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Andarikee Virodhi Naama samvathsara Subhakankshalu.

Wish you all a happy New year.

www.idlebrain.com

This site is dedicated to Telugu cinema etc. Though there are many sites in the same category, this one is different in a good sense. Most sites care only about the upcoming movies or movies just released and stars of the current day. Idlebrain occasionally pays attention to the legends of yesterday's cinema as well. The Velugu Needalu series by Srinivas Kanchibhotla is one from that category. So far legends Ilayaraja,Jandhyala, K Balachandar, S P Bala subramanyam, K Vishwanath, Vamsy, yandamuri, Bapu ramana, Veturi were focused.

Read Velugu Needalu

Another series of article named Maestro Ilayaraja, A technical celebration of music by RS Balaji has so far discussed some of Raja's great songs.

Read Maestro Ilayarja

The series Mattilo manikyalu (Best movies, but box office failure) discussed some of the famous movies like Rudraveena, Swathi kiranam as well as movies like Sudiundalu, Chengalva Poodanda, Ee chaduvulu maakoddu that are not so famous.

Read Mattilo manikyalu

For any recent movie, we see dozens of reviews on net(doesn't matter how bad the movie is). Even for some old movies we can find reviews in idlebrain. You can read them here: http://www.idlebrain.com/nosta/svm.html

Isn't it like advertising the site? may be yeah. But I feel these articles deserve this much advertising.

Vani Jayaram

At around 10:15 pm yesterday, I was about to go out when my mother called (I reside in a hostel). She said with good amount of excitement that Vani Jayaram was hosting a show on ETV and the show was going on then. My mother was excited because I like Vani mam very much and I have never seen her on TV before. I ran to the TV room. By the time I went there, the show came to an end. I just had a look at her and heard a little from her voice. Her divine voice reminded me some of my old memories.

Long Long back, me and my mother were listening to the song "Ennenno Janmala Bandham" from the movie Pooja (Telugu). I pointed out to my mother, the very different feel the female voice in the song had. My mother, a very big fan of Susheela (as a matter of fact I myself am), commented that the song would have been more beautiful with Susheela's voice. I could not agree with her as the voice I just heard was unlike any other I had heard before. It was when I heard the song "Aanatineeyara" from Swathi Kiranam (Telugu), I came to know about the legend Vani Jayaram. I later heard many other songs of Vani mam and obviously became her fan.

I wish she had sung more in Telugu.

See my earlier post on Vani Jayaram

http://musicandmyth.blogspot.com/2009/01/jayaram-vani-puthri.html

I saw this interview of Balu only recently. As usual he was very simple and modest.

Here is a bit of it.

Anuradha SenGupta: When you sing for Rajinikanth, or Kamal Hassan, I don’t think you are trying to sound like they are singing. Am I right?

SP Balasubrahmanyam: Most people think that I change my voice for actors that I sing for. But that is not right. You are absolutely correct. The style can be different. I just try to get the vibrancy of actors in my singing. When I sing a romantic number for Kamal, I try to get the style in my singing. I mostly sung for them. It also helped me to dub them properly.

My take on this: First of all, I feel that that was a very bad question asked by the interviewer. She should probably have asked him if he had tried to sound like them rather than "telling" him what she thought. I don't know well how he sang for Kamal or Rajini(as I don't know much about Tamil songs), but there are many instances where he sounded like the actor himself singing. He is being modest as usual.

You can watch/read the interview here.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/being-balasubrahmanyam-the-perfectionist/68767-8.html