Bengalees
loved Shyamal Mitra. From the '50s till the '70s he was probably the most popular
male singer of Bengal besides Hemanta Mukherjee. Shyamal's voice had this wonderful
romantic character and his songs are even after all these years, make one nostalgic.
However, Saikat, his son, although does have a decent voice, decided to start
his singing career by singing all his dad's songs in local concerts. This earned
him money and many contracts, but unfortunately he couldn't establish his own
identity. He managed to do some play back singing in the limited Bengali cinema
and the TV. Salil used him on and off and did acknowledge once that Saikat is
quite a good singer and needs good songs to prove himself. Well, I would definitely
like to believe that. He recorded eight songs of Salil in a cassette released
in 1990 by HMV. Nothing spectacular really except that he did sing quite a difficult
song 'Aar kichhu nei balaar' rather well. This song was originally recorded by
Sabita, but I must say that I prefer Saikat's version. There are some tricky notes
which he handles quite beautifully. In one Doordarshan show he sang a Hindi version (Lyrics: Yogesh)
of that beautiful Antara song 'Kono Bhaalo kobitaar'. Besides this he also sang
in a Hindi TV Film/Serial called 'Charitraheen'.
Hnd = Hindi; Mal = Malayalam; Tam = Tamil; Tel = Telegu; Kan = Kannada; Bng
= Bengali; Oth = Other
Bengalees
loved Shyamal Mitra. From the '50s till the '70s he was probably the most popular
male singer of Bengal besides Hemanta Mukherjee. Shyamal's voice had this wonderful
romantic character and his songs are even after all these years, make one nostalgic.
However, Saikat, his son, although does have a decent voice, decided to start
his singing career by singing all his dad's songs in local concerts. This earned
him money and many contracts, but unfortunately he couldn't establish his own
identity. He managed to do some play back singing in the limited Bengali cinema
and the TV. Salil used him on and off and did acknowledge once that Saikat is
quite a good singer and needs good songs to prove himself. Well, I would definitely
like to believe that. He recorded eight songs of Salil in a cassette released
in 1990 by HMV. Nothing spectacular really except that he did sing quite a difficult
song 'Aar kichhu nei balaar' rather well. This song was originally recorded by
Sabita, but I must say that I prefer Saikat's version. There are some tricky notes
which he handles quite beautifully. In one Doordarshan show he sang a Hindi version (Lyrics: Yogesh)
of that beautiful Antara song 'Kono Bhaalo kobitaar'. Besides this he also sang
in a Hindi TV Film/Serial called 'Charitraheen'.