The original melody queen
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L.R. Eshwari took the audience down the memory lane with her popular numbers `Masaka masaka cheekati lo' and `Le le le na raja'.
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Music videos picturised on skimpily clad damsels based on popular fast tracks are selling like hot cakes and dominate the prime time on satellite channels these days, which keep the cash registers of producers of such `remixes' ringing.
Our own Smitha might have made it to the big league cashing in on the show of glamour in her Telugu remix album Masaka Masaka Cheekatilo, but it remains an evergreen hit of L.R. Eshwari. The melody queen of the 70's and 80's, popularly known as `Allari Eashwari' came down to Guntur perform at the Sri Venkateswara Vignana Mandiram.
The Guntur-based event mangers, J.K. Entertainers, chose to weed out vulgarity from the old hits of L.R. Eshwari, by presenting people with some clean entertaining music, to make people aware of the real element behind the recent successful remix albums - that's fast and captivating music. The title song of the album Masaka Maska... is a big hit and when the original singer performed live; people were transported into a different era - a clean enjoyment of subtle feelings in the lyrics devoid of vulgar gyrations as seen in modern remix albums.
Eshwari, a veteran of 20,000 songs in Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Tulu and Sinhala, and known as `Ashaada Masam Eashwari' did not disappoint her Tamil fans. The latest numbers dished out by Mayur Orchestra did keep the interest of all audience.
Popular dancer of Dance Baby Dance fame Jyothi's performance to a rain song from the Prabhas-starrer Varsham made the audience forget inconvenience of heat and sweat in the overcrowded auditorium and to clap and whistle. The intervals were filled by the hilarious mimicry show of well-known `Navvithe Nava Rathnaalu' artiste, Harikishan. He mimicked Y.S.Rajashekara Reddy, Chandrababu Naidu, Chiranjeevi, Nagarjuna, and Balakrishna with such perfection that people mistook for a host of other famous personalities to have descended at the venue.
When Eshwari rendered her most popular numbers like Masaka masaka cheekati lo and Le le le na raaja it was a trip down the memory lane. Though her voice seemed to go out of tune sometimes, her energy and enthusiasm carried the show ahead. Her pronunciation of Telugu words, despite being a non-Telugu, was perfect. It was unlike the present days singers' who care little for correct pronunciation, and whose voice gets drowned in the cacophony of modern instruments. That the audience still loves clean music was proved once again says, the event manager, D. Yamuna Kishore.
JAYARAJ MANEPALLI
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