with roja bombay dil se he changed the face of film music shankarehsaanloy and vishalshekhar have also gifted us great music then theres pritamda who i like personally barfi songs are my favourite i like amit trivedi too dev ds soundtrack is out of this world here too some good work is happening the singers are very talented but i would love to see the music scene change for the better kolkatans do not have the habit of going for regular concerts people love live gigs but the production quality has to improve the music shows on tv are always huge hits when i recently sang ei meghla diney ekla on tv i got great response but theres nothing in this world like a live concert one mic and guitar are all you needany composer you like in tollywood not anyone in particular i love to listen to chandrabindoo i always make it a point to buy their cds i love the young bands they are very goodyou knew most of kolkatas music makers before you settled down in this city i knew sidhuda pota rupankarda sumanda debuda debajyoti mishra all of them were very encouraging i have spent hours at sidhudas place on a vacation in kolkata i badly needed feedback at that point in time sidhuda helped me out with contacts of music labels but things did not work out everyone wanted me to pay to bring out an album thats the culture here you pay 40000 to cut an album people believe in proven talent then autograph happened srijit and i were friends in bangalore and would spend our weekends together now thankfully i dont need to pay anymoreyou left a secure job to make music in kolkata now when you look back do you feel you did the right thing at the right time it pained me to not being able to do what i wanted as a student i loved both science and arts i had to choose science so that i get a secure job after becoming an engineer i realized i was not meant for it when you are studying you are only gaining knowledge and when you start working its time for you to apply that knowledge so while i was excited about making a new thing i had to worry about the companys profit or loss even if the discovery was worth celebrating it might not have been of any importance to the company i couldnt care less i would spend my time going through the guitar chord charts or writing the review of a recently released album after coming to kolkata i could liberate myself my parents were very supportive of me when nothing works bengali boys always fall back on their father i would also think baba toh achhe now both are very happy my mothers greatest joy in life is that she has lunch with her son every afternoonbut are you happy working here when you are dissatisfied