During the day Bishakto Chochchori goes by the name of Sudipto Sanyal, 37, academic and writer, with a Ph.D. Bishakto means poisonous and chochchori is another untranslatable Bengali word, roughly meaning a mishmash of vegetables. Songs of Comfort, which has just broadcast its fiftieth episode, is his show.
The voice creating this chaos, which has a dedicated fan following and is quite satisfying, belongs to RJ Bishakto Chochchori, whose slow, meandering but chuckling voice does its bit for the show. What the night can reveal.Ī haunting jazz piece by Dexter Gordon is followed soon by a reading from an essay by Gandhi on Jews in Palestine, then Filhos de Gandhi sung by Jorge Ben and Gilberto Gil with a request to enjoy the song and “f*** Israel!” The raunchy number was composed by Bappi Lahiri and sung by Salma Agha, who was also the actor in the film, trying to pull off a seduction in a sailor suit with it. “Also, you could smoke.” Next Motown legend Marvin Gaye stirs the soul with Right On, a frequent listener is wished on his birthday by Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, “et cetera, et cetera, et cetera”, a phrase that seems to have a particular resonance, and the birthday music climaxes in Come Closer from Kasam Paida Karne Wale Ki, a Mithun Chakraborty revenge classic from the Eighties. The episode ‘Burnt out ballads’ begins with the American commentator Fran Lebowitz saying New York was better in the Seventies not only because she was in her twenties. You don’t know what you will encounter when you tune in.
The show is called Songs of Comfort for Hypochondriacs and Panicking Lovers and is broadcast on Saturdays from around midnight on Radio Quarantine Kolkata. It is a slightly wild journey into the night.
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