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Her Gramophone records were covering all her Dadra, Thumri ghazals, etc. Begum Akhter was no doubt good looking and thus also acted in nine movies. This movie contained six of her ghazals which are available on Megaphone Gramophone records. Akhtari got married in with a famous lawyer Ishtiaq Ahmed Abbasi of renown family. Her Husband restricted her from singing for almost five years, and she also felt ill during this period.

Then she returned to music that acted as a remedial measure for her illness. She received various awards for her work. Of India. Her charm always remained in her voice and her beauty too. She performed last in a concert of Ahmedabad, and she felt ill there and thus rushed to the hospital. She died on 30 October at the age of 60 leaving all her friends with sorrow and tears.

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Login Register. Home Hindi Hindi Movie Actress. Begum Akhtar Overview. Skills » Movie Actress. Written By - Team Nettv4u. Beena Kak Previous Biography. Begum Para Next Biography. Snake Themed Television Serials. Upcoming Films In India In Mushtari Begum then moved to Gaya along with Akhtari, but they continued to visit Faizabad often.

As was the practise in those days, the Ustad and shagird would live under the same roof and train for hours on end. Akhtari was then introduced to a basic knowledge of khayal gayaki. It is said that Khan sahib would be relentless in ensuring that Akhtari practised her vocal exercises and scales and that her riyaz in those days was intense, overlooked of course by Mushtari Begum.

The meticulous and often rigid genre of classical singing seemed to hold her back. He suggested to Mushtari Begum that her daughter was probably more interested in the deeply emotional styles of thumri, dadra and ghazal gayaki and proceeded to train her in those. She performed in public for the first time in Calcutta. A music festival was organised to raise funds for the victims of the Bihar earthquake at the Alfred Theatre in Calcutta in None of the major artists scheduled to perform that day could make it and the crowd was getting anxious.

Khan sahib is believed to have suggested that his young student perform till further arrangements could be made. But Akhtari enthralled one and all and the event became a solo concert of four ghazal s and five dadra s. It is said that Akhtari received compliments from Sarojini Naidu that evening, who happened to be in the audience. Akhtari proceeded to sing and act on stage at the Corinthian theatre in Calcutta as a part of a theatre company.

There is a debate as to whether Rangmahal was her first professional production or the musical Nai Dulhan. Even though she had stopped appearing on screen by then, the legendary Satyajit Ray managed to convince her to play a cameo in Jalsaghar However, this sudden rise in her stage and screen career meant that she could often not give enough time to her riyaz.

It is around this time that it is believed that her tutelage under Ustad Ata Mohammed Khan came to an end. After the move to Calcutta, the financial condition of the family is said to have bordered on the precarious. Akhtari was eager for her career to take off not only on a professional level but also to be able to help the situation. Ustad Ata Mohammed Khan is believed to have thought that Akhtari may not have been ready to be a professional recording artist yet.

However, against all advise she signed a record deal. The Megaphone Company signed her on and she started recording professionally as early as Akhtaribai Faizabadi became a sensation right away and was now a celebrity. A Pir baba asked her to open her book of couplets and place her finger on any ghazal. And that single ghazal made her a household name in northern India.

There are accounts of fans that literally were crazy about her after listening to this ghazal. It is said that one man in Lucknow was so mesmerized by her that he covered the walls in front of her house in Lucknow stretching the entire street with the words Hai Akhtari written repeatedly with a piece of charcoal. Akhtaribai Faizabadi continued to sing for commercial records and her name spread rapidly across the country.

Towards the end of the s, Akhtari returned to her training in music and quite abruptly ended her sojourn with films. It is believed that at a music conference in erstwhile Bombay, among stalwarts of classical music like Gauhar Jaan from Lahore and Zohra Jaan Ambalewali, Akhtari realised that she lacked the tayyari and finesse of a trained voice.

Around the same time Akhtari was also invited to the court of the Nizam of Hyderabad and the Nawab of Rampur, apart from the courts of the Maharajas of Darbhanga and Kashmir. Moazzam Jah from Hyderabad invited Akhtari often to his court for special occasions and was also known to hand over couplets to her and request that she set a composition to the words and sing for him.

It is said that Akhtari never disappointed her audience. The most talked about association was with the Nawab of Rampur, Raza Ali Khan, a connoisseur of literature and music. He was believed to be smitten by Akhtari and had invited her to stay in Rampur for a long period of time, which she did. He even tried to convince her to stay in his court permanently.

Akhtari, however found it difficult to be bound to one place and sing for only one audience, and left Rampur without informing anyone. In , she married a barrister from an aristocratic family of Lucknow, Ishtiaq Ahmed Abbasi. Initially living in Mateen Manzil, they found their home in Havelock Road. The colourful description of the home by Shanti Hiranand is reminiscent of that era.

After her marriage, Begum Akhtar is said to have been confined in the walls of domesticity for a brief period as she stopped performing. There are conflicting accounts of this period. Ollikkala quotes an interview of Begum Akhtar, conducted by Sandhya Sen where she voices her agony. For a year and a half even the radio was a distant thought. Saleem Kidwai, Ms.

Even though marriage brought with it certain confines of domestic life, it also brought the respectability which Begum Akhtar craved for. He did not interfere in her career or the space she created outside the home. Sangeet Natak Akademi website. Archived from the original on 31 March External links [ edit ]. Recipients of Padma Shri in Art.

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