A musical evening with Rekha Bharadwaj in Lucknow

It was a night full of music when recently playback singer Rekha Bhardwaj performed in the city. The event witnessed Padma Vibhushan and santoor vadak Pt Shiv Kumar Sharma as one of the special attendees. The duo was felicitated and was awarded the ‘Naushad Samman’. OP Singh, Director General Of Police, UP, graced the occasion as the chief guest.(L) Pt Shiv Kumar Sharma (R) Sandhya Narain (BCCL/ Aditya Yadav)Rekha Bhardwaj sang some of her beautiful songs like Genda Phool, Kabira, Tere Ishq Mein and Namak Ishq Ka to name a few, which won her a standing ovation in the end. Pt. Shiv Kumar Sharma expressed his happiness in visiting the city again. “I have been to this wonderful city a lot of times earlier too but now the feeling is completely different. People of Lucknow are so loving that one cannot just stop himself from visiting the city.” Rekha Bhardwaj, on sharing her emotional connect with late music composer Naushad Ali, said, “I have grown up and spent my entire childhood listening to the songs composed by Naushad Sahab. He was a great music director.”— Prachi Arya(L) Sajal, Sangeeta Banerjee and GP Singh (R) Tuhin Banerjee (BCCL/ Aditya Yadav)(L) Athar Nabi (R) Zafar Nabi and Farida Yasmin (BCCL/ Aditya Yadav)(L) Lalit Khaitan (R) Asma Hussain and Anis Ansari (BCCL/ Aditya Yadav)(L) Beena and Jayant Krishna (R) Mayank (BCCL/ Aditya Yadav)(L) Meghna Singh (C) Monica (R) OP Singh (BCCL/ Aditya Yadav)Masood Abdullah (L) and Nawab Jafar Mir Abdullah (BCCL/ Aditya Yadav)