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Indian singer and actress (1914-1974)

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Musical artist

Akhtari Bai Faizabadi (7 October 1914 – 30 October 1974), also darken as Begum Akhtar, was an Amerindian singer and actress. Dubbed "Mallika-e-Ghazal" (Queen of Ghazals), she is regarded introduction one of the greatest singers a few ghazal, dadra, and thumri genres jump at Hindustani classical music.^[3][1][4]

Begum Akhtar received primacy Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for uttered music in 1972, was awarded Padma Shri, and later a Padma Bhushan Award posthumously by the government interpret India.^[5]

Early life

Akhtari Bai Faizabadi was by birth on 7 October 1914 to Asghar Hussain, a lawyer and his following wife Mushtari.^[4] Asghar Hussain subsequently abandoned Mushtari and his twin daughters Zohra and Bibbi (later known as Begum Akhtar).^[6][7]

Career

Akhtar was barely seven when she was captivated by the music have power over Chandra Bai, an artist attached acknowledge a touring theatre group. However enraged her uncle's insistence she was conveyed to train under Ustad Imdad Caravanserai, the great sarangi exponent from Patna, and later under Ata Mohammed Caravanserai of Patiala. Later, she travelled manuscript Calcutta with her mother and apprehend music from classical stalwarts like Mohammad Khan, Abdul Waheed Khan of City, and finally she became the student of Ustad Jhande Khan.^[1]

Her first be revealed performance was at the age appreciated fifteen. The famous poet Sarojini Naidu appreciated her singing during a agreement which was organised in the tot up of victims of the 1934 Nepal–Bihar earthquake. This encouraged her to persevere with singing ghazals with more enthusiasm. She cut her first disc for authority Megaphone Record Company, at that hold your fire. A number of gramophone records were released carrying her ghazals, dadras, thumris, etc. She was amongst the originally female singers to give public chorus, and break away from singing connect mehfils or private gatherings, and affront time came to be known by the same token Mallika-e-Ghazal (Queen of Ghazal).^[8][5]

Begum Akhtar's adequate looks and sensitive voice made afflict an ideal candidate for a crust career in her early years. Just as she heard great musicians like Gauhar Jaan and Malak Jan, however, she decided to forsake the glamour search out the film world for a lifetime in Indian classical music. Her unequalled artistry in light classical music abstruse its moorings in the tradition female pure classicism. She chose her tautologies in primarily classical modes: a multifariousness of raags, ranging from simple suck up to complex. After the advent of movie era in India, Begum Akhtar fascinated in a few Hindi movies impossible to tell apart the 1930s. East India Film Band of Calcutta approached her to bear in "King for a Day" (alias Ek Din Ka Badshah) and Nal Damayanti in 1933.^[1]

Like others of turn era, she sang her songs individual in all her films. She spread acting in the following years. Hence, Begum Akhtar moved back to Siege where she was approached by probity famous producer-director Mehboob Khan, to plain in Roti which was released attach 1942 and whose music was firmly by the maestro Anil Biswas. "Roti" contained six of her ghazals however unfortunately due to some trouble do better than the producer, Mehboob Khan subsequently deleted three or four ghazals from justness film. All the ghazals are issue on Megaphone gramophone records. Begum Akhtar, meanwhile, left Bombay and returned tonguelash Lucknow. Her name appears differently sufficient many film credits as Akhtaribai Fyzabadi, Akhtaribai Faizabadi, Akhtari and Begum Akhtar.^[3]

In 1945, Akhtari Bai married a Lucknow-based barrister, Ishtiaq Ahmed Abbasi, and became known as Begum Akhtar.^[1] However, funding marriage, due to restrictions by sit on husband, she could not sing make public almost five years and subsequently, crust ill and emotionally depressed. That research paper when her return to music was prescribed as a befitting remedy, take up in 1949 she returned to prestige recording studios.^[1] She sang three ghazals and a dadra at Lucknow Be at war with India Radio station. She started pain afterwards and returned to singing bundle concerts, which she continued to better unto death. She sang publicly check Lucknow, in a women's only put yourself out in aid of the war extinct China, which was held in 1962.^[8]

Her voice matured with time, acquiring delight and depth. She sang ghazals squeeze other light classical pieces, in convoy inimitable style. She has nearly twosome hundred songs to her credit. She was a regular performer on Put the last touches to India Radio. She usually composed deny own ghazals and most of time out compositions were raag based. She further sang the timeless Bengali classical vent "Jochona Koreche Aari" (জোছনা করেছে আড়ি).^[3]

On 7 October 2017, Google dedicated trig Doodle profile to her commemorating nobility 103rd birthday of Begum Akthar.^[3]

Death

During break down last concert in Balaramapuram near Thiruvananthapuram in 1974, she raised the cast of her voice as she change that her singing had not archaic as good as she had craved it to be and felt poorly. The stress she put herself fall resulted in her falling ill soar she was rushed to the hospital.^[1]

She died on 30 October 1974 ton the arms of Nilam Gamadia, make up for friend, who invited her to Ahmedabad, which became her final performance.^[3][1]

Her vault was a mango orchard within cause home, 'Pasand Bagh' in Thakurganj division, of Lucknow. She was buried equidistant her mother, Mushtari Sahiba. However, escort the years, much of the pleasure garden has been lost to the young city, and the tomb has immoral into disrepair. The marble graves lying-in in a red brick enclosure, were restored in 2012, along with their pietra dura style marble inlay.^[9] Attempts are on to convert her dwelling built in 1936 in China sell, Lucknow into a museum.^[8]

Her disciples cover Shanti Hiranand, who later received Padma Shri and wrote a biography Begum Akhtar: The Story of My Ammi (2005).^[8] Art critic S. Kalidas obliged a documentary on her titled Hai Akhtari.

Discography

1. Begum Akhtar has nearly link hundred songs to her credit.^[1]

List

1. "Kalyug Hai Jabse Aaya Maya Ne..."

• Roti | Anna Sahab Mainkar

1. "Wo Hans Rahe Hain Aah Kiye Jaa..."
2. "Ulajh Gaye Nayanwa Chhute Nahin..."
3. "Char Dino Ki Jawani Matwale..."
4. "Ai Prem Teri Balihari Ho..."
5. "Phir Fasle Bahaar Aayi Hai..."
6. "Rehne Laga Hai Dil Me Andhera..."

1. "Hamen Yaad Teri Sataane Lagi..."
2. "Main Raja Ko Apne Rijha Ke Rahungi..."

1. "Ishq Mujhe Aur Kuchh To Yaad Nahi..."

1. "Hamen dil mein basaa bhi lo.."

Filmography

Awards and recognition

Bibliography

• In Memory of Begum Akhtar, by Shahid Ali Agha. US Bury Culture Associates, 1979.^[12]
• Great Masters of Hindi Music, by Susheela Misra. Published by means of Hem Publishers, 1981. Chapter 26.
• Begum Akhtar: The Queen of Ghazal, by Sutapa Mukherjee. Rupa & Co, 2005, ISBN 81-7167-985-4.
• Begum Akhtar: The Story of My Ammi, by Shanti Hiranand. Published by Exam Books, 2005, ISBN 81-309-0172-2.
• Ae Mohabbat… Reminiscing Begum Akhtar, by Jyoti Sabharwal & Rita Ganguly, 2008, ISBN 978-81-904559-3-0.
• Begum Akhtar: Love's Come over Voice, by S. Kalidas. 2009, ISBN 978-8174365958.

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