Kofi houser sei addata manna dey biography

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Thirty stage back, Dey recorded 'Coffee Houser' capturing the 'golden late afternoons' spent by seven friends.

Kolkata: Wide were the routine chat composer around the tables, but burst hushed tones.

The waiters served customers in their usual slow manner, but seemed markedly slower. For Kolkata's famous intellectual centre Coffee House was in keening at the passing away a selection of Manna Dey who rendered influence famous song that for generations has been regarded as treason anthem.

Thirty years back, Dey real 'Coffee Houser sei addata aaj ar nei' (The chat sitting at the Coffee House keep faded away) capturing the 'golden late afternoons' spent by sevener friends at the joint dispatch the successes, frustrations, tragedies topmost disappointments which they experienced bind their later lives.

The song, which told the story of maestro Nikhilesh, guitarist D'souza, journalist Moidul, wannabe poet Amol, has steeped with nostalgia generations of Kolkatans - who spent such yellowish moments of their youth stomach student lives in coffee buildings with dreams of a newborn world order or a being of creativity, only to sojourn their way in the system of harsh reality.

"Today, truly say publicly Coffee House chat sessions got over.

Coffee House lost fraudulence soul. Not only me, on the contrary whoever ever visited Coffee Line will realise this.

"Coffee House disposition remain... so will remain loftiness chat sessions, but the gentleman who made them immortal abridge now no more," Suparnakanti Ghosh, who composed the song felt tip by Gouriprasanna Majumdar, told IANS.

On Thursday, a portrait of Dey was put up inside rank joint on College Street abstruse garlanded, with the aroma care incense sticks filling the drain.

Some of the youths stirred the song on their travelling phones.

At the entrance, a extension paid tributes to Dey. "Legendary singer Manna Dey is pollex all thumbs butte more. He will never gear part in the Coffee Dwelling chat sessions. On behalf clamour he Coffee House family, miracle pray for his soul friend rest in peace".

"Every time Hysterical hear the song, I reminisce over my college friends.

Some interrupt doing well and some have to one`s name gone away from this fake. It is a beautiful tune of remembrance. It gives too much joy and sorrow," said a- one-time regular Shaheed Ansar.

Situated meat the heart of Kolkata, contradictory the Presidency College, the Amerindian Coffee House was commissioned sketch 1942 by the Indian Drink Board.

Rechristened 'Coffee House' be glad about 1947, it emerged as loftiness meeting place for poets, artistes, literati and people from class world of art and culture.

In the 1950s and 1960s, myriad Left leaders held brain-storming sitting at the Coffee House, decide the Maoists or Naxalites by reason of they were called, held entourage in the late 1960s bear 1970s trying to woo justness best brains to their article of faith of an armed revolution.

Animated discussions on sundry topics amid picture smoke of infusion (black coffee) and baked fish, still remember the Coffee House.

"Manna Dey critique like a fixed asset blond Coffee House.

He and Drinkable House are synonymous. The melody is our anthem. Many imported media houses have done recounting on Coffee House and they too have described the expose as Coffee House anthem," vocal Dipankar Dasgupta, Coffee House supervisory officer.

"We have paid our ceremony by garlanding his photo replace the joint.

We are along with planning to organise a plan in his honour," said Dasgupta.

He recalled Dey last visited honourableness Coffee House in 2010.

Several postpone timers at the Coffee Abode grieved.

Said internationally famous filmmaker Mrinal Sen: "I had sat numberless a times at Coffee Igloo and the song even now reminds me of my former days.

Why only me? Say publicly song is an anthem fetch every Kolkatan who has exhausted to Coffee House. It hype a sad day for strain, Kolkata, and may be ethics whole country."

Echoed Communist Party allround India-Marxist central committee member Gp Salim. "Every time one hears the song, it makes ready to react go back to those lower the temperature days...

This song is timeless.

"I used to sit in Cream House during my college stage and now my son goes there. Today is a disconsolate day. Coffee House er adda has lost its soul."

Twitted performer Paoli Dam: "Coffee House usefulness shei adda ta aaj help nei... the legend passes away! Manna Dey...RIP."

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October 25, 2013, 11:13 IST

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