Radio queen of 70s has the Big B on wish list

On a 'Nostalgia' trip down the 70s, radio 'czarina' Sravanti Majumder, who wishes to collaborate with Amitabh Bachchan and Gulzar, says the range of creativity in those times remains unmatched till this date.
Launching the 'Nostalgia' album, studded with several yet unpublished tracks of her, the husky-voice melody queen told PTI, "That was the era of Gouriprasanna Majumder, Hemantada (Hemanta Mukhopadhyay), Pulakda (lyricist Pulak Bandyopadhyay). Even at the all India scene there were Gulzar, Lataji and Ashaji to name a few. And yes there was Panchamda."
"I would love to be back in that era if ever that was possible," Sravanti, who immortalised ad jingles even with mediocre and mundane issues, said.

Continuing the down memory lane journey, Sravanti, who quipped why the Bengali men didn't have the guts to come forward and propose her despite idolising her in those 'Mone Rakha Gaan Mone Rakha Katha' days, talked about the making of 'Aay Khuku Aay' which immortalised her.
"After Pulakda penned the lyrics, I was apprehensive. You just think about it I had to match the baritone of Hemantada. I just said I couldn't sing. And it went on becoming a hit after one and half years. Till this day people ask for this song and they cry," she said.
About the tracks, many of which were borne out of her stay in the 'prabash bhoomi' (foreign soil), Sravanti said "No I won't term this as transplantation of one place, its smell, feel and look to another.

"You can rather dub it is a bridge of two disparate worlds can't emotions merge?" she said about the track 'Ke chute jay'.

Asked to define nostalgia, Sravanti said "it can be love, forlornness out of estrangement, mischief anything."
The legendary Bengali jingle singer has one wish. To shoot an album with Amitabh Bachchan.
"I have one wish. To shoot an album with Mr Bachchan with the lyrics penned by Gulzar. Had Pancham been alive the circle would be complete with the music composed by him. But I have a forever yearn for that era, the 70s," Sravanty, who highly rates modern Bengali band singers including Bhoomi frontman Surojit Chatterjee said.

The Sa Re Ga Ma produced album, interspersed with conversation between Srabonty and eminent journalist Goutam Bhattacharya, also has tracks like Ke Tumi Ele and Maa Tomay Bhalobasi.