Interviews

He remained dedicated to uplift the status of Santoor as an accepted instrument that can deal the dexterity of Indian classical music. As per him, he was dedicated to the command and wish of his Guru (His father Pt. Uma Dutt Sharma) and was also chosen by God as a medium to achieve this task. While young, Pt. Shiv Kumar Sharma, good looking as he was (and is!), he was offered a role in films too but he was focused on Santoor and no wonder that his single-minded devotion to the instrument earned him world-wide fame, while he established...

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He belongs to Ambala Cantt. in Haryana but is one of the most favorite actors on TV in the present times. If you have seen the famous TV serial Chandragupta Maurya, the character of Chanakya is played by Manish Wadhwa. He says that he always wanted to do acting and nothing else. He says that if he is asked to do anything else, he won’t be able to do because he has concentrated all his life on acting. No wonder that this concentration fetched him many awards right from the school days to the university level before he cut...

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He was not too much into music though his father was a famous music director. But as destiny had it, he was brought back to the fold of music and he took it with delight. He learned playing guitar and worked as an assistant with great music director Charanjeet Ahuja. Then, he staged a fantastic performance by composing the famous song–Dil lai gi kudi Gujarat di… It was a milestone by all means and he did not look back. He went on to compose music for all the major Punjabi singers and continues his journey with dedicated zeal. He...

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He was forced on a gun-point (almost) to sing a song while he was there to play Tabla. Yet, he went on to become one of the most recorded (in a day) and celebrated singer of Hindi films. He realized that he could sing when he was forced to do it. He started his career in 80s but is still the favorite singer of many. He holds the record of singing maximum songs in a day owing his ability to pick up the song quickly and deliver it with optimal expression and delicacy. He says that youngsters should not...

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There is not much you can write about when the subject is such an overwhelming personality. But the scope is endless if you really want to. The aura of such a personality, such a graceful exponent of such a simple yet divine music instrument often overtakes on your writing skills. You just want to give up everything and submerge in the melodious envelop that they create. It is with such an excited hesitancy that we write about the world-famous bansuri player Pt. Hariprasad Chaurasia. He carried his passion with incomparable zeal and brought rich laurels to his art, his...

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He hails from Mumbai and wanted to take up professional Cricket as his career. However, while he continued his engineering career, he pursued his passion in commentary. He was aided by his technical knowledge yet he says that he developed his style from his own experience. He mentions that Indian Cricket is suffering from over-kill while there is tremendous opportunities for youngsters to pursue a career in commentary. The Indian sports scene needs to be developed in a way that sports should be understood and practiced without too much emotional bonding–a trait that Indian system carries willy nilly. We...

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He never went to school but his funny and witty punches can make you ROFL. He washed dishes on shops and worked in workshops before he gradually carved his niche in the world of comedy. He mentions that he never felt he is working hard or undergoing hardships. He loved his work so much that he never had the time to reflect how hard his life had been going. He mentions that despondency never hit him because he never expected too much from his life–the mantra he worked upon was to do his karma and not to crave for...

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