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Wednesday, September 28, 2005

Tamil Film Music -- The evolution

The BBC Tamil Radio has a wonderful audio website (Streaming audio) titled " Paatu ondru Ketaen " . The program traces the evolution of tamil film music from Thyagaraja Baghavathar, P.U.Chinnappa to today's Harris Jeyraj & Yuvan.

It features luminaries such as M.K.Thyagaraja Baghavathar,G.Ramanathan,P.U.Chinnappa,S.V.Venkatraman,G.Ramanathan,
K.V.Mahadevan,
Viswanathan-Ramamurthy,T.M.Soundarrajan,Sudarshan,
C.S.Jayaraman,P.B.Sreenivas,P.Suseela,
Seerkazhi Govindarajan,Illayaraja.

There are interviews with Illayaraja,P.B.Sreenivas,M.S.Viswanathan among others . The usage of "chaste tamil" adds value to most of the conversations. There are 50+ episodes of 10 minutes each.

Wonderfully nostalgic and a must listen for music fans !

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