Oi...since you kept on bugging me about Bengali music last time, I thought I'd share with you the most popular youtube video ever.
YouTube - Where the Hell is Matt? (2008)[/URL]
33 million hits.
42 countries.
14 months of filming.
Main actor: Matt Harding.
Singer: American-Bangladeshi, Palbasha Siddique.
Interview with Palbasha: YouTube - Palbasha Siddique- Interview with Fox TV Channel, USA[/URL]
Song: Praan.
Transliteration in Bengali:
Praan
Bhulbona ar shohojete
Shei praan e mon uthbe mete
Mrittu majhe dhaka ache
je ontohin praan
Bojre tomar baje bashi
She ki shohoj gaan
Shei shurete jagbo ami
Shei jhor jeno shoi anonde
Chittobinar taare
Shotto-shundu dosh digonto
Nachao je jhonkare!
Praan
Bhulbona ar shohojete
Shei praan e mon uthbe mete
Mrittu majhe dhaka ache
je ontohin praan
Bojre tomar baje bashi
She ki shohoj gaan
Shei shurete jagbo ami
Shei jhor jeno shoi anonde
Chittobinar taare
Shotto-shundu dosh digonto
Nachao je jhonkare!
English Translation
The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures.
It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers.
It is the same life that is rocked in the ocean-cradle of birth and of death, in ebb and in flow.
I feel my limbs are made glorious by the touch of this world of life. And my pride is from the life-throb of ages dancing in my blood this moment.
Author, Bengali writer and Nobel prize winner, Rabindranath Tagore.

Tagore with Einstein.
YouTube - Where the Hell is Matt? (2008)[/URL]
33 million hits.
42 countries.
14 months of filming.
Main actor: Matt Harding.
Singer: American-Bangladeshi, Palbasha Siddique.
Interview with Palbasha: YouTube - Palbasha Siddique- Interview with Fox TV Channel, USA[/URL]
Song: Praan.
Transliteration in Bengali:
Praan
Bhulbona ar shohojete
Shei praan e mon uthbe mete
Mrittu majhe dhaka ache
je ontohin praan
Bojre tomar baje bashi
She ki shohoj gaan
Shei shurete jagbo ami
Shei jhor jeno shoi anonde
Chittobinar taare
Shotto-shundu dosh digonto
Nachao je jhonkare!
Praan
Bhulbona ar shohojete
Shei praan e mon uthbe mete
Mrittu majhe dhaka ache
je ontohin praan
Bojre tomar baje bashi
She ki shohoj gaan
Shei shurete jagbo ami
Shei jhor jeno shoi anonde
Chittobinar taare
Shotto-shundu dosh digonto
Nachao je jhonkare!
English Translation
The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures.
It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers.
It is the same life that is rocked in the ocean-cradle of birth and of death, in ebb and in flow.
I feel my limbs are made glorious by the touch of this world of life. And my pride is from the life-throb of ages dancing in my blood this moment.
Author, Bengali writer and Nobel prize winner, Rabindranath Tagore.

Tagore with Einstein.


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