Popular Bengali folk music singer Kalikaprasad Bhattacharya today died in a road accident at Palsit in West Bengal's Hooghly district. He was 56. Silchar born singer Bhattacharya was travelling along with four members of his Bangla band, 'Dohar', when their SUV was hit from behind by a truck on NH 2 and fell into a shallow water body.<br/><br/>Bhattacharya was rescued from the mangled vehicle along with other occupants of the car and rushed to Burdwan Medical College and Hospital where the singer was declared brought dead, the officer said. Four others were undergoing treatment at the hospital and the condition of three of them was stated to be critical.<br/><br/>Besides popularising folk songs of rural Bengal among the present generation in the albums of his band 'Dohar', he had also lent his voice in films like Jaatishwar (2014), Moner Manush (2010) and Bhuban Majhi (2017).

Popular Bengali folk music singer Kalikaprasad Bhattacharya today died in a road accident at Palsit in West Bengal's Burdwan district. He was 56. Silchar born singer Bhattacharya was travelling along with four members of his Bangla band, 'Dohar', when their SUV was hit from behind by a truck on NH 2 and fell into a shallow water body.<br/><br/> Bhattacharya was rescued from the mangled vehicle along with other occupants of the car and rushed to Burdwan Medical College and Hospital where the singer was declared brought dead, the officer said. Four others were undergoing treatment at the hospital and the condition of three of them was stated to be critical.<br/><br/> Besides popularising folk songs of rural Bengal among the present generation in the albums of his band 'Dohar', he had also lent his voice in films like Jaatishwar (2014), Moner Manush (2010) and Bhuban Majhi (2017).