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with Arthur
Gracias a
Calcutta Jazz
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musician now based in
Perth . For
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Moner
Manush we had to keep in
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mind that
Lalon used to sing his
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Sudhin Das .
Being in oral tradition ,
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the tunes have changed .
I met with
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Abdul Karim Shah , a senior fakir | |||||||||
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more than
90 years old , and listened carefully to the style of singing from Lalon ' s gharana . After listening I recomposed some of
Lalon songs , so that the tune stays true as possible to Lalon
' s original compositions .
Only songs performed in the style of Lalon ' s gharana would do justice to his songs in my film .
It is said that Rituporno
Ghosh also wanted to do Moner
Manush and in fact also approached
Sunil
Gangopadhyaya for the rights . Yes that is true but when Sunilda told him that I was doing the film ,
Rituporno very gracefully accepted .
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Gautam
Ghose with copy of
Probashi‐
Indeed an honour for us
Manik
Bandopadhyay
( Podda last year after studying at
Nodir Majhi ), Samaresh
Majumdar
Drummer ’ s
Collective . He assisted
( Kalbela ), and
Moner
Manush me as the second unit
( Sunil
Gangopadhyay
).
This cinematographer on my latest film generation of writers are fading
Shunno Onko . away . Are we getting new crop of
We have taken a lot of your time , writers to fill the gap ? one last question . With success one
Yes certainly there are very good tends to get remote .
However we new writers who have come up . find you so down to earth. How do
Only time will tell if they can reach you manage this ? the stature of great writers Bengal I manage this because I do not like has producedd . three words
STAR ,
VIP and
We are to understand your
CELEBRITY children are into creative fields .
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You have adapted works of some of the best writers into films like |
My daughter
Anaandi is a corporate advertisement film maker . My son
Ishaan just returned from
New York
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Interview conducted for
Probashi by
Sudipto
Sengupta and
Amit
Mukherji
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