And my father was there about 35 years. Lucknow and Rampur, Lucknow , Rampur, like this.And in your family, as you've learned about Kathak over the years, there's such a difference in each of the gharanas
Then my father would know, in this boy, there is a rhythm centered. And Lucknow especially, there is a very-- ---- so everything to see the beauty, the beauty. So actually, the turn of the wrist and the finger, how the pinkies would come, and the neck, how to move the neck,
and how they teach. And in the Lucknow gharana, it's extremely famous for and how they've brought that. So how do you bridge the worlds of and and bringing the technical with the emotion?
So how do you bridge the worlds of and and bringing the technical with the emotion? I belong Lucknow . And my was ,, was very-- he was writing and hymns there. And he likes my grandfather's and ,, but everything.
So always in the court, court dancer. But every year in Lucknow , there was one temple of That day, my grandfather was performing for normal people who is just a small worker.
So yes, I'm going to start from the beginning. I was born and brought up in a city called Lucknow , which is a state called Uttar Pradesh in India. And my mother is a police officer.
Then we played our first All India KD Singh Babu under-14 tournament, which is by the way the only under-14 tournament where really under-14 teams are playing, in Lucknow . And they had a really, really good sports canteen. So in Rajasthan, most of the families are vegetarians.
And it took a lot of courage for her even to come to this group to present her case. This is Rachna, and this was Lucknow , India. And she had had a baby, and there were some complications, so she had to stay in the hospital a bit longer.
My first memory of taking Hindustani classical was when I was in fifth grade, and of course it was not my idea but my mom's idea. She thought it was a good idea to put me in school so in Lucknow she put me in one of the best schools in India and here as a fifth grader all I wanted to do was sing fun songs right because nobody wants to listen to sarigama.
So we decided to move to one city and make that the hub. We moved to Bombay and that's where my love for cinema actually began, because in Lucknow , I was not allowed to watch TV. I didn't have a cable TV.
And this was another case. This is Mira, and again, this was Lucknow . And she was found wandering the streets just sobbing and crying.
And it was not easy. So then we decided to move to Bombay, because that was the one city that my father used to visit very often and not Lucknow so much. So we decided to move to one city and make that the hub.
I went to India. I had been to India before, but I went back to India, but to the sort of Mughal cities, like Hyderabad, Lucknow . I went to Kashmir.
Like something, something. Very interesting, yes. So that time, my great grandfather-- great grandfather, Thakur Prasad, ,, he came to Lucknow and popular in Lucknow . So always in the court, court dancer.