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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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Lalon used to sing his
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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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