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  1. Dhanush, take a bow

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    / March 12, 2012 / 2 Comments
    Think a guy who has been dumped by a girl. Think Dhanush. As `3′, the `Kolaveri’ film gets set to release next month, the actor seems to have perfected the art of singing songs mourning the loss of his love. No, hold on. Not just singing but writing the lyrics...

  2. One song wonders

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    / February 25, 2012 / Leave a comment
    By G Mohan In the ’70s and ’80s, playback singing in Bollywood were oligopolies. The male voice would be either Kishore Kumar or Md Rafi. The Mangeshkar sisters, Lata and Asha were the dominant female voices. When radio was the most popular medium to listen to Hindi film songs, Vividh...

  4. The lighter side of Carnatic music

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    / November 25, 2011 / 3 Comments
    By Parthasarathy I am listening to a composition in Nadanamakriya ragam by Ranjani and Gayatri. I’d just completed `The Economic Times’ crossword and the five-star Sudoku in `The Hindu’. I am in front of my netbook compiling a cryptic crossword in Tamil. Just then Yamadoot comes calling. I signal him...

  5. Lata, the nightingale of India

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    / September 28, 2011 / 4 Comments
    By Bala   Blessed are those Indians who were born in the 1950s and are living in India and abroad now, since they had grown listening to the honey dewed voice of Lata Mangeshkar. I too belong to this generation. The experience of not only listening to her songs as...

  6. Sakthi kodu, Rajini Sir and Rahman !

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    / December 26, 2010 / Leave a comment
    By Karthik I have sung for several actors in the last ten years of serious playback singing but one song that is quite dear to my heart is `Sakthi Kodu’ where the Superstar lipsynced to my voice, quite early on in my career. Wow ! It is a heady feeling...

  7. My first film as composer. Period

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    / November 15, 2010 / 2 Comments
    By Karthik Ever since I signed my first film as music director for director Vasanthabalan’s next film `Aravaan‘, my parents are anxious. My well-wishers are excited as well as nervous. Because `Aravaan‘ is a period film, a folk subject set in rural Tamilnadu in the 18th century. And a majority...

  8. Karthik [Live]

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    / November 9, 2010 / 1 Comment
    By Karthik The title of this blog is not to sound pompous. It is because I am just back in Chennai after a series of concerts in Toronto, Singapore and Dubai. And the feeling of being live, in front an enthusiastic crowd is just amazing. I must start with Birmingham,...

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