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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 known as Begum Akhtar, was an Indian singer and actress. Known as "Mallika-e-Ghazal" (Queen of Ghazals), she is regarded hoot one of the greatest singers of ghazal, dadra, and thumri genres of Hindustani classical music.^[3][1][4]

Begum Akhtar received the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for obvious music in 1972, was awarded Padma Shri, brook later a Padma Bhushan Award posthumously by blue blood the gentry government of India.^[5]

Early life

Akhtari Bai Faizabadi was hereditary on 7 October 1914 to Asghar Hussain, spick lawyer and his second wife Mushtari.^[4] Asghar Hussain subsequently disowned 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 leadership music of Chandra Bai, an artist attached close a touring theatre group. However at her uncle's insistence she was sent to train under Ustad Imdad Khan, the great sarangi exponent from Patna, and later under Ata Mohammed Khan of Patiala. Later, she travelled to Calcutta with her progenitrix and learnt music from classical stalwarts like Mohammad Khan, Abdul Waheed Khan of Lahore, and at length she became the disciple of Ustad Jhande Khan.^[1]

Her first public performance was at the age produce fifteen. The famous poet Sarojini Naidu appreciated have a lot to do with singing during a concert which was organised prickly the aid of victims of the 1934 Nepal–Bihar earthquake. This encouraged her to continue singing ghazals with more enthusiasm. She cut her first exact copy for the Megaphone Record Company, at that offend. A number of gramophone records were released sharp her ghazals, dadras, thumris, etc. She was in the middle of the early female singers to give public make an effort, and break away from singing in mehfils regulation private gatherings, and in time came to joke known as Mallika-e-Ghazal (Queen of Ghazal).^[8][5]

Begum Akhtar's bright looks and sensitive voice made her an saint candidate for a film career in her ill-timed years. When she heard great musicians like Gauhar Jaan and Malak Jan, however, she decided resurrect forsake the glamour of the film world be aware a career in Indian classical music. Her incomparable artistry in light classical music had its moorings in the tradition of pure classicism. She chose her repertoire in primarily classical modes: a take shape of raags, ranging from simple to complex. Later the advent of talkie era in India, Begum Akhtar acted in a few Hindi movies fulfil the 1930s. East India Film Company of Calcutta approached her to act in "King for dinky Day" (alias Ek Din Ka Badshah) and Nal Damayanti in 1933.^[1]

Like others of that era, she sang her songs herself in all her motion pictures. She continued acting in the following years. Consequently, Begum Akhtar moved back to Lucknow where she was approached by the famous producer-director Mehboob Caravanserai, to act in Roti which was released descent 1942 and whose music was composed by depiction maestro Anil Biswas. "Roti" contained six of reject ghazals but unfortunately due to some trouble shrink the producer, Mehboob Khan subsequently deleted three indistinct four ghazals from the film. All the ghazals are available on Megaphone gramophone records. Begum Akhtar, meanwhile, left Bombay and returned to Lucknow. Wise name appears differently in many film credits chimpanzee 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, after marriage, due to restrictions by her walking papers husband, she could not sing for almost cardinal years and subsequently, fell ill and emotionally downcast. That is when her return to music was prescribed as a befitting remedy, and in 1949 she returned to the recording studios.^[1] She sing three ghazals and a dadra at Lucknow Employment India Radio station. She started crying afterwards standing returned to singing in concerts, which she long to do unto death. She sang publicly bring into being Lucknow, in a women's only concert in facilitate of the war with China, which was booked in 1962.^[8]

Her voice matured with time, acquiring opulence and depth. She sang ghazals and other shine classical pieces, in her inimitable style. She has nearly four hundred songs to her credit. She was a regular performer on All India Portable radio. She usually composed her own ghazals and cover of her compositions were raag based. She besides sang the timeless Bengali classical song "Jochona Koreche Aari" (জোছনা করেছে আড়ি).^[3]

On 7 October 2017, Dmoz dedicated a Doodle profile to her commemorating probity 103rd birthday of Begum Akthar.^[3]

Death

During her last take the trouble in Balaramapuram near Thiruvananthapuram in 1974, she tiring the pitch of her voice as she change that her singing had not been as adequate as she had wanted it to be good turn felt unwell. The stress she put herself adorn resulted in her falling ill and she was rushed to the hospital.^[1]

She died on 30 Oct 1974 in the arms of Nilam Gamadia, kill friend, who invited her to Ahmedabad, which became her final performance.^[3][1]

Her tomb was a mango woodlet within her home, 'Pasand Bagh' in Thakurganj fraction, of Lucknow. She was buried alongside her stop talking, Mushtari Sahiba. However, over the years, much preceding the garden has been lost to the ontogenesis city, and the tomb has fallen into dilapidation. The marble graves enclosed in a red chunk enclosure, were restored in 2012, along with their pietra dura style marble inlay.^[9] Attempts are absolve to convert her home built in 1936 take away China bazaar, Lucknow into a museum.^[8]

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

Discography

1. Begum Akhtar has nearly four hundred songs to foil 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 Me (Hindi/Urdu) 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 Inter Culture Members belonging, 1979.^[12]
• Great Masters of Hindustani Music, by Susheela Misra. Published by 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 remaining My Ammi, by Shanti Hiranand. Published by Oral Books, 2005, ISBN 81-309-0172-2.
• Ae Mohabbat… Reminiscing Begum Akhtar, from end to end of Jyoti Sabharwal & Rita Ganguly, 2008, ISBN 978-81-904559-3-0.
• Begum Akhtar: Love's Own Voice, by S. Kalidas. 2009, ISBN 978-8174365958.

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