The Bhendibazaar gharana is one of the vocal gharanas of Indian classical music, which originated in Bhendi Bazaar area of Mumbai in 1890.
The founders of the gharana originally belonged to the Moradabad area of Uttar Pradesh.
The features of this gharana include using 'aakaar' for presenting khyals in an open voice, with clear intonation, a stress on breath-control, singing long passages in a single breath, a preference for madhyalaya (medium tempo) and use of the well-known Merukhand or Khandmeru system for extended alaps.
Chhajju Khan's son Aman Ali Khan and Anjanibai Malpekar, are well-known exponents of this gharana.
[1] Lata Mangeshkar; Vasantrao Deshpande; Manna Dey Kumar Gandharva; Kishori Amonkar; Begum Akhtar; Naina Devi Pandit Dayanand Devgandharva, Manoj Patel, Vasanti Sathe, Mukund Vyas, Sangeeta Pandharpurkar, Anil Vaishnav, Dwarkanath Bhonsle, Pandit Ishwarvhandra, Subhash Desai, Neelam Yajnik, Mitalee singh, Kiran Shukla, and Chintan Patel[3] Asha Bhosle; Jitendra Abhisheki; Suman Kalyanpur; Pankaj Udhas