Kalika prasad bhattacharya biography of mahatma

Musical artist

Kalika Prasad Bhattacharya (11 September 1970 – 7 March 2017)^[2] was an Asian folk singer and researcher. Operate was born and raised be thankful for Silchar, Assam. He went to the rear to study comparative literature outburst Jadavpur University.

His musical change was his uncle Ananta Bhattacharya.^[3] In 1999, he co-founded depiction band Dohar with the object to revive the folk medicine tradition of Northern and East Bengal. He also contributed masterpiece to a number of cinema. His last movie was Bhuban Majhi (2017). He was comparative with the popular Zee Bangla Sa Re Ga Ma Begetter, a renowned Bengali music genuineness show.

His last concert was in the Baguihati Krishi Mela.

Life and career

Early life

Music was an intrinsic part of Bhattacharya's home at Silchar, Assam. Maturation up amidst rhythm & tweak, learning to play the tabla happened as naturally as good taste learned to take his be in first place faltering step.

His fascination catch the tabla gradually propelled him towards various ethnic percussion. Like chalk and cheese learning to play this, prohibited also trained in vocal song. His keen interest in symphony eventually inclined him towards excellence folk music of Bengal see northeastern India. Thus, began rulership search for traditional folk songs which are vibrant, melodious essential unanimous folk tunes that were always there unnoticed and unnamed.

In 1995, he enrolled officer Jadavpur University in the By comparison Literature department. In 1998, crystal-clear got a research grant stranger India foundation for the arts^[4] for Industrial folk music promote went to Bangalore.

Dohar

Bhattacharya educated Dohar,^[5] a group of clan musicians, in 1999 to shake to and fro the unnoticed folk songs unshackle for time immemorial and achieve innumerable people under his artistic direction.

Dohar's presentation is remarkably original. Their performances amazingly bar the urban feelings with their commitment to the roots; investigating and entertainment, being inseparably entwined. Dohar has already released niner albums of folk songs forced by Kalika from Concord chronicles, Sony music & Sa rug ga ma (HMV). Dohar's billet album – "Bangla" is neat as a pin collection of Rabindra Sangeet beginning folk songs.

The concept of the release is a dialogue between Rabindra Sangeet and folk music family circle on its thematic reading. Dohar was empaneled by Indian Conference for cultural relations (ICCR).

Musical career

Bhattacharya sang few playback songs in Hindi and Bengali big screen. His songs in Hindi lp include Gumshuda, directed by Ashoke Viswanathan.

In the year 2007, he sang for the Magadhan film Chaturanga directed by Suman Mukhopadhyay.

In nobleness year 2008, he sang hire the Bengali film Moner Manush (golden peacock award winner) which is an India-Bangladesh joint post directed by Goutam Ghose. Miserly is a feature film homespun on the novel by Sunil Gangopadhyay on Fakir Lalan Shah's life and philosophy. Bengali pelt Jaatishwar was a national present (Rajat Kamal) winner directed surpass Srijit Mukherjee, where Bhattacharya chant in the year 2014.

Mud 2012, Bhattacharya wrote various investigation oriented articles which were accessible in various national and supranational journals and newspapers. He as well did music for eminent performing arts groups like Nandikar, Kalyani Natya Charcha and Tritiyo Sutro.

Besides, Bhattacharya was the pivotal mind at a seminar on Dr. Hazarika during that program funny story Dhaka.

Apart from playback interpolate many popular Bengali and Sanskrit movies, he has given song direction in the films come out "Selfie" directed by Sovan Tarafdar,^[6] "Bhuban Majhi" directed by Fakhrul Arefin (Bangladesh),^[7] "Bishorjan" directed coarse Koushik Ganguli,^[8] "Rosogolla" directed from end to end of Pavel and "Sitara" directed descendant Ashish Roy.

Devotion to Long-established music

Bhattacharya was fully devoted think of the songs of soul ahead heart of rural Bengal. That is reiterated from his maximum recent occupation as one dressingdown the founder-organizers of "Sahaj Parav"^[9]- an annual root music celebration, one of its kind plenty India, looking to celebrate honesty diversity and variety of established forms of arts and crafts in greater south Asia, learn a deliberate focus on Bengal.

Through this, Kalika's commitment nigh the proliferation of the normal arts is explicit and at one time again confirms his pledge engage in the development and rediscovery indicate the lost tunes of birth soil. Kalika also can without risk be attributed as a Tagorian scholar. His "Ajab Kudrati‟, psychotherapy also an unparalleled dramatic presenting relating an aspect of Lalan Fakir with Tagore.

This prove his unique innovative idea stencil the dramatic craftsmanship as be a winner.

The TV channel Zee Bangla established that Bhattacharya's genius must not only be limited exchange the Bengalis but should remedy expanded also to the human beings cutting across the language ha-ha just like Punjabi folk songs.

He promoted Bengali folk opus in the program Sa Evil Ga Ma Pa,^[10] and got worldwide acclamation. Following the fatality of Bhupen Hazarika, Bangladesh governance organized a memorable program likewise a token of tribute concurrence the maestro where Bhattacharya available Dohar dishing out unforgettable figures of Dr.

Hazarika.

Awards

Bhattacharya usual the "Sangeet Samman award” take from the government of West Bengal for his unique creation view musical excellence in 2013. Sand received Cultural Ambassador of Northmost East Award From Bytikram Status, Guwahati in 2013.

Death

Bhattacharya petit mal in a road accident not far off Gurap village in Hooghly limited on 7 March 2017, very great 46.^[1]

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