SAKHAWAT HUSSAIN KHAN | Piloo Thumri (1935)

Sarod: Ustad Sakhawat Hussain Khan Tabla: Ustad Faiyaz Hussain Khan Raga: Piloo Thumri Most present-day connoisseurs of old Raga-music recordings have heard Sakhawat Khan´s music for the first time in this thrilling video clip that was first uploaded to YouTube by Hungarian sitar player and collector Toth Szabi in October 2014. This clip stems from “The heritage collection” of JBH Wadia (a prominent movie director, screenwriter, producer and founder of Wadia Movietone Studio) which features six performances by leading classical musicians. Produced between 1933-1943 at the Wadia-Movietone studios in Bombay, as part of Wadia´s pioneering series “The Variety Programme”, these are the earliest filmed performances of leading 20th century artists. The short reels were shown as “openers”,before major movies in cinema halls. In 2019 we located a much cleaner copy of the “Variety Programme #8” in the collection of Irfan Khan and restored it. As Sakhawat Khan left India in early 1936 to tour Europe with Madame Menaka’s dance troupe, this reel must have been filmed some time between 1933 and early 1936. Each detail of this performance remains thrilling even after watching it many times: the beauty of his gat-toda, the superhuman speed and clarity of his bols, the playing posture, the stunning theka and thaap of the tabla accompanist, Ustad Faiyaz Hussain Khan (maternal uncle of Ustad Ahmed Jan Thirakwa)... . Follow this link for more information on the artist and his lineage: https://matyasitar.de/musician/sakhaw... More from Ustad Sakhawat Hussain Khan from our channel:    • SAKHAWAT HUSSAIN KHAN