Tarun plans film on Mayar Khela

4 December 2011

SILIGURI, 4 DEC: Film director Tarun Majumdar wants to make a film based on Mayar Khela, a dance-drama of Rabindranath  Tagore.
Majumdar said: “I have been planning to make a film based on Mayar Khela. But I don’t know whether I will be able to fulfil this desire.” The film-maker was addressing a session on Rabindra Sangeet in Bengali Cinema, in memory of Bikash Ghosh, former mayor of the Siliguri Municipal Corporation yesterday. 
The former state urban development minister, Mr Asok Bhattacharya, and other CPI-M leaders organised the programme, where singer Subhoprasad Nandi Majumdar enthralled the gathering with Rabindrasangeet used in Bengali films by Ritwik Ghatak and others. This apart,  Majumdar sang a few songs as a tribute to singer Bhupen Hazarika. 
Pointing out the contribution Tagore's songs in Bengali films, Majumdar said: “Pankaj Kumar Mallick contributed a lot as music director when a member of New Theaters, Bimal Roy took initiative to make a film named Udayer Pathe.” 
Besides Pankaj Mallick, Majumdar dwelt on the contributions of Ritwik Ghatak, Birendranath Sarkar, Pramathes Barua, Raichand Baral, Hemanta Mukherjee and others and said that those personalities won the heart of the people with Tagore's songs. According to him, he had faced a lot of problems to use Tagore's songs in his film initially, but he was self-assured when he made a comeback with Alo, a film based on a story written by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay. sns