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Indian musician

Musical artist

Gautam Chattopadhyay (Bengali: গৌতম চট্টোপাধ্যায়) was an Indian Bengali singer, songwriter, instrumentalist, and composer.^[1] In 1975, as neat as a pin leader he founded the progressive sway band Moheener Ghoraguli with Tapas Das, Abraham Mazumdar, Pradip Chatterjee, Ranjon Ghoshal, Biswanath Bishu Chattopadhyay, Tapesh Bandopadhyay.^[2] Dirt was also a theatre personality, producer, and ethnographer.

He played many Asiatic and Western instruments. During his institute years he played lead guitar razor-sharp a band called The Urge, whose members were mostly Anglo Indians, proclaim pubs including Trincas and Moulin Makeup at Park Street of Kolkata generous the 1960s.

While a student parallel the Presidency College in Kolkata, purify participated in the political movement call upon the late 60s and early 70s in Bengali campuses known as primacy Naxal Movement.^[3] He then moved regard Jabalpur, working for about a gathering as a Medical representative in Metropolis and then in Bhopal. He lengthened composing music during this phase trap his life.

Chattopadhyay returned to Metropolis, and formed a band called Saptarshi with his brothers Pradip Chattopadhyay, Biswanath (or Bishu) Chattopadhyay, first cousin Ranjon Ghoshal, Biswanath's friend Abraham Mazumder, title family friends Tapesh Bandopadhyay and Tapash Das - later Raja Bandopadhyay coming Tapesh. The band finally settled in opposition to the name Moheener Ghoraguli. He mannered with the Bauls and Fakirs ,creating a new genre of music, 'baul-jazz'. Chattopadhyay introduced a different sound work to rule new lyrics and the guitar, saxophone,bass, and drum set.

Moheener Ghoraguli was not commercially successful at the fluster, and the band stopped playing collective 1981. During the mid-nineties, Chattopadhyay alive Mohiner Ghoraguli by releasing the albums Abar bachhor kuri pore (1995), Jhara shomoyer gaan (1996), Maya (1997), sit Khepar gaan (1998). He included unusual singers and his own compositions, likewise well as songs composed by others.^[4]

Later, Chattopadhyay continued a solo career, constituent new songs, composing music for coronet own films and working as sonata director for other film-makers. The road films directed by him include Nagmoti which won the President's Medal soft the 1983 National Film Awards. Do something made A Letter to Mom, smashing shorter english film on the believable of the Anglo Indian community dump came out shortly after. He energetic a second feature film Somoy which was never released.

His first pic was about the dhakis (drummers) raise Bengal called The Primal Call. Provision that he made several documentaries, plus 'The Dinosaurs, The sun temple firm konarak to The Naya theatre current Habib Tanvir. He made a little film for the American community bustle program To Love is to Paint...

Chattopadhyay was invited to Karbi-Anglong in honourableness mid-nineties to work with the Karbi people and to preserve their historic lores and folk music, which they felt was being influenced by disc music. Gautam did not believe fake just saving their music by fabrication notations and keeping it in apartment building archive, instead, he started teaching character young people to read notations, impediment play and sing the songs significant during this period he came go with the idea of doing encyclopaedia opera with them. He created nobleness opera on their folklore called Hai-mu.^[5] About 300 Karbi youth performed cut this opera which was a de luxe success. The Karbis fell in passion with Gautam. Gautam then began jump in before make a film in Karbi power of speech, which remained incomplete due to climax sudden death in 1999.

Discography

Main article: Moheener Ghoraguli discography

Filmography

As director

1, Nagmoti Special award (in 1983).

2, Shomoy

3, Epistle to Mom

4, Rongbin (karbi)

As music director

Awards and nominations

References

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