A Tamil composer who cut his teeth under a Kannada baton-weilder. A Konkani-speaking Kannada actor/filmmaker who made his mark in Marathi theatre. A male Telugu singer with no training in classical music, who trained to be an engineer. A female Malayalee singer born to two doctors, trained in the Gwalior gharana.
The six degrees that separate Ilayaraja, G.K. Venkatesh, Shankar Nag, S.P. Balasubramanyam, Chitra Iyer, respectively, from Swapna, in an Asianet studio rendition of Jothe jothe yali from Geetha.
churumuri 
Lovely!
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Lovely!
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Lovely post.
The music is in a way enabled by their diverse backgrounds.
About Chitra Iyer, well, adeshtu kaLey avarigide! Her training in both the Hindustani and Carnatic traditions shows.
But I did not know Mukund Kshirsagar was from the Gwalior Gharana of Haddu and Nathu Khans and later L.K. Pandit, etc. (unless there is a second, different Gwalior gharana).
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churumuri, believe me, i was about to forward this video to you, only i got caught up.
here is the original. btw please do check this sirigannada’ channel truely awesome. yeoman’s service only he is doing.
sorry to bring in politics and sour the experience. i was not even born when this movie was made. but this song has given me infinite pleasure. i have enjoyed the writing and have enjoyed the sounds despite being tone deaf. i bet millions others have enjoyed it across india. so what if it won no western laurels. this possibly is the the greatest song ever.
another song i loooooove is ravivermana kunchada kaleye saakaravu. i go weak in my knees listening to that one. i know some tamil friends of mine who have that on their ipods.
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hey hang on, isn’t the actress akshata rao, who also acted in ondanondu kaaladalli?
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What’s with the title of this post?? Who is the actress from Punjab??
I thought the heroine of the movie Geeta was Akshata Rao. Is she from Punjab??
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Tarle:
I was in 10th when Geeta was released. I had to fight with my parents to watch this movie. The songs of Geeta would come in the Mangalore Akashavani as part of the korike program, and I badly wanted to see the movie.
It is an unforgettable movie and its music is everlasting.
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Are you talking about Gayathri?
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It is in Malayalam channel. Kannada song in Malayalam channel. Is it possible in kannada channel…
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……..ah! Shankar Nag our own ‘Marlboro Man’ cant imagine how much we lost out due to his untimely death. Im yet to see any in the current crop that can come anyway near his rugged machismo.
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Akshata Rao is a kannadathi as her sister Arundhati Rao (Arundhati Nag after she married Shankar Nag). Maybe Churmuri must be mixed up with Gayathri, Ananth Nag’s wife who is a punjabi.
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Ramesh – It is eminenty possible and happens many times. You see kids dancing to various non-kannada songs on many dance shows. FOr a long time, chitramanjari used to have an introductory tamil piece, etc. there are many instances.
The movie is one of the best Indian takes on Love Story. This song is easily one of the most hauntingly composed and picturised songs in kannada. The hindi version in cheeni kum was good but with lesser sakkare.
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Very confusingappa – who is Chitra Iyer? Wasnt the song by SPB and S Janaki? Arent the lyrics by Chi Udayashankar worth a mention or is this some kind of a compulsive aherence to the Karinthyian hypothesis !
BTW love how the maginificent Raja pulled the wool over his South Indian viewers and then Hindi movie audiences- from Jotheyali ( geetha) to Vizhiyile ( nootavudu naal) to jaane do na ( Cheeni Kum). Must say all the male protagonists – Shankar Nag, Mohan and Amitabh looked like clowns. This is a song only for auditory pleasure.
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I think Arundati Rao is konkani from delhi.
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akka first things first.
anda chanda ella heNN makkaLige. for men purushartha ne bhushaNa. but blame women for that!! women might be greater beauties but men are greater rasikas. + they took great pains to describe the beauty of women. what did women do? they just reduced the man to a utilitarian tool. for them men are just adjustable wrenches and redeployable trucks. open stuck baTli muchaLas, break tenginkaayi, idanna etti alliDu, adanna etti illiDu. what are we donkeys? jaasti aaytappa, akka’s tangiyara aTTahasa. hudugranna irak biDalla.
next. about the post itself, this is election season everything has a political slant. i am surprised you are so green. mentioning chi udyashakar scores no political points, with especially those middil class middil aged ka bremin’s boys lest they stray from the prescribed path and vote for deve gowda.
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Ramesh,
Remember H20? “Kannada activists” came to the streets to protest the inclusion of Tamil dialogues in the movie but Satya in love, a “Shivanna” movie, in spite of having loads of Telugu dialogues, did not face any issue.
Is it because the dialogues were not Tamil? Or is it because of “anna” or is it because NarayanagowDru was busy with something else?!
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–>to Ramesh Says
If you watch Television, in general and Kannada channels, in particular, you might not have missed this last week for three days. At 9PM on ETV, a sponsor (Santoor Soap) of this serial, had its advertisement in Telugu. What say? :-)
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talking of awesome songs…
here is yaari gaagi aata. this like a triple shot of the good stuff. naag, maala, i’raaja. absolute good stuff.
laa la la la ….
evil sinewy tanned men and sultry women. as the lids say, bad ass.
ambi had it all going, he sort of squandered it all. if you look at him now, hez really let go. vishnuvardhan on the other hand, hez aged real fine.
talking of which, sonu nigam & shreya ghosal are really building an awesome resume. some of the awesomest numbers in kannada. defacto digas.
a lot of it is kaikini but still, those honey soaked voices rendering kasthurigannaDa its like pheNi.
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TS,
maala yes but how could you forget swapna, man she was voluptuous!!! they dont have women like em anymore in kannada moviedom.
you said it that movie was something, virile men, gorgeous women, farout songs and overall amazing sex appeal.
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