PRATISHRUTI - An International Festival for Indian Classical Dance and Music. VOCAL - INSTRUMENTAL

After having a wonderful response from the audience last year this year Nadam is organising Pratishruti12- a venture to establish the actual idea of Sangeet as explained in Sanskrit sloka.

"Geetam Badyam Thatha Nrityam
Trayam Sangeetam Uchhate"

This definition of Sangeet is losing its actual meaning these days. To re-establish this idea of Sanskrit sloka we are going to organise a festival of two days where people of suburb area will be able to get the flavor of Sangeet(Geet, Badya,Nritya).This event will include seminars,workshops apart from the performance.

Purpose of organising such an event is to give an opportunity to the people of suburb areas to witness and enjoy the meaning of Sangeet in international standard in true sense.

As a Kathak dancer, choreographer and a trainer,working in the professional field for the last 20 years I have accumulated a number of experiences from India and abroad.In the process, I have been able to identify a few aspects, which I would like to illuminate upon to make Indian Classical Music and Dance more accepted worldwide.Though we already have a recognition Globally, still I realise there is a need to bring about a transformation in the presentation of the various forms to incite interest and attract the next generation more towards it.

- Sandip Mallick.

Srabonti Dutta
Srabonti is a Singapore based an Indian Classical Dancer with the Odissi Dance form being her primary area of interest. She has studied Indian Classical Dance at the prestigious Rabindra Bharti University in Kolkata, India and graduated with an MA. She has performed in dance and cultural festivals in India, Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia and has won numerous awards.

Sudeshna Maulik
Montreal based kathak dancer,trainer and choreographer Sudeshna Maulik has been studying kathak since the age of seven in Calcutta, India, under guru Pt. Chitresh Das, and there after in Shri Ram Bharatiya Kala Kendra, New Delhi and at the National Kathak Institute under the mentorship of Padmabhibhushan Birju Maharaj. Later she went to Padmashree Kumudini Lakia (the great visionary of contemporary kathak) and learned the finer nuances of choreography). She is a graded artist in Delhi Doordarshan.
Maulik has danced and given workshops and lecture-demonstrations all over the world.

Pandit Ranajit Sengupta
Pandit Ranajit Sengupta is one of the youngest TOP Grade Sarode Player from All India Radio & Television representing MAIHAR SENI Gharana & having performed in major Music Festivals & Venues in more than 30 Countries around the world.An Internationally acclaimed Artiste & Composer Ranajit is the winner of President's award,HMV Best talent Award & a topper oin both Graduation & Master's level exam from Rabindra Bharati University.He is a Guest Lecturer in many Universities in USA, Canada, Germany, Switzerland & India.

Ashim Chowdhury
Ashim Chowdhury is one of the best Sitar Player of his Generation in India representing Imdad khani Gharana.He has performed in major Music Festivals & venues in India & abroad.An "A" grade artiste of All India Radio & Television,Ashim is the winner of many prestigiuos awards & honours.He is an artiste of ICCR.Ashim has few CD & Cassette releases to his credit & is a Post Graduate in Mathematics & MBA beside his bright Musical career.

Sandip Mallick
Sandip Mallick, an internationally acclaimed kathak dancer,
choreographer and trainer,started his training at the age of four under the tutelage of Guru Smt.Sreelekha Mukherjee,continuing his training till today he has got opportunity to take talim in depth from Pt. Birju Maharajji,Pt.Rammohan Maharajji,Pt.Chitreash Das,Late Guru Bela Arnab,Guru Bandana Sen,Pt.Vijai Sankar and Smt Saswati Sen. He has taken talim of rythem from Tabla Maestro Pt. Kumar Bose.
All the talim taken from different Gurus and his own imagination has given his dancer a new dimension. An M.A in kathak from Rabindra bharati university is an empaneled artist of ICCR and doordarshan.He is the founder director of NADAM and a senior teacher of Padatik Dance Centre,the peripheral branch of Kathak kendra New Delhi.

Monira Parveen
Monira Parveen Happy, an ICCR Scholar from Bangladesh; studing Rabindra Bharati University M.A (Kathak) Dance. In Bangladesh, she has trained under the renowned dancer Shibli Mohammad & Shamim Ara Nipa at Nrittyanchal. In 2006, she honored with two gold meddels at National Level. In India, she continue her talim under Guru Sri Sandip Mallick at Nadam & perform many prestigious festivles like "Uday Sanker Dance Festivels", "World Dance Day", "Handia Kathak Mahayagya", Puri Beach Festivle" in different group choriography as a student of Sri Sandip Mallick.

Bibhas Sanghai - Tabla
Bivash Sanghai comes from a family of music lovers. His father Prof. Lalit Mohan Sanghai is a great Tabla Player of the Banaras Gharana. Having started music lessons at the age of two from his father, Bivash was encouraged by his father to take up music as his career. He entered the tutelage of Pandit Krishna Kumar Ganguly (Natu Babu) in his early teens trained under him for twenty-two years. After the death of his guru, Bivash began advanced training under Pandit Samar Saha.

Anjana Nath
An 'A' grade artiste of all India Radio & Doordarshan (Television) as well as a research fellow of Govt. of India, Anjana started singing from her early childhood and blossomed under the shade of her pious mother, Smt. Kusumita Nath; but her first formal teacher was Smt. Meera Banerjee, who is regarded as one of the frontlines among the disciples of Ustad bade Ghulam Ali Khan. Later on she persuaded her talim under Late Lalit Mohan Sanyal. From 1989 in SRA then on Guru Pandit Ajoy Chakraborty has taken the guiderole of her musical career.
Anjana is a regular performer in the music festivals in India and abroad.

Aniruddha Mukherjee
Born in a musically dedicated family, Aniruddha is one of the most talented and flourishing Tabla players. From the very early age he started receiving his talim from renowned Tabla exponent Pt. Kanai Mukherjee and thereafter ecstatic guidance of leading Tabla exponent Prof. Debashish Mukherjee . Presently having talim from Pt. Shubhankar Banerjee.He has accompanied with most renowned Indian dancers and musicians around the Globe.

Subir Thakur
Subir Thakur has a rare combination of knowledge both in the field of Tabla and Kathak dance. He started learning Tabla from his elder brother Tapan Thakur. Later, he started to learn from Guru Anand Bodas, who was a famous Tabla wizard of Farukhabad Gharana.
In the field of dance, he started learning the pure form of Lukhnow Gharana(Kathak) from Sri Santosh Kumar. He also got chance to learn from Pt. Birju Maharaj and Smt. Saswati Sen several times in their workshops.
As a Kathak performer and Tabla player, he performed at different places all over India, and got blessings and appreciation from spectator and critics.