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The official cultural exchange centre of Kerala Recital of famous gazals of Begum Akhtar by Abhradita Banerjee Reshma Raghavendra and Gowry Lekshmi MINISTRY OF CULTURE Government of India Selected gazals of Begum Akhtar In connection with All India Begum Akhtar Centenary Commemoration 3rd October 2015 Saturday 6.30 pm at Bharat Bhavan Thirumuttam Near Police Ground Thycaud, Trivandrum Jointly organize with Tabla: Mahesh Mani Harmoniom: Jaiprakash Violin: Chandlu

Selected gazals of Begum Akhtar - Kerala Culture · famous gazals of Begum Akhtar by Abhradita Banerjee Reshma Raghavendra and Gowry Lekshmi MINISTRY OF CULTURE Government of India

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Page 1: Selected gazals of Begum Akhtar - Kerala Culture · famous gazals of Begum Akhtar by Abhradita Banerjee Reshma Raghavendra and Gowry Lekshmi MINISTRY OF CULTURE Government of India

The o�cial cultural exchange centre of Kerala

Recital of famous gazals of Begum Akhtar by

Abhradita BanerjeeReshma Raghavendra and

Gowry Lekshmi

MINISTRY OF CULTUREGovernment of India

Selected gazals of Begum Akhtar In connection with

All India Begum Akhtar Centenary Commemoration

3rdOctober 2015

Saturday 6.30 pm

at Bharat Bhavan Thirumuttam Near Police Ground

Thycaud, Trivandrum

Jointly organize with

Tabla: Mahesh ManiHarmoniom: Jaiprakash

Violin: Chandlu

Page 2: Selected gazals of Begum Akhtar - Kerala Culture · famous gazals of Begum Akhtar by Abhradita Banerjee Reshma Raghavendra and Gowry Lekshmi MINISTRY OF CULTURE Government of India

Performers for Tribute to Mallika-e-Ghazal, Begum Akhtar

Abhradita BanerjeeMrs Abhradita Banerjee is one of the renowned Hindu-stani musician in India with expertise in Ghazal, Hindu-stani Classical, semi classical, traditional and light music. She learnt music under Guru Shishya Parampara from Pandit Madan Chouhan since childhood. She has won Government sponsored National Music Competition for �ve consecutive years in vocal light and classical music. She has received many honors and awards for her perfor-mances. Reshma RaghavendraReshma Raghavendra is an upcoming artist with several laurels to her credit. Semi �nalist of Gandharva Sangeeth-am 2008, Winner of Swaralaya Unni Menon Yuva Gayika award, 2015, First runner up of Gandharva Sangeetham 2012, First runner up of Sunfeast Delishus star singer 2014, participated in Kerala school youth festival for kath-akali sangeetham, participated in Kerala University youth festival 2014 and secured 2nd in ghazal competition. Gowry LekshmiGowry Lekshmi is one youngest female music director and lyricist in South India. She started learning music at the age of 3 and the BA Music course in RLV College of Music and Fine Arts, Thrippunithura. has composed quite a good number of tunes for music bands and albums. Thoni is her biggest work so far. She has rendered her voice to few Tamil and Malayalam �lm songs. She has performed with several prominent music bands of Kerala.

BEGUM AKHTAR –“ QUEEN OF GHAZALS” Akhtari Bai Faizabadi, also known as Begum Akhtar (7 Oct. 1914 – 30 Oct. 1974), was a well known Indian singer of Ghazal, and Dadra, and thumri genres of Hindustani classical music. She received the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for vocal music, and was awarded Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan (posthumously) by Govt. of India. She was given the title of Mallika-e-Ghazal.Begum Akhtar was born in Bada Darwaza, Town Bhadarsa, Bharatkund, Faizabad District, Uttar Pradesh.Akhtar was barely seven when she was captivated by the music of Chandra Bai, an artist attached to a touring theatre group. However at her uncle's insistence she was sent to train under Ustad Imdad Khan, the great sarangi exponent from Patna, and later under Ata Mohammed Khan of Patiala. Later, she travelled to Calcutta with her mother and learnt music from classical stalwarts like Mohammad Khan, Abdul Waheed Khan of Lahore, and �nally she became the disciple of Ustad Jhande Khan.Her �rst public performance was at the age of �fteen. The famous poetess, Sarojini Naidu, appre-ciated her singing during a concert which was organised in the aid of victims of a Bihar earth-quake of 1934. This encouraged her to continue singing ghazals with more enthusiasm. She cut her �rst disc for the Megaphone Record Company, at that

time. A number of gramophone records were released carrying her ghazals, dadras,thumris, etc. She was amongst the early female singers to give public concert, and break away from singing in meh�ls or private gatherings, and in time came to be known as Mallika-e-Ghazal (Queen of Ghazal).

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