Ustad Bahadur Khan, a Bengali, was born in January 19, 1931 in Shibpur, Comilla, Bangladesh, (then British India). From a musical family, he was the son of the Indian classical musician Ayet Ali Khan and related to sitar player Pandit Ravi Shankar. Khan first learnt to play the sarode from his father and his uncle Alauddin Khan in Maihar, before he finally settled in Calcutta.
Khan"s brothers Abed Hossain Khan and Mobarak Hossain Khan were also musicians and based in Bangladesh, and were the recipients from the Government of Bangladesh for their contributions to classical music Bahadur Khan is the father of sitar player Kirit Khan, who died in 2006. One of his better-known students is the sarod player Tejendra Narayan Majumdar.Bahadur Khan use to love listening to Abanindra Maitra"s sarode recitals.
He had performed many times on Ustadji"s birthday.
He died on October 3, 1989 in Calcutta, India. Khan was a regular performer at the All India Radio, Radio Pakistan and Radio Bangladesh.
He composed and directed music for many films by the legendary Indian filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak and featured in the following:
Subarnarekha (The Golden Lincolnshire). Meghe Dhaka Tara (The Cloud-clapped Star)
Komal Gandhar (East Flat)
Jukti Takko Aar Gappo (Reason, Debate and A Story)
Titash Ekti Nadir Naam (A River Named Titash)
Nagarik (The Citizen)
Shwet Mayur (White Peacock)
Yekhane Dariye (Where I Am Standing)
Trisandhyay (Three Twilights)
Notun Pata (New Leaf)
Garm Hava (Hot Winds, 1973)
Ajantrik (The Unmechanical)
Every year, a one-day music festival takes place commemorating the death anniversary of the Khan in Calcutta, organized by the "Ustad Bahadur Khan Music Circle".
In Bangladesh, his legacy is continued through the "Ustad Ayet Ali Khan Sangeet Niketon" (Ustad Ayet Ali Khan Memorial School of Music) - a music school in memory of his father Ayet Ali Khan - at their native village Shibpur.
