Song: O Mor Moyna Go
Music & Lyrics: Salil Choudhury
Singer: Lata Mangeshkar
So many remixed versions are there in the youtube. But, originals are originals. What amazing guitar interludes & oh, that soothing flute...just magical.
Not satisfied with one story, I tried to make it twice as sweet. In the second half it was my tribute to the Bangla connection. Proud to grace my visuals are 1. Maharani Gayatri Devi of Jaipur who hails from Coochbehar, West Bengal 2. Suchitra Sen, much above the adjectives that describe her beauty & grace 3. And Raja Ravi Verma's paintings, for Kerala being Salil da's favorite hunting ground where he gave his finest melodies.
This one is for my respected friend sankaran1943, who enlightened me about Salil da's Musical Reign in God's Own Country.
My thanks to google & the wonderful photographers, whose works I used.
[Salil Chowdhury (Bangla: সলিল চৌধুরী) (1923-1995) was a famous Bengali composer and poet. He was born on November 19, 1923 and died on September 5, 1995, just before his 72nd birthday.
One of India's original musical geniuses, he was widely recognised and acknowledged in the Bombay film industry as one of the most prodigious composers ever. He was also an accomplished arranger and was proficient in several musical instruments, including flute, the piano, and the esraj. Regarded as one in the league of intellectuals having born in the state of West Bengal, he was also widely acclaimed and admired for his inspirational and original poetry. He was fondly and reverently called Salilda in Bollywood.
Transformation of Bengali music:
Salil Chowdhury's Bengali songs brought in sweeping changes to Bengali music dramatically and almost abruptly. The people of West Bengal where thrilled with the new wave of music introduced by Salil Chowdhury. The new wave seeped in with Salil Chowdhury continued its influence on Bengali music for the next three decades.
Career:
Since Do Bigha Zameen, he has composed for over 75 Hindi films, around 26 Malayalam films, and several Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Gujarati, and Assamese films. To the music connoisseurs, he was better known as the non-conformist music composer whose unceasing search for perfection towered above everything else in his life. (Source: wikipedia)]
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