Aparna’s Blog

Check this link for the video of Mani Ratnam speaking at the Margazhi Raagam DVD launch. It felt great hearing Mani Ratnam speak about music!

Here are some photos taken at today’s ‘Margazhi Raagam’ DVD launch:
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It’s a Friday today and weekend is just a few hours away!
There is a T.M.Krishna’s concert today!
It is Sanjay’s first concert of the Season tomorrow!

Today morning, I had so many things to be happy about and I was, indeed, so very excited that I thought it wouldn’t be possible for me to be more excited than I already was, when I saw in ‘The Hindu’’s ‘Friday Review’ that Mani Ratnam is going to be one of the guests of honour at the release of the DVD of T.M.Krishna and Bombay Jayashri’s ‘Margazhi Raagam’!!!

The day in 2005 when I saw in ‘Metro Plus’ that DVDs of Mani Ratnam’s movies are going to be launched by Mani Ratnam himself still remains evergreen in my memory, while seeing Mani Ratnam and even getting his autograph still seems like an unbelievable dream!! Despite all the excitement, there is this big disappointment that my sister is not there in India now. She wasn’t able to come for the DVD launch of Mani Ratnam’s movies itself! Anyway, irrespective of whether I see Mani Ratnam this Sunday or not, I am super-excited!!!

The ‘Margazhi Raagam’ DVD launch is going to happen at Cafe Ashvita in Radhakrishnan Salai on December 6th (4 pm - 5 pm). I don’t think any invite is needed for this. So, all you Mani Ratnam fans out there, mark your calendar!

Wishing Mani Ratnam a very happy birthday! May Ravan/Ashokavanam become a super-duper hit!

Watching the last half an hour or so of Kannathil Muthamittal on K TV today morning, I remembered the post of mine that has been lying unfinished in the drafts for a long time now.

Sometime in June last year (this post has been in draft from that time!!), there was this thematic concert of T.M.Krishna that I went to. The theme of the concert was ‘Relationships’. As I heard a moving rendition of Mahakvi Bharatiyar’s ‘chinnanchiru kiLiye’(which he had chosen for the relationship between a father and his daughter) by TMK – how does he manage to bring so much bhava in everything that he sings! TMK rocks! –, I couldn’t help remembering the movie ‘Kannathil Muthamittal’ the moment he sang those lines in the song. As my thoughts drifted towards the movie, the first thing that came to my mind was what an apt title Mani Ratnam had chosen for the movie!
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Sangs’ post was what made me write this post. She has written that most of Mani Ratnam’s heroines are epitomes of innocence. But, I don’t think so.

Taking their own decisions, choosing how their life has to be, speaking their mind out and at times, being real stubborn – to me, these are what characterize the women in Mani Ratnam’s movies. Of course, some of their decisions do get influenced by their parents or others around them. But that, definitely, doesn’t make them innocent.
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Check this out! Got the link from here.

Eagerly waiting for the movie and of course, the music!