Kamal Dasgupta - A Tribute | Vol-1 & 2

Kamal Dasgupta (28 July 1912 - 20 July 1974) was a Bangladeshi music director, composer and folk artist. Rāga and Thumri were the main elements of his music. His wife Feroza Begum was a noted Nazrul Sangeet singer. Their second and third sons Hamin Ahmedand Shafin Ahmed are the lead singers with Bangladeshi Band Miles.
Dasgupta was born on 28 July 1912 in Narail, Jessore of the then British India. He matriculated in 1928 from Calcutta Academy and later completed B. Com. from Comilla Victoria Government College. He earned his doctorate in music from Banaras Hindu University in 1943 for his work on Meerabai, the composer and singer of Bhajans. His early inspiration came from his father, Tara Prasanna Dasgupta. He took his first music lessons from his brother, Bimal Das Gupta. Later he studied under Dilip Kumar Roy, Kana Kesta, and Ustad Jamiruddin Khan.
Dasgupta sang modern songs in Bengali, Urdu, Hindi, and Tamil. He was also a composer, composing the music for about eight thousand songs. His work was based on classical music and tended towards the Thungri style, though he also drew inspiration from other sources.
Dasgupta composed the music for about eighty Bangla films, among them Tufan Mail, Jhamelar Prem, Ei Ki Go Shes Dan. His last film as a music director was Badhu Bharan (1967). He also composed the background music for an American film, War Propaganda. His active life as a composer covered about fourteen years. His unique contribution in music is his invention of a shorthand method for swaralipi (notations).
In 1935, Dasgupta joined the Gramophone Company of India as a music director. During his term there, he developed a close association with Kazi Nazrul Islam and composed the music for almost four hundred of his songs. The gramophone records for which Dasgupta composed music were notable in the 1950s and 1960s. Among his songs still notable today are Sanjher Taraka Ami (I am the star of twilight), Prthivi Amare Chay (The world needs me), and Ami Bhorer Juthika' '(I am the jasmine of morning).
In 1956, he converted to Islam and took the name Kamal Uddin Ahmed. He married Feroza Begum, a Nazrul Sangeet singer, in the same year. They have three sons, Tahsin Ahmed, Hamin Ahmed and Shafin Ahmed.
Dasgupta died on 18 July 1974 in Dhaka.
Source: Wikipedia
Collection: Feroza Begum Archive - ferozabegum.com/
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[@bishwajitsaha8127]

Deep respect.

[@bgupta217]

ওনার জন্যই নজরুলের বহু গান এখনও শুনতে পাচ্ছি।

[@yatindermann3045]

Beautiful songs, have tears of joy listening to divine music and voice Thanks

[@subratasen1068]

অপূর্ব, প্রত্যেকটা গানের সুর-মাধুর্যে অভিভূত ।
মনে হচ্ছে , যেন অন্য জগতে চলে গেছি যেখানে শুধুই অপার আনন্দ ।
মনে হচ্ছে যেন অন্য জগতে চলে গেছি

[@pranabbiswas7760]

Excellent collections. Reminder of record player era.

[@mdnasiruddin500]

শ্রদ্ধেয় সুর সম্রাট প্রয়াত কমল দাসগুপ্তকে জানায় প্রণাম। সৃষ্টিকর্তা যেন উনাকে স্বর্গবাসী করে ।

[@indranidutta5330]

Kamal Dasgupta was a great great great melodious singer and composer.

[@masudaferdoush8770]

কি সমৃদ্ধ সৃষ্টি তারা করে গেছেন....!
আমরা ধন্য আমাদের অতীত ঐতিহ্যের জন্য।
মহান স্রষ্টা তাঁদের মহাপুরষ্কৃত করুন।

[@manoshez]

Superb music. No match for Kamal Dasgupta’s sweet melodies and equally captivating voices of Jagmohan, Hemant Kumar & Talat Mehmood. Thanks for sharing this treasure.

[@bazlur-Vancouver]

Whoever maintains this site(probably one of his son or others), please post the songs sang by Kamal Dasgupta himself. I saw 7-8 songs on youtube.(8 songs I copied , may be much more on the web). This site will be appropriate place to post his songs. Thanks

[@falgunibhattacharya2881]

একটি মুল্যবান সংগ্রহ, আগামী প্রজন্মের জন্যে। তবে গান গুলি সম্বন্ধ্যে একটু পরিচয় দেওয়া উচিৎ ছিল।

[@ranjanghosh9748]

অত্যন্ত সত্যকথা, গানগুলোর পরিচয় দেওয়া উচিত ছিলো।

[@goutambasu3240]

ছোট থেকে এই গান গুলো শুনে বড় হয়েছি বাবার কাছে। নতুন প্রজন্ম আজ অসহায় আগামী দিনে কাছে

[@adityakumarpaul6891]

Thiskindof legend I always liked his voice first ilistem during the year1959 since I remember kamaldasgupta as aelveenapani mukherji pankajmullik pahrisanyal kkc dey aswelas jutthikaroy indubala rajbala kanandevi and many more

[@shibaprasaddutta2550]

Kamal Dasgupta was a great great great music director and comproser .we losed him as early life.Tribute to him and his wife Firoza Begam.Ranaghat Nadia W.B.

[@narayanmajumdar6843]

Asadharan

[@manjuli301]

Am speechless 😶
Ashadharon....bahubar shunechi, tao mon bhore na.....Kamal Dasgupta r music aar Jaganmoy Mitra r combination....soulful singing 👌👌👌
My heartiest tributes to these legends 🙏🙏🙏🙏
May God bless their families 🙏🙏

[@RL-kp5iy]

Brilliant !!

[@kamleshbagri4837]

Kamla das gupta brilliant person

[@gobindasingha1054]

Sur o. Swarno

[@karunasikder4360]

Kamal dasgupto er bangla gan sunbo

[@DilipDas-lg8vj]

Most

[@ranjanghosh9748]

Where can I get this cd? I want to buy this gem for myself and my loved ones

[@RL-kp5iy]

Does any one know how he died ?