Breathing new life into old Indian music

Soumik Datta was only a young boy when he watched Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne, a fantasy-adventure movie by legendary Indian Bengali filmmaker Satyajit Ray. Photo: Soumik Datta Arts

Soumik Datta was only a young boy when he watched Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne, a fantasy-adventure movie by legendary Indian Bengali filmmaker Satyajit Ray.

“It was a seminal childhood experience,” says the London-based Soumik in an e-mail interview. “I loved the rudimentary special effects used in the teleporting scenes,” he adds.