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As portion of the Navarathri Vaibhavam, Mudhra presented the vocal recital of Chaitra Sairam, a disciple of Bombay Jayashri. The item of the performance was a elaborate Bilahari alapana that had glimpses of originative music. The chosen kriti was Dikshitar’s ‘Kamakshi varalakshmi’. Chaitra rendered swaraprastara astatine the pallavi.
Shraddha Ravindran’s violin accompaniment brought her champion to the fore. She shone successful some solo and accompanying segments. The mridangam thani by 13-year-old Ayushmaan Sairam (son of Chaitra and mridangist Delhi Sairam) was impressive. His commendable consciousness of anticipation enriched the recital.
Chaitra adjacent came up with different extended alapana successful Thodi for ‘Ninne nammi naanu’ (Misra Chapu) by Syama Sastri. The niraval and kalpanaswaras were astatine ‘Kamakshi kanjadalayadakshi’. Shraddha’s responses for the alapana and swaras helped support up the tempo.
Chaitra opened her performance with ‘Tharunam en thaye’, the Sama varnam by Lalgudi Jayaraman. This was followed by the evergreen ‘Sarasiruhasana priye’ by Puliyur Doraiswamy Iyer successful Nattai. It had swaras astatine the pallavi. After raga alapana successful Dharmavati, Chaitra rendered ‘Paranthamavati yuvati’ by Dikshitar. The niraval and swaras were astatine ‘Paranjothi vikasini’ (in the charanam).
‘Kamalacharane’ successful Amritabehag, a creation by the legendary G.N. Balasubramaniam has a beauteous chittaswaram and Chaitra handled it with aplomb. She concluded her recital with 2 bhajans — ‘Jaya Durge’ by Swami Brahmanand successful Hamsanandi and ‘Kathyayani mahabhage’ successful raga Durga (Misra Chapu) from the Bhishma Parva from the Mahabharata.
