Durga Durgatiharini Explained

Native Name:দেবীং দুর্গতিহারিণীম্
Genre:Mythology
Developer:Dr. Dhyanesh Narayan Chakroborty
Director:Hemant Kumar, Sailen Mukhopadhyay
Voices:Hemant Kumar, Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle, Manna Dey, Sandhya Mukherjee, Aarti Mukherjee,Manabendra Mukherjee, Dwijen Mukherjee, Utpala Sen, Pratima Bandopadhyay, Nirmala Mishra, Ashima Mukherjee,Anup Ghoshal, Tarun Banerjee, Sailen Mukherjee, Shipra Basu, Banashree Sengupta, Haimanti Sukla, Pintu Bhattachariya, Aparna Sengupta, Samaresh Roy, Arun Krishna Ghosh, Prabhas Prasun, Shakti Thakur[1]
Narrated:Uttam Kumar, Sharmistha Sur, Chhanda Sen, Partha Ghosh
Composer:Pandit V. Balsara, Shyamal Gupta
Country:India
Language:Bengali
Sanskrit
Editor:Ashima Mukherjee
Location:Kolkata
Runtime:60 minutes
Channel:All India Radio

History

The program (Deving Durgatiharinim) was first aired by All India Radio on 23 September 1976 on the holy day of Mahalaya. It replaced the long running program Mahishasura Mardini narrated by Birendra Krishna Bhadra. It was dubbed as a "revamp", replacing Bhadra as the narrator by legendary Bengali film star Uttam Kumar, and Pankaj Mullick was replaced by Hemant Kumar as the music director for the program.

The new program (Deving Durgatiharinim), however, was a huge flop, and was criticized a lot by the listeners. Such was the backlash that AIR decided to issue a public apology and continue broadcasting the one narrated by Bhadra on Mahalaya. The new program was there after scheduled to be aired every year on the day of Durga Mahasashthi (six days after Mahalaya).

Notes and References

  1. http://biswajitrc.blogspot.in/2014/09/durga-durgati-harini-uttam-kumar.html?m=1 Durge Durgati Harini: Uttam Kumar