"Jhalmuri 1 & 2" are a mixed-artists dual-album singer/songwriter project of popular Bangladeshi fusion artist, Shayan Chowdhury Arnob . They were released in 2007 from Bengal Music Company (BMC) Ltd. The albums featured up and coming singer/songwriters as well as many of Arnob's friends. Jhalmuri 1 featured Punam (from Prayer Hall , another project of Arnob), Tahmid , Abida , Gourob , Armeen Musa , Nabila , Shawjeeb , Sahana Bajpaie , Bappa Mazumder . While Jhalmuri 2 featured Sovvota , Shuvo , Laura , Rupom , Srabonti , Syed Wakil Ahmed , Habib Wahid , Nancy and Arnob . The overall song arrangements were done by Arnob, but the songs were indeed written by the singers. The reasoning behind such an album, as per the album sleeves is that, making songs had become extremely mechanical and monotonous. It was like as if somebody came up with a lyrics, another with the tune, and finally after vocals had given by yet another person, the people behind the song itsel...