Tuesday, October 6, 2009
How Sweet Shreya!!
We know how Ghantasala encouraged and supported SPB right from his first song "Emi ee vintha mohamu". In fact, many yesteryear singers used to adopt and support upcoming singers and help them in their growth. Shreya Ghoshal, three times national award winning singer, is one new generation singer of that kind.
Shreya was to sing a song for the Telugu movie "Villagelo Vinayakudu" which is being directed by Sai Kiran and music by Mani Kanth. The same song was already rendered a newcomer called Swetha Mohan. As the director Sai Kiran was not satisfied with her rendition, Shreya was asked to sing the song. She heard Swetha's version before her rehearsals and was impressed. Shreya said "She sang beautifully. Whose voice is this? She sang better than me. I can't improvise this. I just have to follow her." She refused to sing and advised the MD to keep Swetha's version. She even called Swetha and congratulated her.
Hariharan, who was there in the recording theatre, was impressed with the way Shreya encouraged an upcoming singer and appreciated her. By the way, Swetha Mohan is none other than the daughter of famous singer Sujatha.
reference: http://www.eenadu.net/archives/archive-21-9-2009/ncineshow.asp?qry=kalagura
Friday, July 24, 2009
JPF Music Awards
Ilayaraja, Rahman and Shri Krishna nominated for the JPF music awards in the best album category.
Look for Indian albums nominated in the following site.
http://www.jpfolks.com/09albumnoms.html
Look for Indian albums nominated in the following site.
http://www.jpfolks.com/09albumnoms.html
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
An article in Sakshi paper on Ilayaraja
I don't usually see much about our Raaja in Telugu media. But this one is a very well written post about the Maestro.
http://www.sakshi.com/main/WeeklyDetails.aspx?Newsid=25378&Categoryid=5&subcatid=13
http://www.sakshi.com/main/WeeklyDetails.aspx?Newsid=25378&Categoryid=5&subcatid=13
Friday, April 17, 2009
Non-Telugu singers
This post by Suresh inspired me to write after a long time.
I have listened to the song "naa madi ninnu pilichindi" from Aradhana many times. As a kid I always thought it was very different and unique. I later started feeling a little "odd" whenever I heard the song. I never realised it myself that it was sung by a Hindi singer (I was small then and it was the first time I heard about Rafi). I somehow felt that the degree of oddness in that song was not very high.
Later I encountered many many songs which made me feel very odd (Many of them are due to horrible lyrics, but writing about that will make my post horribly long). Naturally and unfortunately, many non-Telugu singers who sing Telugu songs are very well reputed.
Once me and my mother were listening to radio and my mother was irritated with the female singer's accent and started criticising and I joined her. After the song, they informed that it was sung by Lata Mangeshkar. I sort of felt bad then. I listened to some Telugu songs of Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhonsle. They are great singers but not those songs. There surely are not many songs by them.
But more recently, I see a lot of Hindi singers surviving in Telugu industry in spite of their intolerable performances. I have not liked a single song by Udit Narayan in Telugu though I actually like the Hindi Udit. Sadhana Sargam is also not so good (She is better now). Disturbing thing is that there are many north singers entering Tollywood continue to sing more whereas many singers here are not getting enough opportunities.
My post is titled Non-Telugu singers, not North singers. I think I should talk about other Non-Telugu singers. Can anyone believe that Vani Jayaram and Chithra are not from Andhra Pradesh? I can't.
Most south Indian singers including the recent Karthik, Tippu have good accent. They are not a problem.
Yeah, That brings up another issue. When there are good South Indian singers around, why does anybody need to go for Sonu Nigams or Kailash Khers? (I Can't imagine Telugu worse than his). Bad thing is that the big and reputed Music Directors themselves are going for these Northers. Good thing is that I see many good South singers these days. I hope they all get opportunities and make place for themselves in the Industry.
I have listened to the song "naa madi ninnu pilichindi" from Aradhana many times. As a kid I always thought it was very different and unique. I later started feeling a little "odd" whenever I heard the song. I never realised it myself that it was sung by a Hindi singer (I was small then and it was the first time I heard about Rafi). I somehow felt that the degree of oddness in that song was not very high.
Later I encountered many many songs which made me feel very odd (Many of them are due to horrible lyrics, but writing about that will make my post horribly long). Naturally and unfortunately, many non-Telugu singers who sing Telugu songs are very well reputed.
Once me and my mother were listening to radio and my mother was irritated with the female singer's accent and started criticising and I joined her. After the song, they informed that it was sung by Lata Mangeshkar. I sort of felt bad then. I listened to some Telugu songs of Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhonsle. They are great singers but not those songs. There surely are not many songs by them.
But more recently, I see a lot of Hindi singers surviving in Telugu industry in spite of their intolerable performances. I have not liked a single song by Udit Narayan in Telugu though I actually like the Hindi Udit. Sadhana Sargam is also not so good (She is better now). Disturbing thing is that there are many north singers entering Tollywood continue to sing more whereas many singers here are not getting enough opportunities.
My post is titled Non-Telugu singers, not North singers. I think I should talk about other Non-Telugu singers. Can anyone believe that Vani Jayaram and Chithra are not from Andhra Pradesh? I can't.
Most south Indian singers including the recent Karthik, Tippu have good accent. They are not a problem.
Yeah, That brings up another issue. When there are good South Indian singers around, why does anybody need to go for Sonu Nigams or Kailash Khers? (I Can't imagine Telugu worse than his). Bad thing is that the big and reputed Music Directors themselves are going for these Northers. Good thing is that I see many good South singers these days. I hope they all get opportunities and make place for themselves in the Industry.
Friday, March 27, 2009
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.
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.
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