A 24 hours long musical marathon was witnessed by the Bhopalites as Dhrupad Sansthan marked the International Day of Dhrupad on Wednesday. The marathon began from 6 am at Dhrupad Sansthan.
To mark the birth anniversary of Ustad Zia Moinuddin Dagar, the Dhrupad Sansthan organised a 24 hours marathon of musical performances in city. The musical marathon along with painting exhibition and poetry recital marked as International Day of Dhrupad.
The event witnessed performances by atleast 19 dhrupad artists and three pakhavaj players. This is not it, but, as many as 34 poets recited their poetries during poets meet organized on the occasion. Further a group exhibition of around 40 artists was put up to mark the D-day.
The grand event is being organized in the memory of Ustad Zia Moinuddin Dagar. Zia Mohiuddin Dagar was born on March 14 1929. He is popularly known as Z. M. Dagar, was a North Indian (Hindustani) classical musician, one of the 19th generation of Dagar family dhrupad musicians.
Informing about the International Day of Dhrupad, Ramakant Gundecha said, “We have organized the musical marathon in the memory of Ustad ZM Dagar under the Guru Shishya Parmapara. We are also the disciples of Dagar sahib and we feel pleasure as we give a tribute to him.”
The day began with the performances of Dhrupad gayaki. The series of events began with the marvelous performance by Gundecha Brothers with Raga Bhairav. They were accompanied by Ramesh Chandra Joshi on Pakhawaj and Anuja Borude on Tanpura.
Interestingly, the entire show was put on live on facebook wherein the appreciators of Dhrupad from across the world could watch the 24 hours marathon live.
After the performance by Gundecha Brothers, the solo performers like Amit lokhande, Mukund Dev. Anuja Borude played Pakhawaj solo and many others.
The eye pleasing feature of the event was the group exhibition by artists like Anand Prakash, Manish Pal, Manisha Jain, Chhaya Dubey, Basant Bhargav and many others. There was an amalgamation of sculptures, paintings and drawings altogether.