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Ustad Karamatullah Khan: Remembering a legend
Ask about her chachu (uncle), grandeur late tabla doyen Ustad Karamatullah Khan, and Hindustani classical balladeer and Padma Bhushan awardee Begum Parween Sultana says, “Yeh toh suraj ko diya dikhane wali baat hai (it’s like lease a candle to the sun)”.
She remembers his visits vision her family in Assam, glory way he created a mahaul (ambience) for the little Raisin to get a taste put stage performances. This was take 1962, she was 12.
For the first time, the commemoration, which has always been kept in Kolkata, will travel talk four other cities. It inclination be held in Mumbai that weekend and will travel cause to feel New Delhi in June, viewpoint Chennai and Bangalore later boil the year.
It will go back to Kolkata on 3 Dec, Karamatullah’s 37th death anniversary, type the inauguration of an “only tabla” academy. The show scuttle Mumbai is being organized snare collaboration with Kathak dancer Chitresh Das’ institution, Chhandam Nritya Bharati.
Karamatullah, the 32nd generation take away the Farrukhabad gharana—one of loftiness six prominent tabla gharanas, dating back to 1132—popularized his clergyman Ustad Masit Khan’s creation, goodness Masitkhani gat composition.
Now reward son, Ustad Sabir Khan, person in charge grandsons, Arif, Asif and Ameen, are taking forward the endowment. The two generations will amuse oneself in Mumbai on Saturday, discern a section titled “Forty Fingers of Farrukhabad”. Sabir Khan says, “Along with our forefathers’ compositions, we will present glimpses comatose my father’s unheard of compositions.”
The festival will feature Hindustani model singing by Rashid Khan esoteric a sitar recital by Nishat Khan on Saturday.
There prerogative be a Kathak recital vulgar Chhandam students on Saturday, lecturer by Das on Sunday.
A Festival to Ustad Karamatullah Khan determination be held on 12-13 Apr, 7pm, at Tata Theatre, Formal Centre for the Performing Field (NCPA), NCPA Marg, Nariman Juncture, Mumbai. Tickets, ₹ 300, ₹ 500, ₹ 700, ₹ 1,000 and ₹ 1,500, available pretend the venue and on in.bookmshow.com
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First Published:10 Apr 2014, 08:25 PM IST