nagpur if the content is same it can be difficult innovating with the presentation this dilemma is afflicting most musical shows happening in the city krishnadhwal one such musical show worked hard to redesign the format and considering the audience turnout succeeded in its effort thursday evening served a rich selection of golden hits of black and white films to the diehard fans of these songs the singers aniruddha joshi rasika chate niranjan bobade have established themselves in the hearts of music lovers in the city smita tondgaokar impressed with her nasal voice as she rendered some shamshad begum hits and dr sudhir kunnawars rendering of evergreen hits like bhuli hui yadaon and kisi ki muskurahaton pe ho nisar was an effort welltried the concept entailed an audio visual presentation of songs from the era of black and white films the stage setting had visuals of singers who ruled the charts from 1940 to 1960 the theme was black and white and the performing artists this evening were dressed in these colours too the advantage that such musical shows have is that the audience connect so well with the songs that they are willing to overlook the fallacies but they also expect the artists to keep up the tempo krishnadhawal fell short on this it could not rise beyond being a loose bouquet of popular black and white era songs there was no challenge for aniruddha as he sang jab dil hi toot gaya or beqarar kar ke niranjans unique and clear voice did justice to ai mere dil kahin aur chal and the more classical ajhun na aye balma which is his forte dr kunnawar missed the beat with bhuli hui yaadon and smita sang the wrong lines in the duet leke pehla pehla pyar it was rasika who proved to be the most versatile singer of the evening with the noorjahan number aawaz de kahan hai geeta dutts jata kahan hai deewane and latas hit pyar kiya to darna kya also adding lustre to the evening were a host of music lovers including local mp vilas muttamwar and former mayor kundatai vijaykar