bina or manobina married bimal roy amaladi exults tagores dream was realised in his lifetime and for some reason women were central in this journey pointed out shibaji bandopadhyay of centre for studies in social sciences at bihaan musics launch of the incomparable bijoy chaudhuri while her husband climbed up the corporate ladder she too worked in london mothered her son amit returned to mumbai and to singing bhajans on air where she learnt to pay attention to enunciation she shared the first to have a lead actor doing indian classical dance it boasted guru dutt as ad and launched padmini then 17 but as the celebrated writer recognises hers is not a story of neglect but of flowering in 1955 she flew to london to marry the man shed loved since childhood but bina and i shied of asking him for advice shed reminisced id borrow from asian music circle her own agility and graceful stance provides a glimpse of the legendary partnership that gave shadow ballets on buddha dance dramas to tagores samanya kshati and cinematic experiments like kalpana that was a big education for us while being shot at gemini studios it inspired s s vasans chandralekha which became a runaway hit while kalpana plummeted at the bo kalpana as conceived and directed by her husband uday shankar will be screened in classics section of the film festival on french riviera few know that he thought he was too old to be dancing on screen mamata shankar reportedly said he gave us a kodak magazine full of information about camera lenses rolls and also filled with images bijoyadi had attacked the nyaka style of that became the bane of rabindric rendition her twin manobina had she lived on wouldve attained that venerable age a day later guru would often prod my husband to direct a movie amala shankar amala shankar had long waited for the day when kalpana would again enthrall the world the celluloid master whod started life as a photographer always carried a camera and took lots of portraits thats because i was born 15 minutes before midnight and bina 15 minutes after linadi who died on may 1 had explained we readily agreed because we loved taking photographs a good photograph is not dependent on a good camera but on a set of keen eyes shed said as the president of the photography association of bengal the dream comes true on tuesday when along with daughter mamata and daughterinlaw tanushree she boards the flight to nice though not professional she developed considerable proficiency and like manobina was published in journals like the illustrated weekly of india when the shooting began in 1943 he assisted my husband who insisted on casting unknown faces it establishes how the same words strung by the same notes acquire a new identity at the touch of a distinctive voice life has given my mother a great deal but not the wider recognition