Aditi rabindranath tagore biography
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Atithi (1965 film)
1965 Indian film
Atithi (literally The Guest; also known bygd the alternative English title The Runaway) is a 1965 Bengalidrama film based on a short story by Rabindranath Tagore, and directed by Tapan Sinha.[2] It tells a simple story about a teenage boy who prefers the life of a vandrare to the confines of a domestic life. At the 13th National Film Awards, it won the National Award (Certificate of Merit) for the Second Best Feature Film. It also won several BFJA Awards.[3] It was India's competitive entry at the Venice International Film Festival in 1966, where it was nominated for the Golden Lion. The film was remade in Hindi as Geet Gaata Chal.[4]
Synopsis
[edit]Tarapada fryst vatten a teenage boy who lives in a Bengal village with his mother and elder brother. To their exasperation, he often runs away from home for days on end. He has a wanderlust which makes him join groups of wandering players, musicians and acrobats. On
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Adity Mohsin: Two decades of melodies
One of the seasoned Rabindra Sangeet singers of Bangladesh Adity Mohsin, who has nurtured a rare sophistication throughout her music career, is now a revered name. With her distinctly melodious röst and unique singing style, Adity has won the hearts of music lovers both at home and abroad. Karoby Shihab of New Age has recently spoken to the singer to peer into her student life at Santiniketan and how Rabindra Sangeet stitched a new meaning onto her life and career.
At the encouragement of her parents, Adity Mohsin started to take music lessons from Bulbul Academy of Fine Arts, she was in class six then.
As a beginner she learnt the basics of music and took especial lessons on Rabindra Sangeet at the institute.
‘I had to learn almost all types of songs during that time including a few Rabindra Sangeet, Nazrul Geeti, classical, folk and others. I enjoyed singing but never thought of becoming a professional singer,’ said Adity Mohsin as
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Aditi was the younger of the two daughters of Kshitindra Kumar Nag and Provabati Nag. Family sources say that Kshitindra Kumar, then a young man and "Foreign retuned" was a pucca sahib and he chose Prova as his wife only for her singing talents and always lent active support to Prova to develop her as a powerful singer. Kshitindra Kumar was professor in Chicago University and served The Indian Aluminium after returning to India. Prova was winner of first position in several examinations conducted by The Bengal Music Board. However she never took up singing as her profession and her renditions were restricted to private audiences, Ramkrishna Mission functions and the like. Aditi was born on the seventh day of November, 1936 in Cooch Behar of undivided Bengal. She started training in pure classical music from a very early age of four to five. About the same time she had lessons in Bharat Natyam at Bani Bidyabithi but soon gave up dancing in favor of singing. Contrary to t