ওয়াশিংটন বাংলা রেডিও Washington Bangla Radio

An upcoming sitar player, Partha Pratim Roy started learning the Art and Musicology of Sitar playing from Prof. Devi Prasad Chatterjee from the age of five, thereafter from Prof. Nihar Bindu Chowdhury and from Sangitacharya Ajay Sinha Roy. Listen to performances from a few Indian classical Ragas on Washington Bangla Radio on-demand service by pressing the play button on the audio player.

Partha also took lessons in intricacies of Indian rhythm from Prof. Anil Palit.

Germantown, MD (Washington Bangla Radio): Listen to Kamaleshwar Mukherjee talk about his background and his films online on Washington Bangla Radio on-demand audio service by pressing the Play button in the player in this post.

Film-maker Dr. Kamaleshwar Mukherjee whose next Bengali film URO CHITHI is being awaited by Bengali movie lovers across the world talks to Arijit Chakraborty of WBRi in this up-close, informal and intimate interview.

URO CHITHI is a poetic phrase, and the film has a fascinating storyline based around the contemporary culture of text messaging (SMS) over cell phones. The story revolves around various incidents that occur while the owner of a mobile phone deletes old text messages. There are around a dozen sub-stories in the film, each associated with a text message on the cell phone - the little incidents together covering a span of around one year forms the subject of the film. The protagonist works in one of the myriad of cheap IT services export shops in India, and also focuses on the impacts of the currently ongoing phase of economic recession in the developed world on such workers.

The star cast of URO CHITHI includes Locket Chatterjee, Sreelekha Mitra, Bishwanath Basu, Rajatava Dutta, Rudranil Ghosh, Swastika Mukherjee, Indraneil Sengupta, Reshmi Ghosh, Sudipta Chakraborty and others. Locket Chatterjee plays Sudha, married to Bishwanath Basu's character. Sreelekha Mitra plays Raka, the wife of Indraneil's charater who has an extra-marital affair with a girl played by Tanushree.

Tollywood actress Locket Chatterjee
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URO CHITHI is currently in shooting stage, and production is expected to be complete towards the end of 2010. The script of URO CHITHI is written by Kamaleshwar, too.

Acclaimed award-winning flm-maker Raja Sen is currently busy with promotion of his latest feature film, a homage to Tagore, titled Laboratory written by Rabindranath Tagore himself starring Ravina Tandon, Ranjit Mullick, Arpita Chatterjee, Saheb Chatterjee, Biswanath, etc.

Laboratory will be screened in a few local community centers and school auditoriums and such places in the USA the last weekend of September, 2010.

Subhomoy Mukherjee of Washington Bangla Radio talks to Raja Sen about his career in film-making in this informal and up-close interview.

Kyra Simone is a renowned independent and talented soul singer from the United Kingdom. Her songs have been played frequently on BBC 1XTRA and recently on BBC Three Radio Counties, as well as many more radio stations across the UK, Europe and USA.

Listen to Kyra Simone's wonderful number Cup of Coffee from her Album The Scent. "Kyra's music is like sipping a full bodied soul-smooth glass of the finest beverage" says Alex Joseph - Creative Director, Creativity Media.

Download Kyra Simone's full album The Scent in MP3 audio format using the following link:

Kyra Simone's popular radio show Soul Excursion features Special co-host Nonz Ski, interviews, Kyra's Rant, UKSoul.Org's Featured Artists, Topical Discussions, International Appreciation, Giveaways, UKSoul's.org top three radio chart show and most importantly the best in UK Soul Music. This is a weekly  two hour show aired live on AculcoRadio.com in London, UK, every Thursday from 1400 to 1600 hrs GMT. The recorded podcast of the show is available here.

Also check out a music video of Kyra's upcoming single Let's just be friends currently being supported by DJ G Child and Ronnie Herel on BBC 1Xtra.

Sunechi Tomari Gaan is a compilation of 10 Tagore Songs by Nilanjann Nandy (8 songs) and Neeharika (2 songs). Listen to a few samples from this innovative audio album on Washington Bangla Radio on-demand broadcast service.

Download latest audio song albums from Cozmik Harmony, Kolkata in audiophile MP3 format from our online digital store.

The album features, for the first time, Western classical Chamber Orchestra Style Music Arrangement in an entire  Rabindra-Sangeet album. That too, without using any Acoustic Instruments - totally computer programmed by Nilanjann Nandy himself (all the instruments).