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Lively and energetic
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Manimaran’s Hindolam essay came as a colourful collage of long and short phrases.
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Photo: E. Lakshmi Narayanan.
V.K.Manimaran.
The way an artist develops a raga brings out several facets of the performer – his knowledge, its application to envisage the structure of presentation and finally the communication with the right vision and perception. Manimaran’s rendit
ion of Hindolam and Kalyani with care, depth and involvement evidenced the creative urge and his ability to translate the same vocally.
The range of his heavy vocal chords was his additional advantage. While Hindolam essay came as a colourful collage of long and short phrases, Kalyani alapana augmented the traditional raga format with many fine touches, tantalising trajectory and adequate repose. ‘Ramanukku Mannan Mudi’ of Arunachala Kavi in Hindolam had the necessary dash with rounds of kalpanaswaras.
Dikshitar’s ‘Bhajare rechitha’ was Manimaran’s pick in Kalyani with extended niraval and swaras centered on ‘Devim Sakthi Beejodbhava.’ There was lot of soul and stir that filled the niraval before the follow up of neatly etched kalpanaswaras.
Deluge of swaras
Maran has become adept in providing deluges of swaras. Nevertheless, a little more discretion will be better for him otherwise the long winding final korvais will become flat as empty syllables. This concert at ‘Amarabharati’ for Asthika Samajam, Thiruvanmiyur, was quite agile and energetic right from the start.
The opening ‘Siddhi Vinayakam’ (Chamaram) and ‘Orukkal Siva Chidamabaram’ (Arabhi) were steamed up further with speedy ‘Tulasi Dala’ (Mayamalavagowla), ‘Thaye Tripurasundari’ (Suddha Saveri) and ‘Himachala Tanaya’ (Anandabhairavi) preceding and following Hindolam.
Sathish Kumar played his role efficiently on the violin but his raga essays could have been a little more elaborate.
The percussionists Kudanthai Saravanan (mridangam) and Adambakkam Shankar (ghatam) were in joie de vivre throughout the concert. The tani avartanam in misrachapu by both Saravanan and Shankar were excellent.
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Friday Review
Bangalore
Chennai and Tamil Nadu
Delhi
Hyderabad
Thiruvananthapuram
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