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Amonkar's Panigrahi
It was the turn of renowned classical singer, Kishori Amonkar, to do a Panigrahi at the concluding overnight session of the Durga Puja music fest.
"I do not think you are liking my singing," the septuagenarian singer said in anguish before leaving the stage with dignity.
But CM Nitish Kumar's Naya Bihar was not prepared to suffer its own indignity. Bihari stars from TV and films — Shekhar Suman and Prakash Jha— who were flanking the chief minister, rushed backstage to soothe "Tai" (aunty) Amonkar.
Jha then escorted the singer back to her hotel. "She will come back," he told TOI as he got into her car. Suman, meanwhile, took centrestage, leaving Bhojpuri pop-icon Manoj Tiwari still, to bring back a semblance of order and festive spirit back in the milling audience.
"We must prove that Biharis are a good audience and we appreciate artistes," he said before going on to sing three songs — one in a mix of Bhojpuri and Maithili. "Kishorijee will come back to sing... we will listen to her," he said.
Clearly Jha and Suman, who had come as Nitish's star spectators along with Shatrughan Sinha, rose to the occasion to become Nitish's effective crisis managers. "You may find it an exaggeration but I would have even fallen prostrate in front of her for her forgiveness," a sweating Suman told mediapersons.
Observers said a mix of a swelling crowd unable to either get in or find chairs coupled with the restiveness for Tiwari's Bhojpuri pop cooked up a cacophonous mocktail of noise which was not conducive to Amonkar's singing. "She was unable to concentrate," an old gentleman surmised.
"I would not blame the audience. An entirely new generation has grown up," filmmaker Prakash Jha said, tongue in cheek. "Change cannot come overnight... it takes time. But Bihar has taken its first steps towards that," he added.
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