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DD makes golden moments accessible

By Lakshmi Balakrishnan

NEW DELHI JUNE 17 . This should make the Capital's musical journey easier. Nearly five months after Doordarshan promised music lovers a chance to relive golden moments of classical Indian music and dance, the classic times will be easier to access.

Available for over three months now from only one outlet in the city, Doordarshan will soon be making available the special series of VCDs that have been compiled from the rare works that make up its rich archives across musical stores of the Capital.

Announcing this at a function here today to launch the second set of VCDs that are being launched as part of the celebration of "100 years of recorded music in India'', the Director General of Doordarshan, S.Y.Quraishi, pointed out that the process of tying up with certain music houses in the city was almost through and that the CDs would be commercially sold in major musical stores to reach out to a wider audience.

A day to celebrate one more step towards popularising classical Indian music and dance, the launch at India Habitat Centre here saw some of the well-known faces and experts of Indian music and dance like Yamini Krishnamurty, Uma Sharma, Shubha Mudgal, Rita Ganguly and P.V. Subramanyam come together to voice their demand for more space for traditional arts on the national broadcasters channels.

The first series saw Doordarshan releasing a set of five VCDs on Begum Akhtar, Suron Ka Karavan, Sufiana Qawwalis, Bharatanatyam, and Kathak, while the second one has the works of M.L.Vasanthakumari, Mallikarjun Mansoor and the Odissi performances of Guru Kelucharan Mahapatra and his student Sanjukta Panigrahi.

Doordarshan plans to come up with nearly 100 works in another year to help popularise this traditional art that artists here felt needed a better platform. Launched around the "Paravasi Bharatiya Diwas'' to woo the NRI audience, Mr. Quraishi said it would be coming up with special packages for the home-sick Indians.

``We are planning to have special gift packages for various ministries and dignitaries that will help us get the works across to diplomats while NRIs will be targeted through the contacts that we made during the Paravasi Diwas,'' he said.

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