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| Edited By: |Source: PTI |Updated: Jan 04, 2011, 08:03 PM IST
Thousands of mourners joined the funeral procession of Rabindra Sangeet icon Suchitra Mitra singing her favourite numbers following the flower-bedecked hearse through the main thoroughfares of the city before ending at the crematorium today.
The body of the singer, who died yesterday aged 86, was kept at 'Peace Haven' for embalming last evening.
It was taken to the ancestral house of the Tagores this morning at Jorasanko in north Kolkata, to Rabindra Sadan, a famed auditorium named after Tagore in central part of the city and to Ravitirtha, a music insitution founded by the singer in southern metropolis before the final journey to Keoratala crematorium.
Chief minister Buddhadev Bhattacharjee placed a wreath on the body at Rabindra Sadan where several noted singers, Mitra's students and admirers assembled to pay their respects.
Mourners from all walks of life assembled at all the places where the hearse stopped to pay their tearful homage.
Many of them were singing the singer's favourite numbers like Aguner Parasmani chhoao prane and Akash jure suninu oi baje.
As the cortege reached the crematorium, many mourners burst into tears.
The last rites were performed by the relatives of Mitra as her only son Kunal, who lives in the US, could not arrive to attend the funeral.
