Raja - Live in Concerts - Madurai Concert Telecast/Videos

[Nerd]

Caught up with the videos of the last day telecast last night. Perhaps the best day for singers. Even Reeta sounded good. SPB/KJY threw kaattukkuyilu out of the park. Such a delight watching them sing it. And thanks to KJY sir we got to listen to that stunning 2nd interlude of poovE sempoovE not twice but thrice. Fantastic! Not a particulary good day for the orchestra, relatively. Idhu oru nilakkaalam/Kattukkuyilu among a few others did not sound good at all. I guess its extremely difficult trying to recreate the magic on those. And it was GREAT to see SPB back to form. Now that its over, which one was the best? 05 or 11?

*Song selections 2011 undoubtedly (Yaar thoorigai, seriously? )
*Vocal performances, 2005.
*Orchestra's performance - hard to pick. '11 had their stunning moments and not-so-great moments. '05 was consistently good I thought, but no peak moments like a idhayam pOguthE..
*Guest speeches - thought Kamal was good in '05, he was underwhelming in this concert. But Balki made one of the best speeches on Raja, EVER!
*Parthiban made it a little lively, but PrakashRaj was better. Was to the point and did not waste a single moment.

In the end, its hard for me to choose which one was better, but both can be repeated (already own the '05 VCD) multiple times.