Kolkata, Dec 4 (PTI) Human misery at the time ofdisplacement and conflict is the subject of a new music videoby national award-winning playback singer Iman Chakraborty.
Titled 'Ghure Darao - Ekhane Iman', the video showsthe travails of refugees with no country to call their own.
"I was disturbed on seeing the picture of a deadmigrant child floating in the sea off the Libya coast. I criedon seeing the photo ... how helpless ordinary people can bewhen they have to leave their own land, how children can bethe worst sufferers.
"This prompted me to make a video with the theme ofhuman misery at the time of serious crisis, like partitionand conflict," Iman told PTI here.
The singer said the pain and sufferings of migrantsare universal all over the world, be it at the time ofpartition in 1947 or the more recent Rohingya crisis.
"Common man becomes the worst sufferer in every suchsituaton. And I sought to capture that feeling," she said.
In these troubled times, when key human values havebeen pushed to the edges, I hope this song toucheshearts, she said.
The video, with haunting images of barbed wire,people packed in boats and flames around, was released onSVF's YouTube channel last week. The lyrics of the song talksabout shattered dreams and deaths - "katomanush morle bodlejaoa jay/ katota swapno purle uriye dewa jay (how many deathscan bring the change?/how many dreams can be burnt to ashes.
"One of the lines 'uttar khuje nebo tai' (thus we willfind an answer) seeks to find an answer to all our problems.
Are we not looking for an answer to the multiple crisissituations we are faced with every day?", Iman - who has hitalbums like 'Setu' (Rabindrasangeet), Hridashoney (folk songs)to her credit — said. PTI SUS MMRMS.
This is unedited, unformatted feed from the Press Trust of India wire.
