The country woke up to the appalling insight about the unexpected downfall of Kathak legend Pandit Birju Maharaj. He was 83. As per media reports, he passed on from a respiratory failure. According to a report distributed in NDTV, he was playing with his grandsons at his home when he fell oblivious. While he was hurried to the medical clinic before long, the emergency clinic specialists purportedly proclaimed him brought dead. The reports likewise proposed that Pandit Birju Maharaj has been on dialysis after he was determined to have kidney sickness a couple of days prior.

The news has been affirmed by the family which has made an announcement that peruses as, "With significant sadness and distress we advise the miserable and awkward destruction regarding our most dearest individual from the family Pandit Birju Maharaj Ji. The respectable soul left for his glorious habitation on seventeenth January 2022. Petition God for the withdrew soul". Discussing his end, Pandit Birju Maharaj's amazing girl Ragini Maharaj told ANI, "He was under treatment for as long as month. He had abrupt windedness at around 12:15-12:30 am the previous evening; we carried him to the emergency clinic inside 10 mins, however he died. He cherished devices, needed all the time to get them at the soonest. He generally said, if not an artist, he'd have been a specialist, his picture to me will forever be grinning". For the unenlightened, Pandit ji or Maharaj ji, as he was affectionately alluded as by his devotees, was one of the most amazing known Kathak artists in India. Truth be told, he was a relative of the Maharaj group of Kathak artists which incorporates his uncles Shambhu Maharaj, Lachhu Maharaj and his dad Acchan Maharaj.While Pandit Birju Maharaj's lamentable end has sent a rush of melancholy the country over, fans and celebs are taking to online media to pay their sympathy. Adnan Sami took to miniature publishing content to a blog website Twitter and stated, "Incredibly disheartened by the report about the dying of Legendary Kathak Dancer-Pandit Birju Maharaj ji. We have lost an unrivaled establishment in the field of the performing expressions. He has affected numerous ages through his virtuoso. May he find happiness in the hereafter".