"kamalakar pasupuleti" wrote -
Post by kamalakar pasupuletiCan some bengali music lover kindly clarify confusion about the
following singer identity .
Suprava Ghosh - Suprava Sarcar
Sandhya Rani - Sandhya Mukherjee ( Rani could be a middle name )
Indrani Roy - Indrani Sen .
It is possible some could be maiden names .
There is a gentleman named Vijay Kapoor in Pittsburgh. He had
had a fairly long personal association with Pankaj Mullick, starting
from 1953, when he first wrote a fan letter to Mullick.
I was introduced to Shri Kapoor this weekend. He rarely
uses computer himself.
From what he told me :
Suprova Sarkar most probably became Suprova Ghosh
after marriage.
Sandhya Rani, the actress, is different from Sandhya Mukherjee,
the singer. But the singer was also sometimes referred to as
Sandhya Rani.
Indrani Roy had sung beautiful songs in Saugandh and Wapas.
Indrani Sen is a different woman. She is junior to Indrani Roy.
Indrani Sen is a Rabindra Sangeet singer; even her mother
was a famous Rabindra Sangeet singer. But Kapoor Sahab
could not recall the mother's name.
Dakhina Tagore's full name was Dakshina Mohan Tagore.
He had composed several beautiful orchestral pieces, some
of which used to be played during the early morning sessions
by many AIR stations.
Kamal Dasgupta had 6 brothers. Of the 7 brothers, two most
famous were Kamal-da and Subal-da. Subal Dasgupta was
a very good tabla player and his name is mentioned as tabla
accompanist on some of Saigal's 78s.
Kamal-da did not go to East Pakistan immediately after
1947. He continued to live in India for long after that,
getting very few assignments and increasingly lose his
musical creativity. His wife Feroza Begum might have
shuttled between India and East Pakistan (now Bangladesh)
from 1947 to 65/70. Kamal-da's last few years were not
happy ones. He died in Bangla Desh in 1974.
P C Barua did not sing any songs in Jawaab - 1942.
* balaae luu.N mai.n us dil kii -- HFGK is wrong. It was sung
by Kamal-da himself.
* duur desh kaa rahanewala -- Kanan's co-singer was
Robin Chaterjee.
Kapoor Sahab's replies came so fast that I can only trust
him fully about these p-stats. For some other questions,
he is going to consult his notes. Age has affected his memory,
he said, but I can attest that it is still very good.
Kapoor Sahab is still in touch with Juthika Roy, who is
around 87 years old now. She lives with her two sisters
in Kolkata with not much money to support them in old age.
I hope to get Juthika's songs in Ratnadeep, composed by
Robin Chaterjee, from Kapoor Sahab soon.
- dn