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India & World
By P. S. Suryanarayana
Shankar Mahadevan
SINGAPORE, MARCH 25. A concert of select musical compositions from the contemporary Bollywood scene is to be held in Singapore tomorrow as a charity event in support of the local Education Trust Fund, which seeks to cater to the needs of disadvantaged children. The Singapore President, S.R. Nathan, and Mrs. Nathan will be the guests of honour at the Bollywood concert. Sponsored by Singapore's DBS Bank, leader in South-East Asia, under the title "Mumbai Masti", the concert, being organised by Arte Compass, will be followed by a Tamil film music show on Sunday as a "Madras Masala" offering. Packaged as two independent concerts with the common aim of providing wholesome entertainment in the City State's international ambience, the events will feature Hariharan, Shankar Mahadevan, Unnikrishnan, Sadhana Sargam and Mahalakshmi Iyer, who straddle the musical domains of today's Bollywood and "Kollywood" with ease and felicity, according to the organisers. The singers have come together for the first time to present to a multi-cultural audience two facets of the Indian cinema music in two different languages. Shankar Mahadvan said the show would offer "the best of Bollywood's contemporary songs, all sung [and] or composed by the original singers". While the same criterion would apply to the distinctive Tamil show as well, there was no need for an audience-specific concert.
Hariharan
"Bollywood music is so international now and our music has become global," he said, pointing to the manner in which the Indian Diaspora was attuned to the popular film songs of the day. The selections for the "fun event" might be interspersed with an occasional "concept song", for example, his own "Breathless" album on singing without a pause, Mahadevan said. Some musical scores might be "choreographed" by a Chennai troupe of professional dancers, while a group from Kozhikode would provide the "live orchestra", he said. Unnikrishnan, known for his classical music concerts as well, said the focus would be on film songs, with his own choices of melody covering a "philosophical" tune or two on the romantic theme. He said the Indian film music "has changed over a period of time" and the accent at the concerts here would be on the contemporary preferences. Hariharan, trained in both Hindustani and Carnatic traditions, said the concerts would be entirely "film-driven shows", although there could be an occasional "fusion number". The idea was to strike a "balance" between the romantic and rhythmic numbers, and his own film music had "classical idioms" too, Hariharan said.
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