Bhupen Hazarika dead
Hazarika, the eternal wanderer, died of multiple organ failure at a Mumbai hospital on Saturday.
By ET Bureau |
It is strange how two names beginning with the alphabet B brings people from states lying in two corners of the subcontinent closer — Assam and Kerala. One is Bihu. An Assamese festival, it is very similar to Vishu in Kerala, not just phonetically. Both are festivals of fertility that fall on April 14.
The other is Bhupen: Bhupen Hazarika. As a young vagabond from Kerala in Assam who had been swept by these two romantic commanalities, it was only natural that one was swept away after a meeting with the legend on a steamer down the Brahmaputra off Guwahati. “Hey, young man,” he asked this correspondent.
“What brings you to the banks of Guwahati?” “Nothing in particular. I just wandered over” was a sheepish answer one could muster, his “Dola he Dola” reverberating deep inside.
The giant of a singer hugged and comforted with his trademark baritone voice: “Me too. I am also a wanderer. You will find your destination.” “Ami Ek Jajabor (I am a wanderer)” was the song that had wowed everyone.
Hazarika, the eternal wanderer, died of multiple organ failure at a Mumbai hospital on Saturday. Born in Sadiya in Assam on September 8, 1926, Bhupenda was a humanist at heart.
He infused Assamese folk music into popular imagination with his poetic “Ganga amar Ma/Padma amar Ma”. But it was with Kalpana Lajmi’s film Rudali in 1993 that he really attained national pop status.
The other is Bhupen: Bhupen Hazarika. As a young vagabond from Kerala in Assam who had been swept by these two romantic commanalities, it was only natural that one was swept away after a meeting with the legend on a steamer down the Brahmaputra off Guwahati. “Hey, young man,” he asked this correspondent.
“What brings you to the banks of Guwahati?” “Nothing in particular. I just wandered over” was a sheepish answer one could muster, his “Dola he Dola” reverberating deep inside.
The giant of a singer hugged and comforted with his trademark baritone voice: “Me too. I am also a wanderer. You will find your destination.” “Ami Ek Jajabor (I am a wanderer)” was the song that had wowed everyone.
Hazarika, the eternal wanderer, died of multiple organ failure at a Mumbai hospital on Saturday. Born in Sadiya in Assam on September 8, 1926, Bhupenda was a humanist at heart.
He infused Assamese folk music into popular imagination with his poetic “Ganga amar Ma/Padma amar Ma”. But it was with Kalpana Lajmi’s film Rudali in 1993 that he really attained national pop status.
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