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HH's improvs-you might not have liked them but that doesnt mean he was incompetent.
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I felt he spoiled the original numbers by his improvs. Somehow, i've always felt hh acts big in his concerts but isn't as good as he projects himself to be.
Thops, while we cite specific goof ups for Shreya all that you have against HH are your personal opinions. So there is nothing much here to agree or disagree.For the same improvs for which you hate him there might be people who might love him for that. I am not myself a big fan of his improvs, but incompetent he certainly was'nt.
HH's first line on-stage in the concert is a goof up...he starts enna solli at the wrong moment and has to restart...he also starts his portion the katril varum geethame at the wrong tempo...thappu kandupidikaanumnu ninaichaa aayiram irukku...
just finished watching the 2nd part on numtv...the audio and video was totally out of sync, spoiling the experience...
Being a classically trained singer HH's music competency cannot be questioned. I rate HH, KJY even greater than SPB in this aspect. What bothered me about HH was not his improv, but his "off shruthi " singing at many places which cannot be excused.But his "vaanaville" rendition was good.
Few months back, I was raving about HH's free flowing improvs and his mastery over brihas and sangathis after watching his "50th year" celebration programme.When HH ad SPB sang "kaadhal rojavae" like a duet, I felt SPB was losing out to HH. Well, I think we can only comment on case to case basis as for as talented singers like SPB/HH/ShankarMahadevan are concerned. Regarding this IR's programme , looks like only SPB can do justice to all IR's songs.
HH wasnt "off-shruthi" anywhere during the concert, nor did he sing out-of-tempo in Kaatril varum geethame. Lets not invent imaginary mistakes. Shreya was the one who joined in at the wrong time and had to jump about it.
and her goof up earlier in Kaatril endhan geetham was so glaring that the entire audience reacted to it.
you have convieniently avoided talking about the other goofup as expected and now want get into to rating the goof-ups...nice try...
I watched the first part last week and will have to watch it again today to determine if it was a goof up or another imaginary invention. I dont remember HH and Saadhana making any embarassing mistakes like the one Shreya did. As for rating or determining goofs, I dont have to do it, the audience and IR did it in the show itself.
(Also your earlier claim for HH being incompetent were based on his improvs which was clearly your preference and nothing to do with any singing goofups)
Agree with thumburu on whats been said about HH. I love his style of singing (and his voice) right from his Ghazal days. One has to check out his old Ghazal albums. I dont remember them offhand, but one of them is called "Reflections" (That reminds me, I need to collect mp3's of the same). SPB is one of my most favourite singer (next to Mohd. Rafi), but I did not like some of the improvisations that he did in his old concerts. Even today he does it, but I feel he has limited them! I have seen HH singing in other concerts aswell and I have sort of (despite liking some improvs & not liking other improvs) enjoyed his overall performance, but in this concert, as thumburu says, his off-key rendition in a few places irritated me more. For me, even if my favourite artist irritates me like that, I will not like that.
What I liked about Shreya (and also Sadhana...she gave me a pleasant shock in the rendition of both "Shenbagame" & "Enna Solli" (am I right)) is that she stuck to the originals as much as possible. Having said that I cannot imagine how "Thodudhey" missed everyones sight/ears while rehearsing or while writing it down. Shreya is pardoned because otherwise she did a decent job with her other songs.
Regarding "Kaatril Varum Geethame", there is no single singer you can point to. A delicate song has been spoiled. The aalaap by Shreya (when she joins Bhava) in the CD version is one of my favourite spots in that song, so I somehow patiently waited till Bhava finishes :), but to my shock, Shreya did not do it that well on stage!
Anyway, I think we should not get too serious about this and move on. We can just hope that they (all the artists) realise their mistakes and dont repeat them.
Also, I found the link for "Naan Thedum" song. Here it is. I am so glad coolgoose is changed to cooltoad! My office had blocked access to coolgoose! Let me see how far my honeymoon with cooltoad continues :)
http://as01.cooltoad.com/music/song.php?id=174294
To cheer you guys, check out this clip. Two chinese guys lipsyncing for an English song. Pretty funny.
http://www.youtube.com/watch.php?v=Lb6eAnp0Yec
thanks,
Krishnan
HH did deviate from shruthi not just in one place but many esp in the song "enna solli".