Hemanta Mukhopadhyay,known professionally as Hemanta Mukherjee and hemant kumar was a legendary Indian music director and playback singer who primarily sang in Bengali and Hindi,as well as other Indian languages like Marathi,Gujarati,Odia,Assamese,Tamil,Punjabi,Bhojpuri,Konkani,Sanskrit and Urdu. He was an artist of Bengali and Hindi film music,Rabindra Sangeet,and many other genres. He was the recipient of two National Awards for Best Male Playback Singer and was popularly known as the "voice of God".
The music of Bangladesh spans a wide variety of styles. Bangladesh claims some of the most renowned singers,composers and producers in Asia. Music has served the purpose of documenting the lives of the people and was widely patronized by the rulers. It comprises a long tradition of religious and regular song-writing over a period of almost a millennium.
Kirtana,also rendered as Kirtan or Keertan,is a Sanskrit word that means "narrating,reciting,telling,describing" of an idea or story,specifically in Indian religions. It also refers to a genre of religious performance arts,connoting a musical form of narration,shared recitation,or devotional singing,particularly of spiritual or religious ideas,native to the Indian subcontinent. A person performing kirtan is known as a kirtankara.
The music of West Bengal includes multiple indigenous musical genres such as Baul,Ramprasadi,Bishnupuri Classical,Kirtan,Shyama Sangeet,Rabindra Sangeet,Nazrul Geeti,Dwijendrageeti,Prabhat Samgiita,Agamani-Vijaya,Patua Sangeet,Gambhira,Bhatiali,Bhawaiya,Bengali Rock.
Ruprekha Banerjee is an Indian musician. She was one of the three finalists of Fame Gurukul,a popular television show in India,along with Rex D'Souza and Qazi Touqeer. On 20 October 2005,she won the top prize along with Touqeer.
Swagatalakshmi Dasgupta is a Bengali musician and exponent of Rabindra Sangeet.
Calcutta Youth Choir was set up in 1958 by Ruma Guha Thakurta with Salil Chowdhury and Satyajit Ray.
Kaushiki Chakraborty is an Indian classical vocalist of the Patiala gharana. Her repertoire covers pure classical,Khyals,Dadras,Thumris,Bhajans and several other forms of Indian music. She is the recipient 2005 BBC Radio 3 Awards for World Music in the Asia-Pacific category. She is the daughter of noted hindustani classical vocalist,Ajoy Chakraborty. Kaushiki is also a trained Carnatic classical vocalist.
SVF Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. is an Indian film production and distribution company,founded by Shrikant Mohta and Mahendra Soni in 1995. Apart from producing and distributing Bengali films in West Bengal,Bangladesh,Assam and Tripura,SVF also distributes Bollywood and Hollywood films in East India. The other divisions of the company include Exhibition,TV Content Production,Digital Cinema,Music,New Media and IPR syndication. SVF was in Anandabazar Patrika's powerlist for 2008 and 2010.
Nilufar Yasmin was a Bangladeshi singer of Nazrul Sangeet,Rajanikanta Geeti,Dwijendra Geeti and Atul Prasdi genre. She was the fourth of five Yasmin sisters of Bangladesh music. Her siblings are Farida Yasmin,Fauzia Yasmin,Nazma Yasmin,and Sabina Yasmin. She was awarded Ekushey Padak in 2004 by the Government of Bangladesh. She won Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Female Playback Singer for her performance in the film Shuvoda (1986).
Dhananjay Bhattacharya was an Indian Bengali singer and composer. He was a versatile Shyama Sangeet singer.
Anupam Roy is an Indian singer-songwriter,music director,composer,songwriter,guitarist,playback singer from Kolkata,India. He made his debut with Amake Amar Moto Thakte Dao &Benche Thakar Gaan,which appeared on the soundtrack of the 2010 Bengali film Autograph. Since then,he has gone on to compose,write lyrics and sing for many Bengali films.
Abir Chatterjee is an Indian actor who mainly works in Bengali cinema. He is the son of theatre personalities Phalguni Chatterjee and Rumki Chatterjee. He started his career with Bengali television and made his debut in Bengali cinema in 2009 as a lead with Cross Connection. He is well known for appearing as famous Detective Byomkesh Bakshi in a separate movie series.
Baishey Srabon is a 2011 Indian Bengali neo-noir psychological action thriller film directed by Srijit Mukherji,marking his second film after Autograph (2010). The cast consists of Prosenjit Chatterjee,Parambrata Chatterjee,Raima Sen,Abir Chatterjee and director Gautam Ghose,making a comeback after a 29-year absence. The film centers on two journalists and two police officers chasing a vengeful psychopath,who leaves behind couplets from Bengali poems.
Rita Ganguly is an exponent in the Indian classical arts. An accomplished dancer,musician and vocalist,she was honoured with the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 2000 and with the Padma Shri in 2003. She is the mother of actress Meghna Kothari and the younger sister of the famous Ravindra Sangeet singer Gita Ghatak.
Madhuri Chattopadhyay was a Bengali singer from Kolkata,who sang numerous songs in popular Bengali language during the 1960s,70s and 80s. Madhuri Chattopadhyay will forever be remembered for her contribution in Geet,Gazal,Bengali Modern Songs,light Classical songs,Najrul Geeti and Rabindra Sangeet. She was playback singer for a few Bengali movies. She also published album in Shyama Sangeet in later years.
Gotro (transl. Clan) is a 2019 Indian Bengali-language emotional family drama film,directed,produced and co-written by Nandita Roy and Shiboprosad Mukherjee. It stars Anashua Majumdar,Nigel Akkara and Manali Dey,with Ambarish Bhattacharya,Saheb Chatterjee and Badshah Moitra. The film revolves around the relationship between Mukti Debi (Majumdar),a widow who lives alone in her mansion,with her caretaker Tareq (Akkara),an ex-convict and shows how their lives undergo a change.
Gaatchora (transl. Knot) is an Indian Bengali-language drama television series which premiered from 20 December 2021 on Star Jalsha. It is produced by Snigdha Basu and Sani Ghose Ray under the banner of Acropoliis Entertainment. It features an ensemble cast of Gourab Chatterjee,Solanki Roy,Anindya Chatterjee,Shreema Bhattacharjee,Riaz Laskar,Anushka Goswami,Katha Chakraborty and Arya Dasgupta.
Aditi Chatterjee is an Indian actress who is known for her work in Bengali cinema and television.
