Being in Chen­nai, com­ing across a celebrity in places is not new to me. I remem­ber see­ing SV Shekar in VGP when we had been there for an excur­sion in 3 std [ azudhu adam panni ponen ] and the lat­est was direc­tor Vish­nu­vard­han in Sathyam for ICE Age 3. At later stages, I come across most of the TV artists and cine artists in my friend’s studio.

For the first time, an artist attracted me both as an actress [ model might be the right word ! ] and as a singer. She is stun­ningly beau­ti­ful and has one of the most peppy voices [ like Shruthi has­san ]. My favorite song of her is ‘Col­or­ful Nilavu’ from Dou­bles — what a sparkling voice !

On a cloudy Sun­day in Ban­glore [ 6 years back ! ], I got a call from my friend that he has come to Ban­ga­lore for a show — his other friends do event man­age­ment. I met him in the noon.“And We Had a Talk” [ Remem­ber ‘How to name it?’ ] is the usual phrase I use about our chat. Then he asked me to wait in the audi­to­rium to watch the rehearsals. I was reluc­tant to watch — but I didn’t make the valu­able mis­take of miss­ing it.

There came the girl Vasund­hara Das [ Jeans and Black Kurtha — rommba mukkyam :) ] along with 6 dancers for rehearsal. I couldn’t believe it — It was just the event man­age­ment crew, sound engi­neers and just us in the large n empty audi­to­rium [ Ambed­kar Bha­van ]. They started the rehearsals. It was not the music troop rehearsal where they make repeated sounds but it was Karaoke. The songs she sang were

1. Shakkalaka baby — Mud­hal­van
2. Colour­ful Nilavu — Dou­bles
3. Chan­dralekha — Thiruda Thiruda
4. Sohni Sohni — Meri Jaan album
5. Hai hai Like you — Cit­i­zen [ Cit­i­zen Kane maadiri vand­hirukka ven­diay padam.. Cit­i­zen Kenai maadiri vandhudhu :) ].

and some more..

The idea was.. she has to sing the song and the dance group dances behind her. The dancers group was really good [ inneram pur­in­jirukanume :) ].I always feel happy to hear peppy songs in a real good music sys­tem. The sound that stage pro­duced was too good. Think about the qual­ity of ARR live per­for­mances. He once per­formed the song Chan­daa Suraj Laako thaare live in Dubai [ the ori­gin of Poraale Pon­nuthaaye ] along with the recorded voice of Ustaad Naus­rat fateh ali khan. The sync was per­fect. Check it in youtube.

The sound effects in her rehearsal were mind blow­ing and her mag­i­cal voice was enchant­ing . That too, I was watch­ing it live. The range of her voice is amaz­ing — it ascends to high pitch and stays/traverses there flu­idly with­out any hitches. That’s the power of prac­tice they make [ Thanks to Krishna — 10000 hrs of prac­tice as said in Out­liers — Mal­colm Glad­well :) ]. Also, they were con­cerned much with the qual­ity of sound and made a lot of cor­rec­tions for bet­ter­ment [ though it makes no dif­fer­ence to us in the audi­ence front ]. We along with the tech­ni­cal crew applauded the show. Game over.

I was speech­less by the best treat I ve got from my friend — too much for a Sun­day after­noon. Mathan told me that in the evening he would be busy with the show and asked watch it along with the crowd. I didn’t want to spoil the mem­o­rable expe­ri­ence by attend­ing the actual show along with the crowd [ Sakkathu fig­ure Kano Avllu :) ]. Of course, evening I watched Hey Ram in SUN.

“We do not remem­ber days; we remem­ber moments -  Cesare Pavese” [ espe­cially if a girl is involved ;) ].

:)

Toto.

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