I don’t know why but all of a sudden, I seemed to have got bored of a lot of things. The past few days nothing failed to interest me – nothing at all! I took a book to read but that didn’t interest me! I thought of writing a blog post to keep myself occupied and I realized that I found that too boring! I heard myself saying, ‘A blog post on how good a concert was or how super a Rahman’s song is or how beautiful the sunset was? Not again!’ Adding to it, some things that really irritated me had happened and the boredom reached its peak. So what did I do to beat boredom?
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My sister and I have got the passes for today’s A.R.Rahman’s concert!!!! 🙂 This being the first-ever concert of Rahman’s that we are going to, we are EXCITED!

A couple days back, I saw a blue and white Plymouth car in Boat Club Road. Seeing the car reminded me of the movie, ‘Kadhalikka neramillai’ – Muthuraman leaving for picnic in the Plymouth car and V.S.Raghavan looking at the car in shock and surprise wondering how on earth his car ended up with this rich millionaire. ‘Kadhalikka neramillai’ is one of my favourite movies. It’s a movie that I am never tired of watching. The scene where Nagesh narrates the story of his movie to Balaiah and Balaiah’s reactions to it, the way Balaiah talks and treats Chidambaram/Muthuraman with so much respect (real bhaya bhakti? 😉 ) completely unaware that he is being fooled by them, Nagesh trying to make Sacchu act are the scenes that instantly come to my mind every time I think I about the movie. Nagesh and Balaiah are the real stars of the movie.
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Accompanists:
Nagai Muralidharan – Violin
Mannargudi Easwaran – Mridangam
Gopalakrishnan – Khanjira

Where & When? – Narada Gana Sabha on 5th Feb

Concert Duration – 2 hrs 35 minutes

Songs List:
1. Viriboni (Varnam) – Bhairavi
2. Ninnada – Kannada – Raaga outline, Swarams
3. Shobillu – Jaganmohini – Alapana, Neraval & Swarams at Dharariksa
4. Ranjani niranjani – Elaborate Ranjani Alapana
5. Annai Janaki – Saveri
6. Shankaracharyam – Sankarabharanam – Alapana, Neraval & Swarams at Parama (Main piece)
7. Shritvaguna (Sloka) – Raagamalika (Hindolam, Madhuvanti, Bhageshri, Mohanam)
Bansiwaale – Mohanam
8. Mukti aLikkum – Navaroj?
9. Tillana – Sindhubhairavi – Raaga outline
10. Mangalam – Sowrashtram

Unlike during the Season, there was complete silence in the whole auditorium during the entire concert. There was not much of a crowd either at the balcony. All these made for a perfect ambience to listen to the Ranjani, which according to me, was the best part of the concert. Listening to the Ranjani alapana that was a sheer beauty and the rendition of the line kanchdaLa lOchanI kAmAkshI in ranjani niranjani, bringing out the beauty of the raaga and the lyrics, was bliss!

Sanjay Subrahmanyan’s Concert

Accompanists:
Nagai Muralidharan – Violin
Srimushnam Raja Rao – Mridangam
T.V.Vasan – Ghatam

Where & When? – Asthika Samajam on 28th January

Concert Duration – 2 hrs 15 min

Songs List:
1. Rama ika nannu – Sahana – Swarams at Rama ika nannu
2. Deva Deva Jagadeeshwara – Purvikalyani – Neraval & Swarams at maahimiya
3. Siva Chidambarame – Nagaswarali – Alapana
4. Mohanakara – Neetimati – Alapana, Neraval & Swarams at Ninadhu paadame
5. Swamikki Sari – Devagandhari – Raaga outline
6. Korisevimpa – Kharaharapriya – Swarams at Korisevimpa (Main piece of the concert)
7. Haritasuluvedale – Yamun Kalyani
8. Shrutvaguna Bhuvana (Viruttam) – Darbari
PootthavaLe (Viruttam) – Nattakurunji
Aadum mayilai (Viruttam) – Behag
Kalpakaambikai – Behag
9. Tillana – Dhanyasi

The concert started with my favourite Sahana 😀 But the speakers at the venue were so pathetic that I couldn’t enjoy it at all. 🙁 I don’t want this post to become yet another raving about Sanjay’s concert. So I will just stop with saying that you should have been there to see what great a concert it was. 😉

T.M.Krishna’s Concert
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Here’s the first of my posts on the temples that I visited recently.

We started at early morning with a beautiful sunrise and excellent music giving us company.

Eppadi irundha beautiful golden-yellow sun ippadi aaidthu: 😛

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I have almost stopped all those scrapping & networking through Orkut. The craze for Orkutting that was there during the first few months when I joined it is long gone. I am in touch with hardly a few people in my friends list. Apart from the occasional exchange of Hi, Hello and wishing someone on their birthday, if at all I login to Orkut on that day and see the birthday notification, I am not doing much of Orkutting. These days I rarely get (s)craps. It has been a long time since I visited the n number of communities that I became a member of and used to be an active member too of some. The reason for this post: I logged into Orkut today after a long time and was just thinking about all these….

Btw, I saw a scrap from someone who wants to know how to become a friend. (?) Here it is:

If i say hi…….u may say whoz this…. if i ask for chat….u may say why??…. if i ask u for a coffee…..u may say wt rubbish…. if i say i liked ur profile……u may say m flattering u….. if i ask for frnship…….u may say how borin …… so can u plz suggest me hw to start wid …….

Any experts out there willing to give some suggestions? 😉

Expectation leads to disappointment. No expectations -> Not only no disappointment but double madangu happiness when something you don’t expect will happen, happens! 😀

The first time I listened to Sanjay Subrahmanyan’s Aadum Chidambaramo was the few seconds clipping of the song that was played in the background during his interview on Radio Mirchi in 2003 or so. After that, I listened to the whole song in Sanjay’s concerts. I went to his Margazhi Mahotsavam concert on the theme, ‘Tillai’ in 2004. I got his ‘Tillai’ CD only in 2006 and liked it a lot. But it wasn’t until January 2007, when I heard Sanjay sing Vazhi Maraitthirukudhu at Asthika Samajam, did I get fascinated by Nandanar Charitram. The main reason for that was the moving rendition of that song by Sanjay. It was soaked in bhava and he sang each and every word of the song so clearly like never before that I was left wishing the song would never end! He sang Aadum Chidambaramo too in that concert. From that time, Chidamabaram has been there on my list of temples to visit. But it was just there in the list along with many other temples.
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