IBTIDA EK MEHFIL PRESENTS – ARCHIVAL HYDERABAD

An evening with Ustad Shujaat Khan

After soul-stirring chapters in Mumbai, Bangalore, and Delhi. 

The Archival Series by IBTIDA- Ek Mehfil arrives in Hyderabad, a city steeped in tehzeeb, poetry, and timeless resonance.

In this fourth edition, we return not to an emotion in a new city. 

Hyderabad, with its courtyards of conversation and heritage of sound, becomes the perfect setting to host one of the greatest living legends of Hindustani classical music.

Ustad Shujaat Khan.

A maestro whose sitar doesn’t just sing, but remembers, whose gayaki doesn’t just perform, it tells stories. In this exclusive baithak, we invoke the memory of gharanas, the weight of lineage, and the lost art of listening.

Archival is IBTIDA’s tribute to artists who hold the memory of a time gone by, where every raga carried meaning, every silence was intentional, and music was a conversation between the divine and the devotee. In Shujaat Khan, we don’t just see a performer, we see a vessel of history, of ghazal, of nostalgia, of discipline, and of surrender.

This is a restoration of heritage.

This is Hyderabad re-tuned to its origins

This is IBTIDA- Ek Mehfil!