The folk music lovers of the city were enthralled to listen to the tunes of Bhojpuri folk songs in a musical concert ‘Phagua-Chaita Samaroh’. The young Bhojpuri singers Prabhakar-Diwakar Pandey and Chandan Tiwari gave a delightful performance here on Thursday at Antarang Hall, Bharat Bhavan.
The concert ‘Phagua-Chaita Samaroh’ was organised by Bhojpuri Sahitya Akademi. The programme began with the performance of young folk singer Pabhakar Pandey, who hails from Bihar. He started off with ‘Kaisan Bare laxman Devarwa’. This song was part of ‘Ramayan Prasang’ in which Sita is asking about lord Rama and laxman from Hanuman. A purivi song ‘Jabna Matiya Per Tohro Bitawala Baalpana’, depicted the childhood days, enchanted the audience.
A song ‘Geet Bhojpuri Se Ashleel Hatawal Jaiet’, written by Bharat Sharma was presented by him. This song is known as ‘Ashleelta Ke Virudh ’. He ended his performance with Udan song ‘Bolwa To Bolwa Jamanwa’ He also presented phag song, appreciated by audience. His brother Diwakar Pandey accompanied him on dholak, Arjun Kumar on Banjo, Teji Narayan on octopad, ‘Devesh Dubey on tabla Chhotelal Rai on manjeera.
The concert concluded with the performance of Chandan Tiwari who hails from Jharkland. She began with Batohiya song ‘Sundar Subhoomi Maiya Bharat Ek Deshwa’. It was followed with Devi Pachara, Basant and phag song including ‘Ganga Jee Se Matiya’, ‘Aael Basant’, ‘Holi Kehele Masane Mein’ and ‘Noon Dewo Mangni Hum Tel Dewo Mangni’, enchanted the audiences. Here Pachara song is special song of Bhojpuri folk style.
A purvi song ‘Aadhi Aadhi Ratiya’, presented by her won huge round of applause. The important part of this song is composed by Bhojpuri music maestro Mahendra Misry when he was in jail. She ended her performance with Chaiti song ‘Sutal Saiya Ke Jagawe Ho Rama’. It was an enthralling experience for the music lovers of the city. Munna Upadhyay accompanied her on Harmonium, Pramod Kumar ‘Badri’ on tabla, Rajkumar Pathak on dholak, Sunil on Banjo and Arvind on Jhal.
Director of Bhojuri Sahitya Akademi Nawal Shukla, Director of MP School of Drama Vinay Upadhyay, noted art critic Vinay Upadhyay and Bhopuri Journalist Pankaj Kumar and other music lovers were present. It is to be noted that it was the first performance of both artistes in Bharat Bhawan and first visit to Bhopal.