Despite having debuted in a totally contrasting genre of Bengli music in Paglu 2, singer Akriti Kakar the 'mitha mitha Bangla bol' resonates in both peppy and melody numbers.
"In Kolkata Diaries I have rendered a popular folk tune, an iconic Bengali number Hrid Majhare with the follow-up lyrics penned by a poet-thinker-dreamer like Joy Sarkar. It is the quintessential Bengali with the same mitha boli as in the Bangla playback track but again very very Indian in delivery," Akriti told PTI here.
"When I mouthed the line 'Tomay Hrid Majhare Rakhbo Chhede Debo Na' there was a strange feeling, a state of trance which I can't define. I felt the earthy smell of rural Bengal," Akrit said.
The crooner of 'Saturday Saturday' from Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania and 'Iski Uski' from 2 States, said, "Starring in the video for Kolkata Calling, riding on trams, gulping phoochka before Victoria Memorial, meandering through the alleys of Kumartuli and posing before the models of the city's presiding deity, instilled a typical Bengaliness in me which will remain forever."
"If Punjabi words and phrases can become popular and the tracks a rage in Hindi films, why not mitha Bangla bol!. Things are Pan-Indian now," she said.
"Featuring Akriti, the face of new age Indian singers in a re-canted ever-popular folk number is as much unconventional as the launch of the songs soley on digital platform on youtu7be, facebook and twitter, This is imperative as physical sale of cds is on the decline," poet-lyricist and composer of the lines, Joy Sarkar said.
Percussionist Tanmoy Bose said, this is the global face of new age music with soul and what better place than Kolkata which boasts of a galaxy of creative individuals.
