“Ragas rule her mind and soul”, said her guru, Guruji Padma Bhushan Pandit Rajan-Sajan Mishra. Padma Vibhushan Pandit Birju Maharaj Ji agreed, and said that she has a promising future.Being the only Assamese to win the All-India Radio Competition in 2006 and also having received the Young Talent Award of North-East from the Ministry of Culture, it looks like Abhishruti Bezbaruah has a promising career in music ahead of her. Tarang, a non-profit forum to encourage young artists in classical music, is presenting Abhishruti at their first event at the LV Prasad Eye Institute, auditorium.“We are presenting a very talented and a promising singer, Abhishruti, who will be accompanied by Vinay Patnakar on the Harmonium and Harjeet Singh on the Tabla”, said Suryanarayana, founder, Tarang. According to Abhishruti,”My inspiration is my family. Both my maternal and paternal sides are very much into music. So, I started learning music when I was 6.” She said her parents always encouraged her to participate in co-curricular activities like dance, music and art.“My first guru was Guru Shri Damodar Bora of Guwahati, Assam. I learnt a lot from him,” she said. “I wanted to do medicine, but after my 12th, I realised that music is something I had always wanted to do and my parents agreed and supported me.”After that, she went to learn music from Pandit Rajan Sajan ji and also with Pandit Birju Mahraj Ji. “They called me to learn music with them and treated me as family.”Talking about the spread of Hindustani classical music in Assam, she says, “There are many people who are learning classical music in Assam, but most only learn it as a hobby and leave it as the rock culture and the folk music have a strong base in Assam.”She also feels that If people are passionate about music, then opportunities will come their way. When asked about her views on reality shows, she said, she was never a reality show person and said that, “They provide a very nice platform for people to be introduced and from which they can go on with their own journey.”Abhishruti has also performed in Boston, Yorkshire and many places abroad. She said she was mesmerised by the crowd. “They love Indian classical music, and they respect our culture so much that people would come up to me after the shows and ask me so many questions. They were very curious.”Talking about her visit to South-India, she said,”I love carnatic music as well. I have never tried in that style singing though. I feel the compositions are very crisp.”“This is my first time in Hyderabad. Down-south I have performed in Mysore. I am really looking forward to the event and I’m nervous as people in the south are very much adhered to classical music and a lot of people are coming down from Chennai to listen to me,” she added.Abhishruti will be performing at LV Prasad Auditorium on June 26. At the event, Abhishruti will be singing classical compositions for about an hour and semi-classical ones like ghazals and bhajans for another hour.
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