Raja - Live in Concerts - Madurai Concert Telecast/Videos

[irir123]

what an incredible experience - too bad I couldnt meet up with IR backstage!

HP Pavilion had a thiruvizhaa effect !

hubbers, next time I visit bay area, would love to meet up with some of us.

highlights for me:

1. IR entering the stage like a military commander and starting the concert right on time!

2. the IR-SPB camaraderie - SPB explaining the harmonic score of 'oh priya priya' on strings, goosebumps all the way - idhathaan naan edhirpaarthaen.

3. I had explained to my friends outside the hall abt how Mano has often butchered SPBs telugu songs in tamil - 'o papa lali' by SPB became, 'o BAABAA lali' (like baba black sheep have you any wool) by Mano in tamil - and when mano came onstage, i was getting all nervous, but he stuck to his 'shenbagamey' - what a relief - aanaa IR found a mistake even in that rendition "sammadhamey became sammAAAAdhamey" - Mano nallaa ottappattaar - after that, Mano was relegated to doing compering and edupidi velai!

4. Chithra - yenna oru simplicity and no hassle presence onstage - hats off - 'ninnukori varnam' on stage was pattai kilappufying - the orchestration was topnotch

5. IR - as usual - some aanmeega / thathhuva sidharalgal - in-between the show!

6. I was speaking abt IR's telugu scores eloquently before the show referencing Abinandana in particular - and when SPB sang 'adhe neevu' i was overjoyed, but let down a bit when the song was rendered without those glorious interludes!

7.'balapam patti', 'priyaa priyathamaa' and the immortal 'priyathamaa, nanu' from JVAS - all of which were marana mass hits when they came out - were justifiably performed, especially the last song which had some very intricate strings section in the second interlude - IR gave them accolades just for that song!

more later