Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Kazi Nazrul Islam

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Jun 23, 2012, 11:32:50 AM (12 years ago)

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Trupti

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Kazi Nazrul Islam

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+'''Kazi Nazrul Islam (1889-1976)'''
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+Composer and songwriter born in Burdwan
+Dist., Bengal. With Tagore he was the major
+influence on popular Bengali music in the 20th
+C. Known as the Bidrohi Kavi or Rebel Poet
+and directly associated with radical nationalist
+movements (e.g. through the journal
+Dhoomketu which he edited in 1922, leading
+to his imprisonment on a charge of sedition),
+his poetry constitutes the first radical
+intervention into Hindu and Muslim devotional
+music, e.g. his famous addresses to the
+goddess Kali, his ghazal compilations (Chokher
+Chatak, 1929) and Islamic devotionals
+(Zulfikar, 1932). Much of his music, continued
+by the IPTA’s Bengali song repertoire, was
+polemically seen as a radical-romantic use of
+the ‘ tradition’ (e.g. Salil Choudhury, 1955).
+One of the first composer-writers to sign
+contracts with major record companies in
+Bengal (for Megaphone and Senola and later
+HMV) and with the Indian Broadcasting Corp.,
+opening up new employment opportunities to
+a generation of younger composers such as
+Anil Biswas, S.D. Burman, Kamal Dasgupta
+and even Kishore Kumar (whose song Ai ek
+dui tran char gili gili/bam chick boob chick
+badhke bol in Kehte Hain Mujhko Raja, 1975,
+adapts Islam’s famous Cham chiki ude gelo).
+Created an urban variation of tribal jhumur
+music for Sailajananda Mukherjee’s Pataal
+Puri and wrote the songs for Nandini (1941)
+and Dikshul (1943). Some sources credit him
+as director for Dhruva, in which he played the
+Hindu sage Narad. Started Bengal Tiger Pics
+with Abbasuddin Ahmed. Their film of Islam’s
+novel Madina remained unfinished.
+
+
+'''FILMOGRAPHY''' (* also act): 1934: Dhruva*;
+1935: Pataal Puri; 1936: Graher Pher; 1938:
+Gora; 1942: Chowringhee.
+
+[[Music]]