There was no drizzling rain but a scorching sun, no thunderstorm but hot weather with suffocating humidity. Still, the songs depicting the spirit of rain and thunder, words praying to get rid of the heat of the sun and dancers in eye-soothing attires, brought about the feeling of a splash of downpour as cultural organisations welcomed the first day of the monsoon season through vibrant programmes on early morning on Sunday, marking the first day of Bengali monsoon month Ashar.
Colourful dance, music and recitation were presented to glorify the grace of monsoon by artistes of Satyen Sen Shilpagosthi at a programme divided into two phases at two venues in Dhaka University Campus- Hakim Chattar in the morning and Bakultala of the department of Fine Arts in the afternoon.
Besides, Unichi Shilpygosthi also welcomed monsoon at a programme at Bakultala in the morning.
The audience enjoyed songs of different genres and poems, highlighting monsoon, performed by noted and promising artistes. Spectacular dance recitals synchronised with songs added more colour to the programme.
The morning session of the programme kicked off with vocal presentation of a classical raga miyan ki malhar, depicting the splendor of monsoon, rendered by noted singer Semonty Manjuri.
Noted folk artiste Abu Bakar Siddique presented folk song Ashar Maishha Pani in his powerful voice at the programme which also featured chorus presentation of songs.
Singers of Banhishikha presented Abar Ailo Ashar Mash while Satyen Sen Shilpagosthi rendered a Tagore song Mon Mor Megher O Songi at the programme.
Dancers of Spandan, through their colourful attire and well-coordinated dance moves, received loud applauses from the audience with their group dance recital with song Aji Jharo Jharo Mukhor o Badal o Diney at the programme.
Recitation artiste Kakoli pleased the audience with her recitation of Joy Goswami’s famous poem Meghbalika.
Different cultural organisations and solo artistes presented music, dance and poems at the programme by Udichi in the morning.
Udichi Shilpygosthi have and Satyen Sen Shilpagosthi have been welcoming the first day of monsoon since 2007 and 2008 respectively.
-With New Age input
