Gujarati Musical Evening

A fun filled evening of Gujarati Gazals and poetic entertainment as three of the celebrated stars will deliver an unstoppable JALSO. Please call for good seats: Eshani Shah 781.956.5955, Pulkit Shah 781.492.0513 and Sejal Kothari 339.970.1457

Three of the star Gujarati writers and local singers bring an entertaining musical and poetic evening on Friday, July 14th at 7pm at Academy of Creative Arts in Burlington MA

These three writers/Poets, one of them our own Bostonian, Chandrakant _Chandu Shah had enthralled audiences all over Gujarat other cities in India and many countries in the world having performed over 10,000 shows combined.

Enjoy the evening celebrating Gujarati language.

About Jay Vasavada - from Rajkot, India

Extremely popular among Gujarati youth and Gujaratis world over, Jay Vasavada is a writer, orator and columnist.  His versatile columns (especially ‘spectrometer’ and ‘anavrut’) covering various aspects of society and culture are running in “Gujarat Samachar” daily (number one in regional readership – approx. 7 million) since last 18 years. His blog www.planetjv.wordpress.com is number ONE Gujarati blog getting more than 1500 hits a day regularly. He has 40000+ followers and friends on facebook.  In 2010, he has been honored by Govt. of Gujarat on Independence Day for his outstanding contribution in the field of writing. He was honored with a special award by a World Talent Organization in the World Amazing Talent Category for his dedicated work towards Gujarati Literature.

About Shobhit Desai from Mumbai, India

Shobhit Desai is an excellent modern Gazalkar in Gujarati and an encyclopedia of Gujarati literature.  He has performed one man shows based on the life of legendary Gujarati poets Ramesh Parekh and Mareez (Mareez is regarded as Gaalib of gujarat) Shobhit also wrote and performed a one man show in Hindi on the life n writings of Ghalib. Shobhit is also an accomplished singer. For his writings he has been given ‘Shayda’ and ‘Priyadarshi’ award and also has been honored by House of Lords in UK as ‘poet of the year’. Shobhit has 4 books of his Gazals published -

About Chandrakant (Chandu) Shah

​Chandrakant Shah is regarded as the most dynamic ​modern Gujarati ​poet depicting the life of Indians in USA, the true poet of Indian Diaspora. Blue Jean - his second book- Is regarded as emphatically ‘contemporary’ in terms of theme, tone and texture (“It’s about human beings in the language of blue jeans.”). Chandrakant’s both books of poems, ‘Ane Thoda Sapna’ and ‘BLUE JEANS’ have been prescribed as textbooks for Masters students by SNDT University, Mumbai. Chandrakant has written several musicals in Gujarati theatre.  He has 7 films to his credit as a writer and/or producer. his recent film as an executive producer, DALILAND starring Sir Ben Kingsley released in USA in limited cities on June 9th, 2023.

Local poets to perform at the event are: Pramod Thaker, Vikas Desai, Sejal Kothari, Disha Jogi, Pulkit Shah and young poet Tanvi Shah. Celebrated singers from Boston who will perform are Jigna Shah, Ashutosh Patel and Shradhdha Agrawal.

Meghdhanush has been presenting once a year a program featuring Gujarati literature and modern Gujarati poetry and songs. Meghdhanush is an activity to promote Gujarati language and performing arts, initiated by Pulkit Shah, Eshani Shah, Sejal Kothari and Chandu Shah with Anil Ratanshi Shah, Dinesh Tanna and Samir Desai as supporters.

Some comments from last event of Meghdhanush

Sam Desai

Great program. well done to invite  local artists with well recognized poets, singers and dramatists.

Chetan Shah

Chandu and Eshani, I don't say a lot but the program today was the best Gujarati program I have attended. The depth of subject matter, the variety of presentations, the amazing singers and Chandu's grand finale was unprecedented in the Boston theater.

Ramilaben Thakkar

The best ever Kavi Sammelan plus more, witnessed by me in the Boston area over all these years. Not only was it thoroughly entertaining, but it was also educating as well. We have so much talent in the community with such rich lineage of Gujarati literature. The platform provided space to the youth who were amazing Gujarati singers. Team Meghdhanush this was a class act and has to be a recurring event.👍👍.

Dilip Bhavsar

Hi Chandu : I royally enjoyed the program on Sunday. Generally, I go to sleep. but I was awake from the first minute till the very last. one of the best ones I ever attended.

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