Probal Chowdhury ( bn, প্রবাল চৌধুরী; 1947–2009) was a Bangladeshi freedom fighter, playback singer and composer. He rendered several songs from

Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra ( bn, স্বাধীন বাংলা বেতার কেন্দ্র, lit=Free Bengal Radio Centre) was the radio broadcasting centre of Bengali nationalist forces during the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1 ...

during the

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. After the war, he pursued his solo career in playback.

Early life

Probal Chowdhury was born in 1947 in

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(now Bangladesh). He was the sixth of Manmohan and Lilabati Chowdhury's ten children.

Career

He made his radio debut in 1966. In 1971, during the

, the family evacuated to Calcutta, India. There he, his elder sister

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, and younger sister

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joined

, the radio station of the Bangladesh government in exile, as singers. In 2017, the government of Bangladesh recognized them as freedom fighters in acknowledgment of their contribution to the war effort. After the war he continued to sing on albums, radio,

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, and in films. Among the songs he is remembered for are "Lokey jodi mondo koy sheto nohey porajoy", "Ami dhonyo hoyechhi ogo dhonyo tomari premer jonyo" in the film ''Sona Bou'', and "Phuler bashor bhanglo jokhon" in the 1984 film ''

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''. Chowdhury retired in 2004 from

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in Chittagong, where he was an assistant manager. He died in Chittagong on 17 October 2009.

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