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Durga Puja songs 2026: the Pujo playlist, from agomoni to Bijoya
Agomoni gaan, the dhak, the old Puja records, the film songs and the Dashami songs, picked day by day for Durga Puja 2026, and every one plays on this page.
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- Agomoni gaan: where a Pujo playlist starts
- Which Pujo songs to play on each day of Durga Puja 2026
- What was a Pujor gaan record?
- Dhaker taal: can you play the dhak at home?
- Which film songs became Pujo songs?
- The new Pujo hits, and the pandal theme songs
- Bijoya songs for Dashami
- Playing Pujo from Bengaluru, London or New York
The oldest Pujo songs are hardly about a goddess at all. In an agomoni song Uma is a married daughter coming home for the Puja days, and her mother Menaka has been counting since the last Dashami. Bengal has sung that visit since the eighteenth century. It is still the shape of a Pujo playlist in 2026, from the dhak on Ashtami morning to a Dev film song on Navami night, and it is why the last song on Dashami is the hardest one to play.
Agomoni gaan: where a Pujo playlist starts
Agomoni gaan are the songs of Uma's homecoming. Uma is Parvati, daughter of Giriraj Himalaya and Menaka and wife of Shiva, and in these songs she returns to her father's house just before Durga Puja. The Bengali Wikipedia article on agomoni songs names Ramprasad Sen as the first and the finest writer of them. Its page on Kamalakanta Bhattacharya (born 1772) puts him next after Ramprasad among the Shakta poets, and calls him the best at agomoni and Bijoya verses. The Bijoya songs come when the visit ends: the same family, sending her back.
They have lasted because the worry in them is an ordinary one. A mother wants to know how her daughter has been living in a pauper's house, since the husband is Shiva, the hermit who owns nothing. To follow these songs, a listener needs only to have waited for someone to come home for Pujo.
5:00Gouri Elo
Bengali Music Directory | BMD
The first song is Dohar's, the Kolkata folk band, with Kalikaprasad Bhattacharya's name among the credits. Five minutes, and the place to start the week.
4:15O Maa Kemon Kore Horer Ghore
Aalo | আলো 🪔
Anwesha Ganguly sings, and Aalo lists the song as traditional. The title is Menaka's question to her daughter, how did you live in Hara's house, and the whole of agomoni is in that one line.
4:09Tui Pashan Girir Meye
Saregama Bengali
Saregama credits this one to Kazi Nazrul Islam, who wrote agomoni songs too. Manabendra Mukherjee sings. Four minutes.
4:21Ailo Uma Barite
MONAMI GHOSH
The new one: Monami Ghosh's video from 2023, at 34 million YouTube views by September 2026.
3:37Ogo Amar Agamani Alo
Saregama Bengali
Sipra Bose's song from Mahishasura Mardini, Bani Kumar's words to Pankaj Mullick's tune, the one Bengal wakes to on Mahalaya. Our pick for the drive to the first pandal; the full broadcast is in our Mahalaya guide.
Which Pujo songs to play on each day of Durga Puja 2026
The dates are from Drik Panchang's Durga Puja calendar for Kolkata. Shashthi spreads over two days this year: Bilva Nimantran on Friday 16 October, then Kalparambha and Akal Bodhon on Saturday 17 October. Belur Math holds both on Friday, Kalparambha at dawn and Bodhon in the evening. The same calendar lists Vijayadashami on Tuesday 20 October for most of India, and Bengal's immersion and sindoor khela on Wednesday 21 October. This list keeps Bengal's dates. If your para's puja follows the Gupta Press or Benimadhab Sil panjika, Saptami and Ashtami each come a day earlier, Saptami on Saturday 17 and Ashtami on Sunday 18 October. Pujas on that reckoning do not all agree on Navami and Dashami, so check your mandap's notice.
| Day | Date | What happens | Play |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mahalaya | Sat 10 Oct | Devi Paksha begins; Mahishasura Mardini on the radio before dawn | The broadcast and Bajlo Tomar Alor Benu, both in our Mahalaya guide |
| Shashthi | Fri 16 and Sat 17 Oct | Bilva Nimantran, then Kalparambha and Akal Bodhon, the goddess woken out of season | Agomoni: Gouri Elo, Ailo Uma Barite |
| Saptami | Sun 18 Oct | Kolabou Puja: the nabapatrika is bathed at dawn, then dressed as a bride | Jaago Uma, then Dugga Elo |
| Ashtami | Mon 19 Oct | Morning anjali, Kumari Puja, and Sandhi Puja where Ashtami meets Navami | Rupang Dehi Jayang Dehi before anjali, the Ashtami dhak after |
| Navami | Tue 20 Oct | Navami homa; the last full night of pandal-hopping | Dhak Baja Kashor Baja, Sreebhumi's Dulbe Komor, Ebar Jeno Onno Rokom Pujo |
| Dashami | Wed 21 Oct | Sindoor khela, then immersion | The Dashami dhak, Bishorjon, Bochor Bochor Aste Hobe |
The table leaves out anjali and Sandhi Puja times. They follow the tithi, and your own panjika or pandal priest decides them. The order within each day is only ours, too. Nothing stops you playing a Bijoya song on Saptami, except everyone else in the room.
What was a Pujor gaan record?
For most of the last century, Pujo in Bengal came with new records. The Gramophone Company of India, which pressed records at Dum Dum from 1907 and sold them under the HMV label from 1909 to 2003, put out a batch of new Bengali songs before each Puja, with the lyrics printed in a booklet called Sharad Arghya.
Most Pujor gaan were not about the Puja. They were love songs, comic songs and modern Bengali songs, and the Puja was simply their release date. Bhanu Banerjee is the clearest case. His comic record Dhakar Gadoane did well enough in 1943 that he brought out a new record every Durga Puja after it.
Most of the famous non-devotional Puja records are not in our catalogue, so this list cannot play them. It has one Puja song from the old shelf, and one sign that the habit is still alive.
3:37Trinayani Durga
Saregama Bengali
Dhananjay Bhattacharya, in Saregama's Durga Pujor gaan series with the words on screen. Three and a half minutes.
3:33Pujoye Asha
Asha Audio
The habit, still going: a Puja 2025 song from Asha Bhosle on Asha Audio, music by Shiladitya and Raj. More of her Bengali songs are on her singer page.
Dhaker taal: can you play the dhak at home?
You can, and if you are far from a pandal it is the most useful thing on this page. We carry two Saregama dhak tracks, each named for its day: Ashtami, at five minutes, and Dashami, at ten. The drummers credited on both are Phani Natta, Joydeb Nandy, Manindra Das and Brajakanta Nandy.
Ashtami's belongs to the morning. Put it on after anjali, loud enough to worry the neighbours a little. Keep Dashami's for the last evening.
5:00Rupang Dehi Jayang Dehi
Mukta Creation
Pandit Tushar Dutta's Argala Stotram, the hymn recited before the Chandi. Five minutes. Our choice for Ashtami morning, before you leave for anjali.
5:05Ashtami, Pujar Dhak
Saregama Bengali
Five minutes of the four drummers. After anjali, with the windows open.
4:23Dhak Baja Kashor Baja
T-Series
Shreya Ghoshal, music by Jeet Gannguli: the dhak turned into a pop song, and at 76 million YouTube views the most watched dhak song we carry. More on Shreya Ghoshal's page.
4:52Dhaker Taley
SVF Music
From Rabi Kinagi's Paran Jai Jaliya Re (2009), with Dev and Subhashree on screen: Abhijeet, Parinita and Sudipto sing, Jeet Gannguli wrote the music. For Navami night.
Which film songs became Pujo songs?
Bengali cinema has long aimed at the Puja week, and a few of its songs outlived their films. Challenge 2 opened on 19 October 2012, in the Puja week, and Elo Je Maa is the song from it we would keep.
4:51Elo Je Maa
SVF
Abhijeet Bhattacharya and Shreya Ghoshal, music by Jeet Gannguli; Priyo Chattopadhyay and Raja Chanda wrote the words. If you play one film song this Pujo, play this one.
3:44Ebar Jeno Onno Rokom Pujo
SVF
From Raj Chakraborty's Yoddha (2014), with Dev and Mimi on screen, at about 70 million YouTube views by September 2026.
2:53Dugga Ma
SVF
Arijit Singh, from Raj Chakraborty's Bolo Dugga Maiki (2017). Under three minutes. More on Arijit Singh's page.
3:37Aaj Baaje Mon Majhe
Amara Muzik Bengali
Somchanda sings; Bickram Ghosh wrote the music for Arindam Sil's Durga Sohay (2017), a film that runs from Mahalaya to Vijayadashami inside a north Kolkata jeweller's family home.
The film for a probashi's list is Srijit Mukherji's Uma (2018). Uma is a girl in Zurich with about two months to live who wants to see Durga Puja in Kolkata, and her father stages one for her, out of season. The film is based on the life of Evan Leversage, a boy from St George in Ontario. Anyone who has watched Pujo on a phone from another time zone understands that father.
3:09Jaago Uma
SVF
From Uma: Rupankar sings, Anupam Roy wrote the music. Our Saptami morning song.
The new Pujo hits, and the pandal theme songs
Some of the big clubs now release songs of their own. We carry three: Suruchi Sangha's for 2015 and 2018, and Sreebhumi Sporting Club's for 2019. Sreebhumi's, Dulbe Komor Paray Paray, is the most watched video in our whole Pujo mood, at about 78 million YouTube views by September 2026.
7:20Dulbe Komor Paray Paray
Sreebhumi Sporting Club
Seven minutes, from the Lake Town club's own channel.
3:34Maa Go Tumi Sarbojanin
SVF
Suruchi Sangha's theme song for 2015, on SVF, at nearly 18 million YouTube views.
2:31Dugga Elo
Zee Music Bangla
Monali Thakur, 2019, on Zee Music Bangla. Two and a half minutes and 57 million views.
6:44Pujar Gaan
SVF Music
HooliGaanism's song for Puja 2025, on SVF Music, with Anirban, Subhadeep, Debraj and Gopinath. One of two 2025 songs here, and its title is simply Puja song.
Bijoya songs for Dashami
Bijoya songs are the other half of agomoni. Wikipedia's article on Agamani and Vijaya songs puts it simply: the homecoming, then, when the visit ends, the sorrow of parting, as Uma goes back to Shiva. On Dashami, married women play sindoor khela, putting vermilion on the goddess and on each other before the immersion. Then the processions leave for the ghats.
10:10Dashami, Pujar Dhak
Saregama Bengali
Ten minutes, the same four drummers as the Ashtami track. Play it while the sindoor is still on everyone's faces.
2:25Bishorjon
Zee Music Bangla
Shaan sings and Anupam Roy wrote it, for the 2019 film Sanjhbati. Two and a half minutes.
3:41Bochor Bochor Aste Hobe
Akassh
Akassh and Haimanti, 2018. The title is what everyone asks of her at the ghat: you have to come every year. We end the week with this one.
The agomoni you played on Shashthi was a mother counting the days until her daughter came. The Bijoya song is the same mother, standing at the door. That is why the last song of the week is the hard one to play. Kolkata says it out loud on Dashami, too: asche bochor abar hobe, next year it happens again.
Playing Pujo from Bengaluru, London or New York
This year Ashtami is on Monday 19 October and Dashami on Wednesday 21 October, so for most Bengalis outside Bengal the big days fall in a working week. Build the week in order and let it run: agomoni on Friday or Saturday evening, the film songs over the weekend, the Ashtami dhak before work on Monday, and the Dashami dhak with Bochor Bochor Aste Hobe on Wednesday. 8.30 pm on Wednesday in Kolkata is 4 pm in London and 11 am in New York.
Every song above is in the Pujo mood, which picks up where any of them ends. Nazrul's Durga songs have a mood of their own, the Nazrul mood. And if you missed the dawn broadcast on Mahalaya, our Mahalaya post has the full Mahishasura Mardini and what time 4 am in Kolkata is where you live.
References (10)
- Durga Puja calendar 2026, Kolkata, Drik Panchang. Checked 27 Sep 2026.
- Agomoni gaan (আগমনী গান), Bengali Wikipedia. Checked 27 Sep 2026.
- Kamalakanta Bhattacharya (কমলাকান্ত ভট্টাচার্য), Bengali Wikipedia. Checked 27 Sep 2026.
- Agamani-Vijaya, Wikipedia. Checked 27 Sep 2026.
- Saregama (the Gramophone Company of India), Wikipedia. Checked 27 Sep 2026.
- Bhanu Banerjee, Wikipedia. Checked 27 Sep 2026.
- Paran Jai Jaliya Re, Wikipedia. Checked 28 Sep 2026.
- Challenge 2, Wikipedia. Checked 28 Sep 2026.
- Durga Sohay, Wikipedia. Checked 27 Sep 2026.
- Uma (2018 film), Wikipedia. Checked 27 Sep 2026.
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