Purnendu Kishore Dev Burman (from the royal family) on Sachin Dev Burman:
"Sachin Dev Burman was my uncle. I knew him well. His father Nabadweep Chandra, well known as Bada Minister of Tripura, was brought back from Comilla by Birendra Kishore. After completing his studies, uncle Sachin started learning music at Calcutta from Krishna Chandra Dey known as Kanakesto. That time his father was sick in Calcutta and we too were in Calcutta that time. Then I was too young as 7/8 yrs old. After that we lost contact for a long time”
“Sachin Karta would come to Tripura very frequently in his childhood. One day he heard a Baul song from my elder sister. He asked her where she had learnt it from. She replied - she learnt this from one Fakir Shaheb Ali who would come along with his Dotara from East Bengal. Next time the Fakir came when Uncle Sachin was also there, he would then learn from Shaheb Ali daily at 8.00 a.m and 4.00 p.m. The fakir sang mostly Baul songs. Uncle Sachin would write down those songs. He would record some of them later”
“Next we met In 1960, one day around 10.30 am I saw Sachin Karta wearing a dhoti, standing at a bus stop in Bombay. He recognized me and wanted to know my whereabouts and offered me to come to his bungalow. When I offered him a lift in my car. uncle asked me whose car was it? On being told that it was the Gwalior Maharaja's car, he refused to get in. Then we both went to his bungalow by bus. That day he kept asking about everybody there in Tripura including my parents, he had a lot of affection for my mother”
”I saw about a 1,000 cassettes there in a showcase in his bungalow and a tape recorder too, I asked him as to whom these belonged. he replied, ‘All these are for my son Rahul, who is very talented, and greatly interested in music. I have archived my own music, so that he can get some help from these and can use these. I am preserving these for him'. This was the last time we met. “
(Source: Biography in Bangla by Sachin Samman Awardee Shri Girindra Mazumdar, who has done research on Karta and his music.)
16 окт 2024
