Chirkut croons for a clean Bangladesh

Published : Tuesday, 19 December, 2017 at 12:00 AM Count : 42

To keep the country healthy and hygienic, we need citizens with a heart of cleanliness. With this objective, 'Dettol-Channel I Porichchonno Bangladesh' has launched its theme song 'Mon Shundor Jar, Shei Rakhe Desh Porishkar' commemorating the 46th Victory Day. The song was performed by the famous Bangladeshi band 'Chirkutt'. The theme song calls us to keep our beloved country clean. The song urges us to maintain cleanliness and hygiene of our great country, which has been achieved with the expense of a million sacrifices. This theme song will be launched on the Facebook page of 'Dettol-Channel i Porichchonno Bangladesh' on the Victory Day.
Syed Tanzim Rezwan, marketing director, Reckitt Benckiser said in this regard, "We know that how much we had sacrificed to get this independent country. It is our responsibility to keep this country clean and beautiful. With this intention, we've started 'Porichchonno Bangladesh Campaign' at the beginning of this year and have brought this theme song in association with 'Chitkutt'."     
Sumi from Chirkutt band said, "We're very glad and inspired for singing a song which calls for keeping our beloved motherland clean and beautiful. We hope the people of Bangladesh will love this song and will be inspired to maintain the cleanliness."  
To aware the people about good health and cleanliness, Dettol and Channel i have jointly started 'Porichchonno Bangladesh Campaign' on February, 2017. Besides direct training, it also helps to raise awareness by media. The main objective of this campaign is to make at least 8 crore people conscious about health and hygiene every year by mass media and social networking platform.  
Chirkutt is the internationally acclaimed Bangladeshi fusion band. It was founded in 2002. This band was born in 2002 with Sharmin Sultana Sumi. Emon chowdhury joined in 2006 and Pavel Areen joined in 2008. After eight years later they had their first album released. The name of the album is Chirkuttnama.
Chirkutt's performed at SXSW-2016 in Austin, USA and South Asian Band Festival-Delhi, India, the President House concert in India-2014, India Music Week and the Jaffna Music Festival, Sri Lanka. They were also the winners of the rtv Best Band Award 2012.  Chirkutt band has also to embark on a tour of Norway with Norwegian rockers Casa Murilo, at 2013.  They performed in Asian TV music show in September 2016.
The band has also worked on several local film music director. Among notable films, "Jalal's Story", the film 2015 in the 88th edition of the Academy Awards, the Oscar for foreign language film category this movie is selected from Bangladesh. They have also won the "SAARC" film festival award in 2016 for the best original score of the film "Jalaler Golpo". Chirkutt also have done the playback in the movies "Television", and "Piprabidya", of renowned director Mostofa Sarwar Farooki. They did the sound tract of Aynabaji of Amitabh Reza Chowdhury 2016 film, Ice cream of Redoan Rony. Chirkutt did the soundtrack of the movie "Tumi Je Amar" by rtv.