INFOCUS INDIA PUBLIC SCHOOL

NAME-MRITYUNJOY HALDER
CLASS-IX
ROLL-10
SUBJECT-ENGLISH LITERATURE
 USTAD BISMILLAH KHAN

 Ustad, Bismillah Khan was an Indian musician credited with popularizing the shehnai.
 He was born on 21 March 1916 into a family of traditional musicians.
 His father was a court musician employed in the court of
Maharaja Keshav Prasad Singh  in Bihar.

 His grandfather Ustad Salar Hussain Khan and grandfather Rasool

Bux Khan were also musicians in the Dumraon palace.
 At the age of six, he moved to Varanasi in the state of Uttar
Pradesh, to be apprenticed to his maternal uncle, Ali Bux.
 At the age of 14 Bismillah accompanied his uncle to the Allahabad
music conference.
 Khan had a brief association with movies. He played the shehnai for super
star Rajkumar’s role of Appanna in the Kannada movie Sanaadi
Appanna which became a blockbuster .
  He acted in Jalsaghar a movie by Satyajit Ray and provided sound of
shehnai in Goonj Uthi Shehnai
 USTAD BISMILLAH KHAN AWARDED BY BHARAT RATNA

 AWARDS
 Bharat Ratna (2001).
 Padma Vibhushan (1980).
 Padma Bhushan (1968).
 Padma Shri (1961).
 INFORMATION SOURCES:

 www.google.com
 www.wikipedia.com
 Text book of English Literature
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