World record attempt by vocalist Pandit Narayan

PUNE: Vocalist Pandit Ramesh Narayan will attempt a world record by singing continuously for 36 hours at the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) on January 19 and 20. Narayan will render a vocal recital of the Hindustani classical music in an event which will be inaugurated by Pandit Jasraj on January 19 at 5 am. The recital will conclude at 6 pm on January 20.The event has been organised to mark the 100 years of Indian cinema, a statement issued by FTII on Tuesday said.
Renowned musicians and maestros including Yalla Venkateswar Rao, Ustad Dilshad Khan, Pandit Anand Badamikar, Hariharan, Shankar Mahadevan, Pandit Ravindra Chary, Pandit Arvind Kumar Azad, Pandit Aditya Narayan Banerjee and many other exponents of the Indian classical music are expected to be present during this event.
Narayan desires to dedicate this event to all the gurus, legends and leaders of the past and present of the Indian and world music, as well as other art forms, world literature and science and social reform.
Narayan is a senior disciple of Pandit Jasraj and has a long association with the city. He learned sitar and tabla for four years under Pandit Sachidananda Phadke, disciple of the great Sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar. He was first introduced to Hindustani vocal music by Saheb Mohammad Hussain in Pune and later, he mastered the rare ragas and taals from Pandit Vittal Ksheerasagar who presented him with a tanpura.
Narayan will present the vocal recital in accordance with the samayachakra of the ragas, as an act of embodying the spirit and the essence of the Hindustani classical music. This is the second time that he is performing such a marathon singing feat. He already holds a record of rendering a 30-hour long vocal recital of Hindustani music, in 1994 under the auspices of Soorya, the cultural organisation based in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.