I have been hooked big time to TNS’ Dwijavanti RTP and Delhi 6 (the title song) for the past one week. 2 completely contrasting songs! Can’t stop humming ‘ye dilli hai mere yaar’. Won’t Delhi 6 be the perfect song to listen to when you are going for a drive on a highway? The magic of TNS’ Dwijavanti continues! Absolute beauty, isn’t it? It just makes you lose yourself in the blissful music! 40 min seem to pass by in a jiffy! 😉
Last weekend was a great one and so very reminiscent of December Season, thanks to Svanubhava & Sikkil Gurucharan’s concert and Dr. Chithra Madhavan’s lecture, with which concluded my memorable weekend.
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Believe it or not, it has been more than 6 months since I last went for a concert of Sanjay!!! 🙁 His concert at Anjaneyar temple, Alamelumangapuram on January 22nd was the last one I went to. I was not able to go for the next 4 concerts of his, the last of which was on March 29th. After that, there has been no concert of his in Madras!
In this gap, I would have gone for about 15 concerts or so, including a few of TMK too. (There are not many concerts of TMK either 🙁 ) But a few of those concerts though were great, were not as satisfying to me as Sanjay’s concerts are. Everyday I check ‘The Hindu’ first thing in the morning hoping to see some Sanjay’s concert listed there, only to be met with disappointment. I can’t wait for the days when there’s at least one concert of Sanjay and TMK every week, to come soon. The wait has become too long already!
Click here to watch the song.
This Malayalam song, picha vecha naal is the one that I have been listening to, for the past 3 days. I have been hooked to a new song after a long time! Though this song, which seems to be based on many raagas, reminds one of so many other songs, yet there is something haunting about it. Soft, soothing & melodious! Shankar Mahadevan’s singing is the biggest plus of it. My most favourite part in the entire song is the humming at 2:38. The female singer, whoever she is, does just the humming in the entire song, yet her humming followed by that haunting dhirana dhirana & the swarams NDPM RMRP NDSNDMP sung by Shankar Mahadevan turns out to be the best part of the song!
The visual is full of vibrant colours and that’s what makes it good too.
P.S.: Thanks to Sreekrishnan for the link!
Recently, as someone typed a surprised smiley when I told him that a majority of the concerts here are ‘All are welcome’ ones, I remembered the numerous instances when my same reply was met with the same response from so many people and how Carnatic music still remains unfamiliar to many people. I also remembered the questions that Puranjoy had asked in this comment, to which I have still not replied.
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It gives me joy and bliss. It cheers me up when I am sad. It can make my face light up with a smile even when my eyes are filled with tears. It’s the one I turn to when I want to be alone with my thoughts. It’s the one I seek solace in if things are not going great. It’s the one with which I celebrate every little happy moments of my life. It’s my best companion at all times. It is THE best thing to have happened to me. Music, what’s life without you? The magic created by the varied permutations and combinations of the seven notes is just amazing! Wishing all you music lovers out there a very happy world music day! 🙂
At Dakshinamurthy Auditorium (Nadopasana) on 6th June
Accompanists:
Lalgudi Vijayalakshmi – Violin
Manoj Siva – Mridangam
Rajaganesh – Khanjira
Concert Duration: 2.5 hrs
Songs List:
1. Varnam – Kanada
2. Sadananda Tandavam – Bhahudari – neraval & swarams at chittakArattil??
3. Emitova – Saranga – Alapana
4. Ananda Natana – Kedaram – Raaga Outline & Swarams at Ananda Natana
5. Sri Guruguha – Suddha Saveri
6. Nee Padamula – Bhairavi – Alapana; Neraval & Swarams at Sri Panchanadishwaruni
Tani Avartanam
7. RTP – Mohanam
Pallavi – Mohana Ramayya Samayamide Karuna Jooda Vaiyya – Kanda Triputa
8. Mattada Baradeno – Kannada? (Googling says Kannada. But I don’t remember the raagam now)
9. Smarasundaranguni – Paras – Raaga Outline
10. Janakinaath – Misra Khamaj – Raaga Outline
11. Madi Vadanamaada (Viruttam) – Bilahari, Sindhu Bhairavi, Kharaharapriya
Paadi Madi – Kharaharapriya
12. Mangalam – Sowrashtram
13. Swasti Prajapya
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Soul-stirring song! The feel with which Rahman has sung it won’t fail to move anyone!
It finally ends today! With too many wild card rounds and no elimination on some days, the show has just been going on and on and on and I am so happy that it is finally getting over! Even though I missed some episodes once in a while, this has been the one programme that I regularly watched in the recent times. Excluding some rounds, the episodes had quite a few of my favourite songs being sung by the participants. With almost all the participants singing really well too in the last several rounds, that was the only reason why I watched it. So, now that it’s over, I will be having more free time on Mondays to Wednesdays and I hope I use that time to get back to regular blogging.
Having watched the programme all these days, I want to see who the super singer is. (I hope Ajeesh wins) But, today’s live show has been a boring one till now, especially the waste of time from 6:30 to 8 when they kept showing the same parts again and again with ‘Live’ flashing on top!
On a totally unrelated note, I watched some portions of today’s French Open Quarter Final which Federer won. I hope he wins the French Open atleast this time!
Humming this song from the movie Khamoshi is how I began the day today and a major part of the day itself had me feeling happy and in a cheerful mood that even as I am typing this post, I am singing the same song. 🙂
A pleasant weather in the wee hours of morning, the sky with some beautiful golden hues looking very gorgeous during sunrise, solving today’s kakuro in bus sooner than usual, solving a sudoku with maximum difficulty level again in about 15 min, a nice, long break with a friend, listening to my current favourites Paarthaale Paravasame and If You Wanna (from New) on repeat mode, sky with pinkish hues when the sun was setting, dinner at Eden with friends, the yummylicious Chocolate Fetish Sundae at Eden 😀 (I decided not to have ‘The Last Time Ever I Saw My Waist’ 😛 That’s an ice cream’s name there). What a good day it has been! 🙂
By the way, today is Madhavan’s birthday. Happy Birthday, Madhavan! 🙂 May he get to act in more good movies like Anbe Sivam, Evano Oruvan and Yavarum Nalam!