MUMBAI: Doordarshan’s musical show Idea Jalsa – Music for the soul, will succesfully complete its 75 episodes on 7 August. The show is conceived and produced by Art & Artistes’ (I) Pvt. Ltd
“Idea Jalsa” was established in 2006, as a multi-city on-ground live performance event to popularise all forms of Indian music which was later aired on Doordarshan. The show is hosted by Annu Kapoor and Durga Jasraj.
Says Art & Artistes’ director Durga Jasraj, Interactive sessions post the recitals, addressed by both the performers made it a unique and exciting experience for music lovers. Following the success of a 40 city tour over 22 months, and the response we received in each city, we decided to take this initiative forward and develop a performance based format for television. The support and vision of Idea Cellular is exemplary and set standards of content production, at the same time supporting Indian music. The National broadcaster too, supported this format of presentation by giving us a slot on Sunday morning….
The show has also been dubbed in five Regional languages, Marathi, Oriya, Gujarati, Tamil, and Punjabi.
Idea Jalsa – Music for the soul has seen performances by musical legends like Pandit Jasraj, Pandit Shivkumar Sharma, Dr. L. Subramaniam, Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, ghazal maestro Jagjit Singh, Javed Akhtar, Anuradha Paudwal, Wadali Brothers, Alka Yagnik, Shankar Mahadevan and young musicians like Sanjeev Abhyankar, Shashank, Rattan Mohan Sharma, Niladri Kumar, Purbayan Chatterjee, Jaswinder Singh, Rimpa Siva, Bela Shende and many others.