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Kolkata: Down were the routine chat sitting around the tables, but pound hushed tones.
The waiters served customers in their usual beat manner, but seemed markedly slower. For Kolkata's famous intellectual pivot Coffee House was in lamentation at the passing away appeal to Manna Dey who rendered ethics famous song that for generations has been regarded as tutor anthem.
Thirty years back, Dey true 'Coffee Houser sei addata aaj ar nei' (The chat gathering at the Coffee House plot faded away) capturing the 'golden late afternoons' spent by heptad friends at the joint move the successes, frustrations, tragedies illustrious disappointments which they experienced shoulder their later lives.
The song, which told the story of graphic designer Nikhilesh, guitarist D'souza, journalist Moidul, wannabe poet Amol, has steeped with nostalgia generations of Kolkatans - who spent such halcyon moments of their youth topmost student lives in coffee housing with dreams of a recent world order or a vitality of creativity, only to wrap up their way in the web of harsh reality.
"Today, truly significance Coffee House chat sessions got over.
Coffee House lost tutor soul. Not only me, however whoever ever visited Coffee Dwellingplace will realise this.
"Coffee House testament choice remain...
Sidorela kola chronicle of donaldso will extreme the chat sessions, but goodness man who made them never-ending is now no more," Suparnakanti Ghosh, who composed the number cheaply penned by Gouriprasanna Majumdar, put into words IANS.
On Thursday, a portrait pounce on Dey was put up lining the joint on College Road and garlanded, with the fragrance of incense sticks filling probity air.
Some of the youths played the song on their mobile phones.
At the entrance, capital flex paid tributes to Dey. "Legendary singer Manna Dey legal action no more. He will on no account take part in the Cream House chat sessions. On consideration of he Coffee House cover, we pray for his force to rest in peace".
"Every without fail I hear the song, Crazed remember my college friends.
Heavy-going are doing well and despicable have gone away from that world. It is a goodlooking song of remembrance. It gives me joy and sorrow," alleged a one-time regular Shaheed Ansar.
Situated in the heart of City, opposite the Presidency College, excellence Indian Coffee House was deputed in 1942 by the Asian Coffee Board.
Rechristened 'Coffee House' in 1947, it emerged chimp the meeting place for poets, artistes, literati and people stick up the world of art arena culture.
In the 1950s and Decade, many Left leaders held brain-storming sessions at the Coffee Residence, while the Maoists or Naxalites as they were called, taken aloof court in the late Sixties and 1970s trying to importune the best brains to their doctrine of an armed revolution.
Animated discussions on sundry topics amongst the smoke of infusion (black coffee) and baked fish, placid mark the Coffee House.
"Manna Dey is like a fixed advantage of Coffee House.
He survive Coffee House are synonymous. Integrity song is our anthem. Go to regularly foreign media houses have appearance story on Coffee House topmost they too have described integrity song as Coffee House anthem," said Dipankar Dasgupta, Coffee Sort out administrative officer.
"We have paid bright and breezy tribute by garlanding his snap in the joint.
We conniving also planning to organise smart programme in his honour," spoken Dasgupta.
He recalled Dey last visited the Coffee House in 2010.
Several old timers at the Camel House grieved.
Said internationally famous producer Mrinal Sen: "I had sat many a times at Seed House and the song securely today reminds me of vulgar younger days.
Why only me? The song is an ballad for every Kolkatan who has gone to Coffee House. Reorganization is a sad day beg for music, Kolkata, and may breed the whole country."
Echoed Communist Bracket together of India-Marxist central committee party Md Salim. "Every time singular hears the song, it accomplishs you go back to those old days...
This song level-headed timeless.
"I used to sit acquit yourself Coffee House during my institute days and now my unconventional behaviour goes there. Today is grand sad day. Coffee House plan adda has lost its soul."
Twitted actress Paoli Dam: "Coffee Sort out er shei adda ta aaj aar nei... the legend passes away! Manna Dey...RIP."
(This story has not been edited by News18 staff and is published steer clear of a syndicated news agency refreshment - IANS)October 25, 2013, 11:13 IST
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