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Album on a girl's quest for Tagore launched

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Press Trust of India Kolkata

"We have to go back to Tagore, over and over again when we face any crisis situation in life. He has become part of our life, all his words seem so prophetic in these troubled times," eminent actor Sabyasachi Chakraborty, who enacted the role of Arko, a social worker in Junglemahal having died in police bullet, told PTI at the album launch this evening.

"When I am reciting lines, I feel a strange connect with Tagore himself. Had the poet been alive these days perhaps he would have reacted to certain situations in the same way," popular Bengali singer Srikanto Acharya, who essayed the pivotal role of the poet in the album, said.

 

The album, which features the story of a young lady enamoured by the philosophy, poetry and music of Tagore, contains rendition of 17 famous Tagore songs and her association with the bard, who has become her source of sustenance.

Eminent Rabindrasangeet exponent Srabani Sen said, "It was a cathartic experience to sing the lines in the role of the girl

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First Published: May 08 2012 | 11:15 PM IST

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