Channel [V] ropes in A R Rahman and Adnan Sami for the final-phase auditions of Super Singer contest. Handful of them would certainly get a chance to sing ARR’s compositions. Lucky them.
Marriage inisde the family. Dum Dum Dum to Hotmail and Outlook.
Will anybody stop loving Raymond even after they are done by May 16 2005? Its one of my fave show.
JavaScript : The World’s Most Misunderstood Programming Language. Interesting. [Via Kottke].
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Not just this post but also the doctorate itself was by a popular demand. This guy is certainly worth one. Dr. Kamal Hassan. Doesn’t that sound a little odd ?. I perfer to call him simply by his first name, Kamal.
Just noticed that the previous post was on Rajini. This has happened before. Can’t beat this combo.
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Chandramukhi is on the sets. Rajinikanth looks much younger, just like the Arunaachalam make-over. IdleBrain and Behindwoods are up with galleries. Check out.
That title wasn’t a spell mistake. Intended. It’s a day when people usually are out on the sea bathing, eating pannju mittai, going gala rounds on the raatinams, teens driving supersonic bikes with their girlfriends in the pillions and hiding faces with dupatta on the east coast road, people throwing ‘rastali’ bananas at the orangutangs in Vandalur and what not. Many of them were missing in action, today.
Was driving by the Marina shore today and to my surprise saw there were hardly anyone for the pongal celebrations on the beach. There wasn’t even the a crowd that comes down on a weekend. And as I took a ‘U’ turn on the war memorial and came back through the Napier bridge, just can’t beat the thought of Aayitha Ezhuthu climax scenes. Stopped the bike on a corner of the bridge, looked back at it and took off again. Drove along the Kamarajar salai to reach Santhome and then the Elliots beach. Hardly any crowd there at 5 pm. Gosh, couldn’t believe my sight. Went near the shore after parking the bike. Desperately wanted to touch the water but it was restricted today. The bajji stalls are now moved far from the shores and it looked that they were the ones seriously hit by Tsunami attack.
There was even very low turn-out on the Chennai Book Fair. Was roaming around from 12:00 to 3:00 in the noon and it wasn’t too crowded as the other day. Only on such a day you can leisurely browse books and also get a good glimpse of the fair. Leaving my outfits, I gave off everything else in the book fair for buying books. Now, I have to find a place in my house to arrange them.
Some book thats I bought today – 6 out-of-print books of Sujatha from Thirumagal Nilayam(mostly compilations of columns that he wrote for Kanayaazhi), Gnani’s Kandathai Sollugiren (columns that he wrote for India Today) and Sundara Ramaswamy’s Oru Puliyamarathin Kathai. Need to buy – S.Ramakrishan’s Ulaga Cinema(World Cinema) and Upa Pandavam, Ashokamithran Katuraigal, Aathmanaam Poetry, Jeyamohan’s shortstory collection and thousands of such nice ones. The bookfair will wind-up by tomorrow.
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Chennai is yet to take a breather from the crowded book fair but then there’s no time. Saarang 2005, the cultural mishmash of IIT Madras is happening again. I shouldn’t be saying it’s happening. Because as the IITians says, it isn’t an event. Saarang is a state of mind. And this yearly festival starts from 21st Jan 2005 and goes on till the 26th. This is an inter-college show and so the youth is outta there. A gentle breeze after the rather dry december music festival and the book fair.
I’ve been a regular to this yearly event for close to a decade and it gets better every time. Be it the pro-shows or the arrangements or the fashion statement, Saarang simply rocks. It makes you feel young and yearn for those good-old college days. A true extravaganza. Last year, Saarang was devastating. Euphoria and Strings created a magic on the last day and I could still remember the whole stadium singing Maa Thuje Salaam. Also Decibels, intre-college western music show was the best of all the years. And I hope this year it will become even tougher. You also have this usual nice to watch Ad-Zap, Jam and creative writing competitions, not to forget the popular Mr and Ms Saarang.
This year’s schedule is out. For the pro-shows KK(the same Kakkha Kakkha KK) will be performing light music on 24th. Orange Street alongiwth Moksha will perform the rock show on 22nd Jan. There comes a suspense which I nearly guessed(rather wanted to happen). Guitar Prasanna will be performing again for the Jazz show named, Be the Change. Be the Change is actually the latest album released by Prasanna in the mid 2004. He along with Jeff Coffin on sax, Kai Eckhardt on bass guitar and Derico Watson on drums will perform the show. During Saarang 2000, he played along with Alphonso Johnson. I had been to that show and I must say it was exhilarating.
Guitar Prasanna is well known to Chennai music fans for his carnatic compositions with guitar. I did like his albums on Jazz than the carnatic ones. He was probably inspired by the Miles Davis school of jazz and took over jazz from blues. He owns more credit for spreading the reach of carnatic music in the American music circles. With Illayaraja his last work was for Vaanavilley in Ramana. He played those enchanting acoustics for Yej Jo Hai Tera of Swades for A R Rahman. I am definetly there for this show and also for the KK’s light music.
Catch up with the never ending State-of-Mind Saarang next week. If you are coming do let me know and we can plan along.
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