![]() For example, once at the age of nineteen, he stumbled upon a rare tune sung by a group of village-women in Chittagong (now in Bangladesh). Sachin da had the honesty and integrity of character to acknowledge the sources of his music and the genuine inspiration that he received and how he internalised it into his song/s. With these words, Ray would very politely decline SD’s offers to sing. Burman da loved young Ray’s textured baritone and later offered a couple of songs in Bangla to sing. That young man was later to become one of the greatest directors of all time. The sight of a cigarette dangling from the lips of that highly impressive young man playing piano, fascinated our Burman da. A very tall young man would also come to learn. His teacher was an Anglo-Indian gentleman (Elvin Sen) on Park Street. (Photo: Express Archives)īurman da started learning notes of the piano and how to play it. Sachin Dev felt that nature has its own unadulterated and virgin music, and one ought to have an ear for that. He advised Burman to learn how to play a piano so that he (Burman) could learn all the facets of western and Indian classical music. During that period, the AIR, Calcutta had an English station director. During his stay in Calcutta (sorry, no Kolkata for me), when he formally learnt G F Han and Sebastian Bach’s meadows music, he understood that the language of music was universal and folk music could be an endless source of musicality and creativity. Like William Wordsworth, Sachin Dev felt that nature has its own unadulterated and virgin music and one ought to have an ear for it. Inclined towards music right from his childhood, young Sachin would go to meadows and hinterlands of Tripura to listen to Bhatiyali, folk songs and meadows-strains of the cattle-grazers and fishermen. ![]() S D Burman once told Pramathesh Barua that the euphonic ‘rudrin’ (a rare Sanskrit-Bangla word for the musical sound of flowing water softer than the onomatopoetic ‘kalkal’) is in the heart of every song that he composed. “ Dariya ki rawani, mashriq ka andaaz/Aapki mausiqi mein Bengal ka saaz” (The flow of a river, the style of the East/Your music is the instrument of Bengal), poet-lyricist Shailendra complimented Burman da with this couplet. His music grew from the soil and soul.ĪLSO READ | Lata Mangeshkar, the voice with countless immortal numbers A quaintly refined rusticity was his metier. Sachin da infused the musical petrichor of Tripura, Agartala and the then undivided Bengal into his film-music. ![]() ![]() And when I came back to India and re-listened to Sachin Dev Burman‘s music, I understood the importance of geographical influences on a composer or musician’s music. ![]()
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