| Told by | Sri Jayanta Chattopadhyay |
| Obtained by | Rajeswary Ganguly Banerjee |
| Date | 6th December, 2016 |
| Place | S.A.P. Lab, Instrumental Department, Rabindra Bharati University, B.T. Road Campus. |
| About the speaker | Renowned Vocalist and Musicologist, Son of Legendary Musician Ustad Vishmadev Chattopadhyay. |
| Tags | Vishmadev Chattopadhyay, Badal Khan, 1924, kite flying, lessons, Moizuddin Khan, Amiya Nath Sanyal, Don-Baithak, exercise |
| Language | Bengali, Hindi |
Sri Jayanta Chattopadhyay speaks :
Verbatim:
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Verbatim by: Rajeswary Ganguly Banerjee
Translation:
All artists are known to be a bit moody. Musicians are no exception, as they are always within their Sadhana. Since they cannot see the music and have to attain it through the feeling, they are called Sangeet Sadhaks. So they are moody by nature. Badal Khan was moody and short-tempered too. And all the more was Vishmadeb.
One day, in 1924-25, Badal Khan saheb had come to teach and learned that his disciple was up on the roof, flying a kite. He said, “Don’t call him, I’ll go there myself.” He knew his student’s mood. He went up gently and found Vishmadev’s eyes on the kite in the sky. He took the kite’s spool from his hand .Viishmadev, finding his guru there, was taken a back, but Badal Kahan saheb told him, you go on flying the kite. He kept the kite’s spool in his hands, and started to hum a lesson from there, and his student, with his kite in the sky, was learning , singing along. These ways of imparting lessons were there in those days, but now we have become too much methodical.
When Baba was a bit older, he used to indulge in physical exercises a lot. One day Badal Khan saheb had arrived when he was doing his exercises. My father could do 500 push-ups at one stretch; something many people could do in multiple sets. So Badal Khan saheb found him doing one push-up after another. When he finished, he found his Guru standing behind him. He said, “beta, if you continue exercising like this, you would ruin your voice”, but praised him too by saying that he had not seen anybody do it like this. We have heard that Moizuddin Khan Saheb did push-ups and squats before he performed at a programme, which finds mention in Amiya Nath Sanyal’s writings. So it was with Vishmadev.
Translated by: Arundhati Banerjee
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