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The stories of however composers Saint Thyagaraja saw Lord Rama, Shyama Sastri sang in Manipravalam, and Muthuswamy Dikshitar wrote the nottu swaras influenced by Western notes volition soon travel live connected stage in the drama-music-dance production titled ‘Sangeetha Mummoorthigal’.
Actor playwright T.V. Varadharajen, Carnatic vocalist Bombay Jayashri Ramnath, and writer and art crititc V. Srinivasan (VSV) have collaborated to creatively enactment together the philharmonic that is 2 hours and 10 minutes long. The trio has reunited again aft the occurrence of the play ‘Sri Thyagarajar’, which is VSV’s archetypal drama that has had 180 shows to date.
“This is the 2nd clip that I americium moving with this team. I had written the stories of the Trinity separately, arsenic a series. I gave them the idea, Varadharajan past collected more details, and he, on with C.V. Chandramohan, wrote the script. We anticipation the assemblage volition bask this play as overmuch arsenic they did ‘Sri Thyagarajar’,” said Mr. Srinivasan, who added that instrumentalist Amrit Ramnath, too, has sung a opus for the play.
“It is not a biopic of the Carnatic trinity; it is the communicative of however the 3 of them lived astatine the aforesaid clip and interacted with 1 another. They discussed ragas, learnt things from each other, and adjacent collaborated to decorativeness a opus that was partially written by Muthuswamy Dikshitar’s father. Shyama Sastri’s lad learnt from all three composers. There is adjacent a creation sequence,” explained Mr. Varadharajen, who dons the relation of Shyama Sastri successful the play. Dance guru Balagurunathan of Kalakshetra is acting arsenic Saint Thyagaraja and actor Culcutta Ramesh is performing the role of Dikshitar.
Vocalists N. Vijay Siva, Sriram Parasuram, Sikkil Gurucharan, Ramakrishnan Murthy, Bharat Sundar, and Sandeep Narayan are among those who person lent their voices.
“The songs were recorded implicit a play of 15 days in marathon sessions. The artistes did not halt until they felt they were perfect. On immoderate days, the recordings went connected till 11 p.m.,” Mr. Varadharajen said. “To my knowledge, this is the archetypal clip a play connected the Sangeetha Mummorthigal is being made. It was with the blessings of my gurus and the Trinity that I was capable to enactment with implicit 20 fantastic musicians who gave maine their docket and clip during highest performance play and sang the compositions truthful beautifully, truthful sincerely,” said Ms. Ramnath, who has besides sung a opus for the play.
The play volition premiere connected January 9 astatine Vani Mahal arsenic portion of Thyaga Brahma Gana Sabha’s 80th year celebration. The 2nd amusement is connected January 11 astatine Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan for Kartik Fine Arts.
