Gautam Chattopadhyay

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Gautam Chattopadhyay (Bengali: গৌতম চট্টোপাধ্যায়) was an Indian Bengali singer, songwriter, guitarist, and composer. In 1975, as a leader he founded the progressive rock band Moheener Ghoraguli with Tapas Das, Abraham Mazumdar, Pradip Chatterjee, Ranjon Ghoshal, Biswanath Bishu Chattopadhyay, Tapesh Bandopadhyay. He was also a theatre personality, filmmaker, and ethnographer. He played many Indian and Western instruments. During his college years he played lead guitar in a band called The Urge, whose members were mostly Anglo Indians, in pubs including Trincas and Moulin Rouge at Park Street of Kolkata during the 1960s. While a student at the Presidency College in Kolkata, he participated in the political movement of the late 60s and early 70s in Bengali campuses known as the Naxal Movement. He then moved to Jabalpur, working for about a year as a Medical representative in Jabalpur and then in Bhopal. He continued composing music during this phase of his life. Chattopadhyay returned...

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