His Master Voice

The celebrations of Rabindranath Tagores 150th birth anniversary may have rightly dwarfed all other social events of the city but the launch of Pankaj Mullicks official website should be of interest for all Tagore admirers.

Written by Premankur Biswas
May 12, 2010 02:38 AM IST

2 min read

The celebrations of Rabindranath Tagores 150th birth anniversary may have rightly dwarfed all other social events of the city but the launch of Pankaj Mullicks official website should be of interest for all Tagore admirers. After all,Tagores songs,philosophy and music played a huge role in shaping Mullick as an artiste. So much so that Tagoer himself allowed Mullick to set tune to his lyrics.

Trained in classical music under Durgadas Bandopadhyay,Mullick turned to Rabindrasangeet under the tutelage of Dinendranath Tagore. A multi-faceted personality,Mullick has acted in quite a few films too. Soon he was to become an important part of the Indian film industry,acting in quite a few New Theatres films.

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Pramatesh Barua was a mentor of sorts to him and had cast him in the film Mukti which was one of the biggest hits of its times. Before becoming an integral part of Indian Films,he was an extremely popular artiste on All India Radio. There he was associated with two legendary programmes Mahishasuramardini and Sangeet Shikshar Ashar.

In the later part of his life he took on the role of a mentor and teacher quite effectively. He was made the Honorary Advisor of the Folk Entertainment Section of the Government of West Bengal where he used music and songs to spead social awareness about issues relevant to that day and age.

The website,www.pankajmullick.org is a veritable treasure trove for lovers of Indian music and cinema. Not only does it have rare photographs of the maestro it has an archive of his songs and video clips of his films too.

His most popular Bengali songs like Amare Tumi ashesh korecho,Aami kaan pete roi,Amaro pranero,gobhiro gopone,Bhengeycho duar are a part of the archive. The Hindi section has gems such as Ho gaya dil,Chale pawan ki chaal,Pran chahe nainana chahe and Prem bel na phool.

Visit http://www.pankajmullick.org for details