MADHUSUDAN LAMA-SIKKIM

“Kati Kura Nabhanera nai; Mitha Mitha Mitha hunchan. Bhaniyeka Kura Baru; Jhuta Jhuta Jhuta Hunchan.” (Some words are better not expressed, when expressed they are often faulted)
Four years back when Nepali people of Darjeeling, Nepal and Sikkim were waving their heads in the mood of music by the song of Deo Narayan Pradhan, a Kathmandu based renowned singer, Madhusudhan Lama was lonely doing his bit in his Ragini Studio at Panihouse, Gangtok. Pradhan’s song was so popular that more than one lakh albums were sold like hot cake in the market. But very few people knew that the famous song was composed by Madhusudhan. Mr. Lama not only composed the music for that song, he also composed the music for a number of songs which are still doing rounds mouth to mouth.
Mr. Lama is a Nepali Post graduate teacher of Ranipool senior secondary school. He was born and brought up in Kalimpong. But for more than 25 years he has been in Sikkim all by himself. He has opened a music studio, Ragini Studio, which has the facilities comparable to those in Mumbai and Kathmandu. “I have every facility in the studio like Sangam studio of Kathmandu, a renowned studio of Nepal with 24 tracks of recording machine,” Mr. Lama said. He rued that still the people go to Mumbai and Kathmandoo for recording and said “it is just waste of money and time.” Regarding the prospect of his studio, he said “It is not that I do not have good business. We have been given entrepreneurship award by NBCFD, New Delhi, and SABCCO, Gangtok, as best performing enterprise”.
(Courtesy: D B Rai Sikkim Express)