Malladi Brothers-Music Academy- 2012

In MA, everyone wants to show their full potential in his/her concert. RTP shows the portrayal of the uzhaippu. Ranjani & Gayatri’s RTP was outstanding, (I heard.) In line with this, a well structured RTP in GowrimanOhari was rendered by MBs in MA yeststerday.


Well prepard pallavi- line was

“dEEkshita vara Shyama ThyagarAjam bhajE Sangeetha sadhgurum sadA”

Covering all the trinities. Raga mAlika has a real pleasant suprise, They took ragas of pancharatna kritis, pancha boothalinga stala rAgAs of MD, swara jathi rAgAs of SS.

It was wonderful experience with EmbAr kannan returning this rAga mAlika ragas in the reverse order. Unfortunately the RTP itself was taken at 8.46 PM. So, some more volleys of this rAgA, tAnam were missing.

KV Prasad

EmbAr kannar

Udupi Sridhar-ghatam

1. Tulasi jagajjanani-sAvEri- Thyagarajar-2 min neraval in “caraNa yugambulu nadulaku parama vaikuNThamaTa” (s)

2. Ragam-Ananda bhairavi- 2 min-AnandESwarENa samrakshitOham- (Anandabhairavi)- (S). Interestingly, this kriti details the inner forms of Lord Shiva.

3. Sub-main-ravikriya-Ragam- himagiri kumAri Eswari- MD= (s)

4. nAdhupai-madhyamAvathi-Thyagarjar

5. Main-kAmbohdi- “Sri raghuvara apamEya mAmava” –Thyagarjar -neraval in sitA nAthat tyAgarAja nutAnila sutApta sugunAbharana” (s)

6. Tani

7. RTP-GowrimanOhari (as said above)

8. chidambaramE ninai manamE-nAdanAmakriya- ?

9. annamacharya kriti- sindu bairavi- (forgot the name)

All the kritis –the rendering and the return by embAr were very good. They could have avoided madhyamavathi so that they could have spent 5 min more on RTP

Tani took 15 minutes. KVP, matured mridangist shows the class in his tani along with ghatam vidwan.