Raja - Live in Concerts - Madurai Concert Telecast/Videos

[kiru]

This concert was awesome ..No wonder all you folks are so excited and providing very good reviews.. (especially like the ones from V_S and KV). I dont think any other concert like this - in terms of orchestrational complexity has been attempted on stage in India. This was like european classical meets rock meets indian classical concert.. no wonder the audience does not know when to dance when to stay quiet. I bet the Hungarian guys are flabbergasted at this genre of popular music.
During the eighties we got so many gems because IR was exploring carnatic.. now he is onto Jazz. I am guessing we will be in for another wave of gems from him.. if nature and our cine folks cooperate..

Yeah.. the singers slipped here and there but I guess things are a bit difficult to do it one shot.. Also..singers improved sometime into the song..I think the female singers let by Chitra were more consistent than the male singers..just my feeling.. yeah Rita messed up ethO Mogam .. I think she started the charanam in the wrong pitch/tempo and could not correct .. She needs to cool down a bit.. probably stressed out. My favorite KJY slipped in diction/pronounciation and notes a bit. I liked his his spirit and energy though. I dont know why he (in en iniya pon ) and even raaja shortened the notes a bit .. is it improvisation ? Haricharan did well..but I did not see the shake in the notes and the bhavam like Kamalhassan (great guy .. who can act/sing/dance/write lyrics/direct)