Atlanta Indian Idol

10/30/2025

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10/23/2024

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08/13/2024

This past Saturday, August 10, 2024, yours truly was recognized at the Aabaha Art and Theater Festival 2024 with the "Aabaha Samman" award. It was an humbling experience for Munmun Sen and me. I am thankful to Aabaha and Kallol Nandi for the honor and their hospitality. I share this award with everyone who has ever worked with me in the field of performing arts. It felt extra-special to receive the honor form Sangeet Natak Akademi Award recipient (2005) Shri Debasis Majumdar, the Mayor of Sugar Hill, Hon'ble Brandon Hembree, and the Consul (Political, Commerce & Community Affairs), Consulate General of India, Atlanta, Hon'ble Madan Kumar Ghildiyal. I am thankful to Atlanta Theater Workshop, Inc. and all our cast and crew for being able to contribute to making Indian theater possible in this land. I hope and pray that I am able to continue serving the performing arts. 🙏🙏🙏❤❤❤
PC: Jyothsna Hegde, NRI Pulse Newspaper, Satinath Sarkar

08/07/2024

A throwback from the past...
Rik Basu

Almost after a gap of one year,here we come back with our originals again!The main motive behind doing YouTube videos was to gift all of you with New origina...

06/21/2024

It’s been a very long wait… We grew up doing music together in a family quite foreign to the idea of music being noble. My father, had a very different mindset. He loved music and the arts and encouraged all of us to do music as an extracurricular activity. Though my mother, who came from a family of musician and a musician herself, couldn’t continue playing Sitar, she was instrumental in our music education. I moved to the USA in the 1980s, and my brother and I continued our music in our own ways.
Last year, when we were in Kolkata, a thought came to my mind and I wasted no time in calling my brother to ask him if he wanted to record one of my compositions, He agreed without any hesitation and we got started right away!

Rik Basu had already booked “Gaan Bajna Music Garage” for dubbing my composition “Ei Prithibite”. That was in less than two day. I immediately started creating a click track for brother that evening at his house, (I always travel to Kolkata with a make-shift studio) and started teaching him the song. He had only one day to practice it and we headed to the studio on December 5, 2023 afternoon. Rik was done in an hour and my brother took a total of 45 minutes to dub the song.

I spend the entire month of May to write the orchestral arrangement and mixing it in my studio. Rik offered to do the Mastering in his studio.

It’s been a very emotional experience. I wrote “Ora Khelbe Kothay” more than 50 years ago, when I was an engineering student. I am so happy to have it sung so beautifully, by my own brother, Indranil (ArIneel). I feel blessed that I am able to dedicate this song to my grandson, Ashu, and all the children of the world.

I hope you can join the premiere at 10:30 AM IST on June 21. (I know it’s quite inconvenient for my US-based friends.) So no worries if you cannot. Please listen to the song at your convenience. Let me know if you like it and share if you do. Also, take a moment to subscribe to my YouTube Channel (Raktim Sen Music Lab) and follow me on Spotify.
YouTube Link.

A song dedicated to dear Ashu and all the children of the world!(To turn on English subtitles, please click the CC button near the top right corner of the vi...

06/20/2024

Something is cooking and is ready to be served!
Please stay tuned... Friday, June 21, 2024!

02/01/2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gPAGHp4svM
60K+ view on YouTube... Thanks, for listening and sharing! Thanks for your support! Please continue listening and sharing!
Rik Basu, Jharna Bhattacharjee

This is the First Bengali Originals of this year from Rik Basu Official."Ei Prithibite " is a song about Humanity, and how there is no need for vengeance and...

01/11/2024

Basu
"Ei Prithibite" is going strong! Over 2.5K views on YouTube alone in just a four days! Thanks, everyone, for listening, liking, sharing and commenting! We have received a ton of messages with words of appreciation! It means a lot to us! Please continue supporting original songs. THANK YOU! Rik Basu Rik Basu Jharna Bhattacharjee

This is the First Bengali Originals of this year from Rik Basu Official."Ei Prithibite " is a song about Humanity, and how there is no need for vengeance and...

01/01/2024

The wait is over! A brand new song is here.
Song: EI PRITHIBITE
Vocal: Rik Basu
Music Direction: Dr. Raktim Sen (USA)
Lyrics: Dr. Raktim Sen & Jharna Bhattacharjee
Music Production, Arrangement, Mixing & Mastering: Rik Basu
We wanted you to listen to this song the old-fashioned way! No video, no distraction, only music!
Thanks for supporting us... Thanks for supporting ORIGINAL SONGS!
PLEASE... share with your friends and family!
Look forward to hearing from you!
YouTube Music: https://youtu.be/qxDFE-gLKLA?si=eAj6F0jk3w1_FWDA
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/2UsLTWrbJg77tW20fJh1Yi?si=36146a0b7c2b4574
JioSaavn: https://www.jiosaavn.com/song/ei-prithibite/CR8SZj9ZUmQ
Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/albums/B0CR7MRC32
Wynk: https://wynk.in/music/song/ei-prithibite/pp_8909040578895_INV792306781
Forthcoming in other platforms soon!

12/28/2023

New songs coming very soon!
Sung by the Rik Basu
Composed by: Raktim Sen
Lyrics: Raktim Sen & Jharna Bhattacharjee
Recorded at

12/27/2023

A new song in the making... It's not a love song... but a song, I think you will love!
Rik Basu, Jharna Bhattacharjee

12/24/2023