Maargazhi Raagam - Visual Audio Treat for Carnatic Rasika

At Gulf Cinema on April 29th 2009 Wednesday at 6:50  p.m. on reaching the theatre after beating the C-Ring road traffic, couldn't control the excitement and suspense, thinking what will be in store in this 'movie' and how they'd have presented.  And  the movie started at 7 p.m. with a meaningful musical silence with titles rolling on the screen and after that started flow of rich carnatic music (with out gimmicks) with wonderful raagaalapanas, difficult swarasangatis that took breath away. 

The experience offered by this film was the first of its kind. A Great Innovation to present Carnatic Music in the form of a movie. Sridhar's Audio design , the visual treat of PC Sreeram's Digital RedOne Camera, aesthetically designed sets by art director  rajeevan and satish kurusowa's crisp editing gives a different kind of treatment for this carnatic music movie.  One can't express this musical voyage in words. should watch in a DTS theatre to get the real feel of it. 

Attaching a trailer which gives a glimpse of this concert movie. 

Memorable Evening of Bharathanatyam and Ghazal

It's a memorable evening of bharathanatyam and ghazal at Doha cinema on 22nd April 2009 Wednesday. As usual following the soorya standard time, the programme started at 8 p.m. with bharatanatyam. Next day was a working day and inspite of that, we never wanted to leave the auditorium and stayed back till 11 p.m.

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World Earth Day

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The United Nations celebrates an Earth Day each year on the March equinox, which is often March 20, a tradition which was founded by peace activist John McConnell in 1969.

April 22, 1970, Earth Day marks the beginning of the modern environmental movement. Approximately 20 million Americans participated, with a goal of a healthy, sustainable environment.
Denis Hayes, the national coordinator, and his old staff organized massive coast-to-coast rallies. Thousands of colleges and universities organized protests against the deterioration of the environment. Groups that had been fighting against oil spills, polluting factories and power plants, raw sewage, toxic dumps, pesticides, freeways, the loss of wilderness, and the extinction of wildlife suddenly realized they shared common values.
Mobilizing 200 million people in 141 countries and lifting the status of environmental issues onto the world stage, Earth Day on April 22 in 1990 gave a huge boost to recycling efforts worldwide and helped pave the way for the 1992 United Nations Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro.
As the millennium approached, Hayes agreed to spearhead another campaign, this time focused on global warming and a push for clean energy. The April 22 Earth Day in 2000 combined the big-picture feistiness of the first Earth Day with the international grassroots activism of Earth Day 1990. For 2000, Earth Day had the Internet to help link activists around the world. By the time April 22 came around, 5,000 environmental groups around the world were on board, reaching out to hundreds of millions of people in a record 184 countries. Events varied: A talking drum chain traveled from village to village in Gabon, Africa, for example, while hundreds of thousands of people gathered on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., USA.
Earth Day 2000 sent the message loud and clear that citizens the world 'round wanted quick and decisive action on clean energy. Earth Day 2007 was one of the largest Earth Days to date, with an estimated billion people participating in the activities in thousands of places like Kiev, Ukraine; Caracas, Venezuela; Tuvalu; Manila, Philippines; Togo; Madrid, Spain; London; and New York.
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IPL Fever

IPL has started from today. My Cartoon on this.

RamaKatha A Classical Song

Ramakathaa Gaanalayam Super Classic of all times | Upload Music

Recorded in 2007 for a gulf based programme telecast in KairaliTV called Qatar Kanavugal. A great composition by Raveendran maashu which should have given him National Award for best music Director which he never got. This song fetched Yesudas one more national award.

Happy Vishu

Vishu Greetings.

This song was composed and recorded in my doha binmahmoud house in the year 2003 for a vishu programme by my friend Balu (Balamurali). He composed this song penned by Gopi who is working in Tayseer Doha. Balu also handled the Dholak, Tabla, Mridangam instruments. Keyboard was played by Arun and rhythm composer by Manoj. We did the recording track by track. It took one full night. I did the track vocal for balu who was supposed to sing but finally the same track was used for the programme. One of the precious gems from balu which's gone unnoticed.