Suresh Gujar
Suresh Gujar
Mr.Suresh Gujar is  a Violinist from India, based in Pune, who is known for the gayaki (cantabile) style of violin playing and is adored by his fans, especially in Maharashtra, for his unique talent of wielding thousands of songs of popular Hindi, Marathi, Gujarathi, Bengali, etc. film music on violin without any notation from beginning to end, complete with their interleaved music arrangements.
He has been playing the violin since age 13 integrating the two rich Indian schools of music – Hindustani and Carnatic. However, he has adopted the international tuning of G-D-A-E  (Indian notes:  ma,  saa,  pa,  re ).
For over 25 years now he has been playing professionally for various recording sessions ranging from Marathi film music, background scores of Hindi films to bhajans and meditational/devotional music for esteemed organizations such as Art of Living Foundation in India, ISKCON (International  Society for Krishna Consciousness), etc.
He has had several outstanding gurus – Late Mr.Mohan Saraf, Late Mr.A.Barneto, Mr.Shankarrao Biniwale and Ustad Faiyyaz Hussain Khan well known in the Indian music circuit.
His forte lies in playing Carnatic tunes, Hindustani classical ragas as well as full film and album songs that have colored the Indian music scene over the past 50 years on-demand, complete with their interleaved music, without requiring any notation or sheets whatsoever.  Playing over 1 lakh songs from various Indian languages such as Marathi, Hindi, Gujarati, Bengali, etc. he has established his signature style that integrates the main verse of a song(mukhdaa),  its various tracks played in other instruments and the other verses(antaraa). The only accompaniment he uses is often just the tabla,providing the element of rhythm.
His performances have been graced with the appreciation of Indian music greats such as Lata Mangeshkar, Pt. Hridaynath Mangeshkar, Jagjit Singh, Laxmikant (of the Laxmikant-Pyarelal duo), Shantanu Moitra, etc. Moreover, he has been a part of the recordings of Pt. Jitendra Abhisheki, Ram Kadam and Ram Phatak, while having played with Manna Dey, Talat Mehmood, Anup Jalota and Sudha Malhotra in their live shows.
He has also authored 38 musical notation books such as Swaranjali and Sargam and which are very popular among the musical audience in Maharashtra.
He has also released 2 instrumental CDs viz., Kuch Na Kaho - containing some soft scintillating Hindi melodies and more recently Surail Geetanche Hridaysparshi Violin in which 12 evergreen Marathi classics alongwith their multiple tracks have been rendered on the violin.
Here is a link of his Live Concert held in May, 2010 where he is playing Bol Re Papihara from the 1971 film, Guddi.