‘Reprise’ singers present hit numbers to perfection

Nagpur: The serendipitous encounter with rain did not stop the city music lovers from thronging the musical concert titled ‘Reprise’, on Saturday. Held at Scientific Society Hall, Laxmi Nagar, the event was jointly organized by Shrey, The Voice Music Academy, Oman and Sohini Music Academy.
Paromita Das Roy, Simontika Ganguly fondly known as Seema, ghazal singer Anil Bhagat and Sa Re Ga Ma Pa fame Piyush Waghmare lent their voices to make the evening a fascinating one. They were accompanied by Nikhil Ramteke as the electric lead guitarist, Kaustubh Tambuskar on the keyboard, Atharva Tandulkar on the drums, Love Kanojiya as the acoustic guitarist, Suraj Kamble on the dholak, Pramod Bawane on tabla and Roshan Ukey on octopod.
The organizers felicitated Babubhai Patel, Samar Sen, Utsha Banerjee, Pinaki Banerjee and Jethanand Khandwani for their generous contribution in uplifting the budding singers of the city.
Roy and Ganguly commenced the show with their duet performance on the songs ‘Zulmi sang aankh ladi’ and ‘Kanchi re kanchi re’. Next on stage was Bhagat, who mesmerized the audience with ‘Rukh se zara naqab utha do’. Roy’s rendition of ‘Lag ja gale’ added to the romantic vibe of the evening. ‘Tujhe bulaye yeh meri bahen’ by Ganguly won the hearts of everyone.
The playful tunes of ‘Isharon isharon mein’ were wonderfully delivered by Bhagat and Roy. Ganguly went on to present dynamic performances on the songs ‘Kya janu sajan’ and ‘Raat ka sama jhoome chandrama’, followed by a medley of ‘Aaj jaane ki zid na karo’, ‘Woh jab yaad aaye’, ‘Naam gum jayega’, ‘Beeti na bitayein raina’, ‘Ehsaan tera hoga mujhpar', ‘Chhupa lo dil mein’ and ‘Nighaein milaane ko dil’. ‘Deewani mastani’ by Roy received a thunderous applause.
The listeners were dazzled by the performance of Waghmare on songs ‘Mere naam tu’ from the movie ‘Zero’ and ‘Channa mereya’ from the movie ‘Ae dil hai mushkil’.
The highlight was the finale of the show where all the four singers presented a mash-up of songs by the legendary singer and composer OP Nayyar.
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All singers were great and their performance was amazing. I liked the voice of Anil Bhagat and Paromita Das Roy. The event was organized in a grand manner
Khemraj Kaparde | Retired Engineer, Railways
I liked how the singers presented old melodies with refreshing new voices and it made for a relaxing evening. All the singers were very talented and the classical songs were great. I always like to hear old songs and I got that
Subhash Trimbak Wakhare | Ex-banker
Singers sang melodiously. I felt like the list of songs should have never finished. They managed to sing both old and new songs which made it a unique concert
Dharmendra Verma | Engineer, PWD
(Reporting by Manshika Vaikkath and Prajyot Deoghare)