I will be missing the fourth concert of Sanjay in a row this Sunday!! 🙁 🙁 🙁 I hope his next concert is at least on a day when am free.

Listening to Ravi sing this song in Super Singer today, I immediately wanted to listen to it and that’s what I am doing now. This song is one of my most favourites! Unni Krishnan singing the very beautiful lyrics, set to an even more beautiful music by the inimitable Rahman, with such an amazing feel makes it a song which seldom fails to touch my soul every time I listen to it! This is a gem of a composition indeed!

At Youth Hostel, Indra Nagar (Hamsadhwani) on 21st March

Accompanists:
R.K. Shriramkumar – Violin
K.Arun Prakash – Mridangam
B.S. Purushothaman – Khanjira

Songs List:
1. Sri natadi guruguho – Mayamalavagowlai – neraval at maya, swarams at maya, marakoti
2. Sri varalakshmi – Sri – Alapana; neraval & swarams at charumati
3. Teliyaleru – Dhenuka
4. Manasunilpa – Abhogi – Alapana
5. SarojadaLanetri – Shankarabharanam – mix of raagam and taanam with Arun Prakash and Purushothaman joining TMK & Shriramkumar for the last few rounds of taanam; neraval & swarams at samaganavinodini
Tani Avartanam
6. AruLseyya vendumaiyya – Rasikapriya
7. Santakaram (Shloka) – Dhanyasi, Bilahari, dhAmavati, Valaji
Sakalalokadhara – Valaji
8. Srinivasa – Hamsanandi – Raaga Outline
9. Shriya Kantaya – Hamsananti, Surutti

Despite the bad ambience at the venue, I loved every moment of the concert so much that I cannot choose just a few particular parts as the ones that I liked the most!

After almost 2 months, I am going for TMK’s concert today and needless to say, I am excited big-time. 🙂 Since it has been just ARR’s songs that I have been listening to for the major part of the time for the past two months, I started listening to TMK’s recordings from the morning. Kedaragowlai, Salakabhairavi, Janaranjani, Surutti, Enneramum, Sri Ramachandra, Gayati Vanamali and now Shankachakra – the song which got me hooked to TMK’s singing in the first place 🙂 . Listening to all these, I now can’t wait for the clock to strike 18:15 🙂

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 😉

I wish some people would start talking about new topics and stop asking me the same questions! I have got tired of answering it! I couldn’t think of a better place than my blog to say this, for this is one place where I can write what I want to without saying a word about who those people are or what those questions are. 😛

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! 🙂

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!

With this comment, the total no. of comments in my blog has now reached 5000! 🙂 5000 comments for 466 posts. Of course, it includes my replies to comments as well as ping backs to posts. But, anyway, this calls for a celebration 😉 Thank you, my dear readers! 🙂

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.