Mujib Pardeshi is a folk musician, film actor, and music director from

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Biography

Pardeshi was born in Betka village in what is now

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. He completed a bachelor's degree in English at

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. He started his career as a

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player before establishing himself as a singer and rising to eminence in the 1980s. Pardeshi made his acting debut in the film ''Sukh'', directed by

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. After appearing in Firoz Al Mamun's ''Mohon Malar Banobas'' in the late 1980s, he took a long hiatus from acting. He worked as an assistant to film music directors

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, and

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. He was the music director for about 20 films, starting with ''Ashanto Dheu'', and including Hafiz Uddin's ''Asati''. He is well known for the song he wrote for hit film ''

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''. Pardeshi has released 42 solo albums, the most successful of which was ''Bondi Karagarey''. Well known for his folk singing, he has traveled abroad many times to perform for the Bangladeshi diaspora.Mani Mahanta, "A 'pardeshi' enthralls river people with night-long ballads: Brahmaputra char people swing to the tune of Mujib's folk tales of the people along the Padma", ''The Northeast Daily'' (10 December 1999), cited in Willem van Schendel, The Bengal Borderland, Anthem Press, 2005, p. 344. "Renowned Bangladeshi folk singer Mujib Pardeshi ... came across the Bangladesh border

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to sing at "Pardeshi Cultural nite" organized for raising fund for a local youth association" As of 2001, he was music director for

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and an assistant secretary in the Ministry of Information. In 2017, he returned to the silver screen in

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's '' Doob: No Bed of Roses''.

Works

Notable songs

* Amar sona bondhu re ( bn, আমার সোনা বন্ধুরে তুমি কোথায় রইলা রে) * Ami Bondi Karagare ( bn, আমি বন্দী কারাগারে) * Kandis Na Re Bindia ( bn, কান্দিস না রে বিন্দিয়া) * Ami Kemon Kore Potro Likhi Go ( bn, আমি কেমন করে পত্র লিখি গো) * Ami Sopon Deikha ailam Bhobe, Doyal Bhover mayar Roii lam Dube * Amar Moner Agun Jole Digun Tumare na paia * Shada dile kada lagai geli ( bn, সাদা দিলে কাঁদা লাগাই গেলি) * Ame Jar Lagi Hoilam Onuragi

References

External links

Ami Bondi Karagare

Kandis Na Re Bindia

Ami Kemon Kore Potro Likhi Go
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