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Nandlal Nayak

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Nandlal Nayak is a film director, folk musician, and composer. Amu (2005), a feature film that won a national prize, has him as its music director. He encourages folk music throughout the world and among youth. He is a Sangeet Natak Akademi member. Nandlal Nayak was raised in Ranchi and was born in 1973 into a family of traditional folk artists in his home hamlet of Bokba. Padmashri Mukund Nayak is his father. He was immersed by Jharkhandi music, rhythms, and culture as a child. He received his diploma from Ranchi’s Gossner College. In 2997, he got married to American dancer Wendy Jehlen. Nandlal was a contemporary Nagpuri solo singer in the 1990s. He relocated to Boston, Massachusetts, following his marriage to American dancer Wendy Jehlen (Bharatnatym, Odisi, and modern) in 1997. For two years, he lived in Italy as part of Benetton’s Farica Musica initiative.

After that, he worked on fusion C.D.s in Italy, but he grabbed his songs and fled because of Benetton’s copy rights. He made a Nagpuri film about human trafficking after returning to Ranchi, but for financial reasons, it was never shown. As a Ford Scholar, Nandlal Nayak travelled the world working with musicians and filmmakers from the United States, Japan, Ghana, Germany, Italy, Austria, Great Britain and other countries, and bringing the aroma of Jharkhand folk music to the world. Nandlal’s music and films demonstrate his international experience while remaining rooted in his traditional culture.

For more than ten years, Nayak has been an ambassador for Jharkhandi dance, music, movies, and culture. Amu (2005), a feature film that won a national prize, has him as its music director. In 2009, he wrote the soundtrack for the Nagpuri film Chhoti, which was focused on human trafficking. He was the music director for the Nagpuri film Phulmania, which had its world premiere at the 72nd Cannes Film Festival in France as well as the Jharkhand Internatioanl Film Festival Awards (J.I.F.F.A.) in 2019. The Nandlal-directed feature film Dhumkkudiya addresses the problem of Jharkhandi tribal youths being trafficked for domestic help.