Mono dilo na badhu sd burman biography
Mono Dilo Na Bandhu is a bengali song from the album Solid Gold S. D. Burman Bengali Vol - 1....
Tabla master, Padmabhushan Ustad Ahmedjan Tirakawa was restless.
Brojen Biswas' tabla playing in his song, “Mono dilo na bodhu” made him ecstatic.
It was the pathos in the song, “Suno mere bandhu re” which he had heard from his radio that made him so. He requested his host for the record but it was hard to find. When it was finally sourced, he listened to it with rapt attention, again and again, his eyes welling.
The song had the bent of folk music of East Bengal with the smell of wet soil emanating from the soulful baritone of Sachin Dev (SD) Burman. He kept aside a ten rupee note as nazrana for the singer to collect which the maestro did and treasured throughout his life.
SD Burmans music is a rare pleasure, coloured and revered.
Such was his love for the folk and the rustic countryside that the religious training of Hindustani classical music received from a plethora of gurus that included Badal Khan, Allauddin Khan, KC Dey and Vishmadev Chatterjee plus instructions from Shyamlal Kshetri, Amiya Nath Sanyal, Faiyaz Khan and Abdul Karim Khan, could not