NY murali talks about song rarely discussed https://youtube/watch?v=VybvUzOAnRwYM ANDHA PAKKAM VAAZHNDAVAR ROMEO’ I have heard this song only in the movie when I was studying 3rd standard. I have not heard after that. But yesterday I heard this song in our site. I remember the situation when the great comedian actor Nagesh sings this song in the movie about his love towards the heroin of the movie. When the movie was released there was a hippy culture getting very prominence in the world. In fact the movie ‘Hare Rama Hare Krishna’ is based on this subject. In this movie Mr. Nagesh would be a hippy and so he would always be with the guitar. So he sings this song with the guitar. The song is also sung by him in the midnight when all other would be in deep sleep. In fact when you hear this song in the beginning itself there will be a snoring sound of his father Sri VKR. Now see the composition of our master. Since it is a hippy culture based song the tune is set in the western style. You can feel the western accent when you hear the line ‘oh my sweetie’. Now the next line comes ‘oodi vaa’ with a downward sangadhi and followed with a humming. If you see the humming it is exactly a style of the raga ‘NEELAMBARI’. See where is western and where is carnatic raga and how beautifully it is connected. But why the raga ‘NEELAMBARI’? Because ‘NEELAMBARI’ raga is used for lullaby or ‘Thaalattu’ to make people sleep. Since the situation is that while he is singing the others are sleeping. So after singing few lines in his hippy western style he feels that others could wake up. So he sings ‘NEELAMBARI’ lullaby or ‘Thaalattu’ so that the others remain asleep. What an imagination? There is one more information about this song. That is the orchestration. It is composed for a midnight situation when people are sleeping. SO the preludes and the interludes including the rhythm are very soft and less noisy. There is only one lead instrument that is guitar. In order give variation for the instruments master used a brilliant idea of following the guitar interlude with his famous and specialty instrument the ‘WHISTLE’ Now please hear this song and feel for yourself.
Posted on: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 15:54:17 +0000
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