Here is a song with another awesome singer Rashmi Nair! Rashmi has a beautiful voice and sings classical oriented songs amazingly well and has an impeccable sense of pitching and voice control! Well I should say that I am really floored by her supportive vocals which can be any music director’s delight! Again, no EQ…. no correction whatsoever on her raw vocals in any respect! Bang on target! Just with the reverb effect!

This is one of Raveendran master’s toughest compositions (all of his compositions are a challenge to the singer). All the songs of Bharatham were classics and will stand the test of time.

Song: Gopangane

Film: Bharatham

Music: Raveendran

Lyrics: Kaithapram Damodaran Namboothiri

Original Singers: K.J Yesudas & K.S Chitra

Covered by: Rashmi Nair & Pradip Somasundaran

Here is a song with another awesome singer of our community! Rashmi has a beautiful voice and sings classical oriented songs amazingly well and has an impeccable sense of pitching and voice control! Well I should say that I am really floored by her supportive vocals which can be any music director’s delight! Again, no EQ…. no correction whatsoever on her raw vocals in any respect! Bang on target! Just with the reverb effect!

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This song without any doubt been the most popular hit of 2009 among Malayalam films released so far. And this is the only song that’s hearable in the film “Puthiya Mukham”. This is invariably one of the very best songs composed by “Deepak Dev” so far in his career. He has not done a film for almost 2-3 years in Malayalam and it has been a great comeback for him with this song. Though the song is very popular the debate to whether “Shanker Mahadevan” was the right choice to sing this song, considering the fact that there was much to be desired regarding his pronunciation will go on. There is also doubt on to whether this was technically one of the best songs that Shanker has sung. Barring the above mentioned doubts, I believe that Shanker has done a fabulous job on expressions, and this song carries itself through sheer melodic but simple arrangements that Deepak has used throughout. The song has simple but meaningful and musically beautiful words woven into it.

This is my version of the song. I have sung it in my own way with some minor variations but largely within the mood of the song.

Song: Picha Vacha Naal

Film: Puthiya Mukham

Music: Deepak Dev

Lyrics: Kaithapram Damodaran Namboothiri

Original Singer: Shanker Mahadevan

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A beautiful and mind blowing composition from the young and upcoming music director Gopi Sunder! This was amazingly rendered to perfection by my very good friend “Gayatri Asokan” or “Gayu” as we all call her fondly. A singer who has a soft silky but classically trained voice she had won the state award for the best playback singer some years back. The arrangements that Gopi has created for this song takes us to a fairy land with Gayu’s magical voice……One of the best song’s that I have heard in Malayalam in the recent times.
Indcidentally Gopi was the programmer for “Vishal and Sekhar” in the “Sharukh” starrer “Om Shanti Om”!!!

Song: Nin Hridaya Mounam
Film: Flash
Music: Gopi Sunder
Lyrics: Rafeeq Ahmed
Original Singer: Gayatri Asokan

Raveendran master, my mentor was a genius who was without no doubt instrumental in extracting the best out of K.J Yesudas’s depth and range of voice. He has created awesome songs which have had the best of today’s so called singer’s hanging their head’s in shame as they would not even be able to attempt many of them. Every creation of his had that inimitable “Raveendran touch”. The end of “Raveendra sangeetham” has definitely been the end of quality music in Malayalam Cinema which has deteriorated over the years. He was the last of the geniuses from the clan of Dakshinamoorthy and Devarajan whose songs had a great influence of classical music but still could command popular appeal.
This song from Aham, a Mohanlal starrer, would definitely be remembered as one of his best songs for K.J.Y. And again it is a toughie with the typical twists, turns, mysteries and un-precictabilities of  “Raveendra Sangeetham”. Raveendran master told me that once he heard a Pakistani folk singer singing a ghazal in “maand” on the radio in the quiteness of the dark night! This was his inspiration for this song. It will forever remain as one of my most favorite songs.

Song: Nirangale Paadu
Film: Aham
Music: Raveendran
Original Singer: K.J Yesudas
Lyrics: Kaavalam Naarayana Panikker