Shreya Ghoshal Enthralls Silchar

SILCHAR, Feb 12: Melody queen Shreya Ghosal enthralled the people of Silchar on Friday night with her electrifying performance. The colourful cultural night held at Satindra Mohan Dev Stadium was organized by Silchar District Sports Association. Shreya, who earned fame with debut movie Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam, sang 26 songs. However, a section of audience was a bit frustrated as Shreya sang only two Bengali songs including one Rabindra Sangeet. Later talking to The Sentinel Shreya confessed that she was not informed that Silchar was Bengali dominated city. She was shocked to learn that fifty years back 11 people sacrificed their lives for their mother tongue Bengali. “I should have sung more Bengali songs”, Shreya admitted.
Shreya Ghosal was first noticed when she won the Sa Re Ga Ma Pa musical competition of Zee channel. That time there was no voting through SMS as eminent musical personalities used to judge the talent. While quizzed, Shreya confessed that voting through SMS to judge a talent was actually meant for channel’s TRP and popularity. “Channels today want to project the popular singer, not the talented one”, Shreya argued.
Shreya further maintained that today’s film music lack melody as producers demand fast numbers. “For melodious numbers we have to depend on non filmy albums”, she said. Shreya added that in spite of this trend, composers like Santanu Moitra and Pritam were doing excellent jobs.

source: http://www.sentinelassam.com/cachar/story.php?sec=2&subsec=12&id=64125&dtP=2011-03-08&ppr=1