Kolkata: Bhagwan Mali violin player, an extraordinary hotel musician who has been the sensation of the internet to bring his Bollywood number on Beadon Street and Girish Park Crossing, a gifted new violin by the Commissioner of the Police Soumen partner on Monday.
Mali previously received financial assistance from the community police wing.
Previously on June 21, Director of Raj Chakraborty had met him in Goabagan after seeing Viral videos he played ‘Diwana Hua Baadal’ by Asha Bhosle and Mohammed Rafi from the film 1964 ‘Kashmir Ki Kali’ and Lata Mangeshkar ‘ajeeb Dastan Hai Yeh’ from the 1960 film ‘Dil Apna Aur Preet Parai’ on social media.
Bhagwan Mali, accompanied by his wife Sabita, played violin in Kolkata Northern.
“When I met him, he played two songs from my film.
Because he happened to be in the constituency of the Shyampur Assembly, I was related to MLA Sashi Panja.
He arranged for him to stay.
He lived there for a day before the police Kolkata offered help,” Chakraborty said.
He planned to give Mali the chance to appear in the show of the coming music reality and if everything went well, even giving him a break in one of his upcoming films.
Mali, who has so far rejected financial assistance stating that he will only receive money after appearing, the roof has also been provided to live in Burtolla police.
“We have arranged several shows for him in some of the leading restaurant hotels and chains in the city.
He has started to appear for the past week,” said Tanmoy Roy Chowdhury, additional CP-IV, Kolkata police.
Mali, who came from Gujarat but had moved to Malda after a devastating earthquake, was used to make a living by appearing in hotels and restaurants in Darjeeling and Siliguri.
But with the hotel closed during last year’s lock, he lost his income.
Around the same time, his daughter, married and settled in Kolkata, was in the advanced pregnancy stage.
Since his daughter gave birth to babies, Mali and his wife had lived on the road as a room where their daughter and daughter-in-law lived did not have enough space for them.
“Mali told us that he began to appear on the streets to organize food for himself and his wife.
Whatever additional that he was saved was spent on buying baby food and fruit for babies and mothers.
However, the disaster struck again and Mali violin damaged several weeks.
Then, “said a police officer.
That’s when burtolla police – and then Wing Policing Community – decided to step in.
Burtolla police collected money and arranged the food at first.
“A NGO has now been contacted that governs food for him with the help of money we lift.
Some NGOs and individuals have advanced and visit it.
We hope this will be the beginning and others will enter.
We will not let the talent of Kolkata live on the streets with financial problems with financial problems .
This is a city that holds players like Mali close to his heart, “said an official in Lalbazar.