En Kadhale En Kadhale

Wow! what a song! This amazing song under genres blues sung by SPB, penned by Vairamuthu and music by ARR is really top quality. From the film Duet this song was at the top of the charts for several weeks in a row. This Vairamuthu's song when sung by SPB really brings the meaning to the fore.

Those were early days when people were really questioning or rather suspecting ARR's genius wherein lot of his songs had some similarity; however, this one really stood out and exhibited his ability to do blues to folk to carnatic...

I am a great fan of this song and was waiting for sometime to identify a good karaoke track. Once again I have made a humble attempt to recreate this great SPB song.

Hope you enjoy this one.

Dancers Kondatum 2009 - Family Reunion Celebrations

Recently, in celebration of our family getting together after several years, all of our children had setup a talent exhibition program titled "Dancers Kondatum". I need to confess that it was an awesome evening wherein all of us thoroughly enjoyed the program put up by Prashanth, Ram, Suvarna, Sneha & Nikitha (all of them children of our family). Within a short span of time, these children conceived, scripted, performed and presented an excellent show that all of us were enthralled by such exhibition of outstanding talent. The evening was so infectious that I am unable to recall a single person not singing or dancing. Thanks to these kids this was one truly great evening that we all spent as a family.

In the true spirit of sharing this memorable & joyous evening, I would like to share short videos that I have now hosted in youtube. If you are interested please email me at usindians@optonline.com for video access.

Though some of you might not have been physically present on that day, I am sure when you see these videos it will bring a smile to your face.

Enjoy!

Kangal Irendal Un Kangal

It has been a while since I have blogged here for good reason (vacation related travel, family get togethers, etc.). However, I took sometime amidst tight schedule to make this karaoke of this nice song Kangal Irendal Un Kangal... from the movie "Subramaniapuram" which incidentally happen to be name of a town in Bangalore where I had few wonderful cousins. What struck me about this song was music director James Vasanthan's guts to almost remake an old tamil song from the same ragam created by Illayaraja for the movie Kavikuil?, Chinna kannan Azhaikiran... sung by Balamurali Krishna.

This song in my mind was very refreshing and kudos to the music director, and relevantly new singers Deepa Mariam and Belly Raj.

The quality of the karaoke version I was able to get was not that great hence I had some difficulty in the rhythm and delivery of this song.

Enjoy the song and I am hoping to get more regular with my karaoke's

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Anjali Anjali Pushpanjali

Duet (Tamil feature) was one of those remakes based on the film Saajan (a hindi blockbuster) that didn't turn out to be same as its hindi sibling. Starring Prabhu and Venkatesh with Meenakshi Seshadri adding color to the screen, this movie had some wonderful song of which this number Anjali Anjali really reached the top of the charts in its time. The Sax played on screen by Prabhu was just awesome. SP Balasubramaniam as usual was at his best in this yet another high pitch song. While I couldn't get the original soundtrack (karaoke), I settled for this keyboard remix of this melodious song and have attempted to make my own.

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Company Video Challenge

Late last year, we had a video challenge in my company requiring the participating teams to submit a 90 sec video; this was based on my company's 4 core values for a grand first price of a 42 inch LCD tv. The attached video in this blog was conceptualized, video-graphed, and edited by me, while my brother and one other team member provided able support. While we didn't win the 1st place, our video made it to the top 10 amongst 47 other submissions making us eligible for a consolation prize of 1 year free subscription for Netflix DVD rental.

I was really impressed and satisfied with the end product we delivered in this effort. Noteworthy in this video is that all the cast members are our colleagues who extended their cooperation in enabling this to the top 10.

Enjoy this video, filmed on one of our companies core values "Employer of Choice"

Padum Pothu Naan Thendral Katru

This is one of those olden goldies which exhibits SP Balasubramanian's melodious voice. Infact, when you compare some of his old songs (period when he came into film singing) with his more contemporary ones, you can feel the tenderness in his voice in those songs from yester-years.

This song from the film Netru Indru Naalai made in the year 1974 starring MGR, Manuja, Latha had MS Viswanathan scoring the background music happens to be one of my favorite numbers. Very simple and soulful this song makes older generation folks get nostalgic with pleasant memories of those golden years.

Though a tough song originally sung in high pitch by SPB, I have tried to do this karaoke with available soundtrack from online. Enjoy and provide your comments.

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Vigneswara Ninage

In my first blog I had indicated that carnatic music is one of my passions. While I have been through formal training in carnatic music for almost 5 years, I also took Karnataka, India state exam for junior level and passed with a state rank. However, as years passed my passion took a back seat as other priorities in life took front seat. Anyway, I am trying to brush the dust of my old lessons and I am trying to recall this forgotten talent that I have. In pursuit of the same, I am beginning to showcase some of the carnatic songs that I think might be easy on your ears starting with this Panthuvarali ragam based song which also happens to be one of the very first song I learnt from my guru Sri. Prabhakar Master (nephew of Late. Sri. Violin Chowdaiah).

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