IGNCA, New Delhi was draped in the colors of Culture last evening February 17 as #JashnERekhta2017 was launched with fanfare. "I wrote the script in a lyrical manner and I had thought of the sarod," said Suman, grateful that Khan had agreed.Inauguration of Jashn e Rekhta 2017 was a grand success The film explores the family dynamics of Thakurbari and Kadambari's role and relationship with her brother-in-law Rabindranath Tagore.Īpart from playing on Ekla cholo re and Kon khela je khelbo kokhon, Khan has also recorded some of his own compositions in Ganesh Kalyan, Hansdhwani and Darbari that will be used to layer the film's background score.įor the director, it has been a dream come true. Also, my association with Bickram and his father goes back a long way, I could not say no to him." The story was beautiful and the atmosphere, the shots and the ambience attracted me. So when Suman and Bickram, who has composed the music for Kadambari, met him in Delhi, Khan was taken aback but agreed on seeing the film. Remembering his association with the likes of Satyajit Ray and Yash Chopra, the musician said it was his involvement with classical music that kept him away from films.
"I was playing in a concert hall where Shabana Azmi brings Naseeruddin Shah, who plays a blind man," he explained. Khan had played himself in the 1980 film, Sparsh. This is the first time the sarod guru has been "actively involved in a film score" but it is not his first brush with cinema.
I hope the chief minister takes a close look at the building," he added. Unfortunately in our country, places like these are not maintained the way Beethoven's home is maintained in Germany, Shakespeare's in England or Tchaikovsky's in Russia. The sarod maestro took a stroll around Thakurbari and was glad that the state government had preserved the house. How he took liberty with ragas and made them sound beautiful in a world where everyone is scared of ' log kya kahenge'." I gradually realised the genius of Tagore. "I started rediscovering Rabindrasangeet and I also started playing Tagore in my concerts.
I found it sad, too slow-paced, and I guess it was because anybody and everybody was singing Rabindrasangeet, which I now think was very damaging."īut a chance to interact with Suchitra Mitra over research for an album changed his thoughts. "Earlier, I was never interested in Rabindrasangeet. Overcome with "nostalgia", he recalled the beginning of his association with Tagore. I'm grateful to Bickram Ghosh and Suman Ghosh that the shoot is taking place in such a historic location," smiled Khan. "I just realised this is my first visit to Thakurbari. The sarod maestro was shooting for a promotional video of Suman Ghosh's period film, Kadambari, slated for release on Panchishe Baisakh, Tagore's birth anniversary. Halderįingers racing along the strings of the sarod, playing strains of Ekla chalo re, and silver hair blowing in the April breeze, Ustad Amjad Ali Khan cut a regal picture sitting on the steps of Jorasanko Thakurbari on Tuesday morning. Ustad Amjad Ali Khan shoots for a promotional video of Suman Ghosh's Kadambari at Jorasanko Thakurbari on Tuesday.