Category Archives: Music

What to write?

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For the past ten days, I managed to write something here everyday and even though the posts were just a few lines long, those were all spontaneous posts. As much as I don’t want to break the streak now, I suddenly don’t seem to have anything to write about! What do I write? About the awesome, amazing Sanjay’s Sahana that I am listening to now 🙂 or about getting hooked to uyirile from Vettayadu Vilayadu yet again today, or about how happy some things which cannot be mentioned here 😛 made me feel or about how I seem to be one confused soul struggling to come to a decision about certain things or about how I am thinking about whether I should publish this post or just delete it? I am sure you will say that I should have indeed deleted it 😉

Good Morning! :)

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Hooked big-time to this BGM from Swades. Just 40 seconds duration. Yet look at the magic that Rahman has created with his music! This is my mobile ring tone now. 🙂 I just love the scene featuring this BGM. I wish it had not been deleted from the movie.

The day has begun on a great note, thanks to ARR’s music. 🙂 I hope the rest of the day remains as great as the beginning. Good Morning, folks! 🙂

Guitar Prasanna’s Concert

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At Dakshinamurthy Auditorium (Nadopasana) on 16th March

Accompanists:
Prapancham Ravindran – Mridangam
B.S.Purushottaman – Khanjira

Concert Duration: 2 hrs

Songs List:
1. Sri Mahaganapate – Abhogi – Brief alapana, swarams
2. Garudagamana – Nagaswarali – Alapana, swarams
3. Marugelara – Jayantashri – Raaga outline
4. Raa Rama – Asaveri
5. RTP – Bilahari – Pallavi: Raghukula in Kanda Triputa taalam – Composed by TRS
tani Avaratanam
6. Nagumomu – Abheri – Raaga outline, swarams
7. What Prasanna called as the ‘Carnaticized’ version of his composition based on Kambhoji and Kapi from ‘Smile Pinki’ – the documentary which won the Oscar award this year for ‘Best Documentary Short Subject’. Prasanna composed the music for this documentary.
8. Mangalam – Sowrashtram followed by an outline of Madhyamavati

After more than a year, there was a concert of Prasanna here on Saturday. But, since that was in Villivakkam, an inaccessible area for me, I was not able to go for it. So, I didn’t want to miss today’s concert at any cost. I don’t have anything specific to write about except that, as expected, I absolutely enjoyed every moment of this concert. 🙂 How I wish more concerts of Prasanna happens here!

Swades

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I seem to be in love with the movie all over once again after watching it for the nth time today on Star One. Today was one of those days when I enjoyed each and every moment of the movie more than usual. I was absorbed in the movie. Completely! The village, villagers, excellent acting by Shahrukh and others, costumes, dialogues, amazing background music for each and every scene, songs, lyrics, Kaveri Amma, the love story of Gita and Mohan, the cute little village kids, I can just go on and on about every single thing in this movie! As much as I want to write a long post on it, I want to watch some of my favourite scenes from the movie again too. And since I don’t seem to have had enough of Swades for the day, this post will have to wait.

Slumdog Millionaire

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Am now listening to the tracks of Slumdog Millionaire and with each listening, I seem to like each of the songs more and more. As much as I enjoyed reading/watching so many shows/articles/blog posts/interviews, etc. on A.R.Rahman post Oscars, I also got tired of hearing every other person saying that Slumdog Millionaire is not his best. I just wish everyone just enjoys the songs instead of repeatedly saying that it’s not his best. 😐 Though I haven’t listened to Jai Ho as much as Latika’s Theme or Mausam and Escape, that song has still really become one of my favourites.

Blues

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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.

Madhirakshi

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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.

Agar Main Kahoon

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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!

Song

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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.