In Chandigarh, sitar exponent Ustad Shahid Parvez Khan says art takes time and effort

Indian classical sitar maestro Ustad Shahid Parvez Khan, who represents the seventh generation of the Etawah Gharana, isn’t weighed down by the burden of his legacy. His focus has been on his own musical course from the very beginning.

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Padma Shri recipient Ustad Shahid Parvez Khan enthralled the audience with his spellbinding performance at Bhargava Auditorium, PGI, Chandigarh, in an event organised by SPIC MACAY on Tuesda. He says, “My father Ustad Aziz Khan, much against my grandfather Ustad Wahid Khan’s wishes, became a Bollywood music director. So my grandfather insisted that at least I follow the Hindustani classical path.”

It was a journey that he has followed like sadhana! Getting his first sitar at the age of four from his father, it has stayed Ustad Parvez’s steady companion ever since. His musical tastes, however, are very open. He loves listening to ghazals, qawwalis, classical music and also Bollywood songs. He insists, “It’s not like good music is not being created these days, just that its percentage is very less. Now even abuses are being served in the name of music, yet there remains a dedicated few pursuing and making good music.”All for youngsters and their talent, he insists on the value of hard work. “Everything that is of any value takes its due time, and youngsters must be ready to put in that much time and effort,” he highlights.