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Jahangir Rana ( born in 3rd March, 1970 with a family name Md. Zahangir Alam) is a Bengali poet, lyricist, composer and TV presenter for last 35 years. He is a well known lyricist and music composer. He composed many of his own Bengali folk and Baul songs since his young age. Despite this, he started his career as a modern Bengali song writer in his early twenties.

Early life
Jahangir Rana was born 3rd March, 1970, Nabigonj, in the district of Habigonj, Bangladesh. His late father Abdul Hakim was a local theatre actor and a writer. His late mother Farida khatun had a great interest in Nazrul Sangit although she was not a professional singer. Rana started his primary education at Nabigonj Government Primary School. Later he attended Nabigonj J.K High School. He had his graduation in B.S.C from M.C College under Chittagonj University in 1993 and migrated to London, UK in 2000. Rana started writing poem when he was in secondary School. His first poem ' Aarti' was published in a local magazine ' Shakhabarak' in 1984 when he was only 14. Nine of his books including poem, songs, short stories have been published in Bangla Academy Omar Ekushe Grantha Mela. Rana wrote more than 500 songs and over 300 poems. He also wrote and directed dramas for his local theatre in his early twenties. Greatly inspired by Rabindranath Tagore, Rana implied love, beauty and sorrows in his poetry and music.

Literature Career
At the age of 14, a local magazine published Rana‘s first poem ' Aarti'. When he was 16, he started writing poem simultaneously he wrote song and small stories. ' Anondogaan Chokher Joley' a collection of small stories' is his first book published by Nandita Prokash in Omor Ekushe Grantha Mela in 2013.

Musical Journey
Rana was inspired by his late mother when he was very young. Later, he started to learn music from local music school called ' Shuroddhoni' when he was 15. When he moved into London, he went to Ostad Yousuf Ali khan to take lesson on tabla and left unfinished. In 2009, Rana met Ustad Mahmudur Rahman Benu and decided to start his journey again to get basic training in Indian classical music. His intention was never to become a professional singer. Since 2009, he is taking lessons from Ustad Benu. In 2007, a legendary Bengali singer Subir Nandi composed and sang few of Rana‘a Lyrics and published an album called ' Swopno Bunbe Buke'. Most of the prominent singers in Bangladesh including Sabina Yasmin, Syed Abdul Hadi, Andrew kishore, Shammi Akter, Rafikul Alam, Tapan Chowdhury, Shakila Zafor, Shampa Reza, Shubhra Deb, Dilruba Khan and many more gave their voice on Rana's lyrics. Rana then got involved himself in writing and composing folk and Baul gharana songs. When 'Hiya’ published (the song written and composed by Jahangir Rana himself) which was sung by Nishita Barua in 2017, he became very popular and started getting attention to mass people very quickly. He is one of the well konwn young lyricist and composer of folk and Baul gharana in Bangladesh. Rana started anchoring television program with Bangla TV, London in 2003 and presented a few exclusive musical program. ' Aalapon ' was one of his best boithoki musical program became very popular to the Bengali audience in the Uk and all over Europe.

His work

 * Anondogaan Chokher Joley ( Small story )- 2013
 * Tobu Ful Fotey( poetry)-2014
 * Ondher Kan Bodhirer Chokh ( poetry) - 2015
 * Poraner Gaan ( Lyrics) -2015
 * O Chand O Ratri( poetry )- 2016
 * Nilima O Nakshatra( poetry)- 2017
 * Shohorer nam bhalobasha( poetry)- ( 2018)
 * Hiya ( lyrics ) -2019
 * Dilshohor ( lyrics) - due to be published.

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 * Poraner Gan

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