What is Thumri - Article by Buddhaditya

What is Thumri - Article by Buddhaditya

What is Thumri?

The basic meaning of Thumri is, the expressional part of Indian classical music, according to my Guruji Pandit Shree Samaresh Chowdhury Sahib, Thumri is having a special equation, with the help of rhythmic patterns, words plus expression is equal to divine emotions, we all know emotion is the basic fundamental truth of Indian classical music then why Thumri is more important?

In layman's language we can divide Indian classical music into 4 parts, the first part is, dhrupad and dhamar sangeet, we can say this is the part of classical music where we Express our divine emotions or I should say we Express and praise the love witch we have for the divine, but we do all this things maintaining some strict grammatical rules of Indian classical music, then we are introduced To Khayal gayaki, basically which we recognise as Indian classical singing, in this method we Express our divine love emotional love anger everything in dhrupad sangeet we are not allowed to express our human emotions, in Khayal gayaki we Express our human emotions which guides us towards divine energy, the grammatical rules are there but that is not so strict in Khayal gayaki, then we are introduced to Thumri Gayaki, regarding this method we are thankful to Nawab Wajid Ali Shah.

Thumri is the way where we express our emotional love, Thumri is more connected with human society, at last we are introduced to bhajans, where we express our divine love only when we sing Thumri, grammatical rules are not important at all it means the grammatical rules regarding classical Ragas is not so important but the dedication of singer towards the divine love of Shri Radha and Shri Krishna is very important, when we sing bhajan we don't have any grammatical rules but we just enjoy the divine bliss, I hope you all will enjoy this information, if I have done any mistake while writing this message and while giving the informations, I ask forgiveness front of my elder musicians,

With sincere regards,
 a simple servant of Indian classical music