Indira Gandhi Culture Centre (IGCC) is organising a musical evening titled ‘Shurer Badhone–Epar Opar’ by Iman Chakraborty from India and Shwapnil Shojib of Bangladesh tomorrow at the capital’s Gulshan Club. Iman Chakraborty is a highly-acclaimed Rabindra Sangeet and folk singer from Kolkata. Her style of singing, stage performance and quality of voice has been widely appreciated. She completed her Master’s Degree in Rabindra Sangeet from Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata. She secured the First Position in the National Scholarship in Rabindra Sangeet in India and won the Best Female Singer Award from the All India Radio in 2007. Besides this, she has won many other prestigious awards in West Bengal. She is a graded artist of All India radio and a regular performer in different TV channels of India. She performs regularly for various FM Radio Stations in India and has also sung playbacks for several TV serials.  She has performed at prestigious events in Kolkata and other parts of India, UK, USA, Bangladesh and Singapore. She has released several albums from HMV and Saregama.
On the other hand, Shwapnil Shojib is one of the prominent Rabindra Sangeet singers in the country. He completed a four-year diploma in music from Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Faridpur and further trained at Chhayanaut and also taught under Rezwana Chowdhury Bannya. He also learnt Hindustani Classical Vocal Music and Loghu Sangeet from celebrated artist Ustad Ali Imam Chowdhury. He has released three solo musical CDs from Bangladesh and another from Kolkata and has also rendered voice for—‘Shruti Geetobitan’ released in 2011. He has won several awards, including National awards like ‘Jatiyo Shishu Puroshkar’ in Rabindra Sangeet in 1998, ‘Prothom Maan’ award in 2007, 2009 and 2011 by Jatiyo Rabindra Sangeet Sammilan Parishad, Gold Medals at ‘Jatiyo Shikkha Shoptaho’ in Rabindra Sangeet in 2000 and 2001.
He regularly performs in different TV channels of Bangladesh and India. He has participated in prestigious stage concerts in Bangladesh, India, USA, UK and Australia. He is associated with different cultural organizations in the country such as Bangladesh Rabindra Sangeet Shilpi Shangstha, Surer Dhara and Shadhona Shangskritik Mondal.

Where: Gulshan Club, Bir Uttom Sultan Mahmud Road (Old 50), Gulshan 2
When: 6pm, tomorrow