a day in thiruvaiyaru by neelanjana

http://neelanjana.wordpress.com/2008/01/

gr8 kamal kb combo

enjoy some videos of this great combination of kamal hassan and k.balachander

An interaction between father and son of a musical family. kb's touch- 'inraiya seidhi- porum amaidhiyum'. a beautiful karaharapriya by maestro and sung by kjy



a beautiful love theme, first of its kind in indian film music.

mera saya - raag nand

Classic song by Lata from Mera Saya movie. idhu oru rare ragam. we have heard of raga mand. this is in raga nand.

simply put, it is shankarabharanam with prathi madhyama prayogam as well. but the raga swarupa is beautifully captured in this song.

http://www.sawf.org/Newedit/edit04032000/musicart.ASP

TAG DIGITAL ARCHIVES OF CARNATIC CONCERTS

TAG DIGITAL ARCHIVES OF CARNATIC CONCERTS' - the board attracted me. went inside and
inquired about the initiative. TAG corporation has archives of carnatic concerts for about 6000
hours and they have digitalised all of them and the archives are available for public listening.


heard seshu's poorna chandrika and aruna sairam's charangi concert in full. very gud effort. aruna
was as usual energetic. she has sung a bengali song in bhimplas. and the pahadi and behag
urupadis were also gud.


its absolutely free. anyone can visit the library. it is inside music academy compound.

december season 2008

worldspace vandha piragu kutcheri poradhuku somberithanama iruku. but still live is something different. innaiku music academy poyirundhen. lic and gic innaiku strike (bill introduced in rs to increase fdi in insurance sector) . so used the reprieve to visit the academy.

12 noon concert by swarna rethas. u can watch out for this guy. was in his elements. gud voice and gud selection of kritis. dikshitar's 'angarakam' in suruti was very well rendered. karaharapriya was the main item with 'pakkala neela pati'.

and jayashree aravind's veena recital from 2pm was also gud. particularly arabhi and anandabhairavi were enchanting. cud not attend the full concert. paper padikka velila vandhuten.

again this bad habit of reading 3-4 news papers has caught up with me it seems. express, hindu, times ellathilayum ore news daan. bore adicha paper padikardhu oru pazhakkama pochu.

of course i had stopped buying hindu last year after its worst coverage of 'bandh-unnaviradham' in october 2007. the paper lost one of its ardent reader of 20 years due to its silly bias.

unakku jayalalitha-va pudikalena adhukkaga karunanidhi enna pannalum kanduka maatia. jayalalithavoda aatkal bangalore pora vazhiyila ram-oda car-a gherao pannadhu attoozhiyam daan. adhuku nee jayalalitha-va edhirtha artham iruku. karunanidhiya edhuku support pannanum.

and congress enna pannalum 2 masam munnadi varaikum vaaya moodindu irundhadhu hindu. ippo left support withdraw panna vudane cartoon enna, editorial enna ore koothu daan. manmohan oru puppet-nu innaiku daan therinjudaama. 4.5 varushama appadi daan irukaru avaru.

'the hindu' is behaving like a typical cadre of communist party. kootani maarina vudane jayatv daan paarpan. adhu varaikum kalaignar news daan kaepenu adam pudipaan, such is the cpm cadre's loyalty to the party. sondhama sindhikkave maatan. katchi thalaimai enna sonnalaum seivaan. idha kattupadunu solradha illa kaiyalagadha thanam-nu solradha.

of course am not talking abt parties like dmk, admk and others. adhu ellam veena ponadhu-nu yaerkanave theriyum. cpm and hindu pathi edhuku solrena konjam urupadiyana alu kitta daan we can expect more. these 2 failed miserably in the recent exams. inimel, u can see hindu giving coverage to jayalalitha and oppose karunanidhi. enna pathirikai dharmamo?

ok. engeyo arambichu engeyo poyiten. paper padikardhaiye niruthi irundhen. innaiku thirupi 2-3 paper padichen. adha solla vandhen.

academy vittu velila vandha 'TAG DIGITAL LISTENING ARCHIVES' -nu oru board parthen.

...to be contd.

'pancha nadeesha pahimam' and maanida sevai drohama

this song of patnam subramanya iyer is a rarity and u can not find any references on the net. raja kept as it is just like 'nee daya raadha'.

kb only can make a social subject with carnatic music as background be it apoorva ragangal, varumaiyi niram sivappu or sindhubhairavi or umt. last of kb-kamal combo. gr8 movie, though it did not do well in box office.

it is in the raga poorna chandrika. other famous works in this raga are thyagaraja's 'telisi rama chintanatho' and shri ranganatham upasmahe by dikshitar.

hear the full version here:

http://www.thiraipaadal.com/albums/ALBIRR00686.html

it is actually pancha nadeesha paahimam. pancha nadhi eshwarar in thiruvaiyaaru. thiru ai aaru, that is the confluence of 5 tributaries of cauvery. there is a panchanadeeshwarar temple in thiruvaiyaru where thyagarajar used to visit.

For A Few Dollars More (Theme by Ennio Morricone)

engeyo kaeta madhiri iruka? thamizh-la prema pasam-nu oru padam. 'vannam indha vanjiyin vannam' nu adhula oru paatu varum. idhu daan adhu. the whistling is by alessandro alessandroni. morricone has beautifully used nammooru morsing. it is called jewish harp in western.

engeyo kaeta madhiri iruka? thamizh-la prema pasam-nu oru padam. 'vannam indha vanjiyin vannam' nu adhula oru paatu varum. idhu daan adhu. the whistling is by alessandro alessandroni

innum ennai from 'singaravelan'

innum ennai enna seiya pogirai

i once wrote that ears are just an extension of your mind. if u r biased enough you can even hear shankarabharanam in sindhu bhairavi.

when i heard the song first time i came to the conclusion that it is tilang. it continued till today. i never heard it critically again. i was so convinced that it is tilang, afterall a semitone difference, isnt it? but i had to hear it again today. it is indeed gambeera nattai.

and i have never actually referred to the a/a of tilang. so, i learnt today that it has n2 in avarohanam.

and the famous mallari in gambeera nattai i mentioned had biased me that gambeera nattai shud have the phrase mgrgs.

so all these made me think that it is tilang.


paadi varum vaanmathiye parvaigalin poompaniye

s..snp.....s..snp.....s..snp....s...gns...


yes. both np and ns are using n3. i have never heard a love song in gambeera nattai. as i already said there r very few compositions in g.n even in carnatic.

but still i feel, the bhava is more of tilang, because we play gambeera nattai only in plain notes without gamakam.

and the lines in charanam 'poovodu daan sera ilangatru poraadum podhu........theeermanam podu'

and 'nee daane naan padum sugamana akasha vani, padamal koodamal urangaadhu reengara theni' has some beautiful karvais reminding u of tilang eventhough it involves ni3.

there r no such thing hitherto in gambeera nattai in carnatic. raja is raja.

thanks krishnan and vel for making me hear the song once again, critically.

and another reason for my contention is all gambeera nattai compositions' eduppu is in shadjam like the famous 'sampoorna ramayanam' t.k.bhagavathy 's
lengthy exposition of ragas as ravana, or the mallari i mentioned, etc. like

'spmp gmpmg gmpmgmgs sgns sss ppp mmm ggg ss pp mm gambeera nattai' or

'sgp pmgmr nrg mgrgs'


and tilang compositions have eduppu in madhyamam or panchamam like

'mp mpmg' in prabho ganapathe or 'p..pm gs gmg' in 'shanthi nila vaendum' and 'mp mp mp mp mpmpmgs sgmp' in innum ennai enna seiya pogirai. and the only bhava for gambeera nattai is that of victory march or war declaration. and tilang being an hindustani raga can accomodate any anya swara safely tagged as misra tilang and is suitable for any possible bhava including love. u may also notice that the same sampurna ramayanam contains a song 'man magal mugam kandaen' in tilang which is a soga geetham.

generally when identifying the raga the most important thing that shud be taken into account is the bhava and then the scale or a/a. so this song is in the scale of gambeera nattai giving a feel of tilang.

thendral vandhu theendum podhu from 'avathaaram'

the song 'thenral vandhu' from avatharam is a classic example of seamless integration of genres. it is in the raga 'jonpuri'. nobody before ir has used this raga like this.

all the songs in jonpuri were composed in high pitches only. like
'naan petra selvam nalamana selvam' from 'naan petra selvam' and
kallile kalai vannam kandaan from 'kumudham'
andavan darisaname from agathiar etc.

but this song is in a lower pitch and the rhythm pattern is a very difficult one. the sandham is also very long as sung by raja.

thanda dana thaana naana thaana naana naaa thanananaaa.....

people used to complain in 80-90's, that these days the sandham is very short like

'tha na thana na' in 'vaa vaa pakkam vaa'

compared to golden oldies like, malarndhum malaradha, nenaikka therindha maname
etc.

but this song is a great answer to those questions. and the picturisation also was very gud. similar to 'kumudham' sequence when ssr takes sowcar to a mahabalipuram trip and explains the sculptures.

but nasser had the advantage of colour. i saw the movie in the first week of release at albert theatre in 95. noon show. motham 50 paer daan irundhom. it was nasser's debut directorial venture.

when the line 'ennangalukku etha padi vannam ellam maarum amma' he overlaps a unripe green plantain heap 'vaazhai thaar' with a ripe yellow one. i thought 'well, here is a gud director'.

enname vaazhkai. isnt it. beautiful visual. he passed as a director as far as i was concerned.

the bgm score was also awesome. towards the end nasser takes narasimha avataram and kills balasingh. and u shud notice the victory smile of nasser changing into a remorseful face repenting the murder. raja's music takes this sequence to an ethereal plane. and all the 50 present, including 'kudimagangal' gave a standing ovation when the end credits started with raja's music.

i thought 'ok. office leave pottadhu veen pogala'.

man anand from vijeta 1982

rekha is one of the best actresses in indian cinema. what a beautiful face and what a deluge of emotions on that face. it is a loss to tfm that she opted for hindi movies. she is my definition of beauty with brains.

vijeta is best suited for this season movie, with war over pakistan being discussed. gr8 aerial shots with mig fighter planes. just now saw the movie in 9x channel. rekha is just great and so is supriya. beautiful emoting. govind nihalini's best. amrish puri's best ever and heartening to see him not as a villain but as an legendary officer. shashi is also gud with controlled emotions. overall a great movie.

this is in raag ahir bhairavi sung by parveen sultana. music by siddhartha dave.

Danza n°1 By Antonio Ruiz-Pipo

raja has used this composition in murattu kaalai. no need to say he liked it very much and wanted us also to listen the same.

it's quite common to get inspired. after all there is no music without inspiration.

anything can be an inspiration. a story, a situation, an actor, a composer, a musician, an instrument, any sound in nature, anything .

but what a great one does is he embraces the inspiration and comes out with his natural and original response to the inspiration.

sometimes a composer deliberately uses part of the inspiration to denote that he got inspired from that piece.

sometimes, a composer wants to share with the world what he felt hearing to a piece.

if raja had not used that piece, i cant talk for every one, but most of us, including me wud not have heard this beautiful piece.

but there is a great difference between raja using some good tunes for reasons like the above, and others copying some tunes due to lack of creativity.

just as there is a great difference between a wealthy man observing ekadasi viradham, and a beggar remaining without food on a ekadasi due to non availability of food.

Bob Marley - Buffalo Soldier

Buffalo Soldier, dreadlock rasta:
There was a Buffalo Soldier in the heart of America,
Stolen from Africa, brought to America,
Fighting on arrival, fighting for survival.

If you know your history,
Then you would know where you coming from,
Then you wouldn't have to ask me,
Who the 'eck do I think I am.

I'm just a Buffalo Soldier in the heart of America,
Stolen from Africa, brought to America,
Said he was fighting on arrival, fighting for survival;
Said he was a Buffalo Soldier in the war for America.

Dreadie, woy yoy yoy, woy yoy-yoy yoy,
Woy yoy yoy yoy, yoy yoy-yoy yoy!
Woy yoy yoy, woy yoy-yoy yoy,
Woy yoy yoy yoy, yoy yoy-yoy yoy!
Buffalo Soldier troddin' through the land, wo-ho-ooh!
Said he wanna ran, then you wanna hand,
Troddin' through the land, yea-hea, yea-ea.

Said he was a Buffalo Soldier win the war for America;
Buffalo Soldier, dreadlock rasta,
Fighting on arrival, fighting for survival;
Driven from the mainland to the heart of the Caribbean.

Dreadie, woy yoy yoy, woy yoy-yoy yoy,
Woy yoy yoy yoy, yoy yoy-yoy yoy!
Woy yoy yoy, woy yoy-yoy yoy,
Woy yoy yoy yoy, yoy yoy-yoy yoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEQXvsQJVnY

three colours- white theme by Zbigniew Preisner

Krzysztof Kieślowski is a polish director. he has directed more than 10 features and 25 documentaries. the above piece of music comes in the trilogy 'trois coleurs:blanc'.the double life of veronica is also one of his famous movie.

this polish movie with 3 parts red white and blue has some beautiful music from Zbigniew Preisner. released in 93-94.


Preisner studied history and philosophy in Kraków. Never having received formal music lessons, he taught himself about music by listening and transcribing parts from records.

Preisner is best known for his work on Kieślowski’s movies. Some of these movies make reference to and contain music by a fictitious eighteenth-century Dutch composer, Van den Budenmayer. In actuality, all music credited to Budenmayer within the context of the films is composed by Preisner. Similarly, in Kieślowski’s Three Colors: Blue the “Song For The Unification of Europe”, written by Preisner, is supposed to be composed by one of the characters in the film.





listen to all preisner's music here.

http://www.last.fm/music/Zbigniew+Preisner

o fortuna with 300 in background

i heard this piece of carl orff first in a tv ad of old spice when i was around 10. i didnt know anything about music at that time. but it was my first tryst with wcm. it was my favourite.

in recent times a movie i enjoyed watching was '300'. zack snyder has romanced the spartan way of facing death. it may look gory but ratham therikardha kooda rombave rasichu eduthirukaan manushan. surely it is not for all. so weak hearted, dont even try.

i imagined being a spartan and thrusting a spear on all politicians's chests. it was highly satiating. indha madhiri namma arasiyalvadhigalai kuthi theerkanum asai theera. at least karpanailayavadhu.

present u 'carmina burana' with '300' in the background.
this was performed by the Atlanta Philharmonic, taken from the movie EXCALIBUR soundtrack. 1980s!

dil doondtha hai from mausam

there is a song 'nee enge en ninaivugal ange' from the movie 'mannippu'. it was tuned with 2 different melodies but same lyrics. similarly 'dil doondtha hai' from mausam also has 2 versions with same lyrics. madan mohan is the md with beautiful lyrics from gulzar.

sandhana punnagai from nadodi raja

this film starred Rajiv, Aruna, Satyaraj, VA Nirmala, Silk Smitha, Sangili Murugan, YGM, Y.Vijaya and others. It was produced by Geetha Srinivasan and directed by S.M.Umar.

it is an useless movie in which rajiv's manasatchi takes mgr form and thiruthify him. in those days all heroes will have a link with mgr in their movies. summa mgr poster illa mgr padam edhavadhu vachu oru scene eduthuduvaanga.

even that was enough to cajole the distributors to buy the movie. ippo kooda all magazines do that. business konjam dull-a irundha rajini rishikesh ponaar, bathroom ponaar-nu edhaiyavadhu pottu circulation-a ethuvaanga. cheap publicity stunts by content-less magazines. even some mediocre politicians do this. krishnaswamy, thiruma, ramadoss, anbumani all these people when they want publicity will take rajini or kamal to task and will appear in next day dailies. silly thugs.

coming to the song, sung by spb and sj this song had music by shankar ganesh. the duo managed a gud melody somehow reminding u of pani vizhum malarvanam. based on chalanatai, it is a gud attempt.

another mgr pugazh paadum song ' enga veetu pillai nee thanaiyya' is also sung by spb.

http://www.dhool.com/cgi-bin/stream.pl?url=http://www.dhool.com/sotd/sandhanasg.rm

naan daane oru pudhu kavithai

this song is a direct lift of ' ra ra rasputin' by boney-m. but the thamizh lyrics were good. i dont know the movie name. i think it is by vj. so we can rely on saravanan to come out with the movie name.

for the time being, i will give u the original's link and lyrics.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvDMlk3kSYg



Hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey (4x)

There lived a certain man in Russia long ago
He was big and strong, in his eyes a flaming glow
Most people looked at him with terror and with fear
But to Moscow chicks he was such a lovely dear
He could preach the bible like a preacher
Full of ecstasy and fire
But he also was the kind of teacher
Women would desire


{Refrain}
Ra Ra Rasputin, lover of the Russian queen
There was a cat that really was gone
Ra Ra Rasputin, Russia's greatest love machine
It was a shame how he carried on


He ruled the Russian land and never mind the Czar
But the kasachok he danced really wunderbar
In all affairs of state he was the man to please
But he was real great when he had a girl to squeeze
For the queen he was no wheeler dealer
Though she'd heard the things he'd done
She believed he was a holy healer
Who would heal her son

{Refrain}

{Spoken}
But when his drinking and lusting and his hunger
for power became known to more and more people,
the demands to do something about this outrageous
man became louder and louder.

Hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey (4x)

"This man's just got to go," declared his enemies
But the ladies begged, "Don't you try to do it, please"
No doubt this Rasputin had lots of hidden charms
Though he was a brute they just fell into his arms
Then one night some men of higher standing
Set a trap, they're not to blame
"Come to visit us," they kept demanding
And he really came

{As Refrain}
Ra Ra Rasputin, lover of the Russian queen
They put some poison into his wine
Ra Ra Rasputin, Russia's greatest love machine
He drank it all and said "I feel fine"

Ra Ra Rasputin, lover of the Russian queen
They didn't quit, they wanted his head
Ra Ra Rasputin, Russia's greatest love machine
And so they shot him till he was dead

{Spoken} Oh, those Russians...

rasikaranjani

rasikaranjani

malayamarutham is a janyam of chakravagam, 16th mela. the a/a is

s r g p d n s /s n d p g r s

if we take ni out , we get rasikaranjani.

there is a sabha called R.R.SABHA in mylapore. a very old one. music academy once used this sabha as their office, in fact their first office.

the expansion is rasika ranjani sabha. it is under renovation now. hope it gets reopened soon.

raja has composed in this raga also. 2 gems.

amudhe thamizhe from koil pura and
nila kuyile from magudi


i will give the first few notes of

amudhe

srg..srg....srgpgrs....srsds


nila kuyile

sssrs...dsrs...dsrg

vaa machan vaa from 'vandi chakkaram'

seasonal greetings. yeah its raining 'full's and 'half's in chennai too. ethanai nalaiku daan 'cats and dogs'-nu solradhu. the song am going to present makes me talk all these. it's always fun talking abt bacchanalian topics. and i swear am a teetotaller.

those who are capable, do it. those who cant, talk about it. isnt't it?

there was a time when me and my brother wud listen to anything labelled spb. 'konjam odhungu' from vasantha kalam, 'neerazhi mandapathil' from thalaivan, 'vangak kadalin karaiyoram' a tribute to mgr tuned by sg, this current song, 'judo rathinam' from soorakottai singakutti etcetera.

i heard this song while i was studying 10th, and the mention of any 'ketta vaarthai' wud elicit a 'arthabushti' smile from a curious teen.

'sarakku', 'silukku' et al were considered bad words those days.

and in this song, i wonder if spb was really drunken. so effortlessly he brings the maunderings of a man who has finished 3 rounds. oh, there r no rounds in 'saarayam', i suppose. ok a bottle and half.

just imagine the capabality of this man to make such an ordinary song into a remembered one and bringing so many improvisations to a 'veenaa pona sarakku paatu'. he is one wasim akram who can bowl 6 different deliveries in an over.

indha paatuku 3 charanam vaera. either there shud be delectable music or thoughtful lyrics to have more charanams. rendum illa indha paatula. in fact, if not for spb nobody wud even remember this song.

let me list the 'highlights' of this song

'ada yappa rasa kutty' after 'rosapoo ravikai kari nee daandi siluku'

'jivvunu' erikkum thaangipudi

sarayam, SAMSARAM, sandosham, suddenly singing the caps in a lower octave

and a scat singing in the 2 interlude. 'drualdra rancha rindum dum, rara bampa lakum bam, tara ram pam pam, jura juntu tokun din, dara rumpa ripam bam, tara rumpambam jun tan din,' i used to laugh, laugh and laugh incessantly hearing this.

thattaenda thalathai kaidhaei, un moonjila vachaena kaiya, 'ennada idhu vayathula oru madhiri iruku, speshil sarakkunu daana solli koduthan, appuram paathukalam' in the voice of m r radha.

and a 'hehhahhhaaaaaaa' siripu like kumarimuthu, ending with a azhugai 'aayaaayo thoo'. yeah including the spitting.

i bet, there is no singer in this world who can do a 'vaa machan vaa' but spb.

silk smitha got her name in this movie only, by playing the immortal siluku.

music by shankar ganesh. "lyrics" by 'kanian poongundranar'

wish u a tasmacian evening.



http://www.thiraipaadal.com/albums/ALBSHK00073.html

vaalibam vazhga from 'devi sri devi'

vaalibham vaazhga from 'devi sri devi'

spb sounds different in this song. he sometimes sings in the track singer's voice itself. ilayaraja stamp is all over the song. sjanaki also at her usual best. typical early 80's song. i think of bringing a list of typical 80 songs involving these 3 along with vairamuthu. this song is also by vm. but there shud be something in the net already. so kaettu enjoy pannale podhum.
http://raretfm.mayyam.com/stream/pow06/valibam_ds.rm

a better audio is available here:

http://www.thiraipaadal.com/albums/ALBIRR00110.html

Doris Day - Que Sera Sera

just a 2 minute song. but what a song. and what an philosophical insight. whatever will be, will be!!! from the movie 'the man who knew who too much' by alfred hitchcock.

When I was just a little girl
I asked my mother what will I be
Will I be pretty will I be rich
Here's what she said to me

Que Sera Sera
Whatever will be will be
The future's not ours to see
Que Sera Sera
What will be will be

When I grew up and fell in love
I asked my sweetheart what lies ahead
Will we have rainbows day after day
Here's what my sweetheart said

Que Sera Sera
Whatever will be will be
The future's not ours to see
Que Sera Sera
What will be will be

Now I have children of my own
They ask their mother what will I be
Will I be handsome will I be rich
I tell them tenderly

Que Sera Sera
Whatever will be will be
The future's not ours to see
Que Sera Sera
What will be will be
Que Sera Sera




jikki sang the thamizh version of this song. 'chinna pennana podhile' from aaravalli. though it is not a literal translation, the lyrics resembles the original. 'vennila nila nila..........que sera sera.......... music g.ramanatha iyer.


http://www.tfmpage.com/cgi-bin/stream.pl?url=http://www.dhool.com/sotd/chinnappen.rm

mozart's symphony no.40 1 movement.

one of my favourites

jothe alle from geetha

jothe alle from geetha

this song sung by spb and another gud (looking) singer on asianet. the orchestra is also gud, although they play the same interlude. still that interlude is almost perfect. very good one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKc5ia-N0Ak

original of 'vizhiyile' and 'jaane do na'. spb and sj enjoying a great melody offered to them on a silver salver by maestro.

galeer galeer from devathai 1979

i vaguely remember hearing this song in a.i.r. but some songs are like phoenix, they rise from their ashes and haunt their listeners after generations.

one of the reasons why md shyam is remembered even after he stopped composing some 25 yrs.back. songs like these.

it reminds me of another song in the same scale 'vaanamenum veedhiyile', especially the line 'maadhaavai kaettu sollungal' sounds similar to 'sollungalaen vaaradho inbangale'.

sung by s.janaki it is surely sotd stuff. hope people take note.

one of the few songs that starts with a adukku thodar in tfm. i think that only has made this song arise from by buried memories.

is galeer galeer adukku thodar or rettai kilavi. galeer has some meaning, eventhough it represents a sound. so it is adukku thodar,i conjecture.

oisg, with ur flair for othai kilavi and rettai kilavi, pl. clarify.

http://ww.smashits.com/player/flash/flashplayer.cfm?SongIds=15439

http://music.cooltoad.com/music/song.php?id=179150

carl orff's carmina burana and kate winslet.

this video i added mainly for carl orff's 'o fortuna' from carmina burana. he was a german composer who lived for almost 100 yrs. there is no orchestra in the world today which has not played his 'o fortuna' and there are innumerable versions of this piece. gr8 music.

vamsi and his irksome abilities

mostly ir uses his good melodies in other languages also. but some songs remain only in one language. this is one such song. best of ir, spb and sj. forgive vamsi, if u could. vamsi handpicks the worst expressions of an artist and makes a song out of it. i wonder what wud be in his mind while picturising!!! i greatly admire ir for his patience and condescension with vamsi.



if u think my comments on vamsi are blatant, please watch this video. it is his obduracy to intertwine ostentatious comedy irrespective of the situation on the screen, that is the reason for my contention. it can be termed otherwise also. a thamizh word that comes immediately to my mind is 'kirukku thanam'. and this guy's works are kirukathanam personified.

Ivo Pogorelich plays Beethoven's "Fur elise"

moonlight sonata by lv beethoven

zulu

Lance Klusener
'I've been lucky to be able to play like I do'
Zulu talks about the Cronje years, fishing, finishing, and reinventing yourself

Interview by Sriram Veera
November 21, 2008

'If I look back, I probably don't want to change anything' © Getty Images

We all know cricket is bigger than the individual.

I always try to finish games with six balls to spare, because if there is a cock-up, the people coming in get a chance to do something. If you leave it to the last couple of balls then it can go anywhere.

When the match-fixing news broke, my first reaction was denial. It was pretty hard for me to take at that time. It was something you take time to get over.

I had a good time playing for South Africa. I made lots of friends. Now I've done it overseas. If I look back, I probably don't want to change anything.

If the captain shows confidence in you, you start to respect that. If the team is in trouble and he throws you the ball or thinks you can chase the score down, it feels good. The confidence and trust is most important. It rubs off on the field as well.

My most satisfying chase was Jo'burg against Australia in 2000. Mark Boucher and myself put a hundred or so. It was a game that worked perfectly to plan. We finished with an over to spare. We were always up with the rate, our calling was clear, and we targeted specific bowlers. That game springs to mind. It was very satisfying.

Everyone has their own style of batting. You can't necessarily learn flair. You need to just express yourself.

We had a great relationship with Cronje and it was quite tough, suddenly not having him there. We would go through a wall for him. Playing under him was the best time of my career. He was tremendous with youngsters like me, Shaun Pollock, Boucher and Jacques Kallis. He had the confidence in us that allowed us to express ourselves.

You see me hitting the ball out of the ground, but I hit hundreds of those in practice. It may look like a good shot and it is, but you have practised it a hundred times before the game.

Every single person has his or her own temptations. If you said that you haven't ever succumbed to a temptation, whatever be it, you are not probably telling the truth.

Shaun [Pollock] has a wise head. He knows the game.

Once someone has a crack at you, you end up having to defend yourself all the time. It's not something to defend. If [Graeme] Smith didn't want me in the team, then fine. It was not the end of the world.

I actually don't face the bowlers too much in the nets. Sometimes you can leave the nets not feeling good at all, because the bowlers have bowled well! I am someone who believes you must feel good after a net, so I face some throwdowns.

One more match, and it would have been 50 Tests for me. That would have been nice, I guess, but I'm not a stats man, so it doesn't bother me. If you are scoring runs and taking wickets, you can play 100 Tests. I wasn't doing that, to be honest.

You can't live on your reputation.

When you're in the zone and you're totally focused on the ball, you get an invincible feeling. It's not as soon as you come in to the crease: you play a few balls, get going, then suddenly you find yourself in that zone. If only I knew how I get there, it would be fantastic (smiles).

Match-fixing was something you heard about. When someone actually said, 'Do such and such', you thought he was joking. That's how I thought then. It's not for me to judge Cronje. It's a very very sad story.

I have been lucky to be able to play like I do: it's being blessed with the ability and getting the opportunity to finish games.

When it comes to fishing, it's about the expectation. You don't know what you're going to catch. Also, the challenge of getting a fish at the end of your line. And just getting away from the hustle and bustle, going to a place where there are no people.

Where I can, I hit a lot of balls against the bowling machine. Then I ask the coach to bowl balls where I can hit over his head. With that you get the feeling of how far you have to hit the ball. I like to hit balls outside the nets to see the ball go.

When you're playing for yourself, you become more selective and you play with less freedom. You think 20 not out is better than 10 out, you know. It curtails the freedom.



When you're in the zone and you're totally focused on the ball, you get an invincible feeling

It's nice to come to places you enjoy. I was telling my friends about how people here in India wear cricket helmets and drive - we had a chuckle. I get a lot of enjoyment from stepping out on the streets, and seeing how other people live.

When you don't have pace you can still get wickets by bowling cutters and stuff. It takes a while to tell yourself, but eventually you realise when you are trying to bounce someone and it disappears front of square!

I like to leave cricket on the field.

You pick up injuries and you get wiser and need to adapt. That is the nature of the sport. You need to fit in the role that the team needs you to play.

Cricket is not the be-all and end-all. When I'm on the field I'm trying my hardest, trying to win, but in the end it's only a game.

ICL has given some of us older guys the chance to give something back to cricket, and help the youngsters here. It has been very satisfying, helping the kids. Hopefully we can get sanction soon, and some of these youngsters can represent India some time. If ICL produces four or five guys who are vying for a spot for India, it would have done its job.

I will continue to play as long as I am enjoying it. As long as it's not sore getting out of bed. I am 100% fit. Playing cricket is a good way to make a living.

Twenty 20 cricket is lovely. Three hours and done and dusted. It gives you a chance to be tremendously competitive while putting less strain on you.

If you are knocked over early, you can't do much about it. Of course, there's more time for fishing!

Sriram Veera is a staff writer at Cricinfo
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manidha manidha from 'kan sivandhal man sivakkum'

prelude, 1 bgm and 2 bgm of the above song

http://music.cooltoad.com/music/song.php?id=393339

lyrics :

Pallavi:
manitha manitha ini un vizhigal sivanthaal ulagam vidiyum

vizhiyil vazhiyum udhiram muzhudhum ini un saridham ezhudhum

asaiyum kodigal uyarum uyarum nilavin mudhugai urasum

manitha manitha ini un vizhigal sivanthaal ulagam vidiyum



Charanam 1:
Sila aarugal meerudhada

varalaarugal maarudhada

pasiyaal pala yezhaigal saavadhu enbadhu
desiyamaanadhada

ini then varum enbadhum paal varum enbadhum
josiyamaanadhada

ada saataigale ini theervugal enbadhu
soosakamaanadhada



Charanam 2:
Oli veesuga sooriyane

yugam maarudhu vaalibane

oru tholviyilla pudhu velviyinaal ini sodhanai
theerndhuvidum

sila aayiram aayiram sooriya dheepangal bhoomiyil
thondrividum

ada saamaram veesiya paamara jaathigal saadhanai
kanduvidum



manitha manitha ini un vizhigal sivanthaal ulagam vidiyum..........................

ye zindagi usiki hai

this song from the movie anarkali is a classic rendition by lata mangeshkar. c. ramachandra is the music director and this is his best musical ever. released in 1953 it was the biggest grosser of the year.

in thamizh also, the tune was used in the song ' en sindhai noyum theerumo' from the film kaveri sung by jikki.

lyrics of 'ye zindagi usiki hai'

yeh zindagi usi ki hai jo kisi ka ho gaya
pyaar hi mein kho gaya
yeh zindagi usi ki hai jo kisi ka ho gaya
pyaar hi mein kho gaya 
yeh zindagi usi ki hain ...

yeh bahaar yeh sama keh raha pyaar kar
kisiki aarzoo mein apne dil ko beqarar kar 
zindagi hai bewafa loot pyaar ka mazaa 
yeh zindagi usi ki hai ...

dhadak raha hain dil to kya dil ki dhadkane na gin
phir kahaan yeh phursatein phir kahaan yeh raat din
aa rahi hain yeh sada mastiyon mein jhum jaa
yeh zindagi usi ki hain ...

do dil yahaan na mila sake, milenge us jahaan mein
khilenge hasaraton ke phul, maut ke aasman mein
ye zindagii chali gai jo pyar mein to kya huaa
ye zindagii ...

sunaa rahii hai daastaan, shamaa mere mazaara kii
fizaa mein bhii khil rahii, ye kalii anaara kii
ise mazaara mata kaho, ye mahala hai pyaara kaa
ye zindagii ...

ai zindagii ki shaama aa, tujhe gale lagaauun main
tujhii mein Dub jaauun main
jahaan ko bhuula jaauun main
basa ek nazara mere sanama, alvidaa, alvidaa
alvidaa ...
alvidaa ...
alvidaa ...
alvidaa ...

http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yf8C7swHZ0

hame tumse pyar kitna ye ham nahin jaante

this song is a ghazal type song with lyrics being the main attraction. but the music of r.d.burman is so lilting and the dulcet voice of kishore da makes it an evergreen melody.

let me try to do a saravanan here.

produced by b.s.khanna and directed by chetan anand, this movie was released in the year 1981. it starred hema malini, rajkumar, rajesh khanna and vinod khanna and was a family drama.

majrooh sultanpuri has penned the beautiful lyrics to the mellisonant tune of pancham.

i heard this song only recently some 5, 6 years back. but i have heard the instrumental music of this tune long back in early 80's. it was used as a standard filler during hindi programmes (delhi anjal) in vividh bharathi.


enjoy the song with lyrics:

Hame.N Tum Se Pyaar Kitanaa, Ye Ham Nahii.N Jaanate
Magar Jii Nahii.N Sakate Tumhaare Binaa
Hame.N Tum Se Pyaar ...

Sunaa Gam Judaai Kaa, Uthaate Hai.N Log
Jaane Zi.Ndagii Kaise, Bitaate Hai.N Log
Din Bhii Yahaa.N To Lage, Baras Ke Samaan
Hame.N I.Ntazaar Kitanaa, Ye Ham Nahii.N Jaanate
Magar Jii Nahii.N Sakate Tumhaare Binaa
Hame.N Tum Se Pyaar ...

Tumhe.N Koi Aur Dekhe, To Jalataa Hai Dil
Ba.Dii Mushkilo.N Se Phir, Sambhalataa Hai Dil
Kyaa Kyaa Jatan Karate.N Hai.N, Tumhe.N Kyaa Pataa
Ye Dil Beqaraar Kitanaa, Ye Ham Nahii.N Jaanate
Magar Jii Nahii.N Sakate Tumhaare Binaa
Hame.N Tum Se Pyaar ...


Hame.N Tum Se Pyaar Kitanaa, Yah Ham Nahii.N Jaanate
Magar Jii Nahii.N Sakate Tumhaare Binaa
Hame.N Tum Se Pyaar Kitanaa ...



http://www.imeem.com/inturnaleyes/music/S7TC6tjp/kishore_kumar_hume_tumse_pyar_kitna/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NClR64qT6Bk

ila manadhu video

vidhi valiyadhu. my friend krishnan asked for the video of this song. and alas i found it on the net. i can't say 'enjoy this video'.  maybe i can say 'curse ur own karma'

ila manadhu video.

Find more videos like this on video.filestube.com.

our culture

'gali leo was the first to tell the world that it is round in shape and it revolves round the sun', thus read

my brother's son from his 6th standard text book. how foolish, as if nobody knew it before galileo.

this is what our children learn in their schools. we can not change the syllabus or influence ncert to publish

some relevant truth about our culture and our heritage. because they are 'intellectuals' who accept

only what 'foreign' authors say about our culture and accept only 'scientific' facts and not anything

else. even if they say something great our intellectuals will not accept it.

at least we can teach our children what our rich heritage and culture is, only if we know something about

the same. i see so many people talk about kamal hasan's dasavatharam and referring to the dalit character

as 'poovaragavan'. it is actually 'bhoo varagan' referring the avatar of vishnu as a wild boar to save the

earth. bhoo = earth. varagam = boar. and this dasavatharam stories, we know from time immemorial and

a 'dasavatharam set' is an integral part of every home's navarathri kolu. in that, varaga avataram carries the

globe in between his tusks. and there are references about these in all the puranas.

and our children's school books say that galileo found out this great truth, only some 400 years back.

and we also make them mug up without knowing what they are reading or understanding.

maybe the westerners knew only after galileo told them. then also they were not ready to agree and

put him to death. but not us, indians.

we have a word 'andam' meaning

the universe. the same word is used to refer egg also. this word is found in all the thamizh

literary works. actually it is a sanskrit word. in fact we derived the universe andam only from the egg andam, meaning the

universe is elliptical. for those who knew that the universe was elliptical, would the truth

that earth is a globe have not occured?

learn our culture, learn our heritage, be proud of it and take it to the next generation.

if you dont know where to start, start with 'deivathin kural' by ra.ganapathy. it is a compilation

of kanchi mahaswami's speeches.

kalellam nogudhadi from 'en bommukutti ammavuku'

no prelude, no interludes, simple beat, but what a song. 'kalellam nogudhadi' from 'en bommukutty ammavuku'.

it was released in april 1988, a thamizh new year release. directed by faazil and a remake of 'enda mamati kutti ammaiku'. it was the 2nd or 3rd serious movie i watched. and this one fdfs at chromepettai vetri theatre. i was adamant that i will not come to this movie. my brother insisted that we shud go to this movie as it is by a good director faazil.(actually we did not get ticket for any other movie nearby, later my brother revealed this)

it is a story about a couple who lose their child in an accident ( the child falls from a cruiser boat) and then adopt a child. after the bonding with the child, its original mother claims it and the child is given back to its original mother.

it starred sathyaraj, raghuvaran, suhasini, rekha and baby geethu mohandas. geethu, u wud have seen, went on to become the heroine of 'nala dhamayanthi'. baby shalini was introduced by faazil in its original malayalam version.

this song comes when raghuvaran persuades satyaraj to meet rekha, the original mother of the child. satya is not interested and gives some lames excuses and says he is busy. but raghuvaran says he will wait till satya's work is over and waits in a nearby ground. this song was not featured in the records and cassettes. so also 'kanne navamaniye'.

no prelude, suddenly the voice of raja sings 'kaalellam nogudhadi.........' something moved in my stomach. and i was spellbound for the entire 2 minutes of the song. satya's confusion, raghuvaran's predicament and the sadness that is going to prevail however the story ends, all are captured in this song by raja.

i was already emotionally disturbed by the title song 'kanne navamaniye' which comes 3-4 times in the movie. now this second blow was almost unbearable for a 13 year old, who had never undergone any emotional turmoil, till such time.

i understood what music can do.

the 'aelelo' by raja also beautifully coincides with a boat in long shot. in fact he wud have seen the rushes and kept the aelelo for that sequence.

both these songs were composed after the movie was finished and faazil was the lucky guy to get these 2 gems.

i still remember a review which read 'ella nadigargalum adakki vasithu irukkiraargal, geethuvai thavira', and that was in praise of the child artist. she was really cute and played her role very understandingly.

faazil also did a neat job'. particularly in the asylum scenes, a lunatic will be shouting 'kidaikkalada kandasamy kiddaikkalada' in the background which will be heard very feebly when geethu enters the asylum for the first time. and the same man will shout ' kidachidichuda kandasamy kidachidichuda' when geethu is handed over to rekha.

http://www.thiraipaadal.com/albums/ALBIRR00133.html

raja's ragatalamalika

raja has done a few numbers in ragatalamalika. this one from devi sridevi is a classic example.

http://raretfm.mayyam.com/stream/pow07/dasarathanin.rm


it is a hilarious situation where 2 or 3 heroes imagine singing with the heroine. just as 'inru poi nalai vaa'. but raja has used 4 ragas starting with abheri with 4 rhythm patterns. the other ragas i remember are shankarabharanam and kapi. mahalakshmi the heroine had a beautiful face inherited from her good looking parents avmrajan and pushpalatha.

my favourite line is 'my name is django, ellarum vaango'. this movie also has the song 'vaalibam vaazhga vaiyagam vaazhga'

also in 'karavai maadu 3 kalai madu' in magalir mattum. i right now dont remember the ragas, urvasi sings in anandabhairavi.

but in 'siriya paravai siragai virikka nenaikiradhe', he has used only charukesi but in 3 different styles. it can be termed style malika!!

ask steven

At Delhi, VVS Laxman scored his second Test double-century against Australia. Is he the only man to have scored two against them? asked Ravi Josyula from New Zealand In all Australia have now conceded 32 double-centuries in Tests. Apart from VVS Laxman, South Africa's Graeme Pollock also made two, while Brian Lara of West Indies hit three. Top of the list, though, is England's Wally Hammond, who hit four Test double-centuries against Australia - he made 251 and 200 in successive innings in Sydney and Melbourne in 1928-29, 231 not out in Sydneyin 1936-37, and 240 at Lord's in 1938. Dennis Amiss hit the winning runs in what turned out to be his last Test, in 1977 (Geoff Boycott returned for the next match, and the rest is history... ) Has anyone else since scored the winning runs for England but not played again? asked Marcus Berkmann The only man who has definitely made the winning hit for England in a Test, and then never played again, sinceDennis Amiss did so in the 1977 Ashes series at Old Trafford, is Nasser Hussain, who hit the winning run against New Zealand at Lord's in 2004, and announced his retirement shortly afterwards. As I write Andrew Flintoff also qualifies - he hit a six to win the Oval Test against South Africa earlier this year in his last Test to date. For the Statsguru table showing everyone who was in "at the death" of a win in their final Test, click here. It's a reasonable guess that about half of those players made the winning hit in their final Test - we don't always know who faced the final delivery (the list also includes some active players, like Flintoff, who will disappear when they play again). The Indian player Iqbal Siddiqui is an interesting one - he opened both the batting and the bowling and made the winning hit in his first Test, against England at Mohali in 2001-02... and never played again! Who has played in the most Test wins? asked Jeffrey Fernandes from the United Arab Emirates This particular list is dominated by members of the Australian side which has done so well at international level recently. Top of the pile, with 92 wins from his 145 Tests, is Shane Warne, just ahead of Steve Waugh with 86. Ricky Ponting is level with Glenn McGrath on 84 Test wins, then come Adam Gilchrist with 73, Mark Waugh with 72, Justin Langer with 70, and Matthew Hayden with 68. The first non-Australians are the West Indians Viv Richards (63 wins) and Desmond Haynes (60). South Africa's Mark Boucher recently drew level with Haynes on 60, while Jacques Kallisis one behind on 59. Ricky Ponting was out for 87, the Australians' so-called unlucky number, in the Test at Delhi. How many other Aussies have suffered this fate? asked Tony Bailey from Adelaide Ricky Ponting's 87 in the recent Test in Delhi was the unlucky 13th such dismissal in Tests for Australia. Two of them were collected by Clem Hill, against England in 1901-02 and 1907-08. The other Aussies to fall for 87 in a Test wereGeorge Bonnor (1882-83), Sammy Jones (1886), Victor Trumper (1910-11), Jack Ryder (1928-29), Jack Moroney(1949-50), Brian Booth (1963-64), Keith Stackpole (1970-71), John Dyson (1982-83), Peter Taylor (1989-90) andAdam Gilchrist (2000-01). For Jones and Taylor, 87 remained their highest Test score. There have been seven instances of an Australian batsman being out for 87 in one-day internationals - it's happened to Andrew Symondstwice. Nineteen bowlers were used in the Test between India and West Indies in Antigua in May 2002. Is this a record?asked Biswaranjan Behera from India That Test in St John's in 2001-02 was one of four in which 19 different players bowled. One of the others was also in Antigua - West Indies' high-scoring draw against South Africa in 2004-05 - while the other two both involved Pakistan: against India in Nagpur in 1983-84, and v Australia in Rawalpindi in 1994-95. But there has been one Test in which there were 20 different bowlers: when South Africa played England in Cape Town in 1964-65, the only people who didn't roll their arms over were the two wicketkeepers, Denis Lindsay and Jim Parks. I was wondering what was the highest first-innings score was in a Test by a team that went on to lose? asked Juan van Wyk from South Africa The highest score made by any side in a Test they ended up losing was 586, by Australia in their first innings in Sydney in 1894-95. England won that match by just ten runs after following on, the first of three such instances in Test history. In all there have been 12 totals of 500 or more by the losing side in a Test, the most recent being India's 532 against Australia in Sydney in January 2008. Steven Lynch is the editor of the Cricinfo Guide to International Cricket. If you want to ask Steven a question, use ourfeedback form. The most interesting questions will be answered here each week © Cricinfo