Kalika Prasad Bhattacharya

Kalika Prasad Bhattacharya (11 September 1970 – 7 Walk 2017) was an Indian society vocalist and scientist. He was brought up in Silchar, Assam. He proceeded to concentrate on near writing at Jadavpur College. His melodic motivation was his uncle Ananta Bhattacharya. In 1999, he helped to establish the band Dohar with the aim to resuscitate the society music custom of Northern and Eastern Bengal. He likewise contributed music to various motion pictures. His last film was Bhuban Majhi (2017). He was related with the famous Zee Bangla Sa Re Ga Mama Dad, an eminent Bengali music unscripted TV drama. His last show was in the Baguihati Krishi Mela.

Life and career

Early life

Music was a natural piece of Bhattacharya’s home at Silchar, Assam. Growing up in the midst of musicality and tune, figuring out how to play the tabla occurred as normally as he figured out how to make his most memorable wavering stride. His interest with the tabla continuously pushed him towards different ethnic percussion. While figuring out how to play this, he additionally prepared in vocal music. His strong fascination with music at last slanted him towards the people music of Bengal and northeastern India. Consequently, started his quest for customary people melodies which are lively, resonant and consistent society tunes that were generally there inconspicuous and unidentified. In 1995, he enlisted at Jadavpur College in the Similar Writing office. In 1998, he got an exploration award from India starting point for human expressions for Modern people music and went to Bangalore.

Dohar

BBhattacharya shaped Dohar, a gathering of society performers, in 1999 to make the inconspicuous society tunes stream for days of yore and contact countless individuals under his imaginative heading. Dohar’s show is particularly unique. Their exhibitions incredibly consolidate the metropolitan sentiments with their obligation to the roots; exploration and amusement, being indivisibly laced. Dohar has proactively delivered nine collections of people melodies coordinated by Kalika from Harmony records, Sony music and Sa re ga mama (HMV). Dohar’s fourth collection – “Bangla” is an assortment of Rabindra Sangeet and society melodies. The idea of the collection is a discourse between Rabindra Sangeet and people music in light of its topical perusing. Dohar was empaneled by Indian Board for social relations (ICCR).

Musical career

Bhattacharya sang not many playback tunes in Hindi and Bengali motion pictures. His tunes in Hindi movie incorporate Gumshuda, coordinated by Ashoke Viswanathan. In the year 2007, he sang for the Bengali movie Chaturanga coordinated by Suman Mukhopadhyay. In the year 2008, he sang for the Bengali movie Moner Manush (brilliant peacock grant champ) which is an India-Bangladesh joint task coordinated by Goutam Ghose. It is an element film in light of the novel by Sunil Gangopadhyay on Fakir Lalan Shah’s life and reasoning. Bengali movie Jaatishwar was a public honor (Rajat Kamal) victor coordinated by Srijit Mukherjee, where Bhattacharya sang in the year 2014. In 2012, Bhattacharya composed different examination situated articles which were distributed in different public and global diaries and papers. He additionally did music for prominent performance center gatherings like Nandikar, Kalyani Natya Charcha and Tritiyo Sutro.

Furthermore, Bhattacharya was the crucial character at a course on Dr. Hazarika during that program in Dhaka. Aside from playback in numerous well known Bengali and Hindi motion pictures, he has provided music guidance in the movies like “Selfie” coordinated by Sovan Tarafdar, “Bhuban Majhi” coordinated by Fakhrul Arefin (Bangladesh), “Bishorjan” coordinated by Koushik Ganguli, “Rosogolla” coordinated by Pavel and “Sitara” coordinated by Ashish Roy.

Devotion to Folk music

Bhattacharya was completely committed towards the melodies of soul and heart of rustic Bengal. This is repeated from his latest occupation as one of the pioneer coordinators of “Sahaj Parav”- a yearly root live performance, one of its sort in India, hoping to commend the variety and assortment of society types of expressions and specialties in more prominent south Asia, with a conscious spotlight on Bengal. Yet again through this, Kalika’s obligation to the multiplication of the conventional expressions is unequivocal and affirms his promise for the turn of events and rediscovery of the lost tunes of the dirt. Kalika likewise can securely be credited as a Tagorian researcher. His “Ajab Kudrati‟, is additionally an unrivaled emotional show relating a part of Lalan Fakir with Tagore. This demonstrates his interesting imaginative thought of the emotional craftsmanship too.

The Television station Zee Bangla demonstrated that Bhattacharya’s virtuoso shouldn’t simply be restricted to the Bengalis however ought to be extended additionally to individuals cutting across the language obstruction very much like Punjabi people melodies. He advanced Bengali society music in the program Sa Re Ga Mama Dad, and got overall approval. Following the passing of Bhupen Hazarika, Bangladesh government coordinated an essential program as a badge of recognition for the maestro where Bhattacharya drove Dohar doling out extraordinary quantities of Dr. Hazarika.

Awards

Bhattacharya got the “Sangeet Samman grant” from the public authority of West Bengal for his one of a kind creation and melodic greatness in 2013. He got Social Diplomat of North East Honor From Bytikram Gathering, Guwahati in 2013.

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