The Carnatic music maestro Mangalampalli Balamurali Krishna has given an interview to Monika Joshi of the New York-based community newspaper, India Abroad. And like his voice and singing style, Balamurali is unorthodox and unconventional about how to spend his spare time:
Monika Joshi: How do you relax?
Balamurali Krishna: Mainly, I like to relax in a casino. Or by watching dishum-dishum movies…. I don’t want to know who is fighting. I don’t want to know the name of the movie. I just enjoy the action.
A relaxation for a person involves being something else than what he is. A cook cannot relax by enjoying his food. Likewise, if anybody comes and talks to me and asks me about music, I don’t get any recreation.
I have not gone to school in life; I lost my childhood (Balamurali Krishna lost his mother when he was 15 days old and his mother’s elder sister raised him). Therefore, I like to play with children. I want to fall down. I want to jump. I want to climb a tree…
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Sadly, the piece is not on the web. It’s in hard copy form.
Nice Piece. Similarly Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, it seems, used to relax by driving his old Ford at a very high speed! The Carnatic Music vocalist Shemmangudi Srinivasa Iyer liked to sit with his accomanying artsites for a game of Rummy after a ‘cutcheri’!
Aah!! Shakaras are out to get you! Beware!
Oh! yes!!.He likes hot pakodaa and a few games of
rummy with his children to relax