Search This Blog

Monday, November 05, 2007

Kolkata's Greats at Tollygugne Club





























Kolkata is synonymous with art and culture and music is at the forefront of this. On Sunday night I was witness to one such musical extravaganza at The Tollygunge Club. The evening started with the Mrs. Renu Roy gracing the stage as the host along with the Mr. Ashok Chakraborty a filmmaker of repute. He introduced the first act, Mr. Anjan Dutta, who needs no introduction, but for those who don’t know him. Mr. Anjan Dutta is a songwriter and singer, an actor and a movie maker. In his latest avatar he has also taken up Radio as a challenge and is an RJ with Friends 91.9 FM. Mr. Dutta in all modesty admitted that he hasn’t really written that good songs, but did sing one of his most famous songs and one of my favourite “2441139” a song which made that poor unfortunate person who owned that number to give it up and get a new number and of course “Bela Bose” a household name.

After Anjan Dutta, Anjum Katyal came on stage with a young talented boy on the keyboards and belted out some old jazz and blues tracks.

The show stealer was a young handsome man who I feel could even make a living doing stand-up comedy if his melodic and pulsating voice ever fails him. Shayne Hyrapiet got the otherwise noise in the air gentry at the club on the dance floor with his gyrating and hip thrusting pelting out a popular Punjabi song.

The grand finale, Usha Uthup was the sole reason for me wanting to attend the show. The lady doesn’t cease to amaze me and true enough she gave Shane a run for his age. The legendary lady in her sari and sneakers had the audience captivated and asking for more. Usha Uthup is the epitome of Kolkata’s music scene.

Apart from the singers a bit of dazzle was added with a flavour of art and films with leading ladies Moon Moon Sen and June Mallya coming on stage to felicitate the singers.

1 comment:

  1. Dear my friend!
    If there is a better way of using your blog, what would you do with it? Making Money While Surfing The
    Web! It's simple. It's FREE to join
    Please log in to
    www.agloco.com/r/BBHS1051 or
    http://kwksdvmsl.blogspot.com
    Just try it out.
    Good Luck!

    ReplyDelete

Most Popular Posts till date