iru vizhiyin vazhiye from the movie Siva – Excellent singing by SPB and Chitra, nice beats, wonderful flute & trumpet (?) interludes, typical Ilaiyaraja song. The interludes in Hamsadhwani raagam are beautiful. Super song! Can’t stop listening to it!

When the caller tune is Jashn-E-Bahaaraa, who will complain when a friend doesn’t answer the call? 😉 I didn’t even have the heart to cut the call even though she didn’t answer. 😛 And guess what I am doing now? Listening to the instrumental version of Jashn-E-Bahaaraa on repeat mode! 😀 What a beautiful song! Rahman rocks!

For all those fans of Sanjay Subrahmanyan out there, in case you are not aware, he is one the judges for the finals of Ragamalika – the show on Jaya TV. Yesterday was the first episode of the finals. It will go on for another couple of weeks I guess. I started watching the show only after the first participant had started singing. By the way, that participant sang quite well and that was the reason why I paused channel surfing. Little did I expect to see Sanjay as the judge! Srinivas was the other judge. I have watched many shows where Srinivas was the judge and I have always found him to be a good judge.

As far as I know, generally, it’s only the judge who is a non-classical musician who sings/performs before the competition starts. But, it has been quite a long time since I last watched Ragamalika and I have no idea how it is nowadays. So, can anybody who watched the first segment of the show please tell me if by any chance, Sanjay sang anything in the first segment? Also please tell me what Srinivas sang. Thanks!

This is one movie where I liked all the songs the first time I listened to them itself. 🙂 And the more I listen to each song, the more I like it! But, as I started listening to the songs of ‘Ada’, one thing that struck me was almost all the songs had an already-heard-before feel to it. This is just an observation and not a complaint. 😉
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Wishing Madhavan a very happy birthday! 🙂

I don’t know if you remember but sometime back, I had written that I was reading ‘The Code of the Woosters’, the first-ever P.G.Wodehouse’s novel that I was reading. In that book, the way every time Bertie heaves a sigh of relief thinking that all the problems are solved only to find yet another problem surface and how Jeeves is always there to bring him out of it all, was fun to read. I liked it so much that I have started reading more of Jeeves and Woosters now. 🙂 Read ‘The Inimitable Jeeves’ and ‘Ring for Jeeves’ after that. I have now started reading ‘Jeeves in the Offing’. With there being only 14 books on Wooster and Jeeves, I can’t wait to finish reading all the books! Only after that I am going to start reading other books of P.G.Wodehouse.

I got a nice forward that had a list of 28 beautiful words in English with a good, apt picture accompanying each word. As I scrolled down and read the words, I realized that most of the words in that list were the ones that I consider to be beautiful too. 🙂
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Accompanists:
S.Varadarajan – Violin
Tanjavur Ramdoss – Mridangam

Where & When? – Bharati Vidya Bhavan on 20th, May

Concert Duration – 2.5 hrs

Songs List:
1. Bhavanuta – Mohanam – Swarams at Bhavanuta
2. Nee daya radha – Vasanta Bhairavi
3. Vinataa suta – Harikambhoji – Alapana, Neraval & Swarams at nera vaishakotsavamuna
4. Nee madhi – Ananda Bhairavi
5. Bhajare re chita – Kalyani – Elaborate Alapana
6. Sivakama sundari – Mukhari (Started at anupallavi – Bhavaroga)
7. arumarundhoru – Kambhoji
8. Durusuga – Saveri – Alapana, Swarams at parama paavani; Tani Avartanam
9. Hey Govinda – Madhuvanti – Alapana
10. Raamanai Bhajitthaal – Maand
11. Tillana – Todi
12. Mangalam – Sowrashtram
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