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CALCUTTA, Oct 10, 2010 (Washington Bangla Radio) The houseful auditorium of Sisir Mancha experienced a very depthful and attractive program in memory of Tagore, “Sango Nisongotai Rabindranath” (Company of Rabindranath in melancholies) presented by Sarathi with participation of Partho Mukhopadhyay in elocution and Agnivo Bandyopadhyay in singing on 27th September, 2010 evening.

Listen to an audio recording from the event on WBRi On-Demand Free Bangla Radio service using the player in the full article online.

Germantown, Maryland, USA, Oct 9, 2010 (Washington Bangla Radio) Shuman Chattopadhyay is the CEO of the top Kolkata Bengali music producer, publisher and record company COZMIK HARMONY.

Shuman Chattopadhyay talks to Tanima Singha informally in this audio interview on Washington Bangla Radio.

Cozmik Harmony audio songs albums can be downloaded from Washington Bangla Radio online MP3 Download store.

Shuman says there is no dearth of fresh talent in India and particularly Bengal, and draws our attention to the fact that contestants from Bengal are always present in any national-level talent hunt in India (Indian TV channels air a lot of talent-hunt shows that are immensely popular among the audience). Shuman also mentions the sweetness and melody inherent in the Bengali language, perhaps resulting in a majority of the greatest composers, singers and artists in the music industry continuing to have roots in Bengal and Bengali - Kishore Kumar, Pancham-da, Sachin Dev Burman, Manna Dey, Hemant Kumar and so on from the nostalgic period to today's Shreysa Ghoshal, Shaan, Kumar Sanu etc.

Listen to the audio interview online.

The Bangla Youth Project by AKS has been released worldwide on 2nd September 2010. BYP shall be releasing globally at the same time including Bangladesh (G-Series), India (U-Tunes) and i-tunes (Worldwide). The songs from the album have already become popular amongst the Youth.

The Bangla Youth Project is composed and produced by a popular music composer, producer and DJ, AKS, who has already given hit remixes in Bollywood Films like Awarapan, Race, Kismat Konnection, Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani and 2010 hit soundtrack Prince.

AKS and the BYP are an energetic team whose music defines the sound of todays Youth across the globe with songs in Rock, Hip-Hop, Pop, RnB,Bhangra. Bangla Youth Association is a dubai based student organisation founded by Salim Parvez, which promotes Culture in the Middle East.

The album Kicks of with "Thamate Parbena", a song with an attitude featuring popular singer Upol Islam (“Bonno and Gonga” fame) and the young talented rapper, SkibKhan (from Deshi MCs). The song begins with catchy synth hook and a deep bassline, this Hip-Hop track talks about cars, need for speed and the faced paced lifestyle in Dhaka City.

^{Utpal Chatterjee, Sushanta Mukherjee, Debasish Biswas,  Pt Anindya Chatterjee launching Amar Ami album
Image (C) Aditya Chakrabarty / WBRi}

Does passion take over one’s life and lets creativity rule after retirement?

Does working in such a department of the central Govt which any ordinary man fears and stay far away from bring out the best in a man?

Well, maybe it does otherwise it would not be possible for Sushanta Mukherjee, a retired Additional Commissioner of Income Tax to bring out a new puja album called ‘Amaar Ami’ where not only has he written the lyrics and composed the songs , but he has also sung one of the songs himself.

There are 11 songs in the album where other than the single song sung by Sushanta Mukherjee, the others like Rupankar, Lopamudra Mitra, Sreeradha Banerjee, Supratik Das and Indranil Sen have all sung 2 songs each.

Read about the album launch on Washington Bangla Radio.

"Kumortuli"- story and photos by Nilanjann Nandy.

October 7, 2010 (Washington Bangla Radio / Pen Men at Work): It is a well known fact that Bollywood actress Vidya Balan is going to play South Indian sensational actress Silk Smitha in a film. But as we all know, Vidya has her own set of guidelines while choosing a movie. So the actress has come up with some instructions before she starts work on it.

Vidya has undergone rigorous training to essay the glamorous actress Silk Smitha in Milan Luthria’s biopic Dirty Picture. Ekta Kapoor is producing the movie.

Imran To Tie Knot With Avantika In January 2011

^{Indrajit Deb and Master Guddu on Meghamallar DD Bangla TV Show
Picture (C) Aditya Chakrabarty / WBRi}

A megaserial ‘Meghmallar’ is currently being aired on DDI/DD Bangla daily at 4pm.

Watch Live Indian and Bengali  TV Shows online via Internet Web-TV Service on your PC, Laptop or TV - Click Here.

It stars Debjani Chatterjee,Arijit Choudhury,Rana Mitra,Rajasree Bhowmick, Indrajit Deb,Amlan Majumdar and others. The music is by Dron and the cinematographer is Santanu Dutta.The editor is Abhijit Poddar .The serial is being produced by Golden Eye Productions and it is being directed by Arnab Pal. Recently one got to visit the sets of the serial during shooting where a couple of artistes like Indrajit Deb,Master Guddu were present.