Sheikh Arif Bulbon :
A few days ago, Runa Laila, the famous musician and composer
of the subcontinent celebrated 60 years of her musical life. Moumita Barua, the sweet voice singer of this generation, paid tribute to Runa Laila and shared a song of her on Moumita’s Facebook.
This song was ‘Noton Noton Payragulo Kothay Ure Jai.’
After the release of the song, Moumita received a lot of praise.
Meanwhile, in an event for RTV, Moumita has rendered four famous songs of the famous singer of the Hindi movies of 1950s and 60s and Bengali modern singer Geeta Dutt.
The four songs of Geeta Dutt recorded in Moumita’s voice at RTV’s own Studio were – ‘Tumi Je Aamar Ogo’, ‘Nishiraat Banka Chand Akashe’, ‘Jhonok Jhonok Konok Konok’, and ‘Ei Mayabi Tithi Ei Modhuro Geeti’.
Regarding talking about rendering these four songs of Geeta Dutt in her voice, Moumita told this correspondent, “On the 60th anniversary of the musical career of Runa Laila Madam, the pride of Bangladesh’s music, I have covered a song sung many years ago in her voice. I tried to sing the song with some courage. I don’t know how to sing. Maybe one day I will get to know something about singing so much from Runa Madam. Geeta Dutt’s voice is one of the voices of respected female voices outside of Bangladesh attract me most. I like to sing her songs.”
“Of these four songs I rendered at RTV’s studio, three of them were written by my favourite lyricist, Gauri Prasanna Majumder. Two songs were composed by respected Hemanta Mukhopadhyay and the other two songs were composed by respected Nachiketa Ghosh. I tried to sing the songs with heart. In fact, after the telecast, everybody will know how I sang,” Moumita added.
She also said that some of her original songs are going to be released soon. However, she likes to sing in stage shows because she enjoys direct response from the audience there. Meanwhile, Moumita and Alok Kumar Sen performed ghazals in a stage show yesterday. The songs of Geeta Dutt rendered in Moumita’s voice will be aired on RTV soon.