For TMK, unusual is the usual! He has depicted this so many times through his music, views and opinions. Apart from taking initiatives to make things better in this field, he has made changes in his presentations. The vast changes he has made to the kutcheri format (or his kutcheri format rather) has got lot of attention. Some of these are varnam as main piece, nirval & swram rendition in mangalam, stand-alone alapana not followed up with kriti in the sama raga to name a few.
He came under some immense criticism when he tried something similar in music academy some time back. This year, he is not performing there. Is he looking to try and create more impact with his new format or will he stick to the usual format prevalent today? Seems that he would present a mix of both.
In this year's Margazhi Maha Utsavam by Jaya TV, he has sung a Ragam & Pallavi (No Tanam at all) in a particular tala and it was left to the percussionists to decide the tala which they wanted to choose for their taniavartanam.
We have to see how rasikas view this in the days or months to come. We are sure that he would bring upon changes that evoke the spiritualistic domains of the rasika.
Let's wait and watch!
- Shridhar (marggoindia@gmail.com).
- Shridhar (marggoindia@gmail.com).
TMK has a sound grasp of what he is doing and I guess he is trying to showcase CM without religion or spirituality. I wonder whether he is trying to evoke the spiritualistic domains. But, to me whatever he sings has a spiritual dimension because spirituality is acting from the inner core of one's being and he does that precisely in his singing. If we expect spirituality in any other sense, possibly we may draw a blank.
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