Has T M Krishna gone the Kamalhassan way of promoting the Art?

                                               

It’s all happening around T M Krishna.... He is getting too sensational these days and here are some of his views which I am sure is going to create heat among the rasikas and music lovers....

I am willing to give up the kutcheri’

The relationship between melody and text is far deeper than its linguistic meaning.

Whether an atheist or a non-Hindu can be a Carnatic musician?

Can I bring bhavam without understanding the meaning?

A kutcheri is not a variety entertainment show or a circus presentation where you need to experience the frown of the lion and the snigger of a clown.”

T M Krishna winds up concert midway, rasikas have mixed feeling

T M Krishna’s lofty thoughts on imagination and creativity, to issues of Brahmin domination and male chauvinism are disturbing. Is TMK confused about Bhakthi and religion?

 

Many singers and most of the audience often do not understand the meaning of the songs. Yet, they enjoy the music. Often the mood of the song is completely disjoint from the meaning of the lyric                            

                      Dr Venkataraman

Of course Dr Venkataraman is right. This is also one form of entertainment. It can be conventional or it can be unorthodox... But then the bottom line is the happiness quotient. It does not matter if the bhavam comes out of deep understanding of the lyric or not.

If the artist wants this not to be entertainment and delivers in a particular structure, its fine as long as he could connect his thought process with that of the rasikas. We can be sure that the rasikas have been enjoying the way TMK presents his concerts and that will rest all the controversies.

May be this is one way of creating visibility and brand value... and one can see TMK being very good in marketing and his style of approach resembles much of Kamalhassan's way of branding his movies before release... designing pre release controversies.

As much as Kamalhassan is enjoyed onscreen and valued for his performance, so much TMK is for carnatic form of art....  Their quality of output will deliver more brand value and visibility than the controversies they create.

Let the art prevail upon the individuals......