Live stream preview

Watch this video and more on Darbar Player

Watch this video and more on Darbar Player

Pandit Venkatesh Kumar | Director's Cut

Director's Cut • 1h 33m

Up Next in Director's Cut

  • Veena Sahasrabuddhe | Full Concert

    The late Sahasrabuddhe was a serious exponent of the Gwalior gharana sings Ahir Bhairav, Shudh Sarang, Raag Mala, Nirguni Bhajan and India’s national song the ‘Vande Mataram’, leaving many in tears at the end of her morning concert.

    Sahasrabuddhe begins Ahir Bhairav with a slow composition set...

  • Jayanthi Kumaresh | Full Concert

    Pre-Vedic texts from 2000 BCE have referenced the saraswati veena as 8000 years old. It is solid, about 5 feet long and notoriously bulky weighing about 8 to 9 kilograms. Its recorded history of exponents comprises a long list and is a strongly male-dominated one.

    But Kumaresh has expelled many...

  • Shruti Sadolikar-Katkar | Full Concert

    “Have you ever closed your eyes and run your fingers over a colourful, Persian rug?” asks Vidushi Shruti Sadolikar-Katkar as she describes the repertoire of combined Ragas which is typical of the Jaipur-Atrauli Gharana. “You will be able to trace its patterns without feeling anything, even though...