BISMILLAH KHAN THE INDIAN PAKISTANI SHEHNAI MAKER

Emperor Aurangzeb and the playing of musical instrument call Pungi in the Royal Residence for it had his real unpleasant soundly became the generic name for read it noise makers few had thought that it would one day be received a Babar of a family of a professional musicians who had Axis to the Royal Palace decided to improve the Donal quality of Pungi he choose the five within natural hollow stem that was longer and brother and a fungi and made 7 holes on the body of the pipe when he played on it closing and opening some of these hole soft and melodies sounds were produced he played the instrument before reality and everyone was impress the instrument so different from the fungi had to be given a new name as The Story Goes since it was first blade by in the short chamber and was played by a night the instrument was name.

The sound of Shehnai begin to be considered auspicious and for this reason it is still played in temples and is an indisciplineable component of any North Indian wedding in the past the Shehnai was part of the novel or traditional assemble of 9 instruments found at royal Court still recently it was used only in temples and wedding the credit for bringing this instrument on to the classical goes to start Bismillah Khan.

As if I were's old Bismillah Khan played gilli danda near a Pound in the ancient state of dumrao in Bihar he would regularly go to the nearby temple to sing the Bhojpuri Chaita at the end of which he would Arnold with laddu waiting 1.25 kg a price given by the local Maharaja this is happened and the little boy was travelling for two on the highest civilian award in the India the Bharat Ratna

Born on 21 March 1916 Bismillah belongs to a well on family of musicians from Bihar his grandfather Rasul books Khan was the Shehnai Nawaz of the Bhojpur Kings Court is father Paigambar bugs and other paternal and sister were also great Shehnai player

The young boy took the music early in life at the age of three when his mother to came to his maternal uncle's house in Banaras now said to have Varanasi Bismillah was fascinated watching his uncle practice to Shehnai soon Bismillah started a company in his uncle Alibag to the Vishnu Temple of Banaras where box was employed to play the Shehnai alibags would play the Shehnai and Bismillah would it for hours on and slowly started getting lessons on in playing the instrument and would sit practicing throughout the day for years to come the temple of Balaji and Mangala Maiya and the banks of Ganga became the young aprentice favourite horns where he could practice in solitude the following waters of the Ganga inspired him to improvise and invent Ragas that were earlier considered to be beyond the range of the Shehnai

At the age of 14 Bismillah complaint his uncle to the Allahabad music conference at the end of his recycle Ustad Fiaz Khan patered the young boys back and said work hard and you shall make it with the opening of all India radio in Lucknow in 1938 came Bismillah big break he is soon became an often hertz and I player on radio when India pendants on 15 August 1947 Bismillah Khan became the first Indian to great the nation with his Shenai he Pode his heart out of into Raag Kafi from the Red Fort to the an audience which included Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru who letter give his famous Christ with Destiny speech

Bismillah Khan was given many memorable performances both in India and abroad is first trip abroad was to Afghanistan where King Zaheer Shah was so taken in by the Maestro that he gifted him priceless Persian carpets and other Souvenir the king of Afghanistan was not the only one to be fascinated with Bismillah music film director Vijay Bhatt was so impressed after hearing Bismillah at the festival that he named film after the instrument called Goonj Uthi Shehnai the film was hit and one of Bismillah Khan's composition ality and glamour of the film world he says with emphasis

Awards and recognization came taken pass Bismillah Khan became the first Indian to be invited to perform at the prestigious Lincoln Centre hall in the United States of America he also to part in the world exposition in Montreal in the cannot festival and in the Osaka trade fair so well known did he became internationally that and Auditorium in Tehran was named after him Tahir Mosque Ustad Bismillah Khan

National awards like Padmashree the Padma Bhushan and the Padma vibhushan were conformed on him

In 2001 Ustad Bismillah Khan was awarded India's highest civilian award the Bharat Ratna which the covetor award pressing on his chest and his eyes Latin with their happiness he said all I would like to says teach your children music this is Hindustan rich richest traditional even the west is now coming to learn our music

In fight of having travel all over the world Khan Sahab as he is founderly called as exceedingly found of Banaras Hindu Rao and they remain for him the most wonderful towns of the world is student of his once wanted him to Shehnai school in USA and the student promise to recreate the atmosphere of Banaras by replicating the temples their but Khan Sahab ask him if he would be able to transport river Ganga as well letter he remember to have said that is why whenever I am in foreign country I keep earning to see Hindustan while in Mumbai I think of only Banaras and the holy Ganga and while in Banaras I miss the unique of dumrao

Ustad Bismillah Khan's life is a perfect example of the rich cultural heritage of India won that effortlessly accept that they what Muslim like him can very naturally play the Shehnai very morning at the Kashi Vishwanath Temple

While interview was taken by Shekhar Gupta in which he ask that why don't you go to Pakistan with your family when the partition happened Bismillah Khan's answer what that got forbid me leave Banaras never I went to Pakistan once I cross the border just to say I have been to Pakistan I was there for about an I said namaskar to the Pakistani and salam alaikum to the Indians I had a good luck

Ustad Bismillah Khan passed away on 21 August 26@ 90 after a prolonged illness he was given a state funeral and the Government of India declared one day of the national mourning.

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