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Bob Chowdhury

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Posted: 17 years ago

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Originally posted by: punjini
Thanks for the article Adi.
Gaggoji, the lyrics of sun mere bandhu re seem to be well embedded in your mind. I love this song too. His voice was inimitable.

punjini ji, Thanks for the thread.

Bondhu rangila re Amare chadiye re bondhu koi gela re.!!

Tripura to release a stamp on S.D. Burman

Agartala, Sept. 30 (PTI): On his 101th birth anniversary, Sachin Deb Burman could be seen on a stamp as well, as the Tripura government has decided to release a commemorative stamp on the legendary music composer on October 1. Besides the stamp, a biography of Burman, a descendent of Tripura's royal family, will also be released and a cultural programme would be held, Information, Cultural Affairs and Tourism Department Director Subhas Das said on Saturday. Eminent singer Asha Bhosle, daughter-in-law of Burman, was invited to the function, but she expressed her inability to come as she was to be in London around that time, he said. Sachin Deb Burman was born on October 1 in 1906 at Comilla (now in Bangladesh) where his father, the eldest son of Maharaja Ishan Chandra Manikya, had shifted after being denied a chance to become the king of Tripura. Burman left Comilla in 1924 to earn a Master's degree from Calcutta University. In Calcutta, he was drawn into the music circle and shaped himself as a musician before leaving for Mumbai. As the marriage between Sachin and Meera Deb Burman was not accepted by the royal family, he broke away and settled in Mumbai, his biographer Panna Lal Roy said. Ailing Meera Deb Burman, a lyricist, was felicitated by Tripura government in Mumbai on September 15.

The government had faced criticism for ignoring her during the birth centenary celebrations of S D Burman.

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punjini

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Posted: 17 years ago

#192

Originally posted by: Qwest
Ailing Meera Deb Burman, a lyricist, was felicitated by Tripura government in Mumbai on September 15.
The government had faced criticism for ignoring her during the birth centenary celebrations of S D Burman.

If they ignored her during last year's centenary celebrations, it is a serious lapse. Not only was she the wife of such a legendary composer but also the mother of such a gifted composer - literally the woman behind two successful men!

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Bob Chowdhury

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Posted: 17 years ago

#193

Originally posted by: punjini

If they ignored her during last year's centenary celebrations, it is a serious lapse. Not only was she the wife of such a legendary composer but also the mother of such a gifted composer - literally the woman behind two successful men!

Not only ignore they haven't done anything for her she really needed help. Sharing an article with you all. in my next post.

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Bob Chowdhury

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Posted: 17 years ago

#194

SD Burman's wife and muse is fading out in old-age home

Meera Dev Burman, 92, has been sent to a private residence for the elderly in Navi Mumbai; she can neither speak nor move around Madhumita Mookerji & Sameera Kapoor.KolKata & Mumbai

Meera Dev Burman, SD Burman's valued collaborator and wife — and the mother of RD Burman, who enriched Bollywood music with the popular Western twang — is now a largely speechless resident of a Navi Mumbai old-age home. At 92, Meera is frail and cannot walk. But she seems spiritually intact as she faces life at Sharan, a Vashi-based private home for the elderly.

She was brought here six months ago by her guardians, an occupant of the home told. DNA The guardian in question is Asha Bhonsle. An attendant takes care of Meera round-the-clock, but she is oblivious to the world around her. "She can barely manage to even sit. That's why I think she was sent here," the occupant said.

Today, few music aficionados are aware of Meera's existence despite her contribution to India's cultural repertoire. Her accomplishments are recognised in SD Burman's grateful testimonial: "In my musical life, the help rendered by Meera through her collaboration, assistance, inspiration, and sacrifice are omnipresent."
But she may receive some public acclaim when Tripura, SD Burman's home state, felicitates her at Sharan later this month. A team of officials and parliamentarians will visit her at the behest of Tripura chief minister Manik Sarkar.

Asha Bhonsle's secretary, however, said that the felicitation's arrangements were not clear. "A month or so ago, a Tripura government official told us about the plan to honour Mrs Burman," Vivek Naik said. "I asked for the proposal in writing. I haven't heard from them since."

Meera, once an accomplished singer and dancer, was trained by such stalwarts as Bhismadeb Chattopadhyaya and Ustad Faiz Mohammad Khan. For four decades, Meera was SD Burman's most abiding and inspiring influence. She lost him in October 1975. But a harder blow was the death of her beloved son in January 1994. RD Burman's demise pushed the quiet Meera into the private retreat of grieving silence.

She is believed to have recently told a relative: "I shall die in the old-age home. I will not go elsewhere, though I am not happy here." Meera's aunt, Sukhla Das Gupta, recently met her at Sharan. "She is a very sensitive person and doesn't want to hurt anyone's feelings. She wants to leave, but she is unable to say so directly," Das Gupta said.

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Bob Chowdhury

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Posted: 17 years ago

#195

ICAT

A file photo of the late S.D. Burman and wife Meera

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Appa Rao Hoare

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Posted: 17 years ago

#196

Our old Bob da is back opening up his treasure box. Thank you Bob da. 👏 👏 👏

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punjini

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Posted: 17 years ago

#197

Originally posted by: Barnali
Punjini I thnk a documentary by DD-bangla is being made this year to comemorate the centenary. I had heard about it around february. I'll get it confirmed.

Barnali, was this ever screened?

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punjini

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Posted: 17 years ago

#198

Originally posted by: Qwest

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A file photo of the late S.D. Burman and wife Meera

Thanks Qwest!

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punjini

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Posted: 17 years ago

#199

Originally posted by: Barnali
SDB definitely changed with time.When times changed, when the tastes of the mainstream audience plunged abysmally, SD Burman's contemporaries, like Naushad, C. Ramchandra, and OP Nayyar, were unwilling to compromise the high standards at which they were comfortable in functioning. They preferred fading away to compromising their vision of music. SD Burman, on the other hand, was quite ready, or even eager, to grasp the opportunities offered by the new environment, where quality had no market, presumably because he had difficulty functioning at the exalted levels set by his contemporaries.

Let me just mention one glaring difference between the two phases of SDBurman: the range of singers he used. In his earlier phase, SDB was an MD who made effective use of a large part of the singer resources available and had produced excellent songs with many different singers.What of the latter-day SDB? Except for a Bhupinder song here and a Manhar Udhas song there, he pretty much confined himself to Lata, Rafi, and Kishore. He abandoned Geeta Dutt altogether. He reduced his use of Manna Dey, using him predominantly for songs so ghastly that they ought not to have existed 'Talaash' and 'Jyoti' would be among the exceptions). The worst is his paltry use of Asha Bhosle, who, even more than Geeta Dutt, was his mainstay when he was in the musical wilderness without access to Lata.

Barnali, did you write this or did you quote from somewhere? The para in bold is derogatory to SD and I wonder what it means.