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Gautam Chattopadhyay (1 June 1948 – 20 June 1999) was an Indian musician and singer. He was a founder and leader of the band Moheener Ghoraguli, which was formed in the 1975. He was also a theatre person, filmmaker and ethnographer. He played many Indian and Western instruments. During his college years he played lead guitar in a band called ''The Urge,'' whose members were mostly Anglo Indians, in pubs including Trincas and Moulin Rouge at Park Street of Kolkata during the 1960s. While a student at the Presidency College in Kolkata, he participated in the political movement of the late 60s and early 70s in Bengali campuses known as the Naxal Movement.〔("Finding the lost sound of a generation" ). ''The Hindu''.〕 He then moved to Jabalpur, working for about a year as a Medical representative in Jabalpur and then in Bhopal. He continued composing music during this phase of his life. Chattopadhyay returned to Kolkata, and formed a band called ''Saptarshi'' with his brothers Pradip Chattopadhyay, Biswanath (or Bishu) Chattopadhyay, first cousin Ranjon Ghoshal, Biswanath's friend Abraham Mazumder, and family friends Tapesh Bandopadhyay and Tapash Das. Later they called themselves Moheener Ghoraguli. He worked with the 'Bauls'Fakirs creating a new genre of music-'Baul-Jazz' It was a mixture of Baul and jazz. Chattopadhyay introduced new lyrics and the guitar, saxophone and drum set. Moheener Ghoraguli wasn't commercially successful at the time, and the band disintegrated in 1981. During the mid-nineties, Chattopadhyay revived Mohiner Ghoraguli by releasing the albums: ''Abar bachhor kuri pore'' (1995), ''Jhara shomoyer gaan'' (1996), ''Maya'' (1997), ''Khepar gaan''(1998). He included new singers, his own compositions as well as songs composed by others.〔("An asthma patient, Gautam Chattopadhyay performed somersaults on stage" ). ''Times of India''. Zinia Sen, TNN | 11 February 2014〕 Later, Chattopadhyay continued a solo career, composing new songs,composing music for his own films and working as music director for other film-makers. His films include ''Nagmoti'' (which won the President's Medal at the National Film Awards in 1983). His second feature film was ''Somoy'' (which was never released) ''A Letter to Mom'', an English film on the life of the Anglo Indian community. His first documentary was about the dhakis (drummers) of Bengal called ''The Primal Call''. After that he made several documentaries, including 'The Dinosaurs, The sun temple of konarak to Mr Habib Tanvir. He made a short film for an American community television ''To Love is to Paint...'', Chattopadhyay went to Karbi-Anglong in mid-nineties to work with the Karbi people and their music. With them he did an opera, on their folklore called "Hai-mu" About three hundred karbi youth performed in this opera. He then began to make a film in karbi language, which remained incomplete due to his sudden death in 1999. ==Bibliography== * ''Gautam'' (2000) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gautam Chattopadhyay」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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