15 Facts About Sagar Sen

Sagar Sen's songs were first broadcast on All India Radio Akashvani, Kolkata in 1958.

Sagar Sen participated in the recordings of Tagore's operas namely, Shap Mochan and Valmiki Pratibha.

Sagar Sen was the consummate minstrel who satisfied the puritans and yet popularised Tagorean music and brought it to the masses.

Sagar Sen has left behind a rich, musical legacy of contemporary Rabindrasangeet renditions through his hundred plus soundtracks recorded with the Megaphone, Columbia and His Master's Voice in several chartbusting albums traversing two and a half decades.

Sagar Sen was a dynamic stage organiser and musical visionary far ahead of his times.

Sagar Sen was a larger-than-life humanitarian persona providing succour to many of his students and admirers; he was their mentor, their altruistic peer figure, their Sagarda.

Sagar Sen performed as a playback artist notably in Bengali movies Je Jekhane Dariye, Mantramugdha and Abirbhab amongst others.

Sagar Sen's uniqueness lay in the fact that he gave extreme importance to the minutest details of the notations and yet his renditions exhibited the best of freestyle singing.

Sagar Sen performed as a playback artiste notably in the Bengali movies Je Jekhane Dnariye, and Parichay and Mantramugdha, amongst others.

Sagar Sen received a BFJA Award in 1979 for the song 'Aj Jyotsnaratey Sobai Gechhe Boney' in the movie Parichay.

Sagar Sen sang modern Bengali songs like 'Ei Jibon Emni Kore Ar To Soy Na' and 'Ki Holo Chand Keno Meghe Dheke Gelo' in 1980 and a duet with Sabita Chowdhury 'Trishito Nayane Eso' all composed by the maestro composer, Salil Chowdhury.

Sagar Sen's second son Priyam was born in 1966 and his youngest son Promit was born in 1967.

Sagar Sen died on 4 January 1983, at the age of 50.

Sagar Sen was survived by his wife and three sons, Pritam Sen, Priyam Sen and Promit Sen.

Promit Sagar Sen is a Rabindrasangeet artiste in his own right and continues to perform in the present era.