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Tabla Player Lachhu Maharaj Profile, Biography, early life, Family Background, education, achievements, awards, career

Lachhu Maharaj was born on 16th October 1944, Varanasi. He was a famous tabla player. They carried forward the tradition of playing tabla Banaras house. Many of his disciples are playing tabla in the country and abroad. Lachhu Maharaj was a very simple choice person, this was the reason that he had never received any respect.

His father's name was Vasudev Maharaj. Lachhu Maharaj was the fourth in twelve siblings. Lachhu Maharaj married a French woman Tina. They have a daughter, who is in Switzerland.

Lachhu Maharaj was a self-respecting and traditional artist, who did not make any wrong agreements for small fat interests. Famous actor of Hindi films is the nephew of Govinda Lachhu Maharaj. In his childhood, he considered Lachhu Maharaj as his guru. Govinda learned from playing Tabla only Lachhu Maharaj.

In 1972, Lacchu Maharaj visited 27 countries on behalf of the Government of India. In 19

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Many superb Indian classical musicians were largely overlooked by the lottery of the recording industry, and thus have rarely been heard in full solo flight save by a few local devotees and eagle-eared connoisseurs. It’s tempting to place the late tabla master Pandit Lacchu Maharaj in this category – but while his extraordinary rhythmic accomplishments were often overlooked in his lifetime, things are a little more complex.

Lacchu’s drums did ultimately reach the ears of millions, via the many soundtracks he cut in his long career as a session musician. However, commercial success tended to come away from the spotlight, as he sat hidden in the corner behind whatever one-off crowd of singers and string players had arrived to record that day’s filmi hit. Instead, Lacchu earned his place in tabla history through years of spellbinding live shows, enchanting the crowds of Varanasi’s temples, auditoriums, and river ghats for many decades.

Born to a musical family in 1944, Lakshmi Narayan Singh ‘Lacchu’ Maharaj first learned rhythm from his f

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Lachhu Maharaj

For the musician, see Lachhu Maharaj (musician).

Musical artist

Pandit Bajinath Prasad also known as Pandit Lachhu Maharaj (1901–1978) was an Indian classical dancer and choreographer of Kathak dance. He came from a family of illustrious Kathak exponents in Lucknow, and also worked as film choreographer, Hindi cinema, most notably Mughal-e-Azam (1960) and Pakeezah (1972). He was awarded the 1957 Sangeet Natak Akademi Award, the highest award for performing artists, conferred by the Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's National Academy for Music, Dance and Drama. He was paternal uncle of Pandit Birju Maharaj.

Early life and training

He received extensive training from Pandit Bindadin Maharaj, his uncle and the court dancer of the Nawab of Awadh, for nearly ten years. He also learnt the Pakhawaj, the Tabla and Hindustani Classical vocal music.

Career

Later, he moved to Mumbai, where the emerging film industry helped him to bring Kathak to a far wider audience. Lachhu Maharaj was acclaimed for the choreography of dance sequences in movies lik