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From: vimal@wpi.WPI.EDU (Sangita Rani Jha)
Subject: Re: Lyrics Requested
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 03:00:23 GMT

In article <1992Jul25.214711.29819@ncsu.edu> ktaslee@eos.ncsu.edu (KHURRAM  TASLEEM) writes:
>
>Does anyone knows the lyrics for the following two songs:
>   
>2) Yeh jo mohabbat hay, ye un ka hay Kaam
>   Mehbbob ka bas lete hue naam mar jae  (I don't know the name of the movie)

	This song is from the one and only "Kati Patang."  Gotta run for
now, but if no one else tackles the request in the meantime, I'll get to it 
afterwards.
					C ya,
					Sangita
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*"Man is a rational animal who always loses his         | Sangita Rani Jha    *
* temper when he is called upon to act in               | vimal@wpi.wpi.edu   *
* accordance with the dictates of reason." Osacar Wilde |                     *
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Newsgroups: rec.music.indian.misc
From: murthy@ecf.toronto.edu (MURTHY SAMNATHAN)
Subject: Request for Kabhi Kabhi lyrics, please
Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 17:00:22 GMT

I like the song Kabhi Kabhi very much and want to sing it to my girl, but 
I don't know all the words. I would appreciate it very much if someone could 
post the lyrics on this newsgroup.     
Much Obliged.

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**  C H A K T H E Y   P H A T T E Y ****
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.Sam

Newsgroups: rec.music.indian.misc
From: saxena@cs.rochester.edu (Prashant Saxena)
Subject: ijaazat
Organization: Computer Science Department University of Rochester
Distribution: world, usa
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 21:54:42 GMT

hi folks:
recently there was some discussion about Gulzar's prose set to 
music  - i'd mentioned "mera kuchh saaman" as one of the more
haunting songs of this genre that i had come across. i've decided
to post the lyrics of the song today.

it's difficult to appreciate the song divested of its music and
context...but here it is for you anyway. For those of you who are
unfamiliar with the movie, Rekha finds some stuff that once belonged
to her husband's friend Anooradha (an overcoat or scarf), and sends
it over to her. This song, sent as a telegram, is Anooradha's 
response to this gesture.

If you like good movies and/or good music, ijaazat is a must-see piece

-----------------------------------------------------------------
music: RDBurman
lyrics: Gulzar
voice: Asha Bhonsle 
----
mera kuchh saamaN
tumhare paas paDa hai

mera kuch...

o, saavan ke kuchh bheege bheege din
rakkhe haiN
o, aur mere ik khat meiN lipTi raat paDi hai

vo raat bujha do
mera vo samaaN lauTa do

mera kuch saamaN...

o, saavan ke kuchh...

vo raat bujha do...
----


patjhaD hai kuchh, hai na

o, patjhaD meiN kuch pattoN ke
girne ki aahaT
kaanoN meiN ik baar pehan ke lauT aayi thi
patjhaD ki vo shaakh abhi tak kaaNp rahi hai

vo shaakh hira(??) do, mera vo saamaN lauTa do

vo shaakh...
----


ek akeli chhatri meiN jab aadhe aadhe bheeg rahe the

ek akeli...
adhe sookhe, adhe geele, sookha to maiN le aayi thi,
geela man shayad bistar ke paas paDa ho,
vo bhijva do, mera vo samaaN lauTa do.
----


ek sau solah chand ki raateiN
ek tumhare kaandhe ka din

ek sau solah...

geeli mehNdi ki khushboo, 
jhhooTh mooTh ke shikve kuch,
jhooTh mooTh ke vaade bhi sab yaad kara dooN,
sab bhijva do, mera vo saamaN lauTa do.

ek ijaazat de do bas, 
jab isko dafnaaoNgi,
  meiN bhi vaheeN so jaooNgi,
     meiN bhi vaheeN so jaooNgi

------------------------------

enjoy, 
prashant
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
      Prashant Saxena          (saxena@cs.rochester.edu)
        Dept of Computer Science                        290 E River Rd, #21
        University of Rochester                         Rochester NY 14623-1212
        Rochester NY 14627  (716) 275-1174                       (716) 292-0268
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        "The woods are lovely, dark and deep. Period."
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From: kamathy@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Yogesh Kamath)
Newsgroups: rec.music.indian.misc
Subject: Re: NEED LYRICS, URGENTLY!!!!
Date: 29 Jul 92 05:31:46 GMT
Organization: University of Cincinnati


 I forgot one more staza of the song in my last mail, which goes..

Kal tujhko dekha tha
maine apne aangan main
jaise keh rahithi tum 
mujhe baandhon bandhan main
yeh kaisa rishta hai
yeh kaise sapne hai
begane ho kar bhi 
kyun lagte apne hai 
main soch main reheta hun
dar dar ke keheta hun
pal....


Yogesh.

email : kamathy@ucunix.san.uc.edu   or
        ykamath@uceng.uc.edu
From: saxena@cs.rochester.edu
Newsgroups: rec.music.indian.misc
Subject: Request for lyrics - repeat
Date: 22 Jul 92 15:34:32 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department University of Rochester

hi folks:
some time back, i had requested the lyrics for the "Saraswati Chandra" song

"ChhoD de saari duniya kisi ke liye, ye munaasib nahiN aadmi ke liye
 pyaar se bhi zaroori kayi kaam haiN, pyaar sab kuch nahiN zindagi ke liye"

and the "anpaDh" song

"aap ki nazaroN ne samjha pyaar ke kaabil hameiN
 dil ki ai dhaDkan thahar ja, mil gayi manzil hameiN"

Looks like this request got lost in the net traffic :->

waiting for the lyrics from the netintelligentia....
thanks,
-prashant
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      Prashant Saxena          (saxena@cs.rochester.edu)
        Dept of Computer Science                        290 E River Rd, #21
        University of Rochester                         Rochester NY 14623-1212
        Rochester NY 14627  (716) 275-1174                       (716) 292-0268
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        "The woods are lovely, dark and deep. Period."
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Newsgroups: rec.music.indian.misc
From: parrikar@csn.org (Rajan Parrikar)
Subject: Re: NEED LYRICS, URGENTLY!!!!
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 17:31:55 GMT

In article <1992Jul28.141416.6360@linus.mitre.org> vdoshi@smiley.mitre.org (Vinti Doshi) writes:
>In article <PBHAKTA.92Jul27221826@dante.nmsu.edu> pbhakta@nmsu.edu (BHAKTA) writes:
>>
>>Hi, I would really appreciate it if someone
>>out there could post the lyrics for the following
>>song:  
>>
>>"Pal pal dil ke paas, tum rehti ho,
>>Jeevan ????? ho, yeh kehti ho"
>>
>>This movie has Dharmendra and Rakhee in it.
>>It's somewhat an old movie.  
>>I would like it if someone can also tell 
>>me the name of the movie. 
>>
>>Thank you!!!
>
>Pal pal dil ke paas tum rehti ho
>Jeevan meethi pyaas yeh kehti ho
>Pal pal dil ke paas........
>
>1)  Kal tujhko dekha tha meine apne aangan mein
>    Jaise keh rahin theen tum mujeh baandh lo bandhan mein
>    Yeh kaisa rishta hai, yeh kaise sapne hain
>    Begaane ho kar bhi kyoon lagte apne hain
>    Mein soch mein rehta hoon, dar dar ke kehta hoon
>    Pal pal dil ke paas ...........
>
>2) Har shaam aankhon par tera aanchal lehraye
>   Har shaam yaadon ki baraat le aaye
        ^^^^^
        raat

Film: Blackmail
Music: Kalyanji-Anandji
Lyric: Indivar??

Rajan Parrikar
==============
email: parrikar@mimicad.colorado.edu





Newsgroups: rec.music.indian.misc
From: parrikar@csn.org (Rajan Parrikar)
Subject: Re: Unusual Taals (was Asymmetric Taals)
Keywords: Taal, Roopak, Asymmetric
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 19:46:30 GMT

In article <1992Jul24.163403.12318@nynexst.com> naik@nynexst.com (Jay Naik) writes:
>

***deleted***

> 			
>  Kawwali taal has eight beats; at least it did in my (former) neighborhood 
>anyway.  4|4, Sam/tAlI on the 1st beat and khAlI on the 5th.  
>         sample ThekA    :    dhA  dhin  dhAge  trika | tA tin tAke trika

That's correct. I know the above tHekA as that of Kawwali.

***deleted***


>    A variant of teentAl, addhA taal, also of 16 beats 4|4|4|4| is sometimes 
>    played instead of teentAl; its basic ThekA is :
>     dhA dhin - dhA | dhA dhin - dhA | tA tin - tA | dhA dhin - dhA |

In my neighbourhood, the above was also known as "TrivaT".

>      
>     for ex. the Manna Dey classic, "poocho na, kaise maine rain bitaaI" 

which is based in Raga Ahir Bhairav or his "Aayo kahaan se Ghanshyam...." 
from BudHA MIl GayA. 

Rajan Parrikar
==============
email: parrikar@mimicad.colorado.edu


>
>
>  Cheers,
>-------------------
> Jayant Naik
>
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 19:43:14 EDT
From: Girish Harshe <GRH6@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.music.indian.misc
Subject: Re: Lyrics Requested

In article <13315@ns-mx.uiowa.edu>, ravid@herky.cs.uiowa.edu (Ravi Dronamraju )
says:
>
>This is a song by Rafi....
>
>        Main ek raja  hoon , too ek raani hain
>        prem nagar ki yeh ek sundar prem kahaani hain...
>
>I donot know the name of movie but it stars
>Jaya Bhaduri as a innocent bengaali girl (NOT Baalika Bandhu)
>It has some obscure actor in the lead.....
>
>Would be grateful to anybody who can post the lyrics...
>
>-Ravi

The song is from the movie Upahar(*Jaya Bhaduri, and I think it was
Swarup Anand).

Girish

Newsgroups: rec.music.indian.misc
From: naik@nynexst.com (Jay Naik)
Subject: Re: Unusual Taals (was Asymmetric Taals)
Keywords: Taal, Roopak, Asymmetric
Organization: Nynex Science and Technology
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 16:34:03 GMT


>From: pavan@atto.cs.umn.edu (A.Pavan)
>Message-ID: <1992Jul21.164850.1943@news2.cis.umn.edu>
>There are songs in 14 beats (3+4+3+4) in Taals like Deepchandi, Chanchar and 
>Kawwali...
>This song is in Chanchar or Kawwali Taal eseentially a variant of Deepchandi. 
                             ^^^^^^^
			
  Kawwali taal has eight beats; at least it did in my (former) neighborhood 
anyway.  4|4, Sam/tAlI on the 1st beat and khAlI on the 5th.  
         sample ThekA    :    dhA  dhin  dhAge  trika | tA tin tAke trika

>There are also songs in Jhap Taal (10 beats, divided as 2+3+2+3)...
	
   Some more in Jhap :

   "aawaaz de ke mujhe tum bulaao" Movie: Professor  (Rafi)
   "bahaaron ne meraa chaman loot kar"  Movie:??   (Mukesh)
   "bhai bhanjana vandana" Movie: Basant Bahar  (Manna Dey)

   And in Roopak : 

   "jaag darde ishq jaag dil ko bekaraar kar, Movie: Anarkali (Hemant K.)
   "piyaa tose nainaa laage re", Movie: Guide, (Lata)
   "ApkI nazaron ne samjhaa", Lata 
   "tujhe kyaa sunaU mai dilrubaa", Rafi
   "meghaa chhaaye aadhI raat", 
   "O basanti pavan paagal", Lata 

    Another rarely used taal in filmi music is chArtAl (or chautAl) of
    12 beats. 4|4|2|2| (popular pakhAvaj taal) Sample Theka : 

      dhA dhA di tA | tiTa dhA di ta | tiTa kata | gadi gina|
      "sapta suran teen graama", Movie: Tansen (K.L. Saigal)

    A variant of teentAl, addhA taal, also of 16 beats 4|4|4|4| is sometimes 
    played instead of teentAl; its basic ThekA is :
     dhA dhin - dhA | dhA dhin - dhA | tA tin - tA | dhA dhin - dhA |
      
     for ex. the Manna Dey classic, "poocho na, kaise maine rain bitaaI" 


  Cheers,
-------------------
 Jayant Naik
From: anantk@pollux.usc.edu (Anant Kumar)
Newsgroups: rec.music.indian.misc
Subject: Re: compact discs
Date: 27 Jul 1992 10:17:42 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: pollux.usc.edu

10702946@eng2.eng.monash.edu.au (PARTH DESAI) writes:

>I dont know much about CD technology but,i would like to know if anyone has 
>any experiences with indian compact discs (HMV,ESQUIRE) and their quality.
>thanks.

I have bought a couple of Indian CD's and was very disappointed with
the quality. HMV/EMI, I do not remember what label it is, right now, have
made no attempts to remaster the soundtracks and hence the sound
quality is as bad as listening to a tape. The only consolation is that
it can get no worse!

The new movie tracks/ other albums that are recorded digitally in the
first place might be worth it but i would definitely not recommend
old songs on CD, at least until they start filtering out the noise.

-anant
Newsgroups: rec.music.indian.misc
From: ktaslee@eos.ncsu.edu (KHURRAM  TASLEEM)
Subject: Free Opinion Wanted
Originator: ktaslee@c00169-100lez.eos.ncsu.edu
Reply-To: ktaslee@eos.ncsu.edu (KHURRAM  TASLEEM)
Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 21:51:29 GMT


Has anyone has seen the new movies:
1) Ek Larka Ek Larki.
2) Nischay

Any comments are welcome.
Newsgroups: rec.music.indian.misc
Subject: Re: NEED LYRICS, URGENTLY!!!!
From: kamathy@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Yogesh Kamath)
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 05:26:09 GMT
Organization: University of Cincinnati

This song is from the movie Black mail *ing Dharmendra and Rakhee.
The song goes like this.It is sung by Kishore.

Pal Pal dil ke paas
tum rehti ho,
Jeevan meethi pyaas, yeh kehti ho
Pal Pal..

har shaam ankon par
tera aanchal leheraye
har raat yaadon ki
baraat le aaye
main saans leta hun
teri khushboo aathi hai
ek meheka meheka sa
peghaam laati hai
mere dil ki dhadkan bhi
tere geet gaati hai
Pal....

tum sochogi kyun itna
main tumse pyaar karun
tum samjhogi deewana 
main bhi ikraar karun
deewanon ki yeh baaten 
deewane jante hai
jalne main kya maza hai
parwane jante hai
tum yoon hi jalate rehena
aa aa kar khwabon main
pal pal ..
 
Hope there are not very many errors, as I am quoting this from memory.

Enjoy..

Yogesh.

email : kamathy@ucunix.san.uc.edu   or
        ykamath@uceng.uc.edu
From: bharat@ccvax.ucd.ie
Newsgroups: rec.music.indian.misc
Subject: Re: Request for Lyrics
Date: 28 Jul 92 09:38:53 GMT
Organization: University College Dublin

In article <14v5ifINNbh6@agate.berkeley.edu>, sunita@olympus.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Sunita Sarawagi) writes:
> Hi,
> 	Does anyone know the lyrics for the following song....
> 
> 	"Diwaroon se milkar rona achha lagta hai
> 	Humbhi pagal ho jayenge, aisa lagta hai"
> 
> 	sung by Pankaj Udhas?
> 
> 	Thanks in advance.
> 
> sunita.
 
Kitane dino ke pyase honge yaro soncho to -2,
shubnum ka katara bhi jinko dariya lagata hai, hum bhi pagal.... 
 
ankho ko le dooba ye dil ka pagal pan -2,
aate jate har ik chehara apana lagata hai, hum bhi pagal ho .... 
 
kisako 'kaisar' patthar mare kaun paraya hai -2,
sheesh mahal me har ik chehara apana lagata hai, hum bhi pagal...
                    ---------------------------
                      not sure........ 
 
 o o
  |  ?
  =--U

- always curious
From: vprasad@uoft02.utoledo.edu
Newsgroups: rec.music.indian.misc
Subject: Re: QUIZ TIME VIII - Corrections?
Date: 28 Jul 92 13:30:42 GMT
Organization: University of Toledo, Computer Services

In article <1992Jul27.215346.4356@athena.mit.edu>, rgshenoi@athena.mit.edu
(Rajesh G Shenoi) writes:
> I got the following mail from 
>>        U must note the fact that Rajeev wasnt born when this song was
>>picturised. It was Raj Kapoor's daughter who was in it not Rajeev.
>>There is a daughter born to Raj between randhir and rishi
>>It was said so in the documentary on Raj.
>>FYi
> Can anyone corroborate?
> Shenoi

	Yes, the three children on which the song "Pyar hua.." was picturised
	were Raj Kapoor's daughter (Karishma Kapoor?) and Dabboo (Randhir)
	and Chintoo (Rishi).

	Siva Prasad.			vprasad@uoft02.utoledo.edu
Newsgroups: rec.music.indian.misc
From: surender@enuxha.eas.asu.edu (Sudeep Surender)
Subject: QUIZTIME VII
Keywords: Another one
Organization: Arizona State University
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 23:17:39 GMT


	Continuing in the thread of "whats common between these songs ?"
	Let me repeat . Whats common between these songs:

	1. Bombay se aaya mera Dost.

	2. Kar Chalen, Hum phida Jaan aur tan saathiyon, Ab tumare
	   havale watan saateeyon.

	It's not too simple !!

						Sudeep Surender

 
Newsgroups: rec.music.indian.misc
From: rgshenoi@athena.mit.edu (Rajesh G Shenoi)
Subject: QUIZ TIME VIII
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 01:16:07 GMT

Hi Janta,
	What is the connection between the first song and the next three 
songs?  It is on the picturisation.

1. "Pyar hua, ikraar hua hai, pyar se phir kyu darta hai dil.."

2. "Jaane jigar duniya mein tu sab se hasin hai, teri jaise aur yahan
 koyi nahin hai..."

3. "Pakdo, pakdo pakdo, Jhakdo, jhakdo, jhakdo,..."

4. "Yaad teri aayegi, mujhko bada satayegi, zid ye jhooti teri meri jaan
  leke jayagi..."

Have fun,
Shenoi
Newsgroups: rec.music.indian.misc
From: dst@kepler.unh.edu (Dinesh S. Thakur)
Subject: Re: QUIZ TIME V
Organization: University of New Hampshire  -  Durham, NH
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 12:54:32 GMT

>Hello Janta,
>	Something interesting.  What is common to these three songs.

>1. "Ding Dong, O baby sing a song.."
>2. "Tera naam liya,O, Tujhe yaad kiya, O.."
>3. "Imli ka buta, beri ka ped, imli khatti, meethe ber.."

>	There may be more than one commonality.

>Have fun,
>Shenoi

  Subhash Ghai

  dinesh


Newsgroups: rec.music.indian.misc
From: 10702946@eng2.eng.monash.edu.au (PARTH DESAI)
Subject: compact discs
Organization: Faculty of Engineering, Monash University 
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 01:32:56 GMT

I dont know much about CD technology but,i would like to know if anyone has 
any experiences with indian compact discs (HMV,ESQUIRE) and their quality.
thanks.


PARTH.
Newsgroups: rec.music.indian.misc
From: pradeep@watson.ibm.com (Pradeep Dubey)
Subject: taal question
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 20:39:01 GMT
Reply-To: pradeep@calcutta.watson.ibm.com (Pradeep Dubey)
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Hello Tabla Masters:
What is the taal (hoe many beats? name?) used in the follwoing Ghulam Ali song:
Jinke hothon pe hansi paaon mein chaale honge 
Haan wohi log tere chahne waale honge ...

It seems like some complicated taal to me but then I am no expert.
Thanks a lot,
Pradeep
Newsgroups: rec.music.indian.classical
From: tmcfarla@fraser.sfu.ca (Tara McFarlane)
Subject: Re: Info on Indian Classical music CDs?
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 16:05:46 GMT

the nimbus label has an excellent classical indian music series. some of the
musicians featured include hariprasad chaurasia, shivkumar sharma, l.
subramaniam, salamat ali khan, imrat khan, etc. the series used to be
exclusively hindustani and instrumental, but it is branching out into vocal
and carnatic music. for qawwali the best cds i've found are on the realworld
label there's a few by nusrat fateh ali khan and one by the sabri bros.
if you wish to keep things traditional beware of the nusrat cd, 'mustt mustt'.
much better in the style of 'mustt mustt' is an excellent tape i picked up
in ajmer last month. it features what appears to be extended remixes of some
of the songs on 'mustt mustt'. it sounds quite unlike anything else i heard 
while in india so my guess is that it may be a pirated copy of something 
produced in the west for future realworld release. 
Newsgroups: rec.music.indian.classical
From: srini@engin.umich.edu (Srinivasan Pichumani)
Subject: MDR's mangaLam -- a veritable smorgasbord
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 16:34:29 EDT
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor

Continuing on the MDR thread -- the mangaLam that MDR used to render
was a veritable smorgasbord. It was yet another enjoyable part of his music
in contrast to the customary hurried rendition of it by other musicians.
Also, his antics like imploring people to sit (and not shuffle around
packing their bags, dusting their dhotis/sarees, in preparation for their
exit) with a wave of his hands used to contribute to the merriment.

Only later when I heard this mangaLam on a cassette, did I have the time
to see that it was a big stew of sorts. He would throw in at least 3 
charanams of the standard mangaLam for good effect
(pavamAna sutudu pattu; sometimes he
would start at the proper beginning of this song "nI nAma rupamulaku"
and render all the 6 or so charanams of this kIrtana);
then a dash of "alakalallalAdaga gani" in madyamAvati would follow -- 
specifically,
he would render the charanam beginning with "munikanu chaiga delisi",
then the last stanza of "bhAvayAmi raghurAmam" beginning with 
"kalita vara setu bandham", and then the slokam "shriya kAntAya...."

By the time he was done, he would have taken up 10 minutes. In one
concert at Bangalore, which I heard on cassette, he even threatens
to prolong the mangaLam if people don't behave and sit in their seats
till he ends the prayer for "benediction". You can hear him muttering
aloud "it is not fair", referring to the fact that people were packing
up and leaving just as the mangaLam started.

--Srini.
From: pjn@mimsy.cs.umd.edu (P. J. Narayanan)
Newsgroups: rec.music.indian.classical
Subject: Re: Bringing Appreciation of MDR to the conscious level
Date: 28 Jul 92 20:06:02 GMT
Reply-To: pjn@cs.umd.edu
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
In-reply-to: srini@engin.umich.edu's message of 23 Jul 92 22:18:53 GMT


	MDR was surely a unique musician. He was a highly
"intellectual" musician and paid close attention to the meaning of the
piece being sung in addition to its ragam and talam. The fact that he
started learning music at an age of 21 after acquiring an engineering
degree might have something to do with that. He often added/modified
the words of the kriti appropriately in the middle. His rendition of
the shLOkams from nArayaNIyam was very famous -- he often
twisted/added the samskrUta-poetry of it effectively, I am told.

-MDR was a professional musician and a teacher/principal of the music
-department at KalAskhetra all his life. I don't know the names of his 
-disciples.He did compose quite a few varnams,kritis,tillAnas etc(about 300
-or so is the number I have seen mentioned);he used the mudra"varadadAsa(n)".

	I read an interview with him about 10 years back in which he
mentioned that he had no disciples. He even added that not anyone can
be taken as a disciple; the disciple has to "match" the guru. His
relationship with Tiger Varadarachari was one of perfect match -- MDR
claimed he got squint-eyed trying to follow Tiger in every detail. (I
guess from this statement that Tiger was squint-eyed). Thus, I don't
think there's anyone who can claim to be MDR's disciple. Who else is
a disciple of Tiger?

-What happened was that after 1981, when violinist T.N.Krishnan
-blatantly canvassed the Experts committee of the Music Academy for the 
-title,

	Is this true? Can you post some more info on this, Srini?

-the Music Academy Awards committee instituted a somewhat quixotic rule 
--- that one from each of the Southern States will be awarded the title in 
-succession (I guess, regardless of their overall merit, seniority, & service 
-to the cause of Carnatic music); and the awardee, I think, was to be
-chosen by ballot, with all the members of the Music Academy participating.

	That is a strange rule indeed. There are very few musicians from
states other than TN anyway (what do they count? Place of birth or place
where they live?). Do they try to follow this still?

-MDR was in contention for the award in the 83-84 season; however,
-he was overlooked and the award went to Sripada PinAkapANI [the guru
-of NedanUrI, Voleti, NUkala Chinna SatyanArAyaNa etc]; and MDR passed away
-in May 1984.

	Again, isn't PinAkapANi from Andhra? How could be clash with
MDR -- who could be from TN or Kerala -- if the above rule was in effect?
Can you clarify, Srini?

	MDR was a very deserving of the sangIta kalAnidhi title. It is
sad that he never received it. However, there are many deserving
musicians today that if one awards only one SK per year, some might
never get it before they die. Does/Should the sangIta kalAnidhi title
favour older musicians and/or vocalists over others? I don't know.

PJN