Celebrating the 117th anniversary of the popular Bengali song Ekla cholo re, written and composed by Rabindranath Tagore, Graphe launched a music video of the song on September 11 at Fairfield by Marriott Kolkata. The song, titled Ekla Cholo, adapted and rearranged by Ashu Chakraborty in a rock music format, has been sung by two national award-winning voices, Iman Chakraborty and Rupankar Bagchi. Directed by Raajhorshee De, the music video for the song features actors Richa Sharma, Gourab Chatterjee, Ashim Roychoudhury, Lipika Chatterjee and Shremoyee in various roles. The launch of the video was attended by people from various walks of life.The music video, shot in various locations of Santiniketan and Bolpur, is set to release today across audio platforms. Snapshots.
Director Raajhorshee De with producers Akshatt K Pandey and Shilpi at the event.“Ekla cholo re has been politicised a lot. Rabindranath had created this song based on Nityananda’s tune of the kirtan song Hari naam diye jogot matale. The song from the Swadesh parjaay has a socio-political context, too. It is a song of revolution, where Rabindranath talks about a leader, a leader who has to lead alone from the front. But we have reinterpreted it as a love song in a rock format. Every person in any relationship is very lonely and they always carry the burden of it alone no matter how much they stay amidst people. We alone lead our thoughts and subconscious. Even when we are amidst people, we at times feel alone. In this regard, we tell a very different relationship story in the video of the song. It has a Puja feel too, as we shot in the kaash fields of Santiniketan and Bolpur,” said Raajhorshee.
Actress Richa Sharma, who features in the video, turned up in beautiful black sari
Actor Gourab Chatterjee, who plays a character in the video, attended the launch with wife Devlina
Rupankar Bagchi, who sang the song with Iman Chakraborty, at the event
Ashim Raychowdhury, who acted in the music video
Debashis Sen, chairman of HIDCO, was present at the event with his wife
Sourav Kothari
Sayantani Guhathakurta
Producer Yashashwi Malani of Graphe, who produced the video
Ushoshi Sengupta
French consul general Didier Talpain
Lipika Chatterjee, who acted in the video
Pictures: B. Halder
