Artist-turned-politicians Hema Malini and Babul Supriyo are recording a Bengali album of three songs for Saregama India.
More than four decades ago, way back in 1973, Hema Malini, then the nation’s dream girl, was inspired by the legendary Kishore Kumar to lend her voice in Bengali. That was how two great Bengali songs written by Mukul Dutta and put to tune by no less a person than Kishore Kumar were successfully recorded and formed an important part of the 1973 Puja album of the Gramophone Co, as Saregama was known in those days. That was a memorable cross cultural event in the history of Indian music and the two songs have withstood the test of time to become an inseparable part of popular Indian music.
“After a gap of more than four decades, Babul Supriyo has taken the initiative to bring back the two songs after being recreated with contemporary musical arrangement. To be added is a fresh duet song (Hema-Babul) with lyrics by Srijato and composition by Indradip Dasgupta.
