Published on 11:00 PM, December 05, 2009

TV Watch

Musical programme on Hason Raja on Banglavision


Mustafa Zaman Abbasi (R) and Mridul Kanti Chakrabarty(L) on tonight’s show.

To commemorate the death anniversary of bard Hason Raja, a musical programme titled "Ki Ghar Banabo Aami" will be aired on Banglavision tonight. Produced by Kawnain Shourav, the programme will go on air at 6:05pm.
Renowned folk singer Mustafa Zaman Abbasi and music researcher Dr. Mridul Kanti Chakrabarty will appear as guests and render songs of the bard as well as discuss his life and works.
Hason Raja was born in 1854 in a zamindar family in Sunamganj. Some years after his death, Hason Raja's contribution was acknowledged in a lecture at Oxford University by Rabindranath Tagore. Hason Raja died on December 8, 1922.