Hazardwari Utsav

The Hazardwari Palace in Murshidabad, known for its thousand real and false doors, will host a Sufi festival from 8 March.

The three-day festival organised by the West Bengal government would include songs by local artists of bauls and fakirs of murshidi and marfati genres.

A troupe would sing songs of Kabir and the Warsi Brothers from Lucknow would entertain with qawalis.

There would also be a Sufi-kathak dance performance by Manjari Chaturvedi.

The Hazardwari Utsav would be held on an open air stage with the 19th-century palace as the backdrop, Bengal Tourism Minister Manab Mukherjee said.

The palace was built in 1837 by Duncan McLeod for the Nawab Najim Humaun Jah, descendant of Mir Jafar. The palace, which has now been converted into a museum, is spread over 41 acres and boasts 114 rooms and 8 galleries, built in European architectural style.

West Bengal Tourism is organising the Utsav in collaboration with West Bengal Minorities Development and Finance Corporation, Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage, SBI, Eastern Zonal Cultural Centre and an NGO.


(PTI)