Explores how foreign intrusion disturbs the tradition of a musical family.
It focuses on the tradition of a musical family and how foreign intrusion creates disturbance in it. "A musician not only goes through music but his or her surroundings and environment molds him or her growth as well with the growth, his or her music begins to take a shape and changes too"—imdb.com
Bishu (alias: Bismillah) hails from a Shehnai playing family living below the poverty line in a rural village of Bengal, where, due to the insurgence of Digital Music all over India, Shehnai as an instrument became decadent and a dying art form thereby losing the connect to the root, which is Indian traditional music and art form.On the contrary, Bishu (alias: Bismillah) a bohemian by nature, loves to play the flute. He roams around the village and the outskirts considering himself to be Lord Krishna eternally in search of Radha and Meera. By tradition and culture, flute is not allowed to be played by any Muslim family in the village. But if Bishu doesn't take up Shehnai as his instrument of expression, then he will eventually loose out on being the torch bearer of the Shehnai playing tradition of the family who mainly plays for various cultural and ritualistic ceremonies to make a living. Under the constant persuasion of his father, Bade Ustad, Bismillah takes up Shehnai, under his tutelage. But his heart remains with playing the flute, roaming around over the mountains, down the valleys, near the rivers and the brooks of the village.Bismillah's main intervention seems to be DJ Shibu, who is the reigning entertainment music provider of the village then. Hence his battle becomes two folded, one where he had to leave flute and take up Shehnai as his main instrument and secondly, cutting through the uptight market of DJ Shibu and making a mark for himself in the society, thereby regaining the lost monastery of the Indian Traditional Music and heritage.In this quest for survival, Bismillah comes across destiny, love lost and found and lost again. The film Bismillah is a journey of a musician through the lanes of destiny for re-establishing the novelty of traditional music and instrument against the upsurge of digitization of music, paved by various emotional relationship and eternal quest for love.
Music Details
BISMILLAH TITLEComposer- Indraadip Das GuptaLyricist- SrijatoSinger- Arijit Singh
KYANO JE TOMAKE DEKHI (MALE)Composer- Indraadip Das GuptaLyricist- SrijatoSinger- Arijit Singh
KYANO JE TOMAKE DEKHI (FEMALE)Composer- Indraadip Das GuptaLyricist- SrijatoSinger- Shreya Ghoshal
AJEE HOTEComposer: TraditionalLyricist: Padaboli KirtanSinger: Aditi Munshi
ALLAH'R BONDEComposer- Indraadip Das GuptaLyricist- SrijatoSinger- Soumyadeep Murshidabadi
ALLAH'R BONDEComposer- Indraadip Das GuptaLyricist- SrijatoSinger- Rupankar (Reprise)
TANDAVComposer- Indraadip Das GuptaLyricist- SrijatoSinger- Shovon Ganguly
KYANO RANG DILEComposer- Indraadip Das GuptaLyricist- SrijatoSinger- Kaushiki Chakraborty
AJKE RAATEComposer- Indraadip Das GuptaLyricist- SrijatoSinger- Deborshee Mukherjee
TOMAKE DEKHINIComposer- Indraadip Das GuptaLyricist- Ritam SenSinger- Amrita Singh
HNEDE HEY NILAAJ BONDHUComposer- TraditionalLyricist- JoydebSinger- Debayan Banerjee
NAKHAPADA BIRAJITOComposer- TraditionalLyricist- JoydebSinger- Debayan Banerjee
