The Bhopalites witnessed a splendid musical concert ‘Music and Melody’ here on Friday. The show was a blend of instrumental and vocal melodies presented by the artists from the city Sanjeev Sachdeva and Nayansee Shrma at Radha Krishnan Auditorium of Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology (MANIT).
Notably the programme was oranised by Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) under the horizon series of cultural events. Sanjeev Sachdeva is a well known accordion and keyboard player of country and has done numerous shows all over India and abroad.
He is trained in classical vocal Music but his passion was keyboards and accordion which he picked up at a very early age.
While talking to The Pioneer, Sanjeev said, “I loved the keyboard since my childhood and have the craze to play it and eventually I built an interest towar5ds accordion and switched over it.”
Sanjeev Sachdeva’s instrumental music albums have been released by T series, Times Music which has got wide appreciation all over.
Sanjeev Sachdeva has also done countless shows with noted artists and has been awarded at Sur Singaar Sansad, Mumbai for his contribution towards instrumental music.
On quoting his viewpoint about the future of instrumental music, he said, “These days’ people are losing interest for instrumental music. Earlier the songs that were made had an everlasting affect but these even the songs are not like that. So according to me if people develop an urge for instrumental music it will have a great future.”
Further, Nayansee Sharma is also one of the melodious singers from Bhopal and has received recognition across the country.
They both performed 16 songs in total. The programme began with Nayansee Sharma’s splendid performance where she performed songs like, Salona Sajan, Moh se chal, Hamri Atariya pe, Yeh Raat me jo maza, Kehna hi kya, Kamli Kamli, lal Pad meri and wrapped up her performance with Duniya me logo ko.
The programme was further followed with the performance by Sanjeev where he played Raj Kapoor’s Dil Ki nazar se, Aja Sanam, Vada Karo, Babuji Dhire, Chala Jata hun, Neely Neely ambar, Kadar Jaane Na and wrapped up with Badan Pe Sitare.