<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><rss xmlns:atom='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' version='2.0'><channel><atom:id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26993576</atom:id><lastBuildDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:55:54 +0000</lastBuildDate><title>Pradip Ki Awaz Suno</title><description></description><link>http://www.pradipsomasundaran.com/musicblog.htm</link><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (Pradip Somasundaran)</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>113</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26993576.post-5239323425883716049</guid><pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:24:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-08-29T07:25:55.007+05:30</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Original</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Malayalam</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Dona Mayoora</category><title>ഡോണാ മയൂരയുടെ കവിതയുടെ സംഗീതാവിഷ്ക്കാരം.....</title><description>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pradipsomasundaran.com/uploaded_images/HD11103-797349.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://www.pradipsomasundaran.com/uploaded_images/HD11103-797329.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; ശ്രീ അനിൽ ബി. എസ് (&lt;a href="http://www.anilbs.blogspot.com/"&gt;1&lt;/a&gt; , &lt;a href="http://anilbsphoto.blogspot.com/"&gt;2&lt;/a&gt; ), ശ്രീ &lt;a href="http://rajeshraman.blogspot.com/"&gt;രാജേഷ് രാമൻ &lt;/a&gt;, എന്നിവർ ഒരുക്കിയ സംഗീതത്തിൽ ഞാന്‍ ആലപിച്ച &lt;a href="http://rithubhedangal.blogspot.com/2008/08/blog-post_27.html"&gt;ഡോണാ മയൂരയുടെ &lt;/a&gt;'&lt;a href="http://rithubhedangal.blogspot.com/2008/06/blog-post.html"&gt;എത്ര നാൾ ഇങ്ങിനെ&lt;/a&gt;'യെന്ന ഗാനം നിങ്ങൾക്കായി ഇവിടെ സമർപ്പിക്കുന്നു. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;Song: &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;Ethra&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;Naal&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;Ingane&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;Lyrics: Dona &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;Mayoora&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;Music: &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;Rajesh&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;Raman&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;Orchestration&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"&gt;Anil&lt;/span&gt; B.S&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt;This is an original song written by my talented friend Dona &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"&gt;Mayoora&lt;/span&gt;, tuned by another upcoming talent &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"&gt;Rajesh&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"&gt;Raman&lt;/span&gt; and woven to beautiful music by &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11"&gt;Anil&lt;/span&gt; B.S. I immensely enjoyed singing this song and am grateful to the creators for allowing me to be a part in their creation! When simple touching lyrics flow with intricately woven melody it is sure to strike a chord in your heart!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cccccc;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cccccc;"&gt;Broad Band Player: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;object id="pcpp" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=" height="30" width="170" align="middle" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000"&gt;&lt;param name="_cx" value="4498"&gt;&lt;param name="_cy" value="794"&gt;&lt;param name="FlashVars" value=""&gt;&lt;param name="Movie" value="http://www.podcastpickle.com/media/podPlayer/pcppSmall.swf?URI=http://www.pradipsomasundaran.com/mp3/ethra.mp3&amp;amp;instantLoad=0"&gt;&lt;param name="Src" value="http://www.podcastpickle.com/media/podPlayer/pcppSmall.swf?URI=http://www.pradipsomasundaran.com/mp3/ethra.mp3&amp;amp;instantLoad=0"&gt;&lt;param name="WMode" value="Window"&gt;&lt;param name="Play" value="-1"&gt;&lt;param name="Loop" value="-1"&gt;&lt;param name="Quality" value="High"&gt;&lt;param name="SAlign" value=""&gt;&lt;param name="Menu" value="-1"&gt;&lt;param name="Base" value=""&gt;&lt;param name="AllowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain"&gt;&lt;param name="Scale" value="ShowAll"&gt;&lt;param name="DeviceFont" value="0"&gt;&lt;param name="EmbedMovie" value="0"&gt;&lt;param name="BGColor" value="000000"&gt;&lt;param name="SWRemote" value=""&gt;&lt;param name="MovieData" value=""&gt;&lt;param name="SeamlessTabbing" value="1"&gt;&lt;param name="Profile" value="0"&gt;&lt;param name="ProfileAddress" value=""&gt;&lt;param name="ProfilePort" value="0"&gt;&lt;param name="AllowNetworking" value="all"&gt;&lt;param name="AllowFullScreen" value="false"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.podcastpickle.com/media/podPlayer/pcppSmall.swf?URI=http://www.pradipsomasundaran.com/mp3/ethra.mp3&amp;instantLoad=0" quality="high" bgcolor="#000000" width="170" height="30" name="pcpp" align="middle" allowscriptaccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cccccc;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cccccc;"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12"&gt;Dial-up&lt;/span&gt; Player: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;object id="pcpp" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=" height="30" width="170" align="middle" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000"&gt;&lt;param name="_cx" value="4498"&gt;&lt;param name="_cy" value="794"&gt;&lt;param name="FlashVars" value=""&gt;&lt;param name="Movie" value="http://www.podcastpickle.com/media/podPlayer/pcppSmall.swf?URI=http://www.pradipsomasundaran.com/mp3/ethra1.mp3&amp;amp;instantLoad=0"&gt;&lt;param name="Src" value="http://www.podcastpickle.com/media/podPlayer/pcppSmall.swf?URI=http://www.pradipsomasundaran.com/mp3/ethra1.mp3&amp;amp;instantLoad=0"&gt;&lt;param name="WMode" value="Window"&gt;&lt;param name="Play" value="-1"&gt;&lt;param name="Loop" value="-1"&gt;&lt;param name="Quality" value="High"&gt;&lt;param name="SAlign" value=""&gt;&lt;param name="Menu" value="-1"&gt;&lt;param name="Base" value=""&gt;&lt;param name="AllowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain"&gt;&lt;param name="Scale" value="ShowAll"&gt;&lt;param name="DeviceFont" value="0"&gt;&lt;param name="EmbedMovie" value="0"&gt;&lt;param name="BGColor" value="000000"&gt;&lt;param name="SWRemote" value=""&gt;&lt;param name="MovieData" value=""&gt;&lt;param name="SeamlessTabbing" value="1"&gt;&lt;param name="Profile" value="0"&gt;&lt;param name="ProfileAddress" value=""&gt;&lt;param name="ProfilePort" value="0"&gt;&lt;param name="AllowNetworking" value="all"&gt;&lt;param name="AllowFullScreen" value="false"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.podcastpickle.com/media/podPlayer/pcppSmall.swf?URI=http://www.pradipsomasundaran.com/mp3/ethra1.mp3&amp;instantLoad=0" quality="high" bgcolor="#000000" width="170" height="30" name="pcpp" align="middle" allowscriptaccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pradipsomasundaran.com/mp3/ethra.mp3"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#9999ff;"&gt;Download This Song&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;</description><link>http://www.pradipsomasundaran.com/2008/08/blog-post.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Pradip Somasundaran)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26993576.post-5451199348527025954</guid><pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:15:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-08-18T19:57:15.315+05:30</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>BCK 2008</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Blogger Meet</category><title>Blog Camp Kerala 2008-An amazing, unforgettable experience!</title><description>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pradipsomasundaran.com/uploaded_images/canadian-726397.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://www.pradipsomasundaran.com/uploaded_images/canadian-726390.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The first ever Blogger (Un) Conference on a Houseboat was held at Alappuzha on Saturday, the 16th of August 2008. The program was delayed by half an hour and started off by 10.30 as the houseboat arrived late after a previous night trip. I was very enthusiastic to see that almost all the confirmed participant's were there to board the boat. Except for a few of us in the early forty's and the early sixties almost all of them were very young from the I.T field and bubbling with energy. Their enthusiasm was the much needed catalyst to fire us all up. The meet was an informal one and the houseboat was sponsored by the Kerala Tourism department. Some of the other sponsor's were Oktatabyebye, IT's Life, Indiblogger, Mindmeister and Amvizone.&lt;br /&gt;The program kicked off with self introductions and immediately the talks/discussions on some very interesting topics followed. The first one to talk was the French-Canadian &lt;a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://gmarceau.nfshost.com/blog/" target="_blank"&gt;Guillaume Marceau&lt;/a&gt; on the consequences of relentlessly hammering on the keyboard. His own wrist was permanently damaged by RSI and he had to leave a lucrative programming job for a teaching post at IITKM. He had his wrist and hand tied up in some sort of protective gear. He spoke on the advantages of using a speech recognition software like the "Dragon Naturally Speaking" in such circumstances.The next to follow was a very interesting and informative talk on Search Engine Optimisation techniques by &lt;a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.manikarthik.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Mani Karthik&lt;/a&gt;. Karthik spoke vastly on the methods of optimising a blog to earn a living out of it! The next talk was a very passionate one by Sridhar who has started &lt;a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://kew2008.wordpress.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Karnataka Election Watch&lt;/a&gt;, a blog which deals with citizen empowerment and assistance in knowing the politicians that we elect and send to the highest offices of power. It was a very relevant topic and I enjoyed every bit of it. By 1.45 P.M we had a long break and were treated to a sumptuous heavy lunch with karimeen fry, kappa, meen curry, chicken fry rice, sambar, thoran, pickle followed by semiya payasam. After lunch I talked about Audio Blogging, basic requirements; both hardware and software for recording a song and also did a demonstration on recording techniques.&lt;br /&gt;Chandrasekharan Nair or the &lt;a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://keralafarmer.wordpress.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Kerala Farmer&lt;/a&gt; was the next one to follow with a talk on Rubber Board Statistics and how he had discovered errors and malpractices in many of their records and efforts he had taken to bring them to light. It was amazing to see the energy and enthusiasm displayed by this 60 year old who disclosed that he was only an S.S.L.C. But in spite of not being educated in the way the world sees, he endeared himself to the audience with his command on what he talked about. The program ended up with a talk on Campus Blogging by Kenny, one of the main organisers of the camp. Kudos to the young team of &lt;a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.kenneyjacob.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Kenney&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://theanand.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Anand&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://aravindjose.com/blog/" target="_blank"&gt;Aravind&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://jusjal.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Jaleel&lt;/a&gt; who did a fabulous job of organising the event. I should say that guys, you really rocked! Hope we have more such Blog Camps in the future. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#9999ff;"&gt;Some more links to the event:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;http://www.hindu.com/2008/08/17/stories/2008081753540300.htm&lt;br /&gt;http://teck.in/blogcamp-kerala-reviewing-the-unconference.html&lt;br /&gt;http://blog.technoparktoday.com/2008/08/blogcampkerala-was-a-huge-success/&lt;br /&gt;http://www.manikarthik.com/kerala-blogcamp-id-love-to-be-there-next-time/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.pradipsomasundaran.com/2008/08/blog-camp-kerala-2008-amazing.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Pradip Somasundaran)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26993576.post-2851339506845162204</guid><pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2008 05:01:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-08-09T19:02:16.303+05:30</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Shailendra</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Rafi</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Shanker Jaikishen</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Hindi</category><title>Radhike Tune Bansuri Churayi-From the Golden Years!!</title><description>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pradipsomasundaran.com/uploaded_images/beti-718246.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://www.pradipsomasundaran.com/uploaded_images/beti-718242.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;A small but beautiful song of the yesterday years. Shanker-Jaikishen though more known for their Western classical music/Latin folk music treatment in their songs have created pure Hindustani Raga based songs too. Two of their hits in this genre are based on the same Raga too! Jhanak Jhanak (Mannadey) and Radhike Tune are these two.&lt;br /&gt;Rafi Saaab has made this classical song an evergreen one in his golden voice. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;I would like to thank &lt;a href="http://v4m.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc66;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Roshni&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; my Blogger friend for suggesting this song and sending me the track.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;Song: Radhike Tune&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;Film: Beti Bete&lt;br /&gt;Original Singer: Mohammad Rafi&lt;br /&gt;Music: Shanker Jaikishen&lt;br /&gt;Lyrics: Shailendra&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span 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isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26993576.post-589253165072311275</guid><pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 16:53:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-06T22:48:17.586+05:30</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Malayalam</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Johnson</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Yesudas</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>O.N.V</category><title>Melle Melle Mukhapadam....When melody reigned supreme...</title><description>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pradipsomasundaran.com/uploaded_images/johnson1-796039.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://www.pradipsomasundaran.com/uploaded_images/johnson1-796036.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; This is another beautiful song from those times in the 90's when melody and lyrical value was supreme in films. The film "&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;Oru&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;Minnam&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;Minunginte&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;Nuruguvettam&lt;/span&gt;" was also a classic from &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;Bharathan&lt;/span&gt; which was made immortal by the acting of &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;Nedumudi&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;Venu&lt;/span&gt;. Every song was excellent in the film. 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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pradipsomasundaran.com/mp3/melle.mp3"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc6600;"&gt;Download This Song&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.pradipsomasundaran.com/2008/07/melle-melle-mukhapadamwhen-melody.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Pradip Somasundaran)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26993576.post-7294564028362643188</guid><pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 17:02:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-05-29T23:16:57.090+05:30</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>A.R Rahman</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Javed Akhtar</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Hindi</category><title>Jashn Bahara-Another Jewel in A.R Rahman's Crown!</title><description>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc66;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pradipsomasundaran.com/uploaded_images/arr-719244.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://www.pradipsomasundaran.com/uploaded_images/arr-719118.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;A.R Rahman always rises like a phoenix time and time again when people start murmuring and say that he has exhausted his stuff. For A.R.R this mere doubt seems to be the fuel to exceed his own standards every now and then when such comments are uttered. I recently heard his songs from "Ada" and to be frank that sounded average and uninspired, going by his standards. The songs seemed to be more like the typical Hindi songs of the yesterday years. But I am always amazed by the amount of variations and colour he gives to his songs in 99% of his songs. The 1% of carelessness could be easily forgotten! He is amazingly gifted, no doubt. But he does lot of research and hard work on listening to world music which makes him up to date with the ever changing demands of time. He also gives ample respect to the genuine music lover. When he teams up with Javed Akhtar and the likes of Ashutosh Gowarikar or Subhash Ghai, he raises his standards by leaps and bounds and brings novelty to what ever he creates with them. The songs from Jodha Akbar are no different. I have attempted an amazing melody from this movie sung beautifully by Javed Ali. Curiously, Javed Ali sounds like Sonu Nigaam in the beginning of this song and then sounds like Naresh Iyer at some parts! The song also shows how A.R.R innovates and uses his library of sound samples and acoustic instruments to perfection. This song is characterised by the absence of any string tones compared to many of his other songs. The flute is also used sparingly! The ethnic instrument tones are in tune with the historic era that this film depicts. This song is ample proof for the fact that there is no substitute for melodious music, beautiful lyrics, acoustic tones and the beauty of the human voice! 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Song&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.pradipsomasundaran.com/2008/05/jashn-bahara-another-jewel-in-ar.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Pradip Somasundaran)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26993576.post-8136258332567670054</guid><pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 00:53:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-05-27T17:48:29.150+05:30</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Sunidhi Chauhan</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Meri Awaz Suno</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Annu Kapoor</category><title>Sunidhi Chauhan performing in Meri Awaz Suno Mega Finals 1996-First Round</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/iMTIyKr4ctA" width="425" height="350" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Annu Kapoor introducing the judges and the first round performances by Sunidhi and myself&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;After a long gap, I am back with some nostalgic and rare video footages; the introduction of judges and the first round of "Meri Awaz Suno" 1996 which was the turning point in my life and those winning moments! I had been for long planning to get the videos out from the fungus infected VHS tapes and finally managed to clean and transfer the tapes to digital format. This has been a long standing demand from my ardent fans. Many of those from the younger generation would not have seen the so called "first reality show" on singing talent hunt. When I searched "YouTube", I was not able to find any footage of Meri Awaz Suno, and so decided to do it myself. For those who have seen it in 1996, it would be wonderful and nostalgic again, to watch the 12 year old Sunidhi singing "Tu Chanda Mai Chandni" in front of one of the greatest living legends in music, of our times....Lata Mangeshkar! The video also reminds us the story of unkept tall promises....promises that even today are made to the amazingly talented winners of our reality shows which are made just not to be kept! It's been 12 long years after "Meri Awaz Suno"....The journey has been long from then to now.....&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/4H44cCeIcCY" width="425" height="350" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;The winning moments!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.pradipsomasundaran.com/2008/05/sunidhi-chauhan-performing-in-meri-awaz.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Pradip Somasundaran)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26993576.post-5474322890600853440</guid><pubDate>Sat, 19 Apr 2008 12:03:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-13T14:14:42.845+05:30</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Puri Jagannath</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Rajnikanth</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>sandeep chowta</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>telugu</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>bujjigadu</category><title>Superstar Rajnikanth launches the audio of "Bujjigadu-Made in Chennai" which has my first Telugu Film Song!</title><description>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff6666;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pradipsomasundaran.com/bujji.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" height="278" alt="" src="http://www.pradipsomasundaran.com/bujji.jpg" width="448" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;K.S Ramarao, Sandeep Chowta, Prabhas, Puri Jagannath and Rajnikanth&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;And finally it is out! Yes folks....My first Telugu film song is out in the market now. When &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;Sandeep Chowta&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; told me "Pradeep....it will not get bigger than this" when I was recording the song, I did not even imagine that it would be so big!&lt;br /&gt;Superstar &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;Rajinikanth&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; officially launched the first audio of the film &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#9999ff;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;'Bujjigadu - Made In Chennai'&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;at a function that was organized at the Andhra club in Chennai, yesterday evening at 6 p.m.&lt;br /&gt;Speaking at the audio release function of the Telugu movie &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#9999ff;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;'Bujjigadu – Made In Chennai'&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;Rajnikanth&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, said, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;"Puri Jaganath"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; introduced Kannada matinee idol &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;Rajukumar's&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; son on to the silver screen. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;Chiranjeevi's&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; son is shaping his career in filmdom under the able guidance of &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;Puri Jaganath&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. Had I had a son, I would have ensured that he is introduced to cinema by Jaganath."&lt;br /&gt;On taking part in the function, the superstar also commented, "normally I am choosy on attending public functions. However when I was approached for this event, I told to them to have a gala function at Andhra Club."&lt;br /&gt;Directed by Puri Jagannadh and produced by &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;K.S Rama Rao&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, 'Bujjigadu - Made In Chennai' features &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;Prabhas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;Trisha&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; in lead roles. The lead pair was also present for the audio launch, among other film personalities. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;Priyamani &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;and&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Sanjana&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; too added gloss to the already glittering evening.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;Rajinikanth&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; also expressed his confidence that this movie starring &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;Prabhas, Trisha and Mohan Babu&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; would go on to become a big hit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;Sandeep Chowta&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; has scored music for the movie and all the songs have reportedly come good. The music of this film is being released by &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;Aditya Music Company&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;The film would hit the big screen on 16th May. The audio CD is available at all music outlets across Andhra and leading Music outlets like Planet-M and Times Music outlets across the country.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff6666;"&gt;Hear my song here:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cccccc;"&gt;Broad Band Player:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;object id="pcpp" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=" height="30" width="170" align="middle" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000"&gt;&lt;param name="_cx" value="4498"&gt;&lt;param name="_cy" value="794"&gt;&lt;param name="FlashVars" value=""&gt;&lt;param name="Movie" 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style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;color:#ff9900;"&gt;VIDEO OF THE SONG:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/I_7uFYb66Vs&amp;amp;hl=" width="425" height="344" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" fs="1" allowfullscreen="true"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;You can find the news and more photos here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/telugu/gallery/Events/15059.html"&gt;http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/telugu/gallery/Events/15059.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;The video of the release function could be viewed here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://images.indiaglitz.com/playerV2/launchredirect.asp?vid=32349&amp;amp;category=5026"&gt;http://images.indiaglitz.com/playerV2/launchredirect.asp?vid=32349&amp;amp;category=5026&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;And you can hear all the songs from the movie and even buy online from here:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.raaga.com/channels/telugu/movie/A0001293.html"&gt;http://www.raaga.com/channels/telugu/movie/A0001293.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.pradipsomasundaran.com/2008/04/superstar-rajnikanth-launches-audio-of.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Pradip Somasundaran)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26993576.post-1725167771260038777</guid><pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 01:55:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-04-17T08:15:48.377+05:30</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Illaiyaraja</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Tamil</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Vaali</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>K.J Yesudas</category><title>Poove Semboove-An alltime classic by Illaiyaraja</title><description>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pradipsomasundaran.com/uploaded_images/ilaiyaraaja_vaali-721499.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://www.pradipsomasundaran.com/uploaded_images/ilaiyaraaja_vaali-721496.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;After a long layoff from the blogging world due to the shocking death of my dearest friend Philip and then a bad viral fever which gave me a long lasting cough and sinusitis, I am back again.&lt;br /&gt;This song has been one of my favorites all along since I heard it in the 80's. Even though the picturisation of this song was atrocious in the film, the song has lived through the ages due to the sheer compositional brilliance of Illayaraja, touching lyrics by Vaali and the mesmerising voice of K.J Yesudas!&lt;br /&gt;I would like to thank my &lt;a href="http://www.muziboo.com/"&gt;Muziboo&lt;/a&gt; friend &lt;a href="http://muziboo.com/member/ksriniva"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffccff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Kumar Srinivasan&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; for sharing the Karaoke track with me. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;Song: Poove Semboove&lt;br /&gt;Film:Solla Thudikuthu Manasu (1988)&lt;br /&gt;Singer: K.J Yesudas&lt;br /&gt;Music Director: Illaiyaraja&lt;br /&gt;Lyrics: Vaali &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cccccc;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cccccc;"&gt;Broad Band Player:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;object id="pcpp" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=" height="30" width="170" align="middle" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000"&gt;&lt;param name="_cx" value="4498"&gt;&lt;param name="_cy" value="794"&gt;&lt;param name="FlashVars" value=""&gt;&lt;param name="Movie" value="http://www.podcastpickle.com/media/podPlayer/pcppSmall.swf?URI=http://www.pradipsomasundaran.com/mp3/poove.mp3&amp;amp;instantLoad=0"&gt;&lt;param name="Src" value="http://www.podcastpickle.com/media/podPlayer/pcppSmall.swf?URI=http://www.pradipsomasundaran.com/mp3/poove.mp3&amp;amp;instantLoad=0"&gt;&lt;param name="WMode" value="Window"&gt;&lt;param name="Play" value="-1"&gt;&lt;param name="Loop" value="-1"&gt;&lt;param name="Quality" value="High"&gt;&lt;param name="SAlign" value=""&gt;&lt;param name="Menu" value="-1"&gt;&lt;param name="Base" value=""&gt;&lt;param name="AllowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain"&gt;&lt;param name="Scale" value="ShowAll"&gt;&lt;param name="DeviceFont" value="0"&gt;&lt;param name="EmbedMovie" value="0"&gt;&lt;param name="BGColor" value="000000"&gt;&lt;param name="SWRemote" value=""&gt;&lt;param name="MovieData" value=""&gt;&lt;param name="SeamlessTabbing" value="1"&gt;&lt;param name="Profile" value="0"&gt;&lt;param name="ProfileAddress" value=""&gt;&lt;param name="ProfilePort" value="0"&gt;&lt;param name="AllowNetworking" value="all"&gt;&lt;param name="AllowFullScreen" value="false"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.podcastpickle.com/media/podPlayer/pcppSmall.swf?URI=http://www.pradipsomasundaran.com/mp3/poove.mp3&amp;instantLoad=0" quality="high" bgcolor="#000000" width="170" height="30" name="pcpp" align="middle" allowscriptaccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; 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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pradipsomasundaran.com/mp3/poove.mp3"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ccccff;"&gt;Download This Song&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.pradipsomasundaran.com/2008/04/poove-semboove-alltime-classic-by.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Pradip Somasundaran)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26993576.post-3181135439709975774</guid><pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 08:30:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-03-04T22:12:52.330+05:30</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Philip V Francis</category><title>Philip V Francis.....The God's took him away to lead their Choir......</title><description>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pradipsomasundaran.com/uploaded_images/philip-793324.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://www.pradipsomasundaran.com/uploaded_images/philip-793315.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; As I write this post tears don't seem to stop rolling from my eyes....Till last Tuesday he was there....and today he is no more in this world. I am totally devastated .....I can't even think of my musical world without my Philip....He was the only person with whom I talked my heart out about music....And now a terrible bike accident has taken him away from this world....The God's must be crazy....or jealous...He met with this terrible mishap right at the front gate of the Church where he used to lead the Choir.....He sang so much for God.....and God took him away so soon....Maybe to lead his Choir....maybe to let Philip's dream come true....he would meet his favourite musicians there....Baburaj, Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, Madan Mohan....He was a soul who could not even think of harming anybody...And why would he have to bear such such a fate? His sole wealth was music....He lived and breathed music.....Till day before yesterday there was hope....Today early morning he was clinically pronounced dead....after he fought with the inevitable for a week....we all prayed for him....did he really want to die? Was he fed up of this world where genuine music was becoming a rare commodity? &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;It may seem a coincidence...but Music Director "Raveendran Master" left us on a March 3. 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Song&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.pradipsomasundaran.com/2008/03/philip-v-francisthe-gods-took-him-away.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Pradip Somasundaran)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26993576.post-8152322781839353474</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2008 08:13:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-02-25T18:56:16.770+05:30</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Raveendran</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>G. Venugopal</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Malayalam</category><title>Chandana Manivaathil-Nostalgic Raveendran!</title><description>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pradipsomasundaran.com/uploaded_images/raveendran-765750.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://www.pradipsomasundaran.com/uploaded_images/raveendran-765748.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Before &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc99;"&gt;Reveendran Master&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; had departed from this world, he had given at least one gem to every singer which he or she could treasure for ever in life! &lt;span style="color:#ffcc99;"&gt;Chandana Manivaathil&lt;/span&gt; was such a gem of a song that &lt;span style="color:#ffcc99;"&gt;G. Venugopal&lt;/span&gt; had the opportunity to sing. Though the film did not see the light of the day, it was one of the best songs that Venu ever sang. Based on the raga "Hindolam" it creates a magical aura of romance and mystery for the listener. Sometimes it makes me wonder if this song was created just for Venu. It has become immortal in his voice!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc99;"&gt;Raveendran Master&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; left this world on 3rd March 2005. But he lives within our hearts always!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;Song: Chandana Manivaathil&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;Film: Marikkunnilla Njan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;(1988)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;Music: Raveendran&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;Original Singer: G. 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Somasundaran)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26993576.post-1527043076964172899</guid><pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:25:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-02-14T06:18:32.582+05:30</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>O.S.O. K.K</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Ajab Si</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Vishal Shekhar</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Hindi</category><title>Ajab Si-Om Shanti Om.....K.K Shines Again.....</title><description>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pradipsomasundaran.com/uploaded_images/omshantio24-796374.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://www.pradipsomasundaran.com/uploaded_images/omshantio24-796371.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;"This is one of the best romantic songs I have ever heard in the recent times" is what Sharukh Khan himself said about the song "Ajab Si" from O.S.O! Its very true indeed. Simple, elegant, with minimum orchestration, but enchanting, melodious and immensely romantic is this song rendered by K.K. He has sung his heart out in this wonderful song set to tune by the immensely talented duo of "Vishal-Shekhar". This song though not played fully in the movie is used at all places when King Khan meets the petite Deepika Padukone! It takes you to a world of romance and dreams!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Love Makes Life Live! 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value="http://www.podcastpickle.com/media/podPlayer/pcppSmall.swf?URI=http://www.pradipsomasundaran.com/mp3/ajabsi1.mp3&amp;amp;instantLoad=0"&gt;&lt;param name="Src" value="http://www.podcastpickle.com/media/podPlayer/pcppSmall.swf?URI=http://www.pradipsomasundaran.com/mp3/ajabsi1.mp3&amp;amp;instantLoad=0"&gt;&lt;param name="WMode" value="Window"&gt;&lt;param name="Play" value="-1"&gt;&lt;param name="Loop" value="-1"&gt;&lt;param name="Quality" value="High"&gt;&lt;param name="SAlign" value=""&gt;&lt;param name="Menu" value="-1"&gt;&lt;param name="Base" value=""&gt;&lt;param name="AllowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain"&gt;&lt;param name="Scale" value="ShowAll"&gt;&lt;param name="DeviceFont" value="0"&gt;&lt;param name="EmbedMovie" value="0"&gt;&lt;param name="BGColor" value="000000"&gt;&lt;param name="SWRemote" value=""&gt;&lt;param name="MovieData" value=""&gt;&lt;param name="SeamlessTabbing" value="1"&gt;&lt;param name="Profile" value="0"&gt;&lt;param name="ProfileAddress" value=""&gt;&lt;param name="ProfilePort" value="0"&gt;&lt;param name="AllowNetworking" value="all"&gt;&lt;param name="AllowFullScreen" value="false"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.podcastpickle.com/media/podPlayer/pcppSmall.swf?URI=http://www.pradipsomasundaran.com/mp3/ajabsi1.mp3&amp;instantLoad=0" quality="high" bgcolor="#000000" width="170" height="30" name="pcpp" align="middle" allowscriptaccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pradipsomasundaran.com/mp3/ajabsi.mp3"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#9999ff;"&gt;Download This Song&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;(Am very sorry to say that I had to remove the Video due to copyright issues)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.pradipsomasundaran.com/2008/02/ajab-si-om-shanti-omkk-shines-again.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Pradip Somasundaran)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26993576.post-726874791957040473</guid><pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:42:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-02-04T18:29:09.721+05:30</atom:updated><title>കാക്കക്കുയിലേ....ചൊല്ലൂ...കൈ നോ‍ക്കാനറിയാമോ...</title><description>&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pradipsomasundaran.com/uploaded_images/dm-717315.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://www.pradipsomasundaran.com/uploaded_images/dm-717312.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; ജീവിച്ചിരിക്കുന്ന ഇതിഹാസമാണു ദക്ഷിണാമൂര്‍ത്തി സ്വാമികള്‍....അദ്ദേഹം മലയാള സിനിമയില്‍ ചെയ്ത എല്ലാ ഗാനങ്ങളും ശാസ്ത്രീയ സംഗീതത്തില്‍ അലിഞ്ഞു ചേര്‍ന്ന മുത്തുകളായിരുന്നു....&lt;br /&gt;അ‍‍ങ്ങിനെ ഒരു മുത്താണു ഞാന്‍ ഇവിടെ ഇന്നു അവതരിപ്പിക്കുന്നതു....&lt;br /&gt;എന്റെ കൂടെ പാടുന്നതു &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://sharanyaj.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;"&gt;ശരണ്യാ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;... പരിയാരം മെഡിക്കല്‍ കോളജില്‍ രണ്‍‍ടാം വര്‍ഷ M.B.B.S നു പഠിക്കുന്നു......&lt;br /&gt;വിടരുന്ന...കുഞ്ഞു പൂവിന്റെ നറുമണം...മാധുര്യം...ഈ ശബ്ദത്തില്‍ അനുഭവിക്കാം....&lt;br /&gt;ഇന്നു പിറന്നാള്‍ ആഘോഷിക്കുന്ന &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://sharanyaj.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;"&gt;ശരണ്യക്കു&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;....ഈ ഗാനത്തിലൂടെ...എല്ലാ മംഗളങ്ങളും നേരുന്നു.....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ഗാനം: കാക്കക്കുയിലേ ചൊല്ലു &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ചിത്രം: ഭര്‍ത്താവു&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;color:#ff9966;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;സംഗീതം: വി. ദക്ഷിണാമൂര്‍ത്തി&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;color:#ff9966;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;വരികള്‍: പി. ഭാസ്കരന്‍&lt;br /&gt;ആലാപനം: യേശുദാസ്, യെല്‍. ആ‍ര്‍. ഈശ്വരി&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cccccc;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cccccc;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cccccc;"&gt;Broad Band Player: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;object id="pcpp" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=" height="30" width="170" align="middle" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000"&gt;&lt;param name="_cx" value="4498"&gt;&lt;param name="_cy" 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value="1"&gt;&lt;param name="Profile" value="0"&gt;&lt;param name="ProfileAddress" value=""&gt;&lt;param name="ProfilePort" value="0"&gt;&lt;param name="AllowNetworking" value="all"&gt;&lt;param name="AllowFullScreen" value="false"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.podcastpickle.com/media/podPlayer/pcppSmall.swf?URI=http://www.pradipsomasundaran.com/mp3/kakka.mp3&amp;instantLoad=0" quality="high" bgcolor="#000000" width="170" height="30" name="pcpp" align="middle" allowscriptaccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cccccc;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cccccc;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cccccc;"&gt;Dialup Player: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;object id="pcpp" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=" height="30" width="170" align="middle" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000"&gt;&lt;param name="_cx" value="4498"&gt;&lt;param name="_cy" value="794"&gt;&lt;param name="FlashVars" value=""&gt;&lt;param name="Movie" value="http://www.podcastpickle.com/media/podPlayer/pcppSmall.swf?URI=http://www.pradipsomasundaran.com/mp3/kakka1.mp3&amp;amp;instantLoad=0"&gt;&lt;param name="Src" value="http://www.podcastpickle.com/media/podPlayer/pcppSmall.swf?URI=http://www.pradipsomasundaran.com/mp3/kakka1.mp3&amp;amp;instantLoad=0"&gt;&lt;param name="WMode" value="Window"&gt;&lt;param name="Play" value="-1"&gt;&lt;param name="Loop" value="-1"&gt;&lt;param name="Quality" value="High"&gt;&lt;param name="SAlign" value=""&gt;&lt;param name="Menu" value="-1"&gt;&lt;param name="Base" value=""&gt;&lt;param name="AllowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain"&gt;&lt;param name="Scale" value="ShowAll"&gt;&lt;param name="DeviceFont" value="0"&gt;&lt;param name="EmbedMovie" value="0"&gt;&lt;param name="BGColor" value="000000"&gt;&lt;param name="SWRemote" value=""&gt;&lt;param name="MovieData" value=""&gt;&lt;param name="SeamlessTabbing" value="1"&gt;&lt;param name="Profile" value="0"&gt;&lt;param name="ProfileAddress" value=""&gt;&lt;param name="ProfilePort" value="0"&gt;&lt;param name="AllowNetworking" value="all"&gt;&lt;param name="AllowFullScreen" value="false"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.podcastpickle.com/media/podPlayer/pcppSmall.swf?URI=http://www.pradipsomasundaran.com/mp3/kakka1.mp3&amp;instantLoad=0" quality="high" bgcolor="#000000" width="170" height="30" name="pcpp" align="middle" allowscriptaccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pradipsomasundaran.com/mp3/kakka.mp3"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#9999ff;"&gt;Download This Song&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;</description><link>http://www.pradipsomasundaran.com/2008/02/blog-post.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Pradip Somasundaran)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26993576.post-3084648076042183389</guid><pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 01:32:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-01-24T07:34:14.236+05:30</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>John Denver</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Annie's Song</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>English</category><title>Annie's Song... Another John Denver Classic</title><description>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pradipsomasundaran.com/uploaded_images/denver3-714815.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://www.pradipsomasundaran.com/uploaded_images/denver3-714811.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; After a long layoff due to a nagging cough, am back again with this evergreen song which always stirs my soul, every time I hear it. John Denver had a striking golden voice suited for country songs and every word that he sang was so clear. This song is supposed to be his dedication to his wife Annie.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cccccc;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Song: Annie's Song&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Original Singer: John Denver&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Lyrics: John Denver&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cccccc;"&gt;Broad Band Player: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;object id="pcpp" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=" height="30" width="170" align="middle" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000"&gt;&lt;param name="_cx" value="4498"&gt;&lt;param name="_cy" value="794"&gt;&lt;param name="FlashVars" value=""&gt;&lt;param name="Movie" value="http://www.podcastpickle.com/media/podPlayer/pcppSmall.swf?URI=http://www.pradipsomasundaran.com/mp3/annie.mp3&amp;amp;instantLoad=0"&gt;&lt;param name="Src" value="http://www.podcastpickle.com/media/podPlayer/pcppSmall.swf?URI=http://www.pradipsomasundaran.com/mp3/annie.mp3&amp;amp;instantLoad=0"&gt;&lt;param name="WMode" value="Window"&gt;&lt;param name="Play" value="-1"&gt;&lt;param name="Loop" value="-1"&gt;&lt;param name="Quality" value="High"&gt;&lt;param name="SAlign" value=""&gt;&lt;param name="Menu" value="-1"&gt;&lt;param name="Base" value=""&gt;&lt;param name="AllowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain"&gt;&lt;param name="Scale" value="ShowAll"&gt;&lt;param 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style="color:#cccccc;"&gt;Dial-up Player: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object id="pcpp" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=" height="30" width="170" align="middle" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000"&gt;&lt;param name="_cx" value="4498"&gt;&lt;param name="_cy" value="794"&gt;&lt;param name="FlashVars" value=""&gt;&lt;param name="Movie" value="http://www.podcastpickle.com/media/podPlayer/pcppSmall.swf?URI=http://www.pradipsomasundaran.com/mp3/annie1.mp3&amp;amp;instantLoad=0"&gt;&lt;param name="Src" value="http://www.podcastpickle.com/media/podPlayer/pcppSmall.swf?URI=http://www.pradipsomasundaran.com/mp3/annie1.mp3&amp;amp;instantLoad=0"&gt;&lt;param name="WMode" value="Window"&gt;&lt;param name="Play" value="-1"&gt;&lt;param name="Loop" value="-1"&gt;&lt;param name="Quality" value="High"&gt;&lt;param name="SAlign" value=""&gt;&lt;param name="Menu" value="-1"&gt;&lt;param name="Base" value=""&gt;&lt;param name="AllowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain"&gt;&lt;param name="Scale" value="ShowAll"&gt;&lt;param name="DeviceFont" value="0"&gt;&lt;param name="EmbedMovie" value="0"&gt;&lt;param name="BGColor" value="000000"&gt;&lt;param name="SWRemote" value=""&gt;&lt;param name="MovieData" value=""&gt;&lt;param name="SeamlessTabbing" value="1"&gt;&lt;param name="Profile" value="0"&gt;&lt;param name="ProfileAddress" value=""&gt;&lt;param name="ProfilePort" value="0"&gt;&lt;param name="AllowNetworking" value="all"&gt;&lt;param name="AllowFullScreen" value="false"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.podcastpickle.com/media/podPlayer/pcppSmall.swf?URI=http://www.pradipsomasundaran.com/mp3/annie1.mp3&amp;instantLoad=0" quality="high" bgcolor="#000000" width="170" height="30" name="pcpp" align="middle" allowscriptaccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pradipsomasundaran.com/mp3/annie.mp3"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ccccff;"&gt;Download This Song&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;</description><link>http://www.pradipsomasundaran.com/2008/01/annies-song-another-john-denver-classic.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Pradip Somasundaran)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26993576.post-2105382307063444333</guid><pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2007 19:02:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-12-27T15:05:58.771+05:30</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Indeevar</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Kishore Kumar</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Hindi</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Shyamal Mitra</category><title>Dil Aisa Kissine Mera Toda...Another Kishore Kumar Gem!</title><description>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pradipsomasundaran.com/uploaded_images/amanush-753112.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://www.pradipsomasundaran.com/uploaded_images/amanush-753109.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Well I would never forget this song in my whole life as it was the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;beginning&lt;/span&gt; to every amazing thing that happened afterwords in my musical career! This was the first song that I sang for "&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;Meri&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;Awaz&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;Suno&lt;/span&gt;". I still remember that day when the hall was filled with aspirants all over from India. As I was the only one who was from the south, I was all at sea listening to the tall stories of my fellow participants about singing track for big singers like &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;Udit&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;Narayan&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;Abhijeet&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"&gt;Kumar&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"&gt;Sanu&lt;/span&gt;...etc. All of them were already doing rounds of recording in the studios of &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"&gt;Bollywood&lt;/span&gt; and here was me, a &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"&gt;southie&lt;/span&gt;...who had come to beat them all and that too singing &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11"&gt;hindi&lt;/span&gt;! Well I was at times wondering why I had traveled the whole way on a plane to &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12"&gt;Mumbai&lt;/span&gt; in the first place. And then suddenly my name was called out of nowhere! As I went on to the makeshift stage, I found myself confronted by two great personalities in front of me! One was "&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13"&gt;Sanjeev&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14"&gt;Kohli&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;", son of the legendary music director "&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15"&gt;Madan&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16"&gt;Mohan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;". The other was "&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;Pamela Chopra&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;" &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17"&gt;Yash&lt;/span&gt; Chopra's&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; wife! They were the judges of the audition rounds! I somehow finished my song "&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18"&gt;Dil&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19"&gt;Aisa&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20"&gt;Kissine&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21"&gt;Mera&lt;/span&gt;" and after I had done with it, I was almost sure that I was going to be out in the audition round itself! The enormity of the occasion had taken its toll on my confidence and I could not even do 50% justice to what I sang. And as I had presumed, I was not selected, and had to go back to my relative's home where I was staying. Once it was over, I was free from all tension and as I was preparing my mind for the long journey by train the next day back to &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_22"&gt;Kerala&lt;/span&gt;, the phone bell rang! "I am calling from &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ccccff;"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_23"&gt;YASHRAJ&lt;/span&gt; FILMS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. Can I have Mr. &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_24"&gt;Pradeep&lt;/span&gt; Somasundaram on the phone?" A sweet female voice spoke. My relative gave the phone to me. "Sir, we would like to hear your voice once more as we are yet to finalise the last person in the final 14 for the next round. Could you come over?". She said. I could not believe what I heard! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Now, I had no fear at all and thought...what do I have to lose?...let me just go there and do my best this time... "See Mr. &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_25"&gt;Somasundaram&lt;/span&gt;...Mrs. Chopra wanted me to hear your voice again as she felt that there was something in you..that we missed...so we called you" "Mr. &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_26"&gt;Kohli&lt;/span&gt; said. This time I sang "&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_27"&gt;Dil&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_28"&gt;Aisa&lt;/span&gt;" with my heart out! And they said "Mr. Somasundaram...is this really you? Our doubt has been justified! We thought you did not sing well last time due to tension...and see how well you did it this time! We would have lost a good contestant!". And finally I was in the final 14 as the last man at the last minute! The rest of the story and the climax is history, on how a "&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_30"&gt;Manush&lt;/span&gt;" became "&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_31"&gt;Amanush&lt;/span&gt;" in just 10 days of time! 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id="SPELLING_ERROR_36"&gt;Amanush&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;Singer: &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_37"&gt;Kishore&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_38"&gt;Kumar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;Music : &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_39"&gt;Shyamal&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_40"&gt;Mitra&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;Lyrics: &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_41"&gt;Indeevar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div 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+0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-12-26T20:03:50.312+05:30</atom:updated><title>കണ്ണാടിച്ചില്ലുകള്‍....ശ്രീജാ ബലരാജിന്റെ കവിതാ സമാഹാരം പ്രകാശനം!</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.pradipsomasundaran.com/uploaded_images/sree2-793201.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://www.pradipsomasundaran.com/uploaded_images/sree2-793192.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pradipsomasundaran.com/uploaded_images/sree3-738734.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://www.pradipsomasundaran.com/uploaded_images/sree3-738730.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pradipsomasundaran.com/uploaded_images/sree1-713932.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://www.pradipsomasundaran.com/uploaded_images/sree1-713927.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;I started off pretty early yesterday…did not want to be late for the function. As we made it to the town my driver asked me “sir should we take the Chalakkudy route (normal way to Ernakulam) or the Kodungallur route? Kodungallur route super aanu sir. Theere gutter illa. Lorry thirakkum illa. Malaysian contracter cheythathu kaaranam road naalanchu kollamaayittum oru kuzhappavum illa” I thought for a while…I had never ever used the Kodungallur route and did not want to take a risk. “We will take the normal route”. Well it seemed that I had almost sealed my fate as I reached the venue late by 45 minutes due to the heavy traffic and bad road! But luckily the function started by 5.30 and not 5.00 P.M as scheduled. It was really a big day for me too. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.saaramgi.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#9999ff;"&gt;Sreeja Baalaraj&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, our fellow Blogger, who is so well known in our Blogging world, was going to publish her first book “Kannadi Chillukal”! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;When I finally made it to the C. Achuthan Menon Smaraka hall, the meeting had just started. I gave my camera to my friend “Bibin Das” who later told me that he was taking pictures for the first time in his entire life! Well I leave it for you to judge whether he was right by seeing the photos which I have put here! Mrs. Leela Chandran was already welcoming the guests on the dais! I saw Sreeja for the first time on the stage and she smiled at me. I occupied my seat on the stage. The meeting was presided by Mr. K.Karunakaran (Asst. Excise Commissioner). Prof. M.K Sanu officially did the “Pustaka Prakashanam” by presenting the first copy to Mr. Balachandran Chullikkad, who was a rage in our college days. I was so thrilled to be sitting behind him on stage. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;After Mr. Balachandran introduced the book in his natural baritone voice, Mr. Jayakumar Chengamanad the young poet, Mr. Munnangavayal, Mr. A.K Joseph and Mr. Babu Mathew spoke. Then Mr. Kallara Gopan the famous playback singer rendered one of Sreeja’s poems beautifully! When my turn came, I spoke a few words on how I came to know Sreeja on the web, started working on songs thereafter and then sang a few lines of “Oru Venal” that we did together, and then kept the song on the CD for the audience to hear with the background music! 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We reached home in almost half the time that we took for our onward journey to Ernakulam! “Ini Kodungallur vazhi vannal mathi eppozhum”, I murmered to my driver. After I reached home by 11.00 P.M I gave the book to my wife who immediately started reading the poems one by one…” valare nannayittundu”…she said…”ithonnu kelkku..” she started reading a poem from the book…I had already dozed off….by then…&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.pradipsomasundaran.com/2007/12/blog-post.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Pradip Somasundaran)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26993576.post-5759205127696981839</guid><pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 15:42:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-12-19T21:33:27.684+05:30</atom:updated><title>Introducing Manju &amp; Murali Menon!</title><description>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pradipsomasundaran.com/uploaded_images/manju-714508.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://www.pradipsomasundaran.com/uploaded_images/manju-714505.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I am immensely pleased to introduce the talented duo of Manju &amp;amp; Murali Menon to the Audio Blog world! I have been singing with Manju since the days I started performing in Orchestras! She got into playback singing and sang some melodious numbers like 'Tharanopuram' with 'Yesudas' and recently with 'Hariharan' in the song 'Hruthayaragamazha'. She also sang in 'Aaram Thamburan' and 'Deshadanam' and is the recepient of the 'Kerala State Award' for best playback singer for Drama. Both Murali and Manju are extremely gifted singers and have studied classical music in the traditional way. Both are popular faces in TV channels like Jeevan, Doordarshan and Asianet.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;a href="http://manjumenonmuralimenon.blogspot.com/"&gt;http://manjumenonmuralimenon.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.pradipsomasundaran.com/2007/12/introducing-manju-murali-menon.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Pradip Somasundaran)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26993576.post-5996830105067582642</guid><pubDate>Sun, 09 Dec 2007 12:04:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-12-11T06:14:48.493+05:30</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Paras</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Lakshmikant Pyarelal</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Anand Bakshi</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Hindi</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Lata</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Mukesh</category><title>Sawan Ka Mahina-A gem of a duet from Mukesh-Lata!</title><description>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pradipsomasundaran.com/uploaded_images/mrlt-718547.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://www.pradipsomasundaran.com/uploaded_images/mrlt-718545.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;After a long gap I am back and active again in the Audio Blog world with a post. &lt;a href="http://paras-sargam.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#9999ff;"&gt;Dr. Parasmani &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;had finished singing her part of this song long before, but unfortunately I did not get the time to finish my part. Today it's ready and here is the result! "Sawan Ka Mahina" from "Milan" is one of the best duets ever by Mukesh-Lata. Milan was also one of Sunil Dutt's unforgettable hits.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Song: Sawan Ka Mahina&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Film: Milan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Singers: Mukesh &amp;amp; Lata Mangeshkar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Music: Lakshmikant Pyarelal&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Lyrics: Anand Bakshi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cccccc;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cccccc;"&gt;Broad Band Player: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;object id="pcpp" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=" height="30" width="170" align="middle" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000"&gt;&lt;param name="_cx" value="4498"&gt;&lt;param name="_cy" value="794"&gt;&lt;param name="FlashVars" value=""&gt;&lt;param name="Movie" value="http://www.podcastpickle.com/media/podPlayer/pcppSmall.swf?URI=http://www.pradipsomasundaran.com/mp3/sawan.mp3&amp;amp;instantLoad=0"&gt;&lt;param name="Src" 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/&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.podcastpickle.com/media/podPlayer/pcppSmall.swf?URI=http://www.pradipsomasundaran.com/mp3/sawan.mp3&amp;instantLoad=0" quality="high" bgcolor="#000000" width="170" height="30" name="pcpp" align="middle" allowscriptaccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cccccc;"&gt;Dialup Player: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object id="pcpp" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=" height="30" width="170" align="middle" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000"&gt;&lt;param name="_cx" value="4498"&gt;&lt;param name="_cy" value="794"&gt;&lt;param name="FlashVars" value=""&gt;&lt;param name="Movie" value="http://www.podcastpickle.com/media/podPlayer/pcppSmall.swf?URI=http://www.pradipsomasundaran.com/mp3/sawan1.mp3&amp;amp;instantLoad=0"&gt;&lt;param name="Src" value="http://www.podcastpickle.com/media/podPlayer/pcppSmall.swf?URI=http://www.pradipsomasundaran.com/mp3/sawan1.mp3&amp;amp;instantLoad=0"&gt;&lt;param name="WMode" value="Window"&gt;&lt;param name="Play" value="-1"&gt;&lt;param name="Loop" value="-1"&gt;&lt;param name="Quality" value="High"&gt;&lt;param name="SAlign" value=""&gt;&lt;param name="Menu" value="-1"&gt;&lt;param name="Base" value=""&gt;&lt;param name="AllowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain"&gt;&lt;param name="Scale" value="ShowAll"&gt;&lt;param name="DeviceFont" value="0"&gt;&lt;param name="EmbedMovie" value="0"&gt;&lt;param name="BGColor" value="000000"&gt;&lt;param name="SWRemote" value=""&gt;&lt;param name="MovieData" value=""&gt;&lt;param name="SeamlessTabbing" value="1"&gt;&lt;param name="Profile" value="0"&gt;&lt;param name="ProfileAddress" value=""&gt;&lt;param name="ProfilePort" value="0"&gt;&lt;param name="AllowNetworking" value="all"&gt;&lt;param name="AllowFullScreen" value="false"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.podcastpickle.com/media/podPlayer/pcppSmall.swf?URI=http://www.pradipsomasundaran.com/mp3/sawan1.mp3&amp;instantLoad=0" quality="high" bgcolor="#000000" width="170" height="30" name="pcpp" align="middle" allowscriptaccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pradipsomasundaran.com/mp3/sawan1.mp3"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#9999ff;"&gt;Download This Song&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.pradipsomasundaran.com/2007/12/sawan-ka-mahina-gem-of-duet-from-mukesh.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Pradip Somasundaran)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26993576.post-2994464026718379279</guid><pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2007 01:30:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-12-07T07:21:03.237+05:30</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Blogswara V4</category><title>BLOGSWARA V 4.0 Teasers out!</title><description>Dear Friends....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finally &lt;a href="http://www.blogswara.in/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#9999ff;"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;BLOGSWARA&lt;/span&gt; V4.0&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; the 4th edition of the Online Music Album, a collaborative effort by &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;like minded&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;Blogger's&lt;/span&gt; from all across the world goes on air (Net)..... by Dec 12t&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;h&lt;/span&gt;....!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here are some of the song clips....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x183/jocalling/banner1.gif" /&gt;&lt;img src="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x183/jocalling/banner2.gif" /&gt;&lt;img src="http://i182.photobu