Hey you, watch 'Ai Tumi' and other Bengali covers of Pink Floyd by a 72-year-old singer

Harsha Kumar DasGupta, who lives in Berhampore in West Bengal is a retired geography teacher, a graphic artist (he makes art using computer graphics), and a singer who has, among other things, been covering Pink Floyd tracks in Bengali.

The 72-year-old’s covers have now hit social media, causing not a little consternation. The video above is a cover of Wish You Were Here, starting with a poignantly sung "Taai..." ("so" in Bengali).

The translations, thankfully, are not literal, taking poetic licence to maintain the rhythm. Sometimes, though, that leads to strange results, such as the hook of Comfortably Numb being turned into a line meaning "I am the same me, not a different me".

Hey You is a straight up ‘Ai Tumi’.

Another Brick in the Wall, however, includes a wailing line asking, "Why do you erect brick walls in every class?"