[Assam] Of the region, for the nation

[Pradip Kumar Datta]

Of the region, for the nation
- Zubeen plans concert to shatter pejorative perceptions about the Northeast     A STAFF REPORTER                 Zubeen Garg at the news conference on Wednesday. Picture by Eastern Projections   Guwahati, Aug. 2: He has tasted national success — his Ya Ali is still topping the charts in musical shows — but Assam boy Zubeen Garg feels it’s time for the nation to realise that “there’s more to the region beyond the sounds of guns.”
  And Zubeen plans  to say so in the way he knows best — through music.
  The singer announced at a news conference today that he will organise a mega concert in Guwahati, featuring Bollywood music directors Anu Malik and Anand Raj Anand, singer Kunal Gunjanwala and Ranjit Perod and director Mahesh Bhatt, to show the world that the Northeast is not only about insurgency and bomb blasts.
  “Artistes from Mumbai and other parts of the country have a wrong perception about the Northeast. Most of them are afraid to come here owing to the problem of insurgency. The show will make an endeavour to show these artistes that there is more in the region beyond the sounds of guns. Artistes from every state of the Northeast will also participate in the concert and highlight the richness of art and culture of the region,” he said.
  The Assam unit of National Students’ Union of India will extend all logistic  help to Zubeen organise the show, which is slated to be held at the Nehru Stadium in November.
  However, the concert is not the first initiative the singer has taken to promote the Northeast. Many of Zubeen’s songs from his Hindi album Pakiza have been shot in the picturesque locales of Arunachal Pradesh and the Kaziranga National Park, to promote the tourism potential of the region.
  Besides changing a perception or two about the Northeast, for Zubeen, the concert would also serve as a mark of gratitude to those who had helped and supported him during his struggle to get a toehold in Bollywood.
  The proceeds from the concert will go towards rebuilding the fire-ravaged B. Borooah College, his alma mater.
  Though Zubeen is leaving on a long tour across the country and abroad from August 19, he has planned his schedule in a manner so  that he is back in Guwahati by the first week of November for the show. Source: Telegraph India.


 				
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