Saturday, 26 November 2016

Birendra Krishna Bhadra and Mahisasur Madini.

Birendra Krishna Bhadra was born on 4th August 1905.His father was Roy Bahadur Kali Krishna and mother Sarala  Bala Devi . They lived in a rented house at  Ahiritola which was his maternal uncle's house,in north Calcutta.Subsequently they shifted to a house situated at  Ramadan Mitra Lane , North Kolkata and the same was purchased by his grandmother Jogo Maya Debi .

His father Kali Krishna Bhadra was a linguist and was fluent in fourteen languages and employed as an interpreter in a lower court and later became a known figure in the Bengali literary circle of that time.

Kali Krishna had two sons ,  Bhupendra Krishna and Birendra Krishna.In1926 Birendra Ktishna passed Intermideate examination and In 1928 graduated from Scottish church college, Kolkata.

He adapted and restructured several classics to produce notable radio plays .

In 193os All India Radio , Kolkata started broadcasting a two hour programme called  Mahisasur Madini which describes the
epic battle of Goddess Durga  with the demon king Mahisasur. The script was written by Bani Kumar and the music was directed by Pankaj Kumar Mallik. Bhadra was a reciter and theatre director from Kolkata and a contemporary of Kazi Nazrul Islam and Pankaj Kumar Mallik.

He worked for All India Radio , India's national Radio broad caster for several years during it's early starting 1930s and during this period he produced and adopted several plays.

Today he is known for his excellent Sanskrit recitation through a two hours audio programme Mahisasur Madini, a collection of shlokas as and songs broadcast by All India Radio Kolkata at 4AM in the dawn of Mahalaya.He also acted  and directed in Bengali theatre and also wrote for screen play for  film .

Birendra Krishna Bhadra will be remembered in the hearts of Bengali forever for his excellent work in Mahisasur Mardini.These only work had brought extreme popularity and fame for him.He has become immortal in the mind and hearts of Bengalis.

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