‘Sanskritik Sandhya’ takes audience on a musical journey

Nagpur: Beating the Monday blues for the music lovers, the ‘Idea Rocks India’ fame Kinjal Chatterjee from Kolkata set the stage on fire with his melodies. He performed at the ‘Sanskritik Sandhya’ event organized by the Vishwa Bangla Sammelan, at Vasantrao Deshpande Hall, Civil Lines.
Mahua Sarkar, commissioner of Income Tax, graced the occasion as the chief guest while Rajat Banerjee, District General Manager of State Bank of India was invited as the guest of honour.

Starting his performance with a brilliant cover of Swami Vivekanand’s composition ‘Mon Chalo Nijs Niketani’, Chatterjee set the mood right for the evening. Blending his playlist with Hindi, English and Bengali songs, he took the audience on a musical journey of all the eras.

Adding a twist to the sombre mood, he presented the peppy number ‘Ek chatur naar’ from the movie ‘Nayi Padosan’.

He then followed it with the soulful rendition of the song ‘Saiyaan’, hitting every high note with precision. He left no stone unturned to amaze the gathering with the soft presentation of English version of ‘Chura liya hai tumne’.

Chatterjee’s flawless performance on Bengali folk songs like ‘Tomay hridmajhare rakhbo’, ‘Sohog chand bodoni dhoni’, ‘Sadher lau’, ‘Amar bhitoro bahire’ and ‘Tomar ghore bosot kore koijana’ among others enthralled.

Also present at the programme were All India president of the Vishwa Bangla Sammelan BK Mistry, general secretary Komal Mukherjee, treasurer Deepak Kumar Roy, vice-president Bijon Ghosh and cultural secretary Shubhra Mukherjee.

Mistry in his address spoke about the importance of preserving the Bengali language as it is losing it’s fluency. “People are moving away from culture and this is resulting in detachment with our mother tongue,” he said. He stressed upon merging the Bengali speaking communities of Bangladesh and India to preserve the language and the heritage.