Feel the thump with Bengali bands

Jamshedpur, Oct. 5: Puja is incomplete without beats, dance, adda and fun.

Keeping up with the true spirit of Durga Puja, various committees have invited Bengali bands to perform live at the pandals.

Two Bengali bands who would be making the crowd swing to their tunes are Shahurey Baul and Psycho. While the former would keep the mood up at Northern Town and Circuit House Area Durga Puja Committee, Psycho will be enthralling the audience at Jamshedpur Sarbajanin Durga Puja Committee.

“The band culture is slowly catching up with people. We brought a band to experiment few years ago and the response was overwhelming,” said Amitav Mohanty, the secretary of Northern Town and Circuit House Area Durga Puja Committee.

This year, Shahurey Baul, will come down to steel city to make the audience break into a jig on Navami.

For Psycho it will be their first visit to the steel city as a band. The band that usually plays covers is here to rock the hearts of the residents of Jamshedpur with Shadher laau and other popular numbers.

“This is the first time we are going to play here. We would perform here with the aim to win hearts through our music,” said Arnab Ganguly, the man on the keyboard of Psycho.

It is not only the bands who are flocking in to Jamshedpur for the Puja, orchestra groups are also making hay of the situation. A Calcutta- based orchestra group will perform at Bhiyandih Area Durga Puja Committee. Baul songs would be staged at the Puja pandal on Saptami.

Apart from these folk songs of the state are also lined up during the festive days.

“Sitting in a pandal, chatting with friends and listening to Bengali songs creates the perfect Puja ambience. Pandal hopping is not for us. Generally, younger generations like that. Thus, we invite Bengali bands or groups to perform every year at our Puja,” said Raja Chowdhury, the secretary of Jamshedpur Sarbajanin Durga Puja Committee.

But its not only the professionals who like to perform during the Puja. Committee members also gets soaked in the festivity.

The best example is the Circuit House Area Puja Committee members who apart from the dunuchi naach competition perform for their audience every year.

“This year, we will stage a play Tul Kalam, the Bengali version of Hindi feature film Golmaal.
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