That was sometime after Sengupta had made a late-career switch to Mohammedan Sporting. Few on the Maidan have commanded such uncomplicated adoration.
In a way it summed up Sengupta’s hold on th...
It must be something about the magic of some of the lines that have become a part of one-self — that memorable jibe at the Maker with ‘Ek fursat-e-gunaah mili woh bhi chaar din, dekhe humn...
Gunday (2014)
Three years later, the man was back with the peppy and pulsating Tune maari entriyaan, his voice effortlessly matching the energy of the film’s actors Ranveer Singh and Arjun Kapo...
Sapno ka raja
While the Chalte Chalte title song swept the nation away thanks to the lovely tune and Kishore Kumar’s brilliant rendition, this Sulakshana Pandit-Shailendra Singh duet from the s...
Uri uri baba
Perhaps no one used Usha Uthup’s booming tenor better than Bappida. Her Hindi hits with him were fantastic and so was this racy number from the film Balidan. During festive seasons...
In Hollywood, famous singer Elvis Presley used to wear gold chains. I was a huge follower of Presley. I used to think, if I become successful someday, then I will build a different image of mine. By t...
HARANATH CHAKRABORTY
I had met Bappida before the shoot of the film Gurudakshina. To write the script, I would accompany Anjanda (Chowdhury) to outdoor locations. We went to Santiniketan to write the...
The legendary singer-composer, Bappi Lahiri, breathed his last on February 15. He was 69. Lahiri (Bappi da to his legions of fans) made his debut in the Bengali film industry with Dadu (1962). The mus...
Singer Sandhya Mukherjee, who died on Tuesday evening, was cremated with full state honours at the Keoratala crematorium on Wednesday evening.
Mukherjee, whose voice enchanted generations, suffe...