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Thirty years of melody

Shakila Zafar celebrates her musical career

Nadia Sarwat
Shakila Zafar is the ever smiling, amicable artiste whose melodious voice has been entertaining the Bangladeshi audience for the last 30 years. In 1979, after winning a classical music competition by Bangladesh Betar..^he started her . journey iin Bangladeshi music, and since then there has been no turning back To celebrate the artiste’s three decades in the Bangladeshi music industry,
cultural organisation Amra Shurjomukhi' held a solo musical programme on May 16 at the main auditorium of National Museum.
The event, open to all, drew a large audience, including several noted cultural personalities.
Shafiqul Islam Selim, coordination director of Amra Shurjomukhi, welcomed the audience at the event. The organisation has been holding regular musical programmes featuring noted and emerging artistes of the country.
Shakila Zafar, along with Tapan
Chowdhury, had performed at a programme by the organisation in 1993. The artiste received a warm welcome from the audience, which included seasoned poet-lyricist Shaidullah Farayezi; media personality Atiqul Haque Chowdhury; journalist Rahat Khan: theatre personality Dr. Enamul Haque and danseuse Shamim Ara Nipa. Noted media personality Syed Hasan Imam formally inaugurated the soiree. Shakila's present music teacher, Sanjib Dey also spoke at the event. Sanjib's father,
the late Mithun Dey, was Shakila's first mentor and teacher.
Expressing her deep gratitude, the artiste said, "Though I have devoted almost my entire life to music, I still feel 1 have so much to learn. I don't think I deserve such honour. Audience's appreciation and affections are my greatest reward."
Shakila started her performance with her music teacher Sanjib Dey. The duo presented a 'bandish' in raaga “Puria Dhaneshree," (usually performed in twilight hours). "I've always had a soft spot for classical music, which is the foundation of all genres. Though I started my career with this, I soon moved to other genres due to several reasons," she explained.
Shakila's next renditions highlighted the other genre close to her heart -- Nazrul Sangeet. "Bon-e choley banomali” and "Kholo, kholo, kholo go duwaar" -- both songs manifested the artiste's mastery over classical based tunes.
The latter part of the evening saw the artiste perform songs she is best known for. Shakila started her performance of 'adhunik' songs with "Jagi eka nijhum ratey" — composed by eminent artiste Subir Nandi. Next was "Ki je tumi chao," a song that popularised Shakila in her early days. The melodious romantic song was written by Mohammad Moniruzzaman and composed by Khandokar Nurul Alam.
Other 'adhunik' songs rendered by Shakila at the'soiree included,"Kafey bolbo ami moner kotha," "Bhulitey parina," and her breakthrough hit, "I\ila rashir meye aar mithun rashir chhele."