Ek Sham Sadabahar Geeton Ke Naam’ and ‘Alankaran Samaroh’ was organised at Bahirang, the open auditorium of Bharat Bhawan, on Thursday. Organised by ‘Rangbhoomi Sanskritik Evam Sahityaik Samiti’ the event would conclude on September 27.
While talking to The Pioneer, coordinator of the programme Hameed Maamu said “It is for the first time in Bhopal when two- day concert is being organised in which around 60 evergreen songs will presented by city singers. The progrmme was presented by singers like Ashok Singh, Kriti Sood, Rajni Dhuriya, Alka Nigam, Arif lateef, Prassana Rao, Anchal Sharma, Shobhana Prasad, Shyam Krishnamurti, Jyoti Sharma, l Govind, Raju Rao, Imtiyaz Ansari, Dr, TN Dubey, Aakriti Mehra, Aslam Humdule, Mahuaa Chaterjee, Anjan Mukherjee and Sunil Shukraware.
Moreover, the programme is also bieng organized as a tribute to evergreen play back singers of Bollywood like Mohammad Rafi, Talat Mahmood, Suraiya, Shamshad Begum, Amiribai Karnataki, Zohrabai Ambaliwali, Hemant Kumar, Noorjehan, Kishore and Mukesh Kumar. The city singer presented their songs before the Bhopalites. The event began with the song ‘Koi Matwala’, followed by ‘Tere Naam Ka Deewana’, ‘Huzur Yeh Raat’, ‘Aye meri Zohra jabeen’ and more. The second half of the programme began with the song ‘Tum Mujhe Yun Bhula na paogey, followed by, ‘Jane chale jaatey hain kahan’, ‘Phir wahi shaam’, ‘Zindagi Ke Safar Me’ , ‘Oh Jaane Wale’. The event concluded with the song, ‘Jeena Yahan Marna Yahan.’ As many as 31 songs were presented before the audiences.
Besides, some city personalities including Mahira Salamauddin, Ashok Kumat, Abdul Shafik, Rambabu Sharma, Mohammad Arif lateef, Mohammad Raies Khan, Sanjeev Sachdeva, Aarti Goswami, Kamlesh Jaimini, Shyam Krishnamurty, Puspendra Singh Sengar and l Govind were felicitated with ‘Dr, S M Khan – Kala Gaurav Samman’ on the occasion.