Ghazal on Sitar | Purbayan Chatterjee | Ranjish Hi Sahi | Darbar VR360

#darbarfestival VR360 | Ranjish Hi Sahi (Urdu: رنجش ہی سہی) is a popular Urdu ghazal. It was first sung by Iqbal Bano and popularised by Mehdi Hassan. It is written by the Ahmed Faraz.
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Purbayan Chatterjee’s accomplished sitar playing is rooted in the Senia Maihar gharana’s blend of Dhrupad and khayal. His style was shaped by his father Pandit Parthapratim Chatterjee, as well as taking great inspiration from the ideas of Pandit Nikhil Banerjee. As a classical artist he has performed with Ustad Zakir Hussain and other leading musicians

He is known for fusion work too, collaborating widely and reworking rock, pop, and jazz classics for the sitar, and has innovated elsewhere, inventing a smaller, more portable sitar that can be played while sitting on a chair rather than the floor. Purbayan continues to develop his classical expertise, while constantly searching for new musical horizons too.

Learn more at:
-https://www.darbar.org/artist/purbayan-chatterjee/29

"The emotion that comes to my mind first is surrender. What genre you play doesn’t matter. Even a rebellious rocker while playing surrenders to a greater emotion, to a greater need to express himself, to a force." (Purbayan Chatterjee)
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Ghazal Translation
If it is grief so be it, come to break my heart again.
Do come, if only for the act of leaving me again.
Our relationship may not be the same as before, but even if seldom.
Come to fulfil the rituals and traditions of the world.
To whom all must I explain the reason of separation.
Come, if you are displeased with me, for the sake of the world.
Respect a little the depth of my love for you.
Come someday to placate me as well.
It has been a long time I haven't had the luxury of grieving.
My peace-of-mind please do come back if only to make me cry.
Till now my hopeful heart is keeping some expectations from you.
But at least come back to put off these last candles of hope.
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Recorded by Darbar in 2019, on location in West India:
-Purbayan Chatterjee (sitar)

Technical team credit:
Jagdeep Shah, DOP
Sandeep Virdee, location sound
Nirmal Singh, 360 editor
Christoph Bracher, ambisonic sound dubbing
Narvir Singh, assistant editor
Special thanks to Sherna Chatterjee & Mortimer Chatterjee

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