ওয়াশিংটন বাংলা রেডিও Washington Bangla Radio

Feb 22, 2010 (Washington Bangla Radio) The Times Of India is reporting that popular music director Jeet Ganguly from Bengal has won the Best Upcoming Music Director Award at the Mirchi Music Awards for the song Bhor Bhayo from the original soundtrack OST from (download MP3) the 2009 film Morning Walk (Blu-Ray DVD) directed by Arup Datta starring Anupam Kher, Rajit Kapoor, Divya Dutta, Sharmila Tagore, Shayan Munshi and others. Check out the great interview and watch Jeet Ganguly live in concert online.

The Shiv Sena and Shah Rukh Khan controversy continues, with SRK not offering any apology and the Shiv Sena banning the screening of My Name Is Khan in Mumbai. The controversy follows Shiv Sena's interpretation of SRK's sympathetic statemements about the IPL (Indian Premiere League) and participation of Pakistan teams.

According to reports, there has been little concerted reaction from the Indian Bollywood Movie Industry in support of SRK. "Shah Rukh Khan is fighting his own battle, Salman Khan’s ‘Veer’ has been pulled out of cinema halls in Udaipur but nobody is condemning it, ‘Fanaa’ was thrown out of Gujarat," - Mahesh Bhatt is quoted saying in The Times Of India.

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In this audio interview, listen to Kolkata Bengali movie veteran actress MADHABI MUKHOPADHYAY talk about her work in Bengali cinema with  hero and megastar UTTAM KUMAR in lead roles.

Naresh Thakur is a renowned and well known Baul living in Bangladesh. He has been singing for over twenty years. He has a son and a daughter, and travels across the length and breadth of Bangladesh in true Baul fashion. He has performed internationally on invitation, including in London and the USA. This time (Jan 10, 2010) he was visiting India - the famous Shaktigar Baul Fakir Utsav Festival. Naresh Thakur's primary influence is Baul Shah Abdul Karim (শাহ আবদুল করিম, 1916 - 2009) - one of the most famous legends of Bangladeshi folk music.

Naresh Thakur Baul sings a Dehatatwa song. He also sings a song by Shah Abdul Karim Baul.

Pundit Suvankar Bandopadhyay – the Living Legend. Though he does not like salutation as Pandit or living legend but the world recognizes him as Pundit and Living Legend  so we salute him. We are proud to get him in a very informal hour long discussion with us at a Sunny Sunday Morning. We covey our sincere gratitude to him.

Watch the complete hour-long exclusive WBRi video about Pt. Banerjee.