Manda Sudharani

Music · Post by **Music** » 21 Sep 2006, 20:46

I once heard Manda Sudharani in the 1994 Radio Sangeet Sammelan. There was a superb Shankarabharanam (Dikshitar's Dakshinamurthe) and Amritavarshini (HMB's Sudhamayee). She also sang Vararagalaya (Chenchukambhoji) with swaras. I have never heard anybody do any manodharma in this ragam. It is a vakra raga with not much scope for elaboration. Every item seems effortless with her rendition even if it is a complex pallavi. Extreme vidwat. Found her website in google recently.
http://www.mandasudharani.com/

Site doesn't seem very up-to-date, but has a lot of info about her.

Does anybody have any recordings of hers or experiences with her concerts?

Lakshman · Post by **Lakshman** » 22 Sep 2006, 00:59

Five clips by her are available at cooltoad.com
click on music, scroll down to world, click on tamil, click on carnatic, type sudha rani in the search strip.

Radhakrishnan · Post by **Radhakrishnan** » 22 Sep 2006, 10:38

I have attended some of her concerts,one at ShAstry hall,Chennai ,15 years ago,it was a RTP concert and she sang a very complex pallavi in misra jhampa brilliantly withT.R.Sundaresan on mridangam.Another concert at music academy during December season.She has performed at other sabhas like K.G.S also.She has a bold voice and solid grip over laya.

Music · Post by **Music** » 22 Sep 2006, 19:35

Thanks for sharing the info, Radhakrishnan & for the audio link, Lakshman.

rbharath · Post by **rbharath** » 23 Sep 2006, 00:42

I have heard Smt Sudharani on a few occasions in madras at 3 places, viz., nAdOpAsanA, Music Club IIT Madras, Nanganallur Anjaneya Temple.

I have to say that her voice has perfect alignment to sruthi. Her ideas are very good and her grip over layam is also rather good.

She is called Pallavi Sudharani.

ShatkAla Pallavis (pallavi in 6 kAlams)
sankIrNa naDai pallavi
dvi rAgam pallavis
dvi kAla pallavis
rAgamAlikA pallavis

she is a master in all of them.

Not just that, her AlApanais even in rare rAgams and rAgams termed scopeless are just too good. The svarams and the poruttam to sAhityam are good also.

Be it tOdi or kAmbhOji or bEhAg or kAntAmaNi, her essays are equally good.

a frnd of mine always recollects her elaborations of raghupriyA and supOshini.

Jyothsna_music · Post by **Jyothsna_music** » 24 Sep 2006, 17:30

Does anybody have her collection of shatkala pallavi?

Jyothsna

pganti · Post by **pganti** » 29 Dec 2009, 20:46

She is performing at Academy on 31st Dec 09

mahesh3 · Post by **mahesh3** » 12 Jan 2010, 08:44

can anyone suggest where I can purchase music of this artist? any live concert recordings have been released of hers?

laks1972 · Post by **laks1972** » 18 Jan 2010, 20:59

pganti wrote:She is performing at Academy on 31st Dec 09

Review
http://rasikas.org/forums/viewtopic.php? ... 11209.html

rajeshnat · Post by **rajeshnat** » 12 Mar 2010, 08:41

I just loved this punch line by sudhArAni. ...."They should give up the desire to appear on television".
http://www.hindu.com/fr/2010/03/12/stor ... 880200.htm

ragam-talam · Post by **ragam-talam** » 15 Mar 2010, 05:05

Rajesh, thanks for the link.
Manda Sudharani is truly a great vidushi. The points she makes are full of wisdom and deep understanding of our great musical form.
In addition to your quote, the other one I liked was: "Over-exposure of youngsters will only have an adverse effect."
So true. I hope serious youngsters stay away from those 'Idol' circuses that are fast becoming the norm today.

rajeshnat · Post by **rajeshnat** » 27 Jan 2013, 11:34

I did not attend this concert which was prior to abhhshek concert in the academy. But i heard the hamsanandi pallavi was lovely thru the few folks who came out of that concert at academy. A real great vidushi.
http://www.thehindu.com/arts/music/clea ... 331998.ece

narayan · Post by **narayan** » 28 Jan 2013, 06:53

For those who have not heard much from this artiste, some clips are at
http://www.nonoscience.info/2009-madras ... arani.html

perarulalan · Post by **perarulalan** » 31 Jan 2013, 10:02

Dear all,

Here is the link for some of her past concerts posted on youtube by her daughter

http://www.youtube.com/user/ravalimanda

Telisirama with 3 charanams are there. Do not miss. What a crispy alapana by her and violin return by her guru!!!

Regards
arul

kanchi perivaa · Post by **kanchi perivaa** » 30 Mar 2013, 18:38

Fabulous singer! What command. May I say, she is one of the rarest gems of carnatic music.
I have heard her sing a krithi in Raga Niroshta, never heard anything like that before!

Aditto · Post by **Aditto** » 10 May 2014, 23:41

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3udD1vSa1HA - Rama Nee - Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAHkPk1RHGc - Rama Nee - Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiT8g4Phkdc - Raghu Naatha Nannu (Soora Ranjani) and RTP - Hamsanandi - Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCWPC_kBW88 - RTP - Hamsanandi - Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YrAI8rPUWI - RTP - Hamsanandi - Part 3

rajeshnat · Post by **rajeshnat** » 11 May 2014, 12:49

Thank you aditto, one thing that comes very naturally to this vidushi is that her brighas remain rooted in classicism . One thing that I immensely like about these callibre of musicians is they are adjusting impromptu with a violinist or mrudangist who are not big stars and they still add their immense excellence .NO idea about Morrisville accompanists.

I will personally not give that much of credit to those vocalist who keep 90% of time only high quality and well conditioned accompanist , their quality will get exposed if they have some one else of course that will not happen in live experience as mostly they play with quality and well conditioned accompanist. To that extent sudharani is really a great star , a real manda without any banda. :-*

I enjoyed her hamsanandi pallavi,not yet heard ramanee samanevaru. If i can add with my limited knowledge about her, one of her manaseega guru should be TRS , the late professor TRS has personally told few good things about her to me.When she sings telugu krithis the trs is surely within her or possibly her guru ivaturi ??? (forgot his name)must have polished her even as a junior .

In the last concert that i heard a week back she looks a bit like SP shylaja (sister of SPB), but however the voice throw is somewhat like vani jayaram with a little husky voice(I adore vani jayaram for her voice).

Also in another links her shanmughapriya rtp is topnotch.Heat that in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZGBqSuYwLk and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkX6lP7TO-4 .

Aditto · Post by **Aditto** » 11 May 2014, 19:22

Yes Rajeshnath garu. A real manda without any banda

Nicely phrased.

Her guru is Sri Ivaturi Vijayeswara Rao Garu.

A link to Manasa Mana Samarthyamemi with her guru on Violin.

Can you please share what TRS mentioned about Sudharani garu?

The violinist in the RTP Shanmukhapriya video is Sri M.S.N.Murthy garu, husband of Pantula Rama garu

Another link - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsbE67ywC8g - Chenchu Khambodi !!

Aditto · Post by **Aditto** » 11 May 2014, 20:31

http://www.sangeethamshare.org/vijayago ... ani-Vocal/

14 mins Huseni !!

varsha · Post by **varsha** » 24 Jun 2016, 08:33

https://archive.org/details/RAmaNAthaMB ... aDIkshitar

One of my favourite Artists.Can showcase more if there is interest.
Sizzles here in the neraval / swaraprasthara

http://mandasudharani.blogspot.in/p/about-me.html

kartheeksharma · Post by **kartheeksharma** » 24 Jun 2016, 10:44

She is my favourite too.any piece of shaat kala pallavi available?

rshankar · Post by **rshankar** » 24 Jun 2016, 17:39

varsha wrote:One of my favourite Artists.Can showcase more if there is interest.

Yes, please!!

Aditto · Post by **Aditto** » 24 Jun 2016, 18:18

rshankar wrote:
varsha wrote:One of my favourite Artists.Can showcase more if there is interest.
Yes, please!!

Double yes.

braindrain · Post by **braindrain** » 25 Jun 2016, 12:15

rshankar wrote:
varsha wrote:One of my favourite Artists.Can showcase more if there is interest.
Yes, please!!

Fantastic artist. The more the merrier !

Nick H · Post by **Nick H** » 25 Jun 2016, 15:24

I noticed her name in the newspaper listings today as part of Catnatica's Pallavi Darbar: Jul 1st, 4.00pm, BVB Mylapore.

varsha · Post by **varsha** » 06 Jul 2016, 09:26

https://archive.org/details/RTPPUrvikal ... aSudharani

https://archive.org/details/RTPBhariaviMandaSudharani

varsha · Post by **varsha** » 13 Jul 2016, 08:47

https://archive.org/details/SrICakraRAj ... ubramanian

Purist · Post by **Purist** » 16 Jul 2016, 16:49

#27 Varsha, gem of a rendering. The way she has elaborated so soulfully a rare raga speaks of her high vidwat.
Thanks Varsha for sharing. (The swara rendering abruptly stops at 14.38 min and its blank thereafter. Just for information)

varsha · Post by **varsha** » 17 Jul 2016, 08:07

Purist
thanks. that was the idea behind the choice

The swara rendering abruptly stops at 14.38 min and its blank thereafter.

Sorry. Whatever I collected has this flaw

hope this one makes up
https://archive.org/details/SrIRAjaGOpA ... iDIkshitar

Aditto · Post by **Aditto** » 17 Jul 2016, 09:42

varsha wrote:Purist
thanks. that was the idea behind the choice
The swara rendering abruptly stops at 14.38 min and its blank thereafter.
Sorry. Whatever I collected has this flaw

Here is the complete song

http://www.mediafire.com/download/6zdhk ... asakti.mp3

Purist · Post by **Purist** » 18 Jul 2016, 12:45

# 30 Thanks Aditto.

# Varsha- While Saveri did certainly made up, Aditto brought out the rediscovered piece. Pl do listen to the complete swara rendering. I found it be 'class' apart, so much saukhyam in all aspects her music.

varsha · Post by **varsha** » 27 Sep 2016, 08:10

https://archive.org/details/MandaSudharani

What a Gem. Right here in our times !!!!
https://archive.org/details/PAlintuvOPA ... iTyAgarAja
Keep pushing me for more

Aditto · Post by **Aditto** » 28 Oct 2016, 08:44

varsha wrote:https://archive.org/details/MandaSudharani

What a Gem. Right here in our times !!!!
https://archive.org/details/PAlintuvOPA ... iTyAgarAja
Keep pushing me for more

varshaji, when i open the first link, I get to hear a concert and in the second link, kaantamani. I could not find any other links. How to search for them?

varsha · Post by **varsha** » 28 Oct 2016, 09:31

pl email me.
this site is now for permanent-never to delete links.
Any stuff you find missing I will redo in mediafire for short term life of links

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