Uthara Unnikrishnan reimagines ‘Suprabhatham’ for a new generation

The Venkatesa Suprabhatham, composed successful the 15th century, is simply a celebrated Sanskrit devotional hymn utilized to awaken Lord Venkateshwara astatine Tirupati. It is 1 of the astir wide heard devotional compositions and is typically played successful galore South Indian households successful the mornings.

So it was astatine Uthara Unnikrishnan’s house arsenic well.

“My paternal grandma listens to it each greeting to this day. She besides chants it with utmost devotion. The mentation she listens to is simply a rendition by the legendary MS Subbulakshmi, which is the way that plays successful astir households,” says the 21-year-old instrumentalist and girl of fashionable singer, Unnikrishnan.

Now Uthara has travel up with a modern mentation of this past work. “I privation it to scope young listeners, but I person retained the essence of the original.”

Produced by Sandeep Reddy of Sea Records and programmed and arranged by composer Prithvi Chandrashekar, the 20-minute opus aims to make a meditative listening experience.

Uthara was inspired by MS Subbulakshmi’s rendition of the hymn. “I didn’t perceive to thing else,” she reveals, “When this task came to me, I felt overwhelmed due to the fact that till past I had not focussed overmuch connected the lyrics. I was acrophobic astir the cleanable enunciation of the verses. Before recording, I work the Sanskrit mentation alternatively of the English. The faster portions were rather hard to master; it took maine 10 hours to implicit the full track.”

A fashionable movie and classical singer, Uthara feels it is important to research assorted philharmonic styles. “Tomorrow, a movie signaling mightiness necessitate maine to dabble successful a genre I americium not comfy with, truthful it is important to exposure yourself to antithetic styles,” says the young artiste, who besides precocious released her rendition of the ‘Kandha Shasti Kavasam’ for Saregama India.

The opus is retired connected audio streaming platforms and the lyric video volition beryllium retired connected May 23 connected the Rajshri Soul Youtube channel