Hamsalekha and V Ravichandran end long-standing rift: ‘Time passes, memories don’t’

As the evening edged towards 6:00 PM connected May 30, 2026, the J K Grand Arena successful Kengeri steadily swelled with anticipation. The assemblage students, who had erstwhile wooed their sweethearts with the evergreen songs from the Hamsalekha-V Ravichandran combination, had gathered astatine the venue arsenic middle-aged adults, carrying decades of memories.

The performance Crazy Brahma, organised by Vinay Na and Vishwas of Prastut and Dr. Chethana RS and Vishal RS of Kalaluha, brought backmost the aureate concern of Kannada cinema. The seasoned duo was candid astir its much-talked-about rift, mounting the code for a feel-good, breezy philharmonic night.

“We mightiness person got separated, but we continued to prosecute what we love: music,” said seasoned composer Hamsalekha, receiving instant applause from fans. During the promotional signifier of the concert, actor-director Ravichandran had recalled the reactions to the breakup of the palmy pair.

“I felt manufacture insiders celebrated our divided much than our success. That said, erstwhile you sensation occurrence arsenic a team, you are bound to witnesser a autumn arsenic well. It’s portion of life. Time passes, but memories don’t.”

The candid bonhomie betwixt the 2 was evident erstwhile Hamsalekha opened the programme with a representation that sparked their terrific travel with Premaloka in 1987. Holding a luncheon box, the euphony maestro said, “Ravichandran has the signifier of visiting Tirupati temple connected his birthdays. He gives america the celebrated laddu from the temple earlier opening to compose. That’s however we archetypal began creating the Premaloka album,” said Hamsalekha, celebrating the superstar’s day with the laddu connected the performance stage.

Premaloka, which sold a shocking 36 lakh cassettes, had 12 songs— each of them chartbusters — and signalled a glorious travel of 2 originative minds. Hamsalekha and Ravichandran recorded respective evergreen numbers with 150 artistes astatine the Prasad Studios successful Chennai. “His visuals from the movie would springiness maine goosebumps, inspiring maine to compose,” said Hamsalekha. “For me, his tunes challenged maine to make prime visuals,” offered Ravichandran.

Helping the 2 go inclination setters successful the 90s was the talented SP Balasubrahmanyam, who sang respective deed songs successful the Hamsalekha-Ravichandran projects. The trio was the cardinal unit of Kannada movie music’s aureate era. In a touching moment, the performance played a video of SPB from a world show, successful which the legendary vocalist requests Hamsalekha and Ravichandran to hide their differences.

The supremely talented Mano, known for having a striking vocal resemblance to SPB, sang the celebrated ‘Yarivalu Yarivalu’ fig from Ramachari (1991) arsenic a tribute to his relation model. For Ravichandran, Ramachari brought backmost bitter-sweet memories.

The movie resurrected his vocation aft his Shanthi Kranthi (1991), India’s astir costly movie during that time, with a prima formed of Rajinikanth, Nagarjuna, Juhi Chawla, Anant Nag, Khusboo, and Ramesh Aravind, bombed astatine the container office. “The costumes of Shanthi Kranthi cost ₹2 crore. For Ramachari, it was conscionable ₹2000,” helium said with a chuckle.

Hamsalekha and Ravichandran besides remembered KJ Yesudas’ publication to their movie albums. At the packed concert, Yesudas’ son, Vijay Yesudas, sang 2 of his favourite Kannada songs, some primitively sung by Yesudas nether Hamsalekha’s creation for Ravichandran’s movies. Nostalgia peaked among the 7000 radical erstwhile Vijay rendered ‘Sone Sone’ from Preethsod Thappa (1998), the duo’s past project.

“I wasn’t blessed with the pallavi of the song, and a frustrated Hamsalekha had fixed maine 40 much options. Eventually, I chose the archetypal 1 helium had created. Hamsalekha was sportive capable to accidental helium got 40 options for his different projects,” Ravichandran had recollected, during promotional interviews for the concert.

Yesudas’ different classical from Sipayi (1996), ‘Bangarada Bombe Nanna’, drew large cheers erstwhile Vijay, Madhu Balakrishnan, and Anuradha Bhat performed the song. The performance paid tribute to the precocious Soundarya, the film’s pistillate lead.

“We had announced the merchandise day of Sipayi. When I saw the last mentation of the movie, I wasn’t satisfied with the visuals of ‘Bangarada Bombe’. Soundarya was a engaged actor. I waited for her dates, re-shot the song, and past released the movie,” recollected Ravichandran, whose lavish filmmaking was the speech of Sandalwood backmost then.

Seasoned Rajesh Krishnan and Aishwarya Rangarajan besides sang deed songs portion Sudharani, Umashree, and Khushboo were among the galore noted actors who shared memories of moving with Ravichandran, unanimously terming him the showman of Kannada cinema.

Over the night, 2 of the top artistes of Sandalwood enthralled an full procreation of fans. The opus from Premaloka, ‘Idu nanna ninna prema geethe chinna, idu yeshtu sari haadidaru channa’ (this is our emotion song, and it’s beauteous each clip we sing), was the concert’s item and fittingly so. These emotion songs are ever irresistible and ne'er enough.