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  Come 30th March, 2011, Birla Sabhaghar in Calcutta will be resonating with the soul singing of Chandrabali Rudra Dutta and her myriad presentation of Rabindra-sangeet. 

A well known vocalist, Chandrabali made her mark in Music quite early in life. Trained initially under her mother and later in classical vocals , Chandrabali is also proficient and has received able guidance in Rabindra Sangeet, Puratani / Tappa, Nazrulgeeti and Adhunik under renowned maestros; she is considered as one of the promising voices belonging to the Bengali Traditional Musical Styles post 2K. Among the well known gurus who contributed to the making of Chandrabali -'The singer', are Shri Sunil Bose, Shri Dhiren Das, Late Sj. Shailaja Ranjan Majumdar, Late Shri Aurobindo Biswas, Shri Prasad Sen and Sri Subhas Choudhury, Shri Chandidas Mal, Shri Biman Mukherjee, Shri Samaresh Roy, Shri Sukumar Mitra and Shri Jatileswar Mukherjee. 

Planning for more than 3 months ahead, Chandrabali wishes to present about a dozen Tagore Songs in the first half on the 30th Mar, which will include many compositions that harbor both Basanta and Puja Flavors, like "Aj Jyotsna Raate" and " Eki Labonye Purno Praan"!

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Calcutta, March 25, 2011 (Washington Bangla Radio) It was the year 1949.

Saroj Mukherjee of Bhabani Kala Mandir was producing a Bengali film titled "MARYADA" in Calcutta with Master Bivu in the lead and Arup Kumar in the final cast. The film was directed by Digambar Chatterjee who went onto become the Dean of Faculty at the Pune film Institute later.

Year 1951. Debnarayan Gupta's "BHAKTA RAGHUNATH" was on the floors with Master Bivu in the lead. The film did well, and in the coming years Master Bivu had a string of releases i.e. "NABABIDHAN " directed by Haridas Bhattacharya, "MAMLAR PHAL" directed by Pasupati Chatterjee, "PURIR MANDIR", directed by Moni Ghosh, "AANDHI" directed by Agradoot, "PUTRABADHU", directed by Chitta Bose, "SAGAR SANGAMEY" directed by Debaki Bose and many many other classic hits of the 50's.

This young boy, Master Bivu excelled with each passing year and was becoming a fine actor with natural talent which was quite hard to find.

Reciter "Samiran Sanyal" delivers his "finest" till date in AMAAR  - AMI!

Immensely Boring and none-the-less confusing!!!

I wonder how a film-maker who has given at least 3 consistent films in row that made the viewers and critics alike to sit up and take notice, falters in his next films, degenerates and completely loses balance and 'touch'  hence forth, to come out with films (KAMINEY in 2009  and 7 KHOON MAAF in 2011) that are full of  such situations that haven't completed their 'full-circle', unwanted scenes seems to be 'wedged' in tight with such force that it seems to be absolutely alien and out of rhythm, the pace of the script that does not advance as needed and to top it all - the 'disjointed and half-baked' ideas that are adequate enough to KILL a film!

A Film Review by Nilanjann Nandy.