kolkata soham chatterjee the 24yearold youngster who recently sang kishore kumarsushma shresthas tera mujhse hai pehle ka naata koi as he bid his final farewell to his mother over phone recorded a video of himself singing the same song and posted it online on monday the video moved many to tears and even made an impact on the likes of indian standup comic writer and poet varun grover and bollywood actor arjun kapoor who lost his mother nine years ago soham is now toying with the idea of starting an online platform for the bereaved one of the suggested names for a page is loss stories the posts will be run past a moderator before being shared he saidthe only son of software engineer dhurjati chatterjee and psychologist sanghamitra chatterjee soham relocated to kolkata last june after spending five months in bengaluru maa had a lot of comorbidities on may 5 we hospitalized her after her oxygen saturation dropped drastically he said her condition deteriorated and she lost the battle to the virus in a weeks time around 12 hours before sanghamitra passed away critical care doctor dipshikha ghosh of apollo gleneagles made the video call to soham who had then sung to his mother reliving that moment soham said i felt like the ground beneath was shifting it was like id never get a chance to sing a song that defined our relationship i hoped against hope that if she could hear me even once she might come back pulling off a miracle sohams voice got a little hoarse as he remembered how he sang that day i was crying before that it was fine till i went to the stanza dekho abhi thats when i broke down baba was standing right next to me and i said i couldnt do it he too sings well and his gestures implied that i had to complete the song for mom thats when i mustered up the courage to pull through he said soham doesnt know if his mother could hear him sing she was unconscious for three days thankfully she was kept in a supine position and so i could see her face when i sang i would love to believe she had heard me he saidsoham said this song defined his relationship with his mother hailing from a musical familypt tarapada chakraborty is his greatgrandunclehe started receiving training in classical music from his mother and grandmother since he was four maa was my music guru and this was our goto song more specifically it was like our abhimaan song she sang to melt my heart at parties when people asked maachhele ekta gaan gaao she would hum la la and id start with the first verse she had other songs for lulling me to sleep soham has mixed emotions when people applaud him for his resilience when i sang the song i was not looking to send out any message or set an example i was pushed against the