Malladi Bros - Vidya Bharathi - 24DEc- 6.30pm slot

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Violin B Ananthakrishnan

Namasivaya - dhanyasi - adhyaatma raamayanam keertanai - swarams - was ok rendition- could have started with a better kruthi
budhamashrayami - wednesday - nattakuranji - was a good rendition with saahitya clarity
sri Narasimha - phalamanjari - v nice ragam by vocalists - best take away in the concert - violin alapanai was ok - swarams were done but limited - kruthi rendered in medium to slow speed I/o usually desaadi fast pace
Endhuko nee manasu- Kalyani - adi 2 Kalai - tyagarajar - most exquisitely beautiful rendition - so so moving - paisa fully vasool this one - no manodharma - just plain kruthi was rendered so well - will cherish this long time
ranganathude- saurashtram
MAin - Sahana - giripai - ragam niraval swarams - was ok - again v slow and sedate rendition but overall good - in 2nd speed swarams one of the brothers struggled a bit and somehow they did a korvai and finished
tani started off slowly in line with the kruthis bhaava and structure being slow and meditative but somewhere down the line the tani picked up pace and became a bit aggressive
overall full concert was bit slow - and they did a fair bit of talking about diff kruthis and bhakthi aspects
RTP _Ranjani - thisra triputa -khanda gathi - alapanai was really good vocal especially and violin also ok
taanam also nice but v limited in view of time - mahadeva ranjani -nikhila lokha Jana ranjani= something like this - eduppu was there and not a samam pallavi - I left at this point
I think after RTP they may have sung padam or javali - but I had to leave
again for a ticketed concert this one lacked energy and audience engagement
strangely more audience for Ashwath and fewer for Malladis - I was quite surprised by this as malladis even now as they are bit aged - they did so much better than Ashwath I felt

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Endhuko nee manasu- Kalyani - adi 2 Kalai - tyagarajar - most exquisitely beautiful rendition - so so moving - really wish I could get a recording of this one video - it was that good !! unforgettable