Hyderabad artiste’s video album commemorates 75 years of national anthem

Hawaiian Slid Guitar exponent Jaywant Naidu collaborates with Mayur Veena (Taus)’ artiste Anshdeep Singh from Punjab for the project

Hyderabad: Commemorating the 75 years of ‘Jana Gana Mana’, city-based artiste Jaywant Naidu has come up with a unique instrumental video album of the National Anthem.

For this, Jaywant on the Hawaiian Slid Guitar collaborated with a ‘Mayur Veena (Taus)’ artiste Anshdeep Singh from Punjab.

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Together, the collaboration has come up with a unique video album which is being launched online this year’s Republic Day.

Jaywant says that on January 24, 1950, the first stanza of Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore’s ‘Bharoto Bhagyo Bidhata’ was officially declared as the National Anthem of India by the Constituent Assembly of India. “We will be celebrating the completion of 75 years with the online launch of a video album,” he said.

Mayur Veena was a very rare musical instrument hardly seen in classical music festivals and performances.

“It is an instrument more often played as an accompaniment for Sikh devotional music or Gurmat Sangeet,” he said adding that ‘Taus’ means peacock in Persian language and ‘Mayur Veena’ was the Sanskrit name.

“Mayur Veena is one of the many rare musical instruments of this country and its sound resonates with the human voice like the ‘Sarangi’ instrument. Therefore, this instrument was chosen to collaborate and bring it to mainstream music platform,” Jaywant Naidu said.