Salil Choudhury Used Many Singers In Bengal.

The article speaks about excellent casting sense of poet and composer Salil Choudhury. He used different male and female singers in Bengal who did justice to his songs.

Great composer and lyricist Salil Choudhury was an intellectual of intellectuals.He had contributed a lot in Bollywood films.

But when he had contributed in Bengali songs he had used different types of male and female singers.His songs “Jodi jante o tumi jante” and “ami parini bujhite parini” composed for classical Manobendra Mukherjee was outstanding in every respect.

He composed melodious songs for Shyamal Mitra.Some of the notable songs included ‘aha oi anka banka poth jay sudure”, “Jodi kichu amare sudhao”, “ja ja jare ja ja pakhi”.He composed beautiful songs for eminent singer Dhananjoy Bhattacharya.Some of them included “antabihin oi andharater shesh”, “jhanana jhanana baje”.

He composed very melodious songs for the female singers as well.

He composed the songs “ai brishti jhepe”, ‘nil nil pakhi”, with a lot of variation.He composed the songs “kono kichu kotha bolona”, “antabihin kate na aar kono birohero sei din” for Lata.The songs had fantastic orchestration.His songs for wife Sabita Choudhury like “mori hay go hay” and “jhilmil jhauer bone jhimiki” really had melodious andaz.

He also used the talents of actors who had singing talents.One of the best examples was actor Biswajeet Chatterjee.The song “jai jai din” showed his class in singing.But credit goes to writer, composer Salil Choudhury who used his talent for the great song.

Salil Choudhury also made his casting in respect of the songs based on the singing specialities of eminent singers.For example Hemanta Mukherjee and Dwijen Mukherjee had manly bass.He used Hemanta Mukherjee in songs like “path harabo bole ebar pothe nemechi”, “shono kono ek din”, to name a few while “pallabini go shancharini” and “shyamal boroni ogo konya” showed the musical class of Dwijen Mukherjee.On the other hand singer Tarun Banerjee had a very enterprising life in his singing.He used his talent to sing the song “eso kache eso kono kotha bolo”.The entire credit goes to Salil Choudhury for putting the right song in the voice of the right singer.

The other great quality of Salil Choudhury was to do justice with the poetry of eminent poets.He transformed the poetry “ujjwal ek jhank payra” and composed a song out of the poetry.Sandhya Mukherjee sang the song.Everyone will know that he gave right tune to express the flight of pigeons.Similarly he did the same thing in Hemanta Mukherjee’s song “runner”.It was a poetry of poet Sukanta Bhattacharya.He expressed the journey of a postman with music.Salil Choudhury was a genius.His poetry, lyrics and songs should be restored.

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