1st broadcast of 1962’s ‘Mahishasuramardini’ recording gifts AIR audience a surprise on 25th sept, 2022 at 4 AM IST

KOLKATA: To listeners of All India Radio’s broadcast of Birendra Krishna Bhadra’s ‘Mahishasuramardini ’, there was a surprise on Sunday morning. The 1962 recording of ‘Mahishasuramardini’, played for the first time, was different from earlier versions, making it a refreshing experience for millions who listen to the programme every year.
In the 1962 version, created by Baidyanath Bhattacharya, popularly known as Bani Kumar, several iconic songs were not included. Instead, there were at least three new songs, of Ambuj Kumar Mallik and Banshari Lahiri, that were included. The style of narration by Birendra Krishna Bhadra was also different from what listeners are accustomed to. Unlike his signature style of Chandi recital, Bhadra’s narration in this edition had more musical character. The text of the stotra, too, was changed a little by Bani Kumar. The better recording quality added to the listeners’ pleasure.
“As a listener of ‘Mahishasuramardini’ for decades, I found at least three songs missing. ‘Jago Durga’ (sung by Dwijen Mukherjee), ‘Taba Achintya’ (sung by Manabendra Mukhopadhyay) and ‘Ogo Amar Agamani’ (sung by Shipra Basu) were missing in the version played on Sunday morning. Instead, a few new songs were included,” said Soumyen Basu, former assistant director and head of programme of the All India Radio, Kolkata.
‘Mahishasuramardini’ was broadcast live for the last time in 1962 and the recording was in the AIR archives.
Bani Kumar composed an oratorio, ‘Basanteswari’, in 1931 based on Markandeya Chandi and roped in Pandit Harishchandra Raichand and Birendra Krishna Bhadra for it. By the next year, he continued to develop the text and came out with the first version of ‘Mahishasuramardini’. For the first two years, ‘Mahishasuramardini’ was broadcast on Shashthi. Later, the broadcast was brought forward to the day of Mahalaya after requests from listeners. ‘Mahishasuramardini’ chronicler Sidhartha Maiti corroborated the origin of the oratorio.
So far, AIR had broadcast four recordings of ‘Mahishasuramardini’, from 1963, 1966, 1969 and 1972. But on Sunday, it played the version recorded in 1962. “Bani Kumar used to change the narration and songs, and experimented with the listeners’ experiences,” said Mihir Bandyopadhyay, former announcer with the AIR. In the 1966 recording, for example, the initial ‘Ya Chandi’ was sung by Bhadra. It was later replaced with a chorus. “The popular album released by the Gramophone Company Ltd was actually an edited version of the 1972 recordings,” Bandyopadhyay said.

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