Ustad Ustād or ostād (abbreviated as Ust., Ut. or Ud.; from Persian ) is an honorific title used in West Asia, North Africa, South Asia and Southeast Asia. It is used in various languages such as Persian, , Azerbaijani, Urdu, Hindi, Bengali, Marat ...

Bahadur Khan (born Bahadur Hossain Khan; 19 January 1931 – 3 October 1989) was an Indian

sarod The sarod is a stringed instrument, used in Hindustani music on the Indian subcontinent. Along with the sitar, it is among the most popular and prominent instruments. It is known for a deep, weighty, introspective sound, in contrast with the sweet ...

player and film score composer.

Early life and family

Ustad Bahadur Khan, a

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, was born on 19 January 1931 in Shibpur,

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(then

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). From a musical family, he was the son of the Indian classical musician Ayet Ali Khan and related to sitar player

Pandit Ravi Shankar Ravi Shankar (; born Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury, sometimes spelled as Rabindra Shankar Chowdhury; 7 April 1920 – 11 December 2012) was an Indian sitarist and composer. A sitar virtuoso, he became the world's best-known export of North Ind ...

. Khan first learnt to play the sarode from his father and his uncle

Alauddin Khan Allauddin Khan, also known as Baba Allauddin Khan ( – 6 September 1972) was an Indian sarod player and multi-instrumentalist, composer and one of the most notable music teachers of the 20th century in Indian classical music. For a generation ...

Maihar Maihar is a tehsil in Satna, Madhya Pradesh, India. Maihar is known for the temple of the revered mother goddess Sharda situated on Trikuta hill. Origin of the name It is said that when lord Shiva was carrying the body of the dead mother go ...

, before he finally settled in

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. He also practiced vocal music and later collaborated with his cousins

Ali Akbar Khan Ali Akbar Khan (14 April 192218 June 2009) was a Indian Hindustani classical musician of the Maihar gharana, known for his virtuosity in playing the sarod. Trained as a classical musician and instrumentalist by his father, Allauddin Khan, he a ...

and Shrimati Annapurna Devi. Khan's brothers Abed Hossain Khan and Mobarak Hossain Khan were also musicians and based in Bangladesh, and were the recipients from the

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for their contributions to classical music. Bahadur Khan is the father of sitar player

Kirit Khan Kirit Khan (29 October 1955 – 2006 ) was a Bengali-Indian sitar player. Early life Khan was born in Brahmanbaria in erstwhile East Bengal and later settled in Kolkata, India. He is the second son of Ustad Bahadur Khan, a Sarod artiste. Mus ...

, who died in 2006. One of his better-known students is the sarod player

Tejendra Narayan Majumdar Pandit Tejendra Narayan Majumdar (born 17 May 1961) is an Indian sarod player and pupil of Bahadur Khan. Majumdar is one of the most popular and celebrated modern sarod players. Training He started his music training under his grandfather Bibhuti ...

. He died on 3 October 1989 in

, India. His eldest son Bidyut Khan continues to perform the sarod around the world.Listing
on itcsra.org for Bahadur Khan, (accessed 23 November 2014).

Filmography

Khan was a regular performer at the

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and Radio Bangladesh. He composed and directed music for many films by the legendary Indian filmmaker

Ritwik Ghatak Ritwik Kumar Ghatak (; 4 November 19256 February 1976) was a noted Indian film director, screenwriter, and playwright. Along with prominent contemporary Bengali filmmakers Satyajit Ray, Tapan Sinha and Mrinal Sen, his cinema is primarily rememb ...

and featured in the following: *'' Subarnarekha (The Golden Line)''. *'' Meghe Dhaka Tara (The Cloud-clapped Star)'' *'' Komal Gandhar (E Flat)'' *''

Jukti Takko Aar Gappo ''Jukti Takko Aar Gappo'' (''Jukti tôkko aːr gôppo'', ''Reason, Debate and a Story'') is a 1974 Bengali film directed by auteur of Indian cinema Ritwik Ghatak. ''Jukti Takko Aar Gappo'' was Ritwik Ghatak's last film. The film was believed t ...

(Reason, Debate and A Story)'' *''

Titash Ekti Nadir Naam ''Titas Ekti Nadir Naam'' ( bn, তিতাস একটি নদীর নাম), or ''A River Called Titas'', is a 1973 film that was a joint production between India and Bangladesh directed by Ritwik Ghatak. The movie was based on a novel ...

(A River Named Titash)'' *''Nagarik (The Citizen)'' *''Shwet Mayur (White Peacock)'' *''Yekhane Dariye (Where I Am Standing)'' *''Trisandhyay (Three Twilights)'' *''Notun Pata (New Leaf)'' *''

Garm Hava ''Garm Hava'' (translation: Hot Winds or Scorching Winds) is a 1973 Indian drama film directed by M. S. Sathyu, with Balraj Sahni as the lead. It was written by Kaifi Azmi and Shama Zaidi, based on an unpublished short story by noted Urdu wri ...

'' (Hot Winds, 1973)

Teaching

Khan was a reputed teacher, and a faculty member for six months at the

Ali Akbar College of Music The Ali Akbar College of Music (AACM) is the name of three schools founded by Indian musician Ali Akbar Khan to teach Indian classical music. The first was founded in 1956 in Calcutta, India. The second was founded in 1967 in Berkeley, Californi ...

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, USA, where he taught Indian classical music.Jan Haag
Ali Akbar Khan, an appreciation
2000 (accessed 23 November 2014). His students include his son Bidyut Khan, nephew Shahadat Hossain Khan, Tejendranarayan Majumdar, Kalyan Mukherjee
Monoj Shankar
and his nephew

Khurshid Khan Khurshid Khan ( bn, খুরশিদ খান, fa, ), was an officer of the Bengal Sultanate, stationed across various locations such as Bihar, Sylhet, Dhaka, North Bengal and Chittagong. Background According to the Muzaffar Shah's Nawa ...

. Every year, a one-day music festival takes place commemorating the death anniversary of the Khan in

, organized by the "Ustad Bahadur Khan Music Circle". In

, his legacy is continued through the "Ustad Ayet Ali Khan Sangeet Niketon" (Ustad Ayet Ali Khan Memorial School of Music) - a music school in memory of his father Ayet Ali Khan - at their native village

Shibpur Shibpur or Sibpur is a neighbourhood in Howrah city of Howrah district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is a part of the area covered by Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA). It is well known for being the location of the ...

References

External links

*
Bidyut Khan's blog

Kalyan Mukherjee's Homepage

Home Page of Ali Akbar College of Music
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