Durga Durgatiharini
দেবীং দুর্গতিহারিণীম্
GenreMythology
Developed byDr. Dhyanesh Narayan Chakroborty
Written byDr.Gobinda Gopal Mukherjee, Madhuri Mukherjee, Hemant Kumar
Directed byHemant Kumar, Sailen Mukhopadhyay
Voices ofHemant Kumar, Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle, Manna Dey, Sandhya Mukherjee, Aarti Mukherjee,

Manabendra Mukherjee, Dwijen Mukherjee, Utpala Sen, Pratima Bandopadhyay, Nirmala Mishra, Ashima Mukherjee,

Anup Ghoshal, Tarun Banerjee, Sailen Mukherjee, Shipra Basu, Banashree Sengupta, Haimanti Sukla, Pintu Bhattachariya, Aparna Sengupta, Samaresh Roy, Arun Krishna Ghosh, Prabhas Prasun, Shakti Thakur[1]
Narrated byUttam Kumar, Sharmistha Sur, Chhanda Sen, Partha Ghosh[1]
ComposersPandit V. Balsara, Shyamal Gupta
Country of originIndia
Original languagesBengali
Sanskrit
Production
Production locationKolkata
EditorAshima Mukherjee
Running time60 minutes
Original release
NetworkAll India Radio
Release23 September 1976 (1976-09-23)
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The program (Deving Durgatiharinim) was first aired by All India Radio on 23 September 1976 on the holy day of Mahalaya. It replaced the long running program Mahishasura Mardini narrated by Birendra Krishna Bhadra. It was dubbed as a "revamp", replacing Bhadra as the narrator by legendary Bengali film star Uttam Kumar, and Pankaj Mullick was replaced by Hemant Kumar as the music director for the program.

The new program (Deving Durgatiharinim), however, was a huge flop, and was criticized a lot by the listeners. Such was the backlash that AIR decided to issue a public apology and continue broadcasting the one narrated by Bhadra on Mahalaya. The new program was there after scheduled to be aired every year on the day of Durga Mahasashthi (six days after Mahalaya).

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