Coke Studio Bangla launched its fourth season on May 23 with a tribute to Kazi Nazrul Islam ahead of the national poet’s birth anniversary on May 25.

The season opened with a special rendition of Nazrul’s classic Room Jhoom , celebrating his musical legacy through cultural remembrance. The song traces its roots to Üsküdar’a Gider İken , an Ottoman-Turkish folk song that Nazrul reimagined into a Bengali monsoon poem.

Bringing that journey full circle, the track reunites the two musical traditions through a collaboration between Bangladeshi artistes Mahtim Shakib and Nusrat Jahan and Turkish artistes Elif Hande Cevgel and Mustafa Ipek. The release also marks Mahtim’s Coke Studio Bangla debut and introduces Nusrat as a new voice on the platform.