Female Solos of IR

ILayaraaja(IR) and female solos are on the top of my crush list :).

S.Janaki, P.Susheela, K.S.Chitra, Swarnalatha, Jency Anthony, Sujata, Uma Ramanan, Vani Jayaram, all have sung beautiful female solo melodies of IR.

IR's Female solo list contains songs suiting all times, all moods.

Yesterday I was watching salangai oli for the n-th time. One of my all-time favourite movies for all-round performance. S.P.Shailaja, the female playback singer was second heroine in the movie. Seeing her in the screen suddenly I had a tangential thought, and randomly recollected some of raaga based female solos by IR.

S.P.Shailaja has sung some of the gems of IR's female solos. Despite her shrill voice she managed to give very good performance in those songs.

IR has a few female solos in the plesant pentatonic raagam Madhyamaavathy.
Two of the top-notch IR's madhyamaavathy songs were sung by S.P.Shailaja.

Madhyamaavathy sounds very pleasant when I listen to the following songs.

malargaLil aadum iLamai pudhumayE FROM kalyaana raaman

SolaikkuyilE kaalaikkadhirE FROM ponnu oorukku pudhusu

are great madhyamaavathys from IR - SPS combo.

adi pennE ponnoonjal aadum iLamai FROM muLLum malarum is by Jency Anthony.

En kalyaaNa vaibOgam unnOdu thaan FROM azhagE unnai aaraadhikkirEn was by Vani Jayaram.

I wish amateur female singers to sing these songs in stages and/or private gatherings. These are singers songs, meaning light songs still singers would enjoy to sing these songs (no need of much musical intruments).

Note: I could not find "SolaikuyilE kaalaikkadhirE" full song to listen. Sample of the song SolaikuyilE kaalaikkadhirE can be heard from:
http://www.karmadownload.com/track/?103639 and
http://www.emusic.com/m3u/song/10841293/13097995.m3u

Sometime back I was reading singer chinmayi's blog. She has mentioned about her experience in Italy while singing for IR for first time. I was bit astonished to note that she had not heard the superb Vani Jayaram solo ennuLLE EdhO Engum FROM ROsaappoo ravikkaikkaari before.

Glimpses of Reality thoughts

Seeni, my friend sent me link to a balanced article by Mr. Irfan Husain in The Dawn, one of the reputed Pakistani English dailies.

Here it is:
http://www.dawn.com/weekly/mazdak/20050910.htm

The author very rightly(in yours truly's opinion) points out how Pakistan has to accept the reality and engage Isreal.

Wonder when our pseudo-intellectuals, so-called-liberals, stale-ideological-idiots, who have polluted our Media, South Block will acknowledge the fact that there is nothing called as true-friend (or) true-enemy when it comes to foreign affairs.

Yet another article by Mr. Husain:
http://www.dawn.com/weekly/mazdak/20050903.htm

Arab countries and their ninicompoomps in India have no right to talk about "blasphemy" committed in India 13 years ago. I am totally against the demolishion of the babri structure but equating it to terrorist act and using that as reason for Bombay blas is simply out of mind, and crooked thinking.

I yearn for such articles in The-China (yeah, Seeni and I usually refer to The-Hindu as The-China or The-antiHindu or Ahindu the correct name for their ideological inclination). Despite my reservation about the-china I still feel that it is the foremost among the Indian's leading English Newspapers upon which we can rest our last (lost) hope for some serious balanced items. Yes, you guessed it right, TOI is rejected prima facie when it comes to serious items. I perceive TOI and its ilks to be a legalised version of likes of Deboniair, PentHouse and Playboy.

Fortunately, there is one very balanced online magazine for serious thoughts. It is www.indiareacts.com.

PS: Do you want an antidote to balanced thought? Then read this comedy in the name of editorial
http://pakistantimes.net/2005/09/08/editorial.htm. Nothing can come near to this joke, but wait, I don't want to blantantly say so. Perhaps our The-China's famous editorial of singing paens to the home-grown terrorists called naxalites "official" engagement with then recently sworn in CM of AP, YSR (Y.S.Rajasekhara Reddy) can be a serious contender to that Pakistantimes joke. When I read the-china's editorial I wondered whether my click on the link was hijacked by a spyware to naxalites' official website.