মন মন্দিরে|Mon Mandire

by Disha Roy Choudhury

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Shyama Sangeet, musical dedication to Shyama or Goddess Kali, has long been a part of the tradition of Bengali Devotional Melody. To release an album in the genre today with the hope of reaching out to the listeners is perhaps quite a challenging endeavour in itself–a venture that has borne fruits through the efforts of one of the leading music directors of the industry, Sri Goutam Ghosal, and lyricist Sri Dilip De. The album Taara Naame, released by Cozmik Harmony, reconstructs the tradition by giving it a modern approach in order to appeal to the contemporary audience. Among the ten compositions sung variously by Srikumar Chattopadhyay, Manamoy Bhattacharya, Goutam Ghosal, and Disha Roy Choudhury, Mon Mandire, sung by Disha Roy Choudhury highlights such an attempt.

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Tobe keno shara daona | তবে কেন সাড়া দাও না

by Disha Roy Choudhury

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An address to the unresponsive lover conveyed through the lyrics of Dilip De, composed beautifully by the eminent composer Goutam Ghosal and sung by Disha Roy Choudhury, the rendering ‘Tobe keno shara daona’ is Disha’s first solo Bengali song release from Cozmik Harmony in an assorted Bengali album ‘Phire Paowa Haowa’. It is an attempt to revisit and recreate the charm of Bengali music of the golden era and yet retain a certain kind of freshness and originality.