Tribute to KK Kolkata/IBNS: In less than 48 hours before their film's release, lead actors of Srijit Mukherji's X=Prem went deeply immersed into the thoughts of late singer KK in a musical evening held at Chapter 2 in south Kolkata Wednesday.
In remembrance of KK, Mukherji along with his X=Prem musical team played one after the other songs of KK, who passed away suffering a cardiac arrest after a concert in Kolkata Tuesday.
Remembering KK, actor Arjun Chakraborty, who was sitting in one corner with a heavy heart, says, "We have grown listening to his songs. Pal has probably been the most famous song which everyone is talking about.
"The debate over how his death could have been avoided will go on but the fact is we have lost the man. His music will live forever but the void can never be filled."
Chakraborty's onscreen wife in X=Prem, Madhurima Basak reveals she had kept her social media off for a long time as she was unable to go through the posts regarding KK's death.
Speaking to India Blooms, Basak says, "Initially I had thought it was fake news when I saw a few posts on KK on social media. I couldn't believe it for a long time. I couldn't listen to his songs after his death."
The musical evening was joined by the filmmaker Mukerji himself, who went on to participate in the playing of several of KK's hit songs ranging from Yaaron Dosti to Pal.
"KK's death is a loss to the music world. We are all shocked and at loss," says Shruti Das, who plays one of the main leads making her debut in X=Prem.
Another debutant Anindya Sengupta, who kept humming the songs sitting at a corner beside Das, says, "Life is strange and it will move on and in the course, KK was, is and will always be a part of it."
X=Prem has been trending on social media for quite some time due to its music which has been given by Saptak Sanai Das, a KK fan like countless 1990s born.
Sanai, who had initially requested Mukherji to spare him from the musical tribute as he was unable to process KK's demise, shares, "I was just numb. KK's songs were almost haunting me after his death. I had stopped listening to songs completely."
X=Prem, which is produced by SVF, is releasing this Friday.
(Images by Avishek Mitra/IBNS)
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