Nandan Charitram Day

What a wonderful evening it was! I was blown away by the amazing talent our young Vidwans exhibited on 10th April 2010 under the auspice of Nandan Charitram Day sponsored by Dharma Palana Sabha, NY USA. Thanks to Mr. Swaminathan & Suseela Swaminathan for their commitment and untiring effort to have made this event a reality.

Children of all ages groups participated in this wonderful and amazing musical evening to celebrate the life story of Nandanar through select songs from Gopalakrishna Bharati's archives. The effort, practice & commitment shown by both children and their teachers his highly appreciable. This along with several other events that are organized to showcase our young Vidwans talents is an excellent opportunity for these budding musicians to grow and nurture our Indian culture and tradition.

Kudos to all the parents who amidst their busy personal schedule continue to stay committed to ensure that our culture and traditions are safeguarded.

While the evening was also an opportunity to raise fund in support of the much deserved Dayananda Sarawathi Ashram's initiative to re-initiate and energize the "Oduwars" in South Indian Temples, it provided an wonderful platform for these youngsters to learn and exhibit story of a pariah who became a saint.

I am confident our Indian culture and traditions are safe in these young hands and I am sure you'll agree once you see these videos capturing the moments on that wonderful evening of 10th April 2010 in Bridgewater Temple Auditorium, NJ USA.

Click the link below for the Nandan Charitram Day playlist that includes all of the videos.

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=6B54CFDA88FE439F

Kaatrin Mozhi

This next Vairamuthu's penned song has to be amongst one of his best; amazing lyrics with imaginative meaning associated with it. A very simple melody composed by Vidyasagar and originally sung by Balram (I guess) for the film Mozhi.

I liked its simplicity and as soon as the original audio came out this song took a spot in my popular melodies playlist. Praskash Raj, Prithivi Raj & Jyothika acted in this movie which is one of those movies that did not do well in its opening week but started picking up momentum after the initial week by word of mouth. If you haven't seen this movie yet, its worth picking it up from your nearest library and enjoy a clean movie with some amazing acting by Jyothika.

This being one of the popular song amongst other good ones from this movie, I wanted to do this karaoke for a while now. As always, listen and enjoy and provide your comments.



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Ithu Oru Ponmalai Pozhudu

This next song is one of those types that will remain evergreen and that something we never get bored of listening. Such awesome melody could be composed by none other than our favorite Illayaraja. Originally sung by melody mannan SPB this scintillating song remained at the top of the charts for many months (maybe even years), and rightly so.

A very simple melody composed with amazing use of instruments which includes violin & tabla.

Whenever & wherever I hear this song I break out humming along with it and this song simply lifts the moment.

I enjoyed singing this song and I hope you enjoy listening it and reminiscing those days...

As always, listen, enjoy & please comment.



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Noorondu Nenapu - Kannada

You could say excitement, enthusiasm etc etc. because of my new microphone but this is definitely playing catch up after a brief period of blogs drought. I don't recall having produced 2 songs in such quick succession.

Anyway, this next song is from the Kannada film Bhandana starring Vishuvardhan & Suhasini. Produced in 1984, this movie raked in $$$ for the producer. While this is of the genres pathos, this has that nice beat / rhythm and not as slow as a typical patho song. SPB sang this original score with such ease that it makes one believe this whole recording might have taken him under an hour to wrap it up. However, if you listen carefully, you'll notice that this song has some high notes and emotions to be exhibited that plays quite well on the screen.

The music director for this movie was Mr. Ranga Rao has other catchy songs as well.

Enjoy my karaoke of this nice song but try not to get emotional :-)



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Mudhal Mudhal Parthen

Well, things have been pretty busy at my end which has impacted the rate at which I am able to indulge in my passion, you know what I mean. However, between my busy work schedules I was able to buy a new microphone (which was long overdue) and I believe this will help me in better sound reproduction.

This next song is from one of my favorite movie "Priyasakhi" starring Madhavan & Sadha. A very simple story line involving love, family etc. This is one of the very few movies which I have seen in the recent years which were close to reality with minimal melodrama. This song was originally sung by a new singer (I guess) Uma Maheshwaran for a tune composed by Bharathwaj. As you might find out this is a very melodious and deliberately slow song that captures a romantic moment in the movie.

As I have said, I like this movie and all of its songs and thought you'll like this song. So, go ahead and enjoy my karaoke and let me know your thoughts.




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Pon Ondru Kanden

This next song has been in planning for a while though executed just recently.

From the Tamil movie Padithal Matum Podhuma, this is probably one of the most quoted songs when referring to friendship (more so in a satirical way). The composers for this song were Vishwanathan & Ramamurthy for Kannadasan's lyrics, sung by TM Soundarajan & PB Srinivas.

My nephew is an aspiring singer and we were thinking of performing a duet for at least couple of years. Well, here we are with this song. While I honestly felt this could have been better, I still wanted to post it and maybe encourage him to do more.

The beauty of this recording was that we did this sitting remotely (in our respective towns) as separate tracks and eventually synced it in my software.

As always, please listen, enjoy & comment.




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Kannale Pesi Pesi...

Happy New Year! to all of you.

Since the dawn of 2010 I haven't had a chance to blog and the primary reason for that being busy work schedule; anyway, I am back with a new song to begin 2010.

This song is a golden oldy from the hilarious film Adutha Veetu Penn. Staring TR Ramachandran, Anjali Devi & Thangavelu, this amazing movie was made in Hindi as well titled Padosan. This melodious song was sung by PB Srinivas and music was composed by Adi Narayana Rao.

I was recently watching Jaya TV and the program was an interview of Mr. PB Srinivas; I was really awe struck at the range of songs he has sung most of them remain popular even till this day.

This particular one was such a great song, that it will remain evergreen and I thought it will bring back memories to folks from earlier generation and I am sure youngsters from current generation will be able to appreciate the simplicity of this song. The original score sung by PB Srinivas in his inimitable melodious voice really captivates our imagination.

As always, listen, enjoy & please comment.



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