Thank you for attending Soor Aur Saptak 2024 Program and making it a grand sucess.

Save the Date: March 1st 2025

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TICKETS

$20 (adults), $15 (age 4-12 years), Free for children under 4

The Most Anticipated Bollywood Musical Night !

A Charity Event Benefiting Seva Foundation Featuring Old and New Bollywood Songs. Dedicated to restoring children’s eyesight in rural India through free pediatric screening, eye operations, and free eye glasses.

About the Event

Indian-American singing group Soor Aur Saptak (SAS) will hold its 13th year anniversary 2024 annual musical benefit concert in person on Sunday, April 13, 2024 from 4-7pm at the HECSA Balaji Temple Auditorium, 6100m SW Rabb Road, Portland 97221, Oregon. Featuring spellbinding Bollywood music, singing, and dancing, the event raised funds will provide eye care for children in India. In the last 11 years, SAS has raised over $425,000 through partnership with Seva Foundation.

Performances By

Mini Jairaj

Sandhiprakash (Sandhi) Bhide

Sandeep Shetty

Gayathri Varanasi

Bhavani Ganesh

Ramesh Nagul

MC

Jyoti Veeramoney

Dances By

Deepa Barve Dance Academy

Deepa Barve

Deepti Joshi.

Gomathi Ramkumar

Pornima Subedar

Priya Ajgaonkar

Priyanka Lad

Rupali Kadgi

Shweta Upadhyay

Sonali Pagade

Supriya Ketkar

D-fanatix

Aarohi Patel

Arti Kalkote

Dhanya Dharma Rajan

Jigar Shah

Mansi Sabne

Pooja Banginwar

Priya Malshe

Renuka Ajith

Rohan Uttarwar

Rushil Nori

Saurav Patel

Gidda Groovies

Megha Rai Shivhare

Navkiran Pandher

Prajna Shetty

Shweta Upadhyay

Supriya Kanyal

About Soor Aur Saptak

Soor Aur Saptak™ is a community Bollywood-style music group that gives an annual fundraising performance to support pediatric vision care in India. Our Hindi name means “Notes and Octaves.” This group of talented singers and dancers was founded in 2012 by Sandhiprakash and Anjali Bhide. Our vision is to give vision, literally, to those most in need. Giving vision to a blind or visually impaired child opens tremendous opportunities for a young life. It gives the child the opportunity to get educated, become a productive citizen, and lead a normal family life.

Our Purpose

To raise money through benefit concerts to restore eyesight to hundreds of blind, visually impaired, and financially disadvantaged pediatric patients in rural India. We want to make a difference, be of service to others, and make the world a better place. In Ralph Waldo Emerson’s words, “To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived – that is to have succeeded.”

Picture courtesy: Seva Foundation

Picture courtesy: Seva Foundation

Soor Aur Saptak™ Partnership with Seva Foundation, Berkeley, CA.

We like Seva’s stated vision: “A world free of blindness.” Seva is a global nonprofit eye care organization that transforms lives and strengthens communities by restoring sight and preventing blindness. Restoring sight is one of the most effective ways to relieve suffering and reduce poverty. Seva’s approach is comprehensive: Partner with local institutions, build local capacity, support education and outreach, and promote gender equality. Their work is done through hospitals, rural clinics, school screening, and eye camps.

Years of Fundraising

Funds Raised

Surgeries funded

Children Screened

Every penny helps !

Whenever there is blind child in the family, not only the child but anywhere from two to seven family members supporting the blind child suffer. Bringing vision to the child removes this family burden.

75% of visual impairment is avoidable, 89% of blind live in low and middle income countries, 55% are female, and 1.5 million are children. There are 0.5M new cases of childhood blindness every year. We chose India because there are 7.8M blind/63M visually impaired people and 400,000 are blind children. It takes about $50 to restore sight on the low end and with $150 you can restore sight to a child with a specialized pediatric surgery, post-op care, glasses, medication and transportation.