The article by Shachin Bhoumik in Bengali Newspaper Aajkal on 25 March,1990 about R D Burman-Part-1
“Fire aasbe gatir beg,surer aabeg”
The train didn’t depart till then…both Pancham and me were in the compartment…Howrah platform…the Guard whistled..and as the train started journey by whistling, stretching and moving like a python,immediately Pancham addressed an unknown middle-aged lady standing in front of our window on the platform,”Hello,Na’Maasima,is Gourangada well?Has his eye-disease been cured?Is Nasuda still doing Nuxal Party?And,has the habit of Tunku’s sucking thumb been gone or not?What’s the news of Gouridi?What a fantastic Telkoi she used to cook…has the Race habit of Naren jijaaji gone or not?”
In the meantime,the train had passed a long distance making that lady statue there.Pancham was so much delighted …smiling,he told me,”Shachinda,now I’ve spoiled the night-sleep of the lady…on returning home,the lady will think about who was that youngman,what he told and how he made me confused about the appearance of another one…if, bychance,she has people like Gouranga,Nasu,Gouri,Tunku and Naren as her friends and relatives,she can be confused and asked them about the facts…by far,she’ll not be able to forget this evening’s Howrah Station for a long time.”This was Pancham…the master of doing practical jokes.My intimacy with Pancham was for a long time….what I’ll say,younger brother or friend?In fact,both…perhaps we were not friends of child age but there was no dearth of child age between our friendship…we were quite young then and were newcomer to Bombay …one day Pancham,Mehmood,me,Rabindra Kapoor (actor) and Suresh Bhatt(Dance Director) decided to go on drive from Bombay to Khandala by car..the distance was 75 miles..but we decided to go all in nude…as we thought,we started…what an incident…a motor journey of five nudes…we were lucky that was not published in Guiness Book of Records..during checking on the way in a checkpost by a police,Mehmood told,”What’re you looking at?In your birthday,you also were born nude.”The stunned police had no words with him.
The second incidence…on the way,the car stopped in a Pan-shop…a shop-man came to serve the pans…Pancham told,”The money will remain overdue…because we’ve no money… because we’ve no purse…because we’ve no pocket…. because we don’t have pants…because we don’t have any shirts also”,….the Panshop-owner,being a humerous one,replied,”We offer free pans to the nude ones”.At once we vanished from there". (Contd)
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