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Jugalbandi with Anup Jalota
BIBHUTI MISHRA
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The `jugalbandi' between Mahaprasad Kar and Anup Jalota hooked the audience, writes Bibhuti Mishra
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MELODY TIME Anup Jalota strikes the right chord
Jugalbandi is one musical treat that every music buff looks forward to with eager anticipation. And if it involves artistes of the same calibre, complementing each other and even engaging in one-upmanship, the audience is sure to be thoroughly regaled. Sanskar, a new cultural outfit floated by ace musician Prafulla Kar, took the bold step of organising a jugalbandi featuring renowned singer of bhajans and ghazals, Anup Jalota, and Mahaprasad Kar, a singer of repute. Pradeep Ghose and Rocket Mandal from Kolkata provided the musical accompaniment on the tabla and the guitar respectively while the young and talented Abhiram Nanda played the flute. The first session devoted to Hindi and Oriya bhajans began with Mahaprasad singing poet Jayadeva's famous piece from Geetagovindam, Rati sukha sari. Anup Jalota, in his typical style, regaled the jampacked house with his well-known bhajans like Aisi lagi lagan meera ho gayi magan, Payoji maine ram ratan dhan payo and Pag ghungroom bandh meera nachi thi etc. Mahaprasad often gave him company and did a good job with a traditional Oriya song Mana Matila Re traced to the days of Sri Chaitanya. The second session had Mahaprasad singing Odissi songs while Jalota belted out ghazals. Mahaprasad opened with a famous Odissi number Aja dekhili go nabeena bayasi bala but one wished he had not tried improvisation on the traditional tunes with gimmicky sargams and taans. Jalota responded with a highly romantic Chand angadaiyyan re raha ai chandi muskurane lagi hai, which had such touching lines like Ashq ankhon mein aaye to pile, dil jo roye to hothon ko sile, ai mohabbat teri ansoon pe hansi unko aane lagi hai by Raaz Ilahabadi.
Sanskar is a centre for creative global music but it is not clear why the jugalbandi was hosted under the banner `East Meets West' unless the reference is to eastern India, i.e. Orissa, and western India, i.e. Mumbai, that Jalota hails from. Mahaprasad is a young artiste of competence groomed by his father Prafulla Kar himself. But a seasoned performer like Jalota overshadowed him in a jugalbandi. But if, as Prafulla Kar says, the objective was to showcase the talent of singers here by presenting Mahaprasad with Anup Jalota, the programme was well worth the effort.
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Thiruvananthapuram
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