The fourth evening of the 25th OMC Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra Award Festival 2019 showed amazing Hindustani music recital followed by Odishi performances on Sunday.

The first performance of the evening was the Hindustani vocal recital of Indrani Mukherjee, an accomplished exponent of the Benaras Gharana. She was accompanied on the Tabla by the creative and versatile musician, Apurba Mukherjee and on the harmonium by Gourab Chatterjee and Sachidananda Sahoo on the Tanpura. She presented three compositions through the course of the evening. The first was a khayal in Raag Kedar. The second presentation was a Kajri in Raag Pilu and the final presentation was a Bhajan.

Following this was the first Odishi group presentation of the evening by Soor Mandir from Cuttack, led by Jyotsna Rani Sahoo. They presented Rasanuraga. Set to Ragamalika and Talamalika, the dancers presented the production with good stage presence and expressions.

The final performance of the evening was by noted Odishi exponent Gajendra Panda's group Tridhara. Tridhara presented three dance pieces, Mangalacharan, Kirvani Pallavi and Ram Bhajan.

This Mangalacharan featured the hallmark Sabda Swara Pata, a key feature of the Guru Deba Prasad Das gharana, and was set to the music composition of Dr Gopal Chandra Panda, rhythm composition of Dr Banamali Moharana and dance choreography of Dr Gajendra Panda.

This was followed by a pure dance or pallavi, set to Raag Kirvani, composed by Laxmikant Palit and Dhaneswar Swain on music and rhythm respectively and the dance choreography of Dr Gajendra Panda. The presentation concluded with a Ram Bhajan, drawn from Nagarakirtana tradition of south Odisha.