![]() ![]() Like William Wordsworth, Sachin Dev felt that nature has its own unadulterated and virgin music and one ought to have an ear for it. Inclined towards music right from his childhood, young Sachin would go to meadows and hinterlands of Tripura to listen to Bhatiyali, folk songs and meadows-strains of the cattle-grazers and fishermen. S D Burman once told Pramathesh Barua that the euphonic ‘rudrin’ (a rare Sanskrit-Bangla word for the musical sound of flowing water softer than the onomatopoetic ‘kalkal’) is in the heart of every song that he composed. “ Dariya ki rawani, mashriq ka andaaz/Aapki mausiqi mein Bengal ka saaz” (The flow of a river, the style of the East/Your music is the instrument of Bengal), poet-lyricist Shailendra complimented Burman da with this couplet. His music grew from the soil and soul.ĪLSO READ | Lata Mangeshkar, the voice with countless immortal numbers ![]() A quaintly refined rusticity was his metier. Sachin da infused the musical petrichor of Tripura, Agartala and the then undivided Bengal into his film-music. And when I came back to India and re-listened to Sachin Dev Burman‘s music, I understood the importance of geographical influences on a composer or musician’s music. ![]()
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