nagpur more than the fact that shahbaz khan is a film and television actor what evokes a quick response for him at least from the connoisseurs of music is that he is the only son of legendary exponent of hindustani classical music ustad amir khan it was only for this reason that a full house witnessed khan making an audio visual presentation based on his fathers life in the city recently khan hails from nagpur and has spent his academic years in the city i have many fond memories of nagpur and was surprised to discover that there are so many people here who had been associated with my father in one way or the other he told toi in the course of a chatexcerpts from an interview q why this urge to document your fathers work a i was very young when my father was killed in a road accident in kolkata i never had this opportunity to spend time with him or to get to know him his music was one way of knowing him better when i began working on this project i learnt so much about him through his associates and disciples there were people in mumbai delhi and kolkata who had long associations with him i met great artists like zakir hussain ustad vilayat khan shiv kumar sharma who had fond memories of my father i heard his recordings and was told about the path breaking work done by him in the field of music then there were these two documentaries made by film division and doordarshan on my father i took these works and developed them further q where else do you plan to show this documentary a i have no commercial plans around it and will not sell it i want to show it at various music festivals on national and international platforms and at music academies as my fathers contribution to music is of the academic kind there are many artists who have asked for this work and i will readily give it to them mp government holds a threeday music festival raag amir in indore in the memory of my father i had shown it there basically i want this work to reach the youth who are pursuing classical music q how did you select nagpur as a venue for this show a i have strong ties with the city so when the offer came from an organization here to show this documentary i agreed i was eager to hold this show in nagpur and was happy and surprised to see the huge crowd at the auditorium there were so many who came up and told me about their association with my father q what are your memories of the city a my entire childhood and youth was spent in nagpur i lived here with my mother raisa begum who rests here i was a student of st johns high school and hislop college we settled in nagpur after