Aparna’s Blog

• Heard that Yaavarum Nalam is really good. I want to watch it. It isn’t often that Madhavan’s movies turn out to be good! The picturization, cinematography and the music too seemed to be nice for two songs a few seconds of which I saw. Have to see how the full song is.

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Fresh. Cheerful. No signs of boredom. Silently humming song after song. Enjoying the pleasant weather (There’s still a slight drizzle). Going for a stroll with the cold rain drops caressing me. Now lost in Barso Re. If only I had got a window seat today morning, this perfect day would have had an even better beginning. A weather like this is meant to be enjoyed with the window kept open.

Dull. Gloomy. Bored. The blues need not be Monday morning blues alone. It can be there all through the day. Adding to it is the weather that is equally gloomy. It’s slightly drizzling here.

Even though I had wanted to listen to Sikkil Gurucharan & Anil Srinivasan’s album Madhirakshi for quite sometime, it was only after attending a lec-dem by Anil Srinivasan during the December Season in which Sikkil Gurucharan sang Pirava Varam in the end, that I wanted to listen to it asap. The ambience at Vinnyasa Art Gallery, where the lec-dem happened, latAngi, which happens to be one of my favourite raagams and Gurucharan’s voice (Hasn’t he got a beautiful voice!) with Anil Srinivasan’s piano– it was magical. (I wanted to write this here on the day of the lec-dem itself. But never got around to writing it. Anyway, better late than never!)

Coming back to Madhirakshi, I did listen to it finally sometime in January end. Apart from piravA varam, Omana tingaL is the other song that I liked very much. Aarabhi is, after all, another most favourite raagam of mine. I like these two so much that, till now, I have listened to the remaining songs in the album just once, since the moment I think about Madhirakshi, these two songs are the only ones that I feel like listening to. I was listening to these two songs on a repeat mode yesterday evening. And even now, that is what I am doing. Lost in the beauty of the contrasting soft and melodious Latangi and Aarabhi pieces!

By the way, only after listening to Omana thingaL, I realized that the Malayalam lines that come in Kuluvalile, the song in Muthu, are the opening lines of this song.

I am now in a mood to write a lengthy post. So, here I am typing away all that’s coming to my mind.

The Saturday before last was a day when I didn’t have any specific plans and all I wanted to do was just laze around doing nothing. A movie or a book is what I found to be the best company when I feel like that. On seeing that ‘The Namesake’ was about to begin on Star Movies, after reading a couple of reviews to make sure it was watchable, I decided to give it a try.
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I like this song as much as Kitni Baatein. If it was Hariharan’s voice in that song, it is Udit’s in this that makes one go ga-ga over it. This is probably the one song in the recent times in which Udit’s voice still has the same magic it once had a few years back. Udit and Alka – a vintage combo.

The conversation between the lead pair in this song is as good as the one in Kitni Baatein. The hero proposing in the simplest and direct of ways, mock anger from the lady, the man proposing using all those clichéd Bollywood lines, only to face the lady’s ‘anger’ again. This is such a beautiful song where the picturization is as perfect as the music and lyrics!

Kind of liked this quote that I got as a forward today:

Words make you think a thought.
Music makes you feel a feeling.
A song makes you feel a thought.