Birju Maharaj

"Briju Maharaj’s Baaz Bahadur displayed both Pathan strength and artistic ecstasy – in fact this last Muslim king of Malwa was a considerable poet and ended his days as a musician in the court of Emper…"

"Earlier one person would do a sam and the audience ten feet away knew that a new tukda was about to begin but now fifty of us did the same movement with the same precision; the audience even two hundr…"

"I was born in Lucknow 1938, 4 February. It was Friday. A hot day as it usually happens in spring...in that home where I was born there were only girls. I was the only boy. So our neighbours came saw t…"

"The celebrated Roopmati-Baz Bahadur love affair of 16th century India has been the subject of much poetry and painting and certainly offered Birju Maharaj's choreography and dramatic sense the widest …"

"Brijmohan Maharaj’s Kamdeva matched grace with grace. To the loving he added fear, and a secret knowledge of his fate. Together they devised a poignancy that was memorable and must surely be rare in d…"

"Saturday night’s programme at the Wembley Conference Centre combined traditional solo pieces in the pure Lucnowi style, of which Birju Maharaj is the truest representative by both birth and achievemen…"

"The naturalistic grace of Kathak was well used throughout."

"Solo dance was complete by one. Now because everybody is bored, feeling bored by one dancer only they are taking 10,20 people."