On 29th November at Padma Pushkarini, Kalakshetra
This concert was held for inaugurating the new performance space in Kalakshetra called Padma Pushkarini. The ad in the newspaper on the day of the concert had a photo of a pond kind of place and I couldn’t wait to check out how a pushkarini/pond has been made as a concert venue.
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Click here for the full song! Am loving the full version too.
Cry cry from Jhootha Hi Sahi – I am loving it! Can’t wait to listen to the full song!
Sanjay’s concert on 9th August at CLT, IIT Madras (Clasfest)
This concert was the 100th concert of Sanjay that I was going for and what a concert it was! 🙂
Accompanists:
Varadarajan – Viloin
Neyveli Venkatesh – Mridangam
Trichy K.Murali – Ghatam
Concert Duration: 2 hrs 45 min
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Isn’t there something mesmerizing about this raagam? I just now finished listening to a very beautiful AlApanai of ratipatipriya by Embar Kannan in the concert of Ghatam Karthick’s ‘Heart Beat’ team which is being live webcast here.
A lazy, relaxed day. Surrounded by murmurs. Earphones on. A whole lot of your favourite Rahman’s songs waiting to be listened to. You have been hooked big-time to Puthiya Manidha, Kadhal Anukkal, Kilimanjaro, Hosanna, Aaromale, Mannippaaya and Pudhu Vellai Mazhai for several weeks now that it feels like ages since you last listened to any of your other favourite songs. You press the ‘Play’ button and then you lose track of time, lose yourself in the music, in the melody, in the beats and in the nostalgic waves after fresh waves of memories and thoughts that flow in with each song. It’s amazing how many years worth of memories are compressed into just a few minutes of music! Amazing how Rahman’s music has become such an important part of your life that listening to any of your favourite Rahman’s songs itself gives you a feeling of having gotten into a comfort zone! Listening to each song is an experience in itself and I am so happy that this year we have got so many gems of songs from the man!
Sanjay’s December Season schedule is here! Seeing the schedule, the wait already seems longer!
On 23rd June at Sri Krishna Gana Sabha (Organized by Shri Maharajapuram Rasikas Trust)
Just like last year, this year too I missed 3 consecutive concerts of Sanjay and the last concert of Sanjay that I went for was in January! And what made attending this concert all the more exciting was that I came to know about this concert just a couple of hours before the concert was to start!!
Accompanists:
Nagai Muralidharan – Violin
Srimushnam Raja Rao – Mridangam
Concert Duration: 2 hrs 15 min
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Newspapers, magazines, websites, Abhishek Bachchan’s tweets, mail forwards, posters on newspapers and on the walls, trailers on all the Hindi and Tamil channels! After more than a couple of years of rumours initially about Mani Ratnam’s next film Lajjo that were doing the rounds in all the newspapers and websites and then the endless news about what next Mani Ratnam’s movie was all about, the initial names for the Hindi and Tamil versions – Raavan and Ashokavanam, the cast & crew, the problem with forest officials, rumours about the climax, etc., etc., interviews with the cast & crew & the director himself and not to mention all those non-informative news items which seemed to have been published just for filling up the space, the day of the release of the movie is just a couple of days away!
Having watched the last two movies of Mani Ratnam on the day of the release itself, I hope that I get to watch this too on the first day. Can’t wait to see Mani Ratnam delve deep into the numerous minds of Beera! My plan, as of now, is to watch Raavan first and then Raavanan. What about you?
Music Matters – That was the name given to the chat between Nirmala Lakshman, joint editor of ‘The Hindu’ & T.M.Krishna was held on April 29th at Full Circle, Chamiers. This was organized by ‘The Hindu’. Here are some of the topics that were covered in the programme.
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