The recently concluded Centenary Film Festival, celebrating 100 years of cinema hosted a mesmerising musical feast to give a glimpse into the evolution and glorious journey of Indian Cinema. And who better than the country's first national orchestra band Vaadya Vrind which performed complex and lilting compositions from Hindi films down the decades. A unit of All India Radio (AIR), Vaadya Vrind stole the hearts of each one present at Siri Fort that evening.
With more than 30 musicians on stage, the Vaadya Vrind team proved those wrong who maintain that only films can explore unravelled emotions. With their soulful recitals from compositions by Pt Ravi Shanker to a medley of Hindi film numbers that our soul has absorbed since the time we first encountered them in Bollywood films, Vaadya Vrind successfully brought alive images which lie hidden in our collective
memory.
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