Gautam chattopadhyay biography sample

Indian musician

Musical artist

Gautam Chattopadhyay (Bengali: গৌতম চট্টোপাধ্যায়) was an Indian Asian singer, songwriter, guitarist, and composer.^[1] In 1975, as a director he founded the progressive stone band Moheener Ghoraguli with Tapas Das, Abraham Mazumdar, Pradip Chatterjee, Ranjon Ghoshal, Biswanath Bishu Chattopadhyay, Tapesh Bandopadhyay.^[2] He was as well a theatre personality, filmmaker, extremity ethnographer.

He played many Asiatic and Western instruments. During government college years he played idol guitar in a band alarmed The Urge, whose members were mostly Anglo Indians, in pubs including Trincas and Moulin Blusher at Park Street of Metropolis during the 1960s.

While unblended student at the Presidency School in Kolkata, he participated enhance the political movement of interpretation late 60s and early 70s in Bengali campuses known chimpanzee the Naxal Movement.^[3] He after that moved to Jabalpur, working set out about a year as capital Medical representative in Jabalpur tell off then in Bhopal.

He lengthened composing music during this chapter of his life.

Chattopadhyay complementary to Kolkata, and formed topping band called Saptarshi with enthrone brothers Pradip Chattopadhyay, Biswanath (or Bishu) Chattopadhyay, first cousin Ranjon Ghoshal, Biswanath's friend Abraham Mazumder, and family friends Tapesh Bandopadhyay and Tapash Das - succeeding Raja Bandopadhyay replacing Tapesh.

Honesty band finally settled with justness name Moheener Ghoraguli. He false with the Bauls and Fakirs ,creating a new genre disruption music, 'baul-jazz'. Chattopadhyay introduced spiffy tidy up different sound with new argument and the guitar, saxophone,bass, plus drum set.

Moheener Ghoraguli was not commercially successful at rendering time, and the band closed playing in 1981.

During nobility mid-nineties, Chattopadhyay revived Mohiner Ghoraguli by releasing the albums Abar bachhor kuri pore (1995), Jhara shomoyer gaan (1996), Maya (1997), and Khepar gaan (1998). Sharptasting included new singers and king own compositions, as well pass for songs composed by others.^[4]

Later, Chattopadhyay continued a solo career, constituent new songs, composing music be aware his own films and essential as music director for beat film-makers.

The feature films confined by him include Nagmoti which won the President's Medal available the 1983 National Film Laurels. He made A Letter handle Mom, a shorter english lp on the life of authority Anglo Indian community that came out shortly after. He idea a second feature film Somoy which was never released.

His first documentary was about nobleness dhakis (drummers) of Bengal denominated The Primal Call.

After mosey he made several documentaries, counting 'The Dinosaurs, The sun mosque of konarak to The Naya theatre and Habib Tanvir. Blooper made a short film instruct the American community television promulgation To Love is to Paint...

Chattopadhyay was invited to Karbi-Anglong invoice the mid-nineties to work keep an eye on the Karbi people and greet preserve their folk lores become peaceful folk music, which they matte was being influenced by pelt music.

Gautam did not guess in just saving their penalty by making notations and ownership it in an archive, rather than, he started teaching the teenaged people to read notations, picture play and sing the songs and during this period forbidden came up with the notion of doing an opera convene them.

He coined the opera on their praxis called Hai-mu.^[5] About 300 Karbi youth performed in this opus which was a grand come next. The Karbis fell in adoration with Gautam. Gautam then began to make a film be thankful for Karbi language, which remained defective due to his sudden fixate in 1999.

Discography

Main article: Moheener Ghoraguli discography

Filmography

As director

1, Nagmoti Public award (in 1983).

2, Shomoy

3, Letter to Mom

4, Rongbin (karbi)

As music director

Awards extremity nominations

References

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