Master of all the aspects of Kathak which are Gayan (singing), Vadan (percusiion) and Nartan (dance), Late Pt Durgalalji was a complete artist. Born in the year 1948 in Rajasthan Pt Durgalalji started is training in Kathak under the watchful eye of his guru and elder brother Pt Devilalji. Later on both brothers received scholarship to study Kathak at Bharatiya Kala Kendra under Pt Sunderlalji. Pt.Durgalalji was trained in Hindustani vocal by his father Pt.Omkarlalji and Pakhawaj by Pt.Purshottam of Nathdwara. Stardom may have opened for him a whole new world of ostentation, but Pt. Durgalalji simplicity remained untouched. He was a great guru, a disciplinarian and a hard worker. The aesthetics of the physical and artistic dimensions of Durgalalji was matched by the man´s unblemished character. He was a recipient of honor from various public and private bodies, both at home as well as abroad. At age of 36 in 1984, he received the highest honor in the field of performing Arts –"The Sangeet Natak Akademi Award". In the year 1990 Pt. Durgalalji, at the peak of his career at the age of forty-two, succumbed to a massive cardiac arrest. It occurred shortly after a marathon performance in Lucknow for the UP Sangeet Natak Akademi’s Kathak Mahotsav.
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