Apeejay Bangla Sahitya Utsob launches its first Theme Music Ahead of 5th Edition In November

INDIA’s pioneering Bangla Literary Festival Apeejay Bangla Sahitya Utsob on Friday, June 28, launched its Theme music at Kolkata’s Oxford Bookstore. Renowned musician Surojit Chatterjee has used Tabla, Sitar and Flute to compose the ABSU Theme music to encompass the essence of Bengal and its literature. The almost 1- minute Theme music is a first for Apeejay Bangla Sahitya Utsob which turns 5 years this year. Swagat Sengupta, Director of Apeejay Bangla Sahitya Utsob, told reporters “ABSU aims to bring in new elements for its audiences since inception and one of our endeavour for our milestone fifth edition is to give ABSU fans their very own ABSU theme music. Surojit Chatterjee has devoted his time composing the theme music for our Utsob because he shares the love for Bangla Language and appreciates the effort we are making to celebrate it. I am also delighted to see innumerable audiences being drawn to Oxford Bookstore at Kolkata round the year as we began to focus on various facets of Bengal and its literature in between two ABSUs. Various online and offline endeavors are underway to extend the Utsob to the masses and the Theme music is a very significant initiative that we are announcing today in the run up to ABSU 2019 in November. Apeejay Bangla Sahitya Utsob venturing into creating a signature tune speaks volumes about the response from the Utsob fans and followers. Patra Bharti and Oxford Bookstores have inaugurated ABSU inside Oxford Bookstore, moved to the much larger Apeejay House Lawns and now have the privilege of hosting ABSU in the courtyard of Jorasankho Thakurbari for the second year. That the courtyard of the birth place of Nobel Laureate Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore will ring with ABSU theme music this year is a matter of great pride for us.”  Surojit Chatterjee, acclaimed musician and composer launched the theme music accompanied by ABSU partners – Tridib Kumar Chattopadhyay, Writer, Editor and Publisher, Patra Bharati; and Swagat Sengupta, Festival Director, Apeejay Bangla Sahitya Utsob and CEO of Oxford Bookstores. Commenting on the process and the making of the theme music, he said “I have been attending the Apeejay Bangla Sahitya Utsob for the last two years and have seen people enjoying the festival. Now I am happy to be a part of this festival with my music, in a technical capacity. The tunes were composed keeping in mind the great writers of Bengal. Instruments like Tabla, Sitar and Flute have been used in the making of the tune as the people of Bengal easily identify themselves with it.  A theme song with lyrics would restrict the thinking capability of the people within the lyrics of the song; whereas a tune would allow people to think out of the box. I would like to thank Apeejay for coming up with the concept of the Bangla Sahitya Utsob. My contribution towards it is purely out of my love for literature and the festival(edited by Pranab Kumar Chakravarty).