Kolkata, Sep 11 (UNI) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday
remembered folk singer and researcher Kalika Prasad Bhattacharya on his birth
anniversary
“Remembering folk singer & researcher Kalika Prasad Bhattacharya on his birth
anniversary,” Ms Banerjee posted on her social networking page.
Born on this day in 1970 at Silchar, Assam, he co-founded the band Dohar with
the intent to revive the folk music tradition of Northern and Eastern Bengal.
Bhattacharya contributed music to a number of movies. He was associated with
the popular Zee Bangla Sa Re Ga Ma Pa, a renowned Bengali music reality show.
The artist, in his late 40s, was a well known voice in eastern India. He collected
songs and variety of rendition from parts of Bangladesh, Barak Valley in Assam
and West Bengal since his college days and later put them together in various
albums that he and his band – Dohar – of folk music produced over last two
decades.
Dohar was known for not using any foreign musical instrument. Bhattacharya
himself could play an array of folk instruments with elan.
Bhattacharya has worked in commercially successful Bengali films such as
Jaatishwar (2014), Moner Manush (2010) and Bhuban Majhi (2017).
He received the "Sangeet Samman award” from the government of West Bengal
for his unique creation and musical excellence in 2013.
Bhattacharya received Cultural Ambassador of North East Award From Bytikram
Group, Guwahati in 2013.
He died in a road accident near Gurap village in Hooghly district on March 7. 2017
at the age of 47.
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