 Kolkata : The Hazarduari Palace in Murshidabad, known for its thousand real and false doors, will host a Sufi festival from March 8.
The three-day festival organised by the West Bengal government would include songs by local artists of bauls and fakirs of murshidi and marfati genre.
A troupe would sing songs of Kabir and Warsi Brothers from Lucknow would entertain with qawalis. There would also be a sufi-kathak dance performance by Manjari Chaturvedi.
The Hazarduari Utsav would be held on an open air stage with the 19th century palace as the backdrop, Tourism Minister Manab Mukherjee said.
The palace was built in 1837 by Duncan McLeod for the Nawab Najim Humaun Jah, descendant of Mir Jafar. The palace, which has been now converted into a museum, is spread over 41 acres and boasts of 114 rooms and 8 galleries, built in European architectural style.
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