The tunes of Bastar, the story of a farmer and a tuneful tabla recital was all about Chhattisgarh Mahotsav on Wednesday.
The Chhattisgarh mahotsav being organised at multi art centre Bharat Bhavan is all about the folk and traditions of Chhattisgarh. The event is not only about entertainments but also for the art lovers to experience the best of Chhattisgarhi art and culture.
Here on Wednesday, the event was all about Chhattisgarhi story and music. The event began with the ‘Nacha Gammat presentation’. It was presented by Hemlal Sahu and his troupe. The troupe performed the story ‘Ek Kahani Ghareeb Kisan Ki’. The story talks about the lack of education and the lost traditions and etiquettes in society. The story is about a farmer who is not educated and how he had to face problems in life.
The farmer got married in his childhood. As he was a farmer he never paid attention in studies. On the other hand his wife continued her studies and became graduate when they both grew up. As the time for gauna came, his father in law denies to let his daughter go along with the farmer. But, farmer’s wife, an educated woman insisted to go along with her husband and help him in his business of farming.
Then the evening was all about the tuneful ragas of Chhattisgarh. The rhythmical tabla recital by Yashwant Vaishnav made the evening of the music lovers.
He played traditional ragas and tunes over tabla maintaining the purity of the classical music. He played Feshkar, Rela, Qaida, Tukre, and Chakradharin teen taal and 16 matra. It was a mesmerizing event for the music lovers.
later, the Wednesday night had a grand closure with the band performance of ‘Bastar Band’. It is a band created by a theatre artist Anoop Ranjan Pandey. The Koyapad tribal people are the artists in the band.
The band created an ambiance of fun and rhythm with 33 tunes they performed on stage with the use of 41 traditional instruments. The performance at the hall left the audience enthralled and spell bound.