Sunday, July 01, 2007

Kalyani---

Kalyani if I remember correctly is of 65 th Mela. The arohanam and avarohanam goes as
S R2 G3 M2 P D2 N3 S
S N3 D2 P M2 G3 R2 S
Obviously the speciality of Kalyani is the Madhyamam. We wouldnt have missed kalyani and we cant afford to miss this sampoorna ragam. This is one ragam any singer would prefer to do a Ragam Thanam Pallavi (RTP) in his concert . If you have even learnt a few geethams or varnams, I challenge that you would have learnt " Vanajakshi"..
Ilayaraja, one of the greatest musicians of our era has been the best exponent of this raagam in film songs. If a listener has not listened to "Amma endru azhaikadha" - ( Mannan) the I am sure he has not listened to Tamil songs at all . Illayaraja has composed innumerable songs in Kalyani .
Some of them are "Sundari Kannal oru seithi - Dalapathi" ," Janani Janani - Thaye Mookambika" a small piece in Sethu , I think it starts as "Sharanam bhava", "Nirpathuvae nadapathuvae "These are some of the gems I could remember just like that. There are many more . I just have question raja ...Why do you like Kal + Aani ?

Madhu

2 comments:

jeevagv said...

I when he thinks classical, Kalyani is what naturally comes to him! :-)

His recent கல்யாணி - காற்றில் வரும் கீதமே என் கண்ணனை அறிவாயோ!

http://www.musicindiaonline.com/p/x/SrmgiwKDdS.As1NMvHdW/

Cheers,
Jeeva

Avial said...

Oh certainly .. Thats one of his amazing compositions . Its one mesmirising song .

You shd have listened to the audio track of Raja and Vaali composing the song . Its just a pleasure to listen to geniouses at work .