Coffee Houser Sei Addata

"Coffee Houser Sei Addata"
Manna Dey (right) and Suparna Kanti Ghosh (left), during the recording of the song.
Song by Manna Dey
from the album Hits of Manna Dey, Vol. 2
LanguageBengali
Released1983 (1983)[a]
StudioMumbai (Bombay)
Length6:27
LabelSaregama India Ltd.
ComposerSuparna Kanti Ghosh
LyricistGauriprasanna Mazumdar
Music video
"Coffee Houser Sei Addata" on YouTube

"Coffee Houser Sei Addata"[b][c][d] is a Bengali song[6] by Indian playback singer Manna Dey from the album Hits of Manna Dey, Volume 2 released in 1983 by record label Saregama.[7][8] It was written by Gauriprasanna Mazumdar[9] and was composed by Suparna Kanti Ghosh. The song is considered as one of the most popular and timeless songs of the Bengali language.[10][11][12][13][14][15]

The song opens with the melody of Auld Lang Syne by Robert Burns.[16] It describes seven fictional friends who once gathered at the College Street Coffee House in Kolkata.[17][18] Through the unnamed narrator’s memory, it traces the changed lives, losses, careers, dreams, illnesses, and disappearances of Nikhilesh Sanyal, Moidul, Sujata, Goanese D'Souza, Roma Roy, and Amol. The final stanza shows that although the original group has disappeared, the Coffee House remains a place where new generations continue to share memories and stories.

"Coffee Houser Sei Addata" is regarded as a cult classic Bengali song and a cultural symbol of West Bengal and the wider Bengal region, including Bangladesh, which reflects the "adda" tradition that gained popularity in the 1960s and 1970s.[19] It later came to be regarded as the anthem of the College Street Coffee House, which honored Manna Dey by hanging his portrait on their wall after his death. The song has since inspired films, remakes, media discussions, and cultural retrospectives, becoming a lasting symbol of Bengali nostalgia, heritage, and adda culture.[20] Manna Dey deemed it an all-time favorite among the Bengali community in his book.[21]

Composition

Manna Dey in 2009

Before composing "Coffee Houser Sei Addata" for Manna Dey, Suparna Kanti Ghosh, the son of Nachiketa Ghosh,[22] had written "Shey Amar Choto Bon" in 1978, which Dey sung.[23] Gauriprasanna Mazumdar was a friend of Nachiketa Ghosh.[24][25] Before "Coffee House" was considered, Ghosh went to a short trip in Paris, visiting Montmartre, where coffeehouses served as meeting places for people to sit, converse, and exchange thoughts. As the tour guide showed him the areas, Ghosh acquired the idea of a coffeehouse hangout (adda).[25][26]

In 1983, Ghosh was living in New Alipore, Kolkata, where he was studying for his exams and practicing a song with Shakti Thakur and some of his friends. Mazumdar came to his house and asked for a cup of tea, and then called Ghosh.[27] He stayed till midnight in Ghosh's house writing the lyrics of songs.[28] After chatting for some time, Ghosh entrusted Mazumdar with writing a song based on an adda (hangout) theme,[27] with reference to the College Street Coffee House.[29][30] Mazumdar spoke the first two lines of the song in front of Ghosh.[27][28] After returning home, Mazumdar began writing the song through the nighttime until the next morning.[24] His wife called Ghosh the next morning to inform him that Mazumdar had been awake the whole night.[31] Mazumdar wrote most of the song lyrics within two or three days, except the last stanza.[29] When Mazumdar showed the song to Ghosh, he said that the song lacked a climax and wanted him to write and add a final stanza.[32]

Nine days later, Mazumdar was inside a Mumbai or Chennai-bound train, stalled in Howrah railway station, and thought of the last stanza, writing the last lines on a white paper inside a cigarette packet.[27] Then he gave it to a man at Howrah station and asked him to send it to the house of Ghosh.[24] Mazumdar stated Ghosh's house to be near East Alipore petrol pump, but he could not say the full address.[33] The man delivered it to his house the next day.[29] Ghosh felt the song was complete. After composing, he went to Mumbai four days later and took the paper with him.[29][34][35] Mazumdar at this time wrote many hit songs for singer Asha Bhosle, but he expressed regret about not writing for Manna Dey, which was mostly done during the period by other lyricists.[36]

On the same day, Ghosh started composing the music while he was travelling to Mumbai (Bombay) on a sleeper train for a live recording. He turned on his bedside lamp on the upper train berth, and started humming and memorizing the tune, composing the song for the whole day.[37] The next day after he had composed the music, Ghosh brought the song to Mazumdar in Mumbai. Ghosh talked to his arranger Y. S. Mulkey, who asked him what music arrangement he wanted for his song and agreed to the song. Ghosh suggested the use of the melody of the Irish folk song Auld Lang Syne as the interlude in the song, which Mulkey agreed to. The next day, they went to the recording studio where Manna Dey would sing it. Mulkey handed him a harmonium to practice the song. He was approached by guitarist Tony Vaz asking in English if he could play it on his guitar.[37] Later, Dey asked Ghosh, "How can this be a song? How will you set these words to music?".[34] "Coffee Houser Sei Addata" was recorded by Dey in Mumbai in 1983.[35][38]

The song was released in 1983 under the label of Saregama, and included in the album Hits of Manna Dey, Vol. 2.[39][27]

In 2002 or 2003, Manna Dey released a sequel to the song titled "Swapner Coffee House" under a different record label. Sung in the same scale as the original song, the sequel was written by Shamindra Ray Chowdhury and composed by Suparna Kanti Ghosh. As the original spool of the first song had been lost, Ghosh arranged a new spool for the sequel.[38][40]

Synopsis and background

The first stanza of the song introduces the main characters; the whereabouts and disappearance of the narrator's close friends: Nikhilesh is in Paris, Moidul is in Dhaka,[41] D'Souza has died, Roma Roy is in a lunatic asylum, and Amol is suffering from cancer. The stanza talking about the past is based on personal experiences and individual memories.[42]

The second stanza introduces the other main character Sujata, said to be happy and prosperous in her marriage to a wealthy person. Depicted in her lifestyle as being covered with diamonds and jewels on her whole body.[43] It also talks about Nikhilesh's occupation as an illustrator of advertisements and D'Souza traits of being observant, quiet and introverted, specifying their careers.[42]

The third stanza describes the activities of the friends and their gathering while at the coffee house. Which portrays the smoking of Charminar cigarettes, altercations between the characters Bishnu Dey, a poet, and Jamini Roy, a painter, and the meetings which happen at specific times.[43] It says the routines and habits of the friends and their daily interactions.[42]

The fourth stanza renders the unpublished poems of Amol, the theater roles in office dramas of Roma Roy, and the manner of Moidul to read aloud to them the newspaper reports he had written everyday.[43] It defines the potential, failure and achievements of the characters and their insignificant memories.[44]

The fifth and last stanza delineates about the coffee house itself and suggests the impermanency of the meetings between them.[44] Remarking the original group of friends to have been gone, and the tables, and cups to still be present. The stanza states the coffee house to have remained the same, with people coming and going out of the house.[43] It states the original group to have been replaced by future generations, with the house still being a place of sharing memories and exchanging stories.[42]

Significance and background

As a background, the Indian Coffee House gained prominence initially from the visits of a large number of customers who migrated from Bangladesh or other neighboring countries in the wake of the Partition of 1947.[45] The bhadralok class of North India read about coffee houses from newspapers and became aware of the presence of such facilities and coffee in the West, from when they perceived coffee and coffee houses as an exotic commodity, available in India in only in exclusive hotels and restaurants. Affordability was the main interest of Indian coffee houses in the 1940s and 1950s.[45] From its opening, the ICH became relatively famous through its cheap prices and visitors who would spend time in the coffee house adda, later becoming special to the middle class.[46]

In Kolkata, mainstream Bengali media and culture played an important role in popularizing the Indian Coffee House by the presentation of adda and by assessment of publicizing the Coffee House as a benchmark of adda culture, in which the song "Coffee Houser Sei Addata" showed a significant function.[47] With Manna Dey performing the song at his best capability, it produced an imagery of the College Street Coffee House located in Kolkata College Street, stimulating the collective memory and nostalgia of the Bengali listeners regardless of age or location. The song impacted with the Bengali audiences, even with those living far away from the house in Kolkata to correlate with the song theme and social practices there.[48]

After Manna Dey died in 2013, "Coffee House" continued to be circulated in the digital media. The last stanza of the song signifies that while the production of adda, the table, social interactions and the sociality still continues as spoken by the narrator, the nostalgia about the past consolidating the old and lost culture of adda is definite in the collective memories.[48] The sequel of the song titled "Swapner Coffee House"[49] was not commercially successful and could not majorly connect with the listeners. It described the situations of the seven companions who visited the coffee house and announced a reunion.[48] Dey spoke that he never visited the any branch of the Indian Coffee House as a student despite he and his family living at his residence in North Kolkata.[50]

Dey visited the coffee house only a couple of times when he was congratulated by the Indian Coffee Workers' Co-operative Society Limited (ICWCSL) for his contributions to the publicity of the place and a few more times for his connection to a television serial that was partly shot in the Coffee House at College Street. He stated that he recorded the song because he liked its lyrics and music.[51] After "Coffee Houser Sei Addata" became a hit, the song and Manna Dey and his visits to the place were talked about by everyone. Poet Subodh Sarkar wrote in an essay that he heard only a few trivial statements from students of Presidency College and Jadavpur University about their career plans after surveying the coffee house, describing that the adda culture was no longer relevant.[52]

Theme and characters

"Coffee Houser Sei Addata" was written by Gauriprasanna Mazumdar as a song capturing the times of seven friends in the College Street Coffee House[53] (also known as "Indian Coffee House"),[54] termed as "golden late afternoons" spent together by them.[55][56] In Bengali, the hangouts are also known as "adda."[57][58] He describes the activities of the seven members and their conditions and impressions at the time of the song's release.[59] The narrator introduces the members in the song, giving a brief description about each of his friends.[60][61] The song specifies the chats or addas made in the coffee house to be lost,[e] the friends to have settled in distant places, the remembrance of their old times and memories.[63][64]

In an interview with Bdnews24.com in 2020, Suparna Kanti Ghosh remarked that all the seven protagonists were fictional, as made up by Mazumdar. He stated that the none of the performers of the song (Ghosh, Mazumdar, Dey) had visited the described coffee house before the song's recording. He said that many people before had falsely claimed to be the characters from the song.[24][27] There are seven major characters described in the song: Nikhilesh Sanyal,[65] Moidul, Sujata, Goanese D'Souza,[65] Roma Roy, Amol and the unnamed narrator.[66][67][68]

  • Nikhilesh Sanyal: He was from the Arts College and created paintings for advertisements, said to be living in Paris, but the narrator had no news of him.[69][24][27]
  • Moidul: Moidul was described as a reporter in Dhaka who used to read aloud his own newspaper reports to everyone at the gathering.[64] The narrator has no news about him.[69]
  • Sujata: She is said to be the only one among the seven characters to have a happy and successful life, having married to a lakhpati (a person with ₹100,000) and connected to a wealthy family through marriage.[69]
  • Goanese D'Souza: A guitarist and good listener, said to have played at the Grand Hotel, who was dead and buried at the time of the narration.[69][24][27][64]
  • Roma Roy: She used to act in amateur plays at office social events. After experiencing emotional trauma from a love affair, she was said to have ended up in a mental asylum.[69]
  • Amol: A poet-like figure carrying a bag on his shoulder, said to be suffering from severe cancer. His poems were never published, and he received no recognition for his talent, leaving his name destined to be forgotten.[24][27][64][69]
  • Unnamed narrator[27]

A sports journalist named Nur Ahmed Moidul was born in 1936 in North 24 Parganas and later moved to Bangladesh in 1968 following a riot. On his death in 2014 (aged 78), newspapers mentioned him to be the character in the song. He claimed during his lifetime to be the character, and said to have met with Sujata and Roma Roy. He also claimed to have met with Manna Dey during his teenage years. Ghosh stated the claims to be false.[24][27][70]

Sujata, the wife of Awami League politician Waliur Rahman Reza was born in Gaibandha and educated in Calcutta Art College. She married Reza in 1972. Reza became a Member of Parliament in Bangladesh in the 1970s and was an organizer of the Liberation War.[70] Newspapers stated her to be from the song, which was stated as being false by Ghosh.[26]

Cultural impact

Sudeb Dey, the nephew of Manna Dey sang a cover of the song. He described about Manna Dey and the song, "In light of my profession, I sing various songs of uncle [Manna Dey] across the country. Today if I don't sing 'Coffee House', then the audience won't let me get up from my seat."[f][71] Singer Sagarika Bhattacharjee sang a remake of the song with the same lyrics and music.[72] An altered version of "Coffee House", named "Coffee house er shei adda ta fire pete chai, fire pete chai" was sung by celebrities on the occasion of the Coffee House's reopening on July 12, 2009.[73]

Reception

Md Morshedul Alam Mohabat of The Business Standard said that the song is an "all-time favorite" because people are attracted to songs which are relatable to them. He remarks that most people can relate to the song through the life stories it provides, which may be true for the persons that someone knows. He describes the song as nostalgic, which attracts many people. He states that it may be something which may happen to everyone, and will have to leave the memories behind.[74] BBC Bangla conducted an online ranking where people could vote for their five favorite Bengali songs, for the entirety of March 2006. On the list, "Coffee Houser Sei Addata" scored as the highest-ranking Bengali song from West Bengal and the fourth-highest overall.[g][75][76]

Sohini Dasgupta, the wife of filmmaker Buddhadeb Dasgupta, issued a statement on social media expressing the song as lacking the real standards of nostalgia and being a "looser" [sic] song.[77] Dasgupta heard the song on radio before and commented the same. Dasgupta stated afterwards that she liked the lyrics, tunes and melodies of the song when she first heard it in the 1980s, but it seemed to her at the time that the song was for those who had failed and lost.[78][79][80] In response to Dasgupta, Sudeb Dey stated that, "[Kaka] Manna Dey is my guru (mentor). I don't know who posted the message on Facebook. [...] Some people do it to get into the light of discussion by saying negative things. [...] At the same time she rejected the creation (song) of an artist."[f][71] Indian film director Anik Dutta and Bangladesh's TM Ahmed Kaiser commented on Dasgupta's post. They said that "the freedom of speech and commentary is available to everyone." In an inquiry by Anandabazar Online to singer-songwriter Anupam Roy, he stated that he would not make any comments on the Facebook post or on the popularity of the song. He remarked, "I grew up listening to this song. Of the songs Suparna Kanti Ghosh has composed, this is the best one. The song seems to have represented the coffee house of that time. I considered this to be the best song of respectable Manna Dey before. And I say the same in the future."[81]

College Street Coffee House

The Coffee House in 2014

College Street Coffee House,[h] the establishment which the song is based on, had regarded "Coffee Houser Sei Addata" as its anthem.[83] Foreign media channels paired with surrounding local media visited the place on the song's release.[61] After Dey died on 24 October 2013, (Suparna Kanti) Ghosh said, "Coffee house will remain... so will remain the chat sessions, but the man who made them immortal is now no more."[61] The coffee house personnel, and the administrative officer Dipankar Dasgupta, put a portrait of Dey in the house in his remembrance.[84] A placard was put up on the house's entrance with the words, "Legendary singer Manna Dey is no more. He will never take part in the Coffee house chat sessions. On behalf of the Coffee house family, we pray for his soul to rest in peace."[85][86] As of March 17, 2024, the song was played for at least four decades in the house.[87]

Manna Dey visited the coffee house on February 19, 2002. He wore his usual cap and signed the papers of all the people who wanted his signature. Snehasish Chakraborty, present in the house, stated that the College Street Coffee House was never so crowded before the song was released.[88] Zaheed Hussain, an employee of the Coffee House, and Sarfaraz Ahmed, secretary of the unit, both said that Manna Dey is the singer who immortalized the Coffee House by singing the song.[89] He claimed to have seen Dey visit the Coffee House only twice in his lifetime, and on both occasions, Dey accepted a cup of coffee and a sandwich.[90]

On August 29, 2025, the Bengali feature film Coffee House was released publicly in West Bengal. It starred Sangita Konar acting as Sujata, and its title song was sung by Bollywood singer Vinod Rathod,[91] who traveled to Kolkata to record the song.[92]

In November 2025, directors Jenny Sarkar and Dipayan Mondal, and production house Suan Silver Screen announced the release of a suspense/thriller film named Coffee Houser Sei Addata.[93][i] Starring actors Anusha Viswanathan, Soumya Mukherjee, Priyanka Bhattacharya and Roopa Ganguly. Roopa Ganguly previously acted in the film Raghu Dakat.[94][95] A brief plot of the film was released: Sujata, who previously left for abroad, comes back into her ancestral home in North Bengal, feeling sentimental. She suddenly and mysteriously disappears from her home's tea garden. Aheri, her granddaughter specializing in music returns to India from England and searches for her.[93] She finds some old letters and an old diary bearing the song "Coffee House" along with the stories of six friends from the 1980s who used to hang out in a coffee house.[96][95] The shooting was scheduled to start from October 7, 2025.[97] Sarkar and Mondal commented, "Since childhood, I – like countless others – have grown up listening to Manna Dey's timeless classic song. The nostalgia of that song, its celebration of friendship, its reflections on relationships – these things have always moved us deeply. [...] That thought became the starting point."[98] Arijit Singh is said to be singing a new cover of the song.[95]

Notes

  1. ↑ The release date is cited by some sources as January 11, 1982.[1]
  2. ↑ Also known as "Coffee Houser Sei Addata Aaj Aar Nei"[2] or simply "Coffee House"[3]
  3. ↑ English translation: Those get-togethers at the coffee-house are no longer there today[4]
  4. ↑ Bengali: "কফি হাউসের সেই আড্ডাটা আজ আর নেই"[5]
  5. ↑ "In music, late Manna Dey's once-chart-buster song - 'Coffee house-er sei āddā-ta āj ar nei [That Coffee House āddā is there no more], a eulogy to an addā that the singer sorely misses - is still quite popular and comes immediately to mind."[62]
  6. 1 2 Originally quoted in Bengali; translated into English.
  7. ↑ The other three songs were "Amar Sonar Bangla", the national anthem of Bangladesh; "Manush Manusher Janya", sung by Assam singer Bhupen Hazarika; and Amar Bhaiyer Rokte Rangano, a patriotic song of Bangladesh.
  8. ↑ Often referred to as "Manna Dey's coffee house."[82]
  9. ↑ Alternatively spelled as Coffee Houser Sei Adda Ta.

References

  1. ↑ "Coffee Houser Sei Addata Aaj Aar Nei". Apple Music.
  2. ↑ Gupta, Monobina (March 8, 2014). "Tea Party S(l)ips: In the run-up to the forthcoming general elections, the humble tea has become the quintessentially quotidian symbol of national political discourse". Economic and Political Weekly. 49 (10): 76–77. JSTOR 24479235 – via JSTOR.
  3. ↑ Banerjee, Kathakali (October 25, 2013). "But Coffee House can't forget Mannada". The Times of India. Retrieved April 24, 2026.
  4. ↑ ""Coffee House is Missing You" – Happy Birthday Manna Dey a Legend for Ever". IGW News. Editor Desk. May 1, 2016. Retrieved January 26, 2026.
  5. ↑ সাহা, অমর (January 3, 2017). "কলকাতার কলেজ স্ট্রিট আর কফি হাউস". Prothom Alo. Retrieved April 4, 2026.
  6. ↑ Janeja, Manpreet (2010). Transactions in Taste: The Collaborative Lives of Everyday Bengali Food. Taylor & Francis. p. 126. ISBN 978-0-415-55374-2.
  7. ↑ Coffee Houser Sei Addata Aaj Aar Nei - Audiomack
  8. ↑ Chatterjee, Dr Arpita (January 9, 2026). The Kolkata Kaleidoscope: Tales, Tunes and Tea from the City of Joy. BFC Publications. p. 18. ISBN 978-93-7120-952-6.
  9. ↑ পলাশ, আবদুল মান্নান (December 6, 2014). "গানের কবি গৌরীপ্রসন্ন মজুমদার". Risingbd Online Bangla News Portal. Retrieved April 4, 2026.
  10. ↑ "গানের কবি গৌরীপ্রসন্ন মজুমদার". www.newsg24.com. December 5, 2025. Retrieved April 24, 2026.
  11. ↑ "'কফি হাউজের আড্ডা' গানের সুরকার ঢাকায়". The Daily Ittefaq (in Bengali). April 21, 2022. Retrieved April 24, 2026.
  12. ↑ প্রতিবেদক, নিজস্ব (January 2, 2014). "কফি হাউসের সেই আড্ডাটা..." Prothomalo (in Bengali). Retrieved April 24, 2026.
  13. ↑ "কলকাতার কফি হাউসে এক বিকেল". Jagonews24.com. August 4, 2018. Retrieved April 24, 2026.
  14. ↑ Sen 2009, p. 11.
  15. ↑ Banerjee, Swati Das (January 9, 2026). "'ভয় করেনি...', মান্না দে- এর গান 'জীবনে কি পাবো না' রিক্রিয়েট করে ইতিহাস গড়লেন নিকিতা". Hindustan Times Bangla (in Bengali). Retrieved June 10, 2026.
  16. ↑ Chowdhury, Asrar (January 20, 2013). "Robert Burns: Scottish Tunes in Bangla Gaan". The Daily Star. Archived from the original on August 15, 2024. Retrieved May 29, 2026.
  17. ↑ Basu, Prabal Kumar (September 2022). "Coffee House – The Leitmotif of Kolkata by Prabal Kumar Basu". The Bangalore Review. 'Translated by Armaan Singh'. Retrieved August 29, 2026.
  18. ↑ ud Doula, Ashraf (January 30, 2022). "The rendezvous for endless and unrestrained deliberation". Dhaka Tribune. Retrieved August 29, 2026.
  19. ↑ Khan 2025, p. 543.
  20. ↑ Khan 2025, p. 544.
  21. ↑ Dey, Manna (2007) [First published in Bengali in 2005]. Memories Come Alive: An Autobiography. Translated by Putatunda, Sarbani. Penguin Books. p. 212. ISBN 9780143101932.
  22. ↑ "'কফি হাউজের আড্ডা' গানের সুরকার ঢাকায়". The Daily Ittefaq (in Bengali). April 21, 2022. Retrieved April 4, 2026.
  23. ↑ "'কফি হাউজের সেই আড্ডাটা আজ আর নেই ' এর সুরকার সুপর্ণকান্তি ঘোষ ঢাকায়". BSS. BSS. April 21, 2022. Retrieved April 4, 2026.
  24. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Protagonists in iconic Bengali song 'Coffee House' are all fictional, says composer". The Financial Express. Financial Express Online Desk. August 2, 2020. Retrieved January 22, 2026.
  25. 1 2 Chakraborty, Shamayita (December 14, 2018). "Today's composers are here to do business: Suparna Kanti Ghosh". The Times of India. Retrieved January 26, 2026.
  26. 1 2 কর্মকার, রজত (May 21, 2018). "কফি হাউজের সেই মইদুল-সুজাতারা আছেন ঢাকায়? ডাহা মিথ্যে!". Eisamay Online (in Bengali). Retrieved April 3, 2026.
  27. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Saad, Saimum (August 2, 2020). "Protagonists in iconic Bengali song 'Coffee House' are all fictional, says composer Ghosh". Bdnews24.com. Retrieved January 22, 2026.
  28. 1 2 গোস্বামী, সৌমেন্দ্র (July 31, 2024). "'কফি হাউসের সেই আড্ডাটা আজ আর নেই' কেন লিখেছিলেন গৌরীপ্রসন্ন মজুমদার". Prothom Alo. Retrieved April 4, 2026.
  29. 1 2 3 4 Siddique, Habibullah (May 26, 2022). "How the song 'Coffee House' was born". The Business Standard. Retrieved January 22, 2026.
  30. ↑ Sarthak.G (December 5, 2024). "100 yrs of lyricist Gauriprasanna Mazumder who wrote 'Coffee House er addata...'". The Times of India. Retrieved January 22, 2026.
  31. ↑ "কফি হাউজের সেই আড্ডাটা...: 'মান্না কাকা বলেছিলেন, এ কিরকম গান?'". Kaler Kantho. Kaler Kantho Online. May 2, 2019. Retrieved January 25, 2026.
  32. ↑ "মান্না দের গাওয়া 'কফি হাউস' গানটির গীতিকার কে". Dhaka Mail. বিনোদন ডেস্ক. January 31, 2022. Retrieved April 4, 2026.
  33. ↑ সিদ্দিক, হাবিবুল্লাহ (May 26, 2022). "চিকিৎসক হলে কফি হাউসের মতো কালজয়ী গান হতো না: সুপর্ণকান্তি ঘোষ". The Business Standard. Retrieved April 4, 2026.
  34. 1 2 "'মান্নাকাকা বলেছিলেন, এ কিরকম গান?' কফি হাউস নিয়ে আড্ডায় সুপর্ণকান্তি". The Indian Express. IE Bangla Web Desk. May 1, 2019. Retrieved January 25, 2026.
  35. 1 2 Chakraborty, Yajnaseni (May 1, 2023). "How Manna Dey's immortal Coffee Houser Sei Addata was born". Get Bengal. Retrieved January 22, 2026.
  36. ↑ "গৌরীপ্রসন্ন মজুমদার ও কফি হাউজ". Dhaka Mail. August 20, 2022. Retrieved June 26, 2026.
  37. 1 2 মজুমদার, পল্লবী (May 2, 2020). "শুধু সেই সে দিনের মালি নেই! (শেষ পর্ব)". Banglalive. Retrieved January 26, 2026.
  38. 1 2 "কফিহাউজ গানের জন্মকাহিনী". Banglanews24 (in Bengali). বিনোদন ডেস্ক. October 24, 2013. Retrieved January 25, 2026.
  39. ↑ "Coffee Houser Sei Addata - Shazam".
  40. ↑ "যেভাবে কফি হাউসের সেই আড্ডাটা..." Bangladesh Pratidin (in Bengali). শোবিজ ডেস্ক. June 1, 2024. Retrieved March 30, 2026.
  41. ↑ Chanda, Shreshtha (October 24, 2013). "কফি হাউসের সেই আড্ডাটা হারিয়ে গেল মধ্যরাতেই..." bengali.oneindia.com (in Bengali). Retrieved June 10, 2026.
  42. 1 2 3 4 Khan 2025, p. 546.
  43. 1 2 3 4 Khan 2025, p. 545.
  44. 1 2 Khan 2025, p. 547.
  45. 1 2 Bhattacharya 2017, p. 351.
  46. ↑ Bhattacharya 2017, p. 352.
  47. ↑ Bhattacharya 2017, pp. 352–353.
  48. 1 2 3 Bhattacharya 2017, p. 353.
  49. ↑ মিলটন, রবিউল (January 1, 2014). "মান্না দের সেই কফি হাউজে ৩০ মিনিট". Risingbd Online Bangla News Portal (in Bengali). Retrieved August 25, 2026.
  50. ↑ Bhattacharya 2017, p. 354.
  51. ↑ Dey, Prabodh Chandra (February 11, 2011). "Manna Dey, telephone conversation" (Interview). Interviewed by Bhaswati Bhattacharya. p. 354.
  52. ↑ Bhattacharya 2017, pp. 354–355.
  53. ↑ Maity, Rakesh (April 5, 2024). "Coffee House: কলেজ স্ট্রিটের হাতছানি মেটাচ্ছে ছোট্ট গ্রামের এই কফি হাউস". News18 Bangla. Retrieved April 4, 2026.
  54. ↑ Ahmed, Milton (December 4, 2019). "মান্না দে'র কফি হাউজে". Risingbd Online Bangla News Portal. Retrieved March 30, 2026.
  55. ↑ Krishan, Shubhra (September 22, 2016). "When Indian Coffee House was the country's living room: Writers, thinkers, actors, doers met, talked, fought and thought, turning a chain of coffee shops into a national institution". Condé Nast Traveler. Retrieved January 23, 2026.
  56. ↑ দত্ত, ধৃমল (March 19, 2024). "কফি হাউসের 'সেই আড্ডা' কি সত্যিই নেই?". jagonews24.com. Archived from the original on December 3, 2024. Retrieved April 4, 2026.
  57. ↑ Malakar, Sandipa (July 22, 2020). "College Street Coffee House Then & Now". Get Bengal. Retrieved April 6, 2026.
  58. ↑ Mashal, Mujib (November 26, 2021). "Coffee or Chai? At 2 Kolkata Cafes, 'Adda' Is What's Really on the Menu". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved August 29, 2026.
  59. ↑ "Fan pays unique tribute to Manna Dey". 5 Dariya News. Kolkata. Web Admin. October 24, 2014. Retrieved January 22, 2026.
  60. ↑ "Stage ode to Manna Dey's Coffee House". The Telegraph. The Telegraph Bureau. May 4, 2018. Retrieved January 22, 2026.
  61. 1 2 3 "How is Manna Dey's Coffee House doing?". Get Bengal. Information Desk. November 9, 2020. Retrieved January 23, 2026.
  62. ↑ Dhar, Nandini, ed. (2024). Contemporary Gender Formations in India: In-between Conformity, Dissent and Affect. Chapter by Ritam Dutta. Taylor & Francis. p. 210. ISBN 978-1-003-37772-6.
  63. ↑ গোস্বামী, সৌমেন্দ্র (December 2, 2024). "'চাকরিটা আমি পেয়ে গেছি, বেলা শুনছ' লিখেছিলেন অঞ্জন, কারণ..." Prothom Alo (in Bengali). Retrieved April 4, 2026.
  64. 1 2 3 4 Ghosh, Bishwanath (2026). Longing, Belonging: An Outsider at Home in Calcutta. Westland Non-fiction. pp. 40–41. ISBN 9789371974592.
  65. 1 2 "মান্না দে'র বিখ্যাত কফি হাউজে ক্ষণিকের আড্ডা". Jagonews24.com. March 27, 2016. Retrieved March 30, 2026.
  66. ↑ "কফি হাউসের আড্ডা এবার রহস্যের মোড়কে". January 1, 2026. Retrieved April 24, 2026.
  67. ↑ Rith, Basu (April 18, 2009). "Coffee and Cigarettes". The Telegraph. Retrieved February 12, 2026.
  68. ↑ "কল্পনা থেকে লেখা 'কফি হাউজের সেই আড্ডাটা', বাস্তবে ছিল না সুজাতা, মঈদুলরা". The Daily Campus. টিডিসি রিপোর্ট. August 31, 2024. Retrieved April 4, 2026.
  69. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Halder, Nilratan (April 25, 2026). "Coffee Houser sei addata!". The Financial Express. Retrieved April 30, 2026.
  70. 1 2 সবুজ, মো. রাসেল (June 22, 2017). "কালজয়ী "কফি হাউজের সেই আড্ডাটা" গানের দুটি চরিত্রই (সুজাতা ও মইদুল) বাংলাদেশের!". আজকের মঠবাড়িয়া. Retrieved April 3, 2026.
  71. 1 2 "Manna Dey: নেতিবাচক বক্তব্য দ্রুত প্রচার পায়, সোহিনী তাই কাকা আর 'কফি হাউস'কে বেছেছেন: সুদেব". Anandabazar. Anandabazar.com Correspondent. February 19, 2022. Retrieved February 6, 2026.
  72. ↑ "Check Out Popular Bengali Song 'Coffee House Er Shei Adda' Sung By Sagarika Bhattacherjee". The Times of India. February 21, 2023. Retrieved April 6, 2026.
  73. ↑ Sen 2009, p. 46.
  74. ↑ Mohabat, Md Morshedul Alam (November 18, 2022). "Why 'Coffee House' is an all-time favourite". The Business Standard. Retrieved January 23, 2026.
  75. ↑ "সর্বকালের সর্বশ্রেষ্ঠ বাংলা গান". BBC Bangla. May 3, 2006. Retrieved January 27, 2026.
  76. ↑ "বিবিসির সর্বকালের সর্বশ্রেষ্ঠ ২০ গানের তিনটিই তার". দেশ রূপান্তর (in Bengali). September 4, 2022. Retrieved April 4, 2026.
  77. ↑ "Manna Dey's 'Coffee House' sounds like seven soreheads whining: Sohini Dasgupta". The Business Standard. TBS Report. February 19, 2022. Retrieved January 27, 2026.
  78. ↑ Chandra, Jayita (February 19, 2022). "Sohini Dasgupta stirs controversy with her controversial comments on the song 'Coffee House'". Asianet News Network. Retrieved January 23, 2026.
  79. ↑ "'ন্যাকার ঘ্যানঘ্যান' মান্না দে-র কফি হাউস গান! পরিচালক সোহিনী দাশগুপ্তর মন্তব্যে বিতর্ক". Sangbad Pratidin. সংবাদ প্রতিদিন ডিজিটাল ডেস্ক. February 18, 2022. Retrieved January 27, 2026.
  80. ↑ "Manna Dey: মান্না দে-র 'কফি হাউস' গান যেন সাত ন্যাকার ঘ্যানঘ্যান, ফেসবুকে দাবি সোহিনী দাশগুপ্তের". Anandabazar. February 18, 2022. Retrieved March 30, 2026.
  81. ↑ "Manna Dey: ফেসবুকে মন্তব্য নতুন নয়, তবে 'কফি হাউস' গান চিরন্তন, দাবি অনুপম, রণজয়, শোভনের". Anandabazar. নিজস্ব সংবাদদাতা. February 21, 2022. Retrieved April 3, 2026.
  82. ↑ "'কফি হাউসে'র সেই আড্ডাটা আর নেই". The Daily Star. স্টার অনলাইন ডেস্ক. March 16, 2024. Retrieved April 3, 2026.
  83. ↑ Roy, Vaishna (February 3, 2018). "Indian Coffee House: Heady brew in chipped china: The iconic institution is not so much about coffee as about memory and desire". The Hindu. Retrieved January 23, 2026.
  84. ↑ "Kolkata's coffee house weeps for its balladeer". The New Indian Express. Indo-Asian News Service. October 24, 2013. Retrieved January 23, 2026.
  85. ↑ "Manna Dey: Kolkata's Coffee House weeps for its balladeer". NDTV. Indo-Asian News Service. October 24, 2013. Retrieved January 23, 2026.
  86. ↑ "Manna Dey: Kolkata's Coffee House weeps for its balladeer". News18. Indo-Asian News Service. October 25, 2013. Retrieved April 6, 2026.
  87. ↑ "কফি হাউজ এখন আর আড্ডাবাজদের নয়". bdnews24.com. নিউজ ডেস্ক. March 17, 2024. Retrieved April 4, 2026.
  88. ↑ Mukherjee, Susmita (February 19, 2002). "Coffee house-er addata aaj aar nei". The Times of India. Retrieved January 23, 2026.
  89. ↑ Chakraborty, Ajanta (March 26, 2023). "Machine coffee brews up a storm at Kolkata's Coffee House". The Times of India. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved June 10, 2026.
  90. ↑ Bandyopadhyay, Sumitro (July 23, 2018). "Coffee and cacophony: Kolkata's College Street secret brewing for ages". dailyO. Retrieved April 6, 2026.
  91. ↑ Kundu, Krishnendu (September 21, 2025). "Bengali Feature Film Coffee House Screens in Kolkata". News nation 360. Retrieved January 23, 2026.
  92. ↑ "Global Star Sangita Konar Wins Hearts in Bengali Hit 'Coffee House'". HindustanMetro.com. Maxx Advisor. October 23, 2025. Retrieved January 23, 2026.
  93. 1 2 Kundu, Kasturi (November 11, 2025). "Bengali Movie: আর গানের আঙিনা নয় সিনে পর্দায় কফি হাউজের আড্ডা! নস্ট্যালজিয়ায় শহর কলকাতা". The Indian Express. Retrieved January 25, 2026.
  94. ↑ Bhattacharyya, Torsha (November 24, 2025). "Roopa Ganguly: 'কফি হাউজের সেই আড্ডা'-র ৬ বন্ধুর গল্প এবার সিনেমার পর্দায়! মুখ্যভূমিকায় রূপা গঙ্গোপাধ্যায়". ABP Ananda. Retrieved January 23, 2026.
  95. 1 2 3 "স্মৃতি উস্কে বড়পর্দায় মান্না দে-র 'কফি হাউস'! থাকছেন রূপা গঙ্গোপাধ্যায়-দোলন রায়! আর কে?". Anandabazar Patrika. Anandabazar.com Correspondent. October 4, 2025. Retrieved January 23, 2026.
  96. ↑ "মান্না দের বিখ্যাত গান 'কফি হাউজের' স্মৃতি ফেরাবেন রূপা, গল্পটা কী?". ETV Bharat. ETV Bharat Entertainment Team. November 21, 2025. Retrieved January 23, 2026.
  97. ↑ "Film of Manna Dey's 'Coffee House' set to roll in October". The Daily Star. Arts & Entertainment Desk. October 5, 2025. Retrieved January 27, 2026.
  98. ↑ Chatterjee, Arindam (December 2, 2025). "Music meets memory in a new film". t2ONLINE. Retrieved January 23, 2026.

Cited work(s)

This page is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.