"I am a dreamer,I collect all the smiles from My yesterday,
Neatly pack them into words and hide them in my heart,
I call them "MEMORIES" Music has no boundary.

Nachiketa is a brilliant singer and a master of stage shows. He is the Bengali version of Sonu Nigam on stage. He will make you laugh, make you dance, and even make you cry. So, if you all ever get a chance to watch him live, DO NOT MISS IT.





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"I am a dreamer,I collect all the smiles from My yesterday,
Neatly pack them into words and hide them in my heart,
I call them "MEMORIES" Music has no boundary.

Nachiketa - Music India OnLine
Nachiketa Bengali Songs/Music, including reviews, previews, audio reviews,
wallpapers, stills and much more
http://www.musicindiaonline.com/l/15/s/artist.671/

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"I am a dreamer,I collect all the smiles from My yesterday,
Neatly pack them into words and hide them in my heart,
I call them "MEMORIES" Music has no boundary.

If food be the love of music, eat on, sing on!  
By Biplab Ganguli
  
What happens when a few friends, all from different walks of life, put their minds together to restore, preserve and perpetuate heritage from both sides of Bengal? Such grit and determination did these long-time friends demonstrate to achieve this end after a few serious brainstorming sessions, that they tasted success in a short while, three years ago?.

And for these three years, Calcutta is buzzing with one name, which made waves in culinary delicacies from Bengal ? Bhojohori Manna, named after a mythical chef, made immortal many years ago by the legendary Manna Dey when he lent his voice to one of the most popular Bengali film songs, Ami Sri Sri Bhojohori Manna.

Noted filmmaker Goutam Ghose, former SAIL executive Rajiv Neogi, ‘Topshe’ of the film Sonar Kella and portfolio consultant Siddhartha Chatterjee, businessman Ranjit DuttaGupta and former Tata executive Siddhartha Bose, are the brains behind the chain of these four extremely popular restaurants in the city.

These entrepreneurs along with HMV SaReGaMa have come up with CD of timeless appeal, Bhojohori Manna. In doing so, two of the most popular aspects of Bengal’s speciality have been bridged ? Food and Music. It is interesting to note that the palate has inspired the pen of Bengali songwriters for a long time.

Manna Dey is the only living member of the quartet of Ami Sri Sri Bhojohori Manna, which was composed by Pulak Bandopadhyay and set to tune by Sudhin Dasgupta. The actor who lipped this extremely popular number in the film, Prothom Kodom Phul, was Samit Bhanja.

All the 14 songs which find place in this handpicked collection, portray the gastronomic delight associated with the average Bengali. Apart from the title song by Manna Dey, other wellknown voices include Manabendra Mukherjee, Nachiketa, Anjan Dutta, Suman Chattopadhyay, Anup Ghoshal, Amit Kumar, Nisith Sadhu, Arati Mukherjee, Shakti Thakur and of course the doyens of Rabindrasangeet ? Asoketoru Banerjee and Hemanta Mukhopadhyay.

Timeless compositions of Pulak Bandopadhyay, Gouriprasanna Majumdar, Pranab Roy, Suman Chattopadhyay and Hiren Bose co-exist with Rabindranath Tagore, Rajanikanta Sen, Sukumar Ray and Satyajit Ray.

The music of stalwarts like Sudhin Dasgupta, Hemanta Mukhopadhyay, Rabindranath Tagore, Satyajit Ray, Anup Ghosal and Soumitro Banerjee have added exquisite flavour to such songs like Jodi jote roj emni, Haridasher bulbul bhaja, Bhooter raja dilo bor, Ei dakho pencil, Dadar hotele khai and others.

The restaurant chain uses the catchline ‘Swade Gune Bhorpur Ahar’, meaning ‘Fine dining in great taste and appeal’ ? the first of this collection of CDs, go a long way in justifying the great taste and appeal of each one of the songs featured in the album.

Some of these are being hummed by Bengalis for years while some others are rarely heard but equally enjoyable in word and tune.

The CD pack, too, looks very attractive with the brand logo of Bhojohori Manna on it ? the chef ‘Kathburo’ ? a product of the timeless genius of Sukumar Ray in Abol Tabol. Recommended as a must-have for all connoisseurs of food ? and music.







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"I am a dreamer,I collect all the smiles from My yesterday,
Neatly pack them into words and hide them in my heart,
I call them "MEMORIES" Music has no boundary.

Singer Nachiketa from Bengal performs at Utsav in Guwahati on Tuesday evening. Picture by Eastern Projections





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"I am a dreamer,I collect all the smiles from My yesterday,
Neatly pack them into words and hide them in my heart,
I call them "MEMORIES" Music has no boundary.

Nachiketa :This year we are bringing the renowned bengali artist Nachiketa with his band on Sunday September 24th at 6:30 p.m. Nachiketa Chakraborty needs no introduction and his hits include songs such as "Nilanjana" which have topped charts of both parts of Bengal.





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"I am a dreamer,I collect all the smiles from My yesterday,
Neatly pack them into words and hide them in my heart,
I call them "MEMORIES" Music has no boundary.

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"I am a dreamer,I collect all the smiles from My yesterday,
Neatly pack them into words and hide them in my heart,
I call them "MEMORIES" Music has no boundary.