Makkal thilakam mgr part-11

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ADIMAIPEN

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PARAKKUM PAVAI

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[ainefal]

The natural performer

By: S.R. Vasu Rao
I still remember that night (in 1976) when U. Shrinivas, along with his father, arrived from his village in West Godavari district in Andhra Pradesh seeking to become a disciple of my father, S. Rajeswara Rao, who was a musician and composer. Observing the talent of his young son, Sathyanarayana had brought him to a maestro.
My father saw the talent in Shrinivas and told me about this seven-year-old child prodigy. My task was to introduce him to musicians in the cinema industry. I met Shrinivas the next morning at my studio in Chennai. He was hardly seven or eight years old, but very talented. His father was a clarinet artist.
My father saw himself in the talented young boy and believed Shrinivas would be a true disciple. He reminisced about how he was taken to K.L. Saigal in his childhood because he was talented and how Shrinivas had been similarly brought to him. Shrinivas and his family had come all the way from a small Andhra village solely for his music career, and they set themselves up in a small house in Kodambakkam.
At our first meeting, I asked him to play the Shankarabharanam raga. I remember being bemused at his performance, as this child knew all the kritis in Shankarabharanam. In the initial days, I recall being overwhelmed by his performance at my studio and I was hard pressed to figure out my role in moulding him. The moment I played a line, this eight-year-old boy would have begun the next on his mandolin.
One day, I took him to meet music director Ilayaraja. The maestro was reluctant to meet him as he was tied up with recordings. I requested Ilayaraja to spare two minutes and made Shrinivas play before him. The great musician was stunned and invited him home that evening to perform at a Ganapati puja.
In another instance, Shrinivas was taken to M.S. Viswanathan, the most popular music composer at the time. Delighted and surprised, Viswanathan took Shrinivas to actor Sivaji Ganesan’s house to perform at a function there. Performing came naturally to the child prodigy, as he was popular with music bands in Andhra and a preferred artist at weddings and functions.
He was also an all-time favourite of the late M.G. Ramachandran, former chief minister of Tamil Nadu. Their first meeting was at the wedding of my wife’s sister, where MGR was the chief guest. The moment MGR entered the auditorium, somebody asked Shrinivas to stop playing the mandolin so they could play songs about MGR. But MGR came on stage and asked him to continue. He sat next to Shrinivas and made him sing at least three songs. Before he left, he ensured that Shrinivas would be playing at all his public functions.
Traditional sabhas and Carnatic music itself have always been a limited world for instrument artists. I remember that several sabhas
in Chennai had denied Shrinivas an opportunity to perform and many ridiculed his instrument, the mandolin, which was also known as the mini-guitar. He continued…

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என்றும் எங்கள் குலதெய்வம் எம்ஜிஆர்

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அருமையாக உள்ளது வினோத் சார். அனைத்தையும் வரிசை எண் தந்து பதிவு செய்தால் அருமையாக இருக்கும்

IDHAYA VEENAI

என்றும் எங்கள் குலதெய்வம் எம்ஜிஆர்

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என்றும் எங்கள் குலதெய்வம் எம்ஜிஆர்

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எஸ்வி சார்
தென்னகத்தின் பிற மொழிகளில் டப் செய்து வெளியடப்படும் விளம்பரங்கள் டாப் . பிற மொழிகளில் டப் செய்து வெளியடப்படும் மக்கள் திலகத்தின் திரைப்படங்களுக்கு மக்கள் திலகத்திற்கு குரல் கொடுப்பது மக்கள் திலகமேவா அல்லது வேறு யாரவது. மேல் தகவல் இருந்தால் தெரிவிக்கவும் .மேலும் உங்களுக்கு ஒரு பிரைவேட் மெசேஜ் அனுப்பி உள்ளேன்

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