Kul Chhere Eshe- A Bengali Song

Today I am sharing a beautiful song which tells us about the journey of life. It is written and composed by Pandit Gyan Prakash Ghosh and sung by Pandit Ajoy Chakraborty. 

In this song, life is compared with a river. Any two phases of life are compared with the two banks of a flowing river. The feelings evoked while crossing the river are narrated in the song.

 Many times we feel confused while taking a decision about life. In this song we feel all those emotions which we go through while moving from one phase of life to another. The starting of the song tells us about this feeling.

The known life is always preferable to us. It gives us a sense of security. The first stanza of the song tells us about all these emotions. While taking a decision to move forward in life, we remember the memories of joy and sadness attached with the current situation. It seems very hard for us to leave the cosy place.

Now we come to the middle part of the song. It narrates how the fading images of one phase of life, and the fear of a new uncertain life- both are felt by us at the same time. 

While continuing the journey, gradually we also feel an attraction towards the unknown mysteries of the future life. It seems as if the future is near, it is full of positive hopes, as if it is blessing us with fearlessness. This is narrated in the last stanza of the song.

The song ends with the positive note that fills us with a the hope of a promising future. The concept of the song is very unique. It is the reason it is one of my favourite song. And also the style of singing by Pandit Ajoy Chakraborty is excellent as we all know, which adds to the beauty to the song. I have also listened to another rendition of the song by Bani Konar in the year 1954. 

Do listen to the song and enjoy. 

With lots of best wishes,

Jai Shri Krishna. 

Blue Beetle- English Film (2023)

Blue Beetle film is based on DC comic characters. The main storyline revolves around a scientific innovation of Blue Beetle machine which will make a normal human being capable of super human powers. 

Victoria, the owner of a defence technology company, wants to capture the machine as well as the power of Blue Beetle and use it for their profit. By a coincidence, Jenny, the niece of Victoria, gets hold of the machine. Through Jenny, the scarab reaches a young boy Jaime, who gets the power of the machine by sudden interaction with it. Thus starts the main story of the film; how both of them team up and save the machine from the evil clutches of the current director of the company, is shown in the film. 

The story goes in expected way, there is no surprise element in it. The young hero, his careless and inconfident approach in the beginning, later becoming responsible and matured- we have watched such storyline in numerous films. 

The hero Jaime lives in a joint family with many members, all of them have their own unique characteristics. They all make a happy family in spite of their differences. This quality of Jaime's family is appreciated by the heroine Jenny. 

In the end Jaime defeats the main villain Victoria and the machine bot Carapac, who was helping Victoria. 

Overall, the film is targeted for young audience, who may not have watched other films based on such comic characters. For matured audiences, there is nothing much to watch. It is only an action film with futuristic machines and special effects. 

With lots of best wishes.

Pachhe Loke Kichhu Bole- A Famous Bengali Poem

'Pachhe Loke Kichhu Bole' is a famous Bengali poem, which all of us have read during our school days. It tells us to be confident in our daily life. We need to have full faith in our decisions, only thus we can act courageously in life. If we keep on thinking about the reaction of other people while taking every step, we can't progress ahead. Many times a person having a good intention or planning to do a good action, gets demotivated by people around him and leaves the task midway. This poem teaches us not to be affected by opinions of others.

And with this poem, I am remembering and paying my respect to the famous poetess Kamini Roy, who wrote this poem along with many other famous poems in Bengali. She was born on 12 October in the year 1864 at Basunda, now in Bangladesh. She was the first honours graduate in British India in the year 1886. Along with writing many poems, she has contributed intensely towards society in many social causes as well as women's rights. She left us on 27 September 1933. 

We are grateful to all such noble souls for inculcating values in our life.

Do read the poem from from any book or by searching the internet, if you have not read it before.

With lots of best wishes for all of you.

Jai Shri Krishna.

The Vaccine War

The Vaccine War is a film directed by Vivek Agnihotri. It tells the story of the research and invention of Covid Vaccine by India (Bharat). The film is based on a book written by Dr Balram Bhargav. Perhaps that is the reason that this film portrays so much detailed process of laboratory experiments. Thus making the audience aware of the contribution by the scientists of ICMR and NIV towards the great cause. How these two organisations cooperated and ultimately succeeded in discovering the vaccine. The film describes the critical situation faced by the country, the pressure with which the scientists worked all day and night, the sacrifices made by them in order to do the experiments. We as general public were ignorant of many of these happenings as the contribution of scientists were not mentioned in the mainstream media that much. Nana Patekar as the director of ICMR Dr Balram Bhargav and Pallavi Joshi as the head of NIV Dr Priya Abraham has done wonderful work. Along with them, Girija Oak, Saptami Gowda, Raima Sen, Anupam Kher, Nivedita Bhattacharya and other character artists have done great work. The direction is good and keeps the audience very much engrossed in the happenings of the film. The contribution of the female scientists are shown in many places of the film. The way they balanced their professional work along with household duties generate respect in the minds of the audience for these dedicated souls. We can witness true representation of woman empowerment through these characters. This film is a must watch for all the citizens of the country. 

With lots of best wishes

Jai Shree Krishna.

Songs of Rajanikanta Sen (5)- Ami to Tomare Chahini Jibone

Today in the fifth part of the series, I am writing about another famous composition by Rajanikanta Sen, 'Ami to tomare chahini jibone.

Ami to Tomaare Chahini Jibone

Tumi obhaagaare cheyechho

Ami na daakite hridoyo maajhaare

Nije eshe dekha diyechho

 

Chiro aadorer binimoye shokha

Chiro obohelaa peyechho

Ami dure chhute jete du haato poshaari

Dhore tene kole niyechho

 

Ami to tomare...

 

 

O pothe jeyo na fire esho bole

Kaane kaane koto koyechho

Ami tobu chole gechhi firaaye aanite

Paachhe paachhe chhute giyechho

Ami to tomare...

 

Ei chiro oporadhi paatokir bojha

Haanshi mukhe tumi boyechho

Amar nijo haate gora bipoder maajhe

(Amaye) buke kore niye royechho

Ami to tomare....

 

I have listened to the rendition by Hemanta Mukhopadhyay. Many other artists have also sung this famous song.

In this song, the poet says God's love is unconditional. He stays with us always, protects us, guides us and accepts us each time whenever we move towards Him. It is the Lord who does all our work taking away all the burden from us.

This song reminded me of two songs from Ramanand Sagar's Ramayan.

1. During the Setu Bandhan song, the lyrics are-

Har kaarajme, nij bhakton ka, haath bataa dete hain,

Haath bataa dete hain,

Baadhaaon ke saare patthar Raam hata dete hain,

Apne upar le kar unka bhaar ghataa dete hain.

2. And the other song is when Ravan attacks Vibhishan with Shakti astra and Shri Ram takes the blow of the fierce weapon upon Himself. The lyrics of that song are-

Nahi Raghuveer sa mitra koi

Nahi Prabhu sa pratipal

Mitro ke sankat sahe

Bankar unki dhaal

May our mind always dwell in the thoughts of the lotus feet of the Lord.

Jai Shri Krishna.

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