While promoting her new film Bisharjan, actress Joya Ahsan appeared, Tuesday, on the popular show Sa Re Ga Ma Pa. She was seen in the reality show on Zee Bangla, along with director Kaushik Ganguli and Abir Chattopadhyay. At the reality show, director Kaushik Ganguli remembered Kalikaprasad, late singer and composer who died in a road accident recently. Kalikaprasad prepared five songs for the film before he passed away.
Kalikaprasad, who didn’t charge a penny to compose for the film, was happy that folk music was getting a popular platform. “He recorded a scratch for a low-tide song, “Ja jaye jaye re bhaishya bhatir taane/ Ononto bhasane kande bhatialir gaane,” which I had written. He sent it to Arijit Singh, who was modest enough to admit that he perhaps wouldn’t be able to do justice to it. It was then decided that Rupankar would sing it. Just two days before his recording, Kalikaprasad passed away. I couldn’t have made any other singer replace his voice and have retained the song in the film with acoustic music. After music labels came to know about his song, many of them approached us for the rights. They were offering hefty amounts, but my producer, Suparnokanti Karati, refused to do business with music that Kalikaprasad made for free,” said Kaushik Ganguli.
But after the death of Kalikaprasad, Kaushik Ganguli decided to keep the song as it was, just to pay honour to the late singer. The film’s story revolves around a love story between the two sides of Bengal, with Joya Ahsan playing the role of a widow.
This film has already achieved the National Award for best Bengali film. “Bishorjon talks about the love between a Muslim man and a Hindu woman, living in India and Bangladesh respectively. It says humanity is over and above all religions,” Kaushik added.