RIP Lata Mangeshkar
Kolkata artist Ranjit Das pays tribute to late Lata Mangeshkar through street graffiti
Kolkata/IBNS: Artist Ranjit Das, one of the countless fans of India's nightingale late Lata Mangeshkar, is paying his tribute to the iconic singer through his graffiti series in the streets of Kolkata.
In several videos captured by IBNS, Das is seen painting a portrait of Mangeshkar on one street corner of Sarat Chandra Bose Road in south Kolkata. He chooses the city’s electricity boxes as his canvas.
The visual is accompanied by a caption like ‘Ek baar bidaay de maa', from Bengali patriotic song 'Ekbar biday de Ma ghure ashi', which was sung by Mangeshkar and written by Pitambar Das as a tribute to revolutionary Khudiram Bose.
He promises to paint more such graffiti across the city.
"I am always engaged in art, which is my profession. In the last four-five years, I have been making street arts.
"I have worked in Theatre Road, Elgin Road, Shakespeare Sarani. I am presently working in Dalhousie, Sarat Chandra Bose Road, Gariahat," says Das.
Lata Mangeshkar, whom her fans often called as the "Saraswati' (Goddess of Art and Education) of music, died at Breach Candy Hospital in Mumbai last week.
The veteran singer was being treated for COVID-19 and pneumonia symptoms for over a month.
Mangeshkar was cremated with full state honours.
Even Prime Minister Narendra Modi flew from the national capital New Delhi to Mumbai to pay his last tributes along with several politicians and film personalities who reside in the tinseltown.
(Images by Avishek Mitra/IBNS)
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