Gautam Chattopadhyay

Who is Gautam Chattopadhyay?

Gautam Chattopadhyay was an Indian musician, singer who rose to worldwide fame as a founder and inspirational leader of the band Moheener Ghoraguli, which was formed in the 1975, arguably Bengal's first band. He was also a theatre person, filmmaker and ethnographer.

He played many Indian and Western instruments with flair.During his college days he used to play the lead guitar in a band called The Urge, whose members were mostly Anglo Indians, in pubs like Trincas and Moulin Rouge at Park Street of Kolkata during the 1960s.

While a student at the Presidency College in Kolkata, he was sucked into the political movement of the late 60s and early 70s in Bengali campuses also known as the Naxal Movement. He then moved to Jabalpur and stayed there for almost a year and worked as a Medical representative job in Jabalpur and then in Bhopal . However, he continued composing music even during this phase of his life and was just biding his time to get back to the city he so much loved - Kolkata.