Haimanti Shukla, Urmimala Basu rocked Zee Bangla Didi No 1 program.

Haimanti Shukla, Urmimala Basu, Sudipa Basu and their students stormed Zee Bangla Didi No. 1 Program. Rachana Banerjee invited Haimanti Shukla, Urmimala Basu, Sudipa Basu, and their students in Zee Bangla Didi No. 1 Program. All of them came with their students in the show. In the second round the lyrics of Manna Dey’s song “bachao ke acho morechi je prem kore” was played. It was composed by Sudhin Dasgupta and picturised on Mahanayak Uttam Kumar in 1972 film Chadabseshi. The words were missing. Sudipa Basu gave a right answer. Urmimala Basu and her student did a great srutinatak. The play was related to relationship of a mother who did not give birth to a child but rared up the child. They did extremely well. Urmimala Basu had been a great radio figure for the last 40 years in All India Radio. She and Jagannath Basu did a great job for the last 40 years. Sudipa Basu acted a small play with her student. The proverb relating to the play was “chorer mayer boro gola”. They showed a maid servant came to a house to work. She did her work. Her employer falsely implicated her for stolen goods. But police came up and found that the actual owner of the stolen property was the employer. At the end of the show Haimanti Shukla and her student gave maximum number of right answers and they became the Didi No. 1. Rachana Banerjee showed the importance of the singers, actresses, radio performers in the different fields sharing their skills to the next generations. That makes the importance of the skills delineated in a best way.

Jagannath Bose and Urmimala Bose glorified Zee Bangla Mirakkel Program.

Jagannath Basu, Urmimala Basu.


Jagannath Basu and Urmimala Basu glorified Zee Bangla Mirakkel Program.

Radio artist Jagannath Bose and Urmimala Bose had glorified Zee Bangla Mirakkel Program on 8th November, 2011. Both of them had been announcers, hosts, actors and actresses of plays and srutinatak in All India Radio, Kolkata for more than 40 years.

Mir Afsar Ali, the host of the program Mirakkel asked Jagannath Bose how was it possible for him to everyday conduct radio programs in All India Radio Kolkata between 5 am to 7 am, even on Sundays. He had to wake up so early all around the year. He asked Jagannath Bose and Urmimala Bose to do a small strutinatak before the audience. They did it in style.

Paran Banerjee also sang a song composed in the early 40s, to show the culture of Bengal during pre-independence period. The performers did their best before Jagannath Bose, Urmimala Bose, Srilekha Mitra, Rajatavo Dutta and Paran Banerjee.

Fatik Purokayet was excellent in his performance. Urmimala Bose said that he was her distant relative and had the occasion of tasting a mutton dish cooked by Fatik Purokayet. Mir always called him Maduli and was amazed at his other talent which was not known to anyone.

Vicky and Partho also did well. Sangeet Tiwari and Qais Khan were elegant in their jokes. Qais Khan never gave great expressions, but in a cool manner delivered intelligent jokes.

The star of the show was again Apurbo Roy. This time he played the role of a politician. He said a lawyer left his profession and became a politician. When he was asked that what was the reason for such change of profession, the lawyer answered that he was required to tell more lies as politician so changed the profession. Abu Henna Ronnie also did well.

Rachana Banerjee invited Madhumanti Maitra, Malobika Sen and other celebrities in Didi No. 1 in Zee Bangla Channel.

Arjun Chakravarty

Rachana Banerjee invited Madhumanti Maitra, Malobika Sen and other celebrities in Didi No.1 in Zee Bangla Channel.

Rachana Banerjee invited Madhumanti Maitra, Malobika Sen and other celebrities in Didi No. 1 in Zee Bangla Channel on 21st October, 2011. The celebrities who were invited included Urmimala Basu, Malobika Sen, Madhumanti Maitra, Arpita Baker, Seema Acharya Choudhury.

Urmimala Basu in the first round had recited an excellent poetry. She had performed in many roles in Sruti Natak in All India Radio. Madhumanti Maitra, an eminent newsreader in DD Bangla Channel, for years, had also recited an excellent poetry.

Seema Acharya Choudhury was an excellent kirtan singer. She sang a kirtan in a brilliant way. In the second round actor Arjun Chakravarty came and sang brilliant songs. Rachana Banerjee the anchor of the program appreciated him. Arjun Chakravarty sang Manna Dey’s song “pucho na kaise maine rain bitayi” in the film Meri Surat Teri Ankhen. He asked the contestant the Bengali version of the same song which was titled “aruno kanti” in style.

Arjun Chakravarty also sang Jagjit Singh’s brilliant song “hoton se chulon tum” in style. It was from the film Prem Geet. As Arjun Chakravarty acted in many hindi films also, his affiliation towards ghazals were very high.

Arjun Chakravarty also sang ranbindrasangeet “mono mor meghero sangi” in style. Questions were related to the songs of Arjun Chakravarty. But all the celebrities told their own stories before Rachana Banerjee. Rachana Banerjee conducted the program extremely well.