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Monsoon melodies at Shilpakala

Cultural Correspondent
To celebrate the first day of monsoon, Cultural organisation ’Nibedan' and Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy (BSA) jointly arranged a musical programme titled "Shotoborsher Bangla Gaan" at the Music and Dance Centre auditorium, BSA on June 15. At the programme, artistes of Nibedan performed Bangla songs about rain, composed in the last 100 years.
As if just to announce the arrival of Ashaarrh, Dhaka received a brief splash of rain prior to the programme.
Secretary to the Ministry of Cultural Affairs, Md. Sharful Alam was the chief guest at the programme. Educationist and environmentalist Professor Abdullah Abu Sayeed, poet-lyricist Mohammad Rafiquzzaman and cultural activist Shadhon Das were special guests Bhuiyan Shafiqul Islam, director general of BSA presided over the programme
Director of Nibedan, Bishwajit Roy said, “Contemporary poets
rarely write about monsoon. In this city, vision is limited by mushrooming high rises; splendour of monsoon cannot be enjoyed in confinement. For songs about rain, we have to look back. Kalidas, Vidyapati, Chandidas, Rabindranath, Nazrul, Atul Prasad. Dwijendra Lal - all have eulogised monsoon with apt passion. Rabindranath alone wrote over one hundred songs about rain.
"Vacant wharfs, flooded open spaces, rhythm of raindrops on a tin roof, blurry vision of a drenched village, boys playing in the mud. village wives desperately trying to save her belongings...have all but become faded memories to city dwellers. We hope that monsoon comes to us as a boon."
Other speakers at the programme spoke in the same vein. Professor Abdullah Abu Sayeed said. "Rain blesses all corners of the world but perhaps monsoon has always been extra generous to us. That’s why every human emotion, heightened in monsoon, has been referred to in
Rabindranath's songs. I don't think beyond the borders of subcontinent, there is any poet who has extensively worked on the theme of rain."
The first song of the evening was a chorus. Artistes of Nibedan sang a Rabindra Sangeet "Hridoy aamar nacherey aajikey” (written in 1900).
Md. Sharful Alam proved his music skills; the secretary to the Ministry of Cultural Affairs sang a Rabindra Sangeet "Badol din-er prothom kadomphool" (1939).
Luna Sayeed sang a Nazrul Sangeet "Borosha oi elo borosha" (1934).
Presentation of the songs did not follow a chronological order.
Bishwajit Roy rendered a song written and composed by Hemcndra Kumar Roy - from the play "Soeta" -- "Andhokaar-cr antoretey" (1924).
Sutopa Roy sang "Ek boroshar bnshtitey bhijey” (1968) written by Gazi Mazharul Anwar and composed by Khandokar Nurul Alam. The song, originally rendered by Nilufar Yasmin, was featured in the film’Jalchhabi".
Salil Chowdhury's "Aai brishti jhepey, dhaan debo mepey " (1948) — originally recorded by Sandhya Mukhopadhyay -- was rendered by Irum Ahmed. Harmonisation of the refrain in the rendition created a sublime illusion of lullabies heard in childhood.
Bona Haidar sang "Emoni borosha chhilo shedin" (1942), written by Pranab Roy and set to tune by Kamoi Das Gupta. The song was originally recorded by Juthika Roy.
Sharmeen Shathi Islam's immaculate rendition of "Borosha bhorosha dilcy na tho" (1985), written and composed by Amalendu Bikash Kar Chowdhury, received a round of applause.
More recent songs presented at the programme included "Aaj ei brishtir kanna shuney" (1993), written and composed by Shahiduzzaman Swapon and made famous by artiste Niaz Muhammad Chowdhury and "Konthcy amaar badol bclar gaan" (1997), written by Mohammad Rafiquzzaman and composed by Bishwajit Roy.