{"id":18593,"date":"2017-09-29T14:09:57","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T14:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogbox.indianeagle.com\/?p=18593"},"modified":"2017-09-29T15:00:49","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T15:00:49","slug":"mamata-banerjee-durga-puja-theme-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/mamata-banerjee-durga-puja-theme-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee Turns Lyricist and Pens Durga Puja Theme Song This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

West Bengal Chief Minister, Mamata Banerjee is a versatile personality. She is known for her austere lifestyle, simplicity and her love of traditional Bengali culture. She is also famous for her paintings<\/strong>. She is a celebrity poet too. Recently, Bengal CM turned a lyricist. Neither for films nor for tele soaps. She penned a Durga puja theme song this year. (Find the video of the song below)\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

TMC Chief Mamata Banerjee wrote the Durga puja theme song for a popular puja committee, Suruchi Sangha in New Alipore, Kolkata.<\/strong> Suruchi Sangha, one of the award-winning puja organizers in Kolkata, is known for their innovative, thought-provoking Durga puja themes. ‘Unity in Diversity\u2019 is the theme of the song.<\/p>\n

Mamata Banerjee\u2019s Suruchi Sangha theme song 2017 – “Boichitrer muktoy gantha ekotar monihar” (the jewel of unity is stitched with a string of pearls of diversity) \u2013 is sung by none other than Shreya Ghosal. Jeet Gannguli, popular in Bollywood and the Bengali film industry, composed music for the song.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Theme music for the Durga puja festival is a new trend in the City of Joy.<\/strong> Bengal CM\u2019s theme song for Suruchi Sangha Durga puja 2017 is not her first tryst with lyricism. She penned lyrics for this city puja committee in the past.<\/span><\/p>\n

Music composer and singer Jeet Gannguli has composed music for Alipore Suruchi Sangha\u2019s Durga puja theme songs for a couple of years. He has a heartfelt \u2018musical association\u2019 with Suruchi Sangha\u2019s Durga puja celebration.<\/p>\n

Also Check: London Themes of Kolkata Durga Puja 2017<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Recital is another emerging trend of Durga puja celebration in Kolkata<\/span><\/a>. Known for one of the best Durga puja pandals and themes in Kolkata, Kumartuli Sarbojonin chose recital as theme music over song this yea<\/strong>r. Eminent actor Soumitra Chatterjee\u2019s recital of \u2018Ami Sei Diganto Asa Periye Asa Uttaradhikar\u2019 (I have walked through the past, I am the torch-bearer) is being played at the Kumartuli Sarbojonin puja pandal 2017.<\/p>\n

Soumitra Chatterjee\u2019s recital depicts a heart-touching story of Kumartuli potters on the banks of Hooghly River.<\/strong> Kumartuli Sarbojonin has initiated the trend of playing recitals instead of songs to entice pandal hoppers and puja revelers, according to a spokesperson of the puja committee.<\/p>\n

Also Read: Upcoming Bullet Trains to Kolkata<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Tridhara Sammilani, another award-winning puja committee in Kolkata, roped in renowned music composer and singer Joy Sarkar for its Durga puja theme song 2017.<\/p>\n

Durga Puja is neither just a festival nor merely a celebration. It brings in joy, innovation and new attractions. The enormity and significance of Durga Puja cannot be summed up in a few words. No wonder why many Bengali NRIs search for last minute airfare deals to India<\/strong><\/a> <\/span>and book last minute flight tickets to Kolkata<\/strong><\/a><\/span>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n