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Report : Balu bay area tour
Sep 14, 2008 - 8:39:58 AM
By Srini Chimata
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Balu reminisced a Keeravani's joke on a mass song (that he was next going to sing) saying that people after 20 years from now would believe that "Balu tAtayya and Chitra nAyanamma" had sung a beautiful classical song. With a great enthusiasm, Balu and Chitra sang "bangAru kODi peTTa" song from gharAnA moguDu movie.

Balu then talked about a very ordinary man that came from a remote place in Tamil Nadu and gradually became an awesome music director not just only in the whole South India, but also got noticed in the North India. Balu and Sailaja sang "priyatamA.. nannu palakarinchu praNayamA" song from jagadEka veeruDu-atilOka sundari movie. Balu again spoke really high about Veturi's talent by mentioning the words in the songs such as "rAyalEni bhAsha lO enni prEma lEkhalO" and "vennellalE vachhi vEda mantramAyE".

Now Balu introduced all the Orchstra members (Venu Raju, Bala Raju, Murthy, Swamy, Ravi Sankar, Alexander, Srinivas, Praveen, Chinna etc). He complimented the keyboard Chinna that he has become an obvious choice for all Telugu Musical concerts held in the US and that he would better buy a house next to the White house to avoid the frequent back-and-forth travelling from India. Balu said that most of the audiences and orchestra are from Hyderabad and hence his sister was going to sing a song that would satisfy all of them. Sailaja then sang "nAmpalli Station kADa rAjA lingO" song from erra mallelu movie.

Balu then explained the meaning of the word "karNATaka" (karNa + aTaka = chevulaku impaina). Ilaya Raja proved that the classical music (sampradAya sangeetam) can also beautifully be adapted to the commerical movies and one such best example is a song from geetAjali. Chitra wonderfully sang "jallantA kavvinta kAvAlilE" song. Chitra was all smiley and energetic through out all her songs. Balu said that the audiences were probably wondering as to why he was showering so much praise on Ilaya Raja and Keeravani. He then questioned who else would be there to match such talent.

He then mentioned that there is one more "ANimutyam" other than Veturi in the present generation and that is none other than Sirivennela. Balu felt happy to learn that Sirivennela had recently (Aug, 2008) been felicitated in the Silicon Valley. Balu and Chitra sang "telusA manasA.." song from criminal.

Balu noted that Radha Krishnan is one of the very few talented young music directors and two songs were sung one after another from gOdAvari movie. While Balu sang "uppongE gOdAvari" song, Sri Krishna and Sailaja gave the chorus voice. Then Sri Krishna and Chitra sang "yamunA teeram.. sandhyA rAgam" song.

Balu and Sailaja sang "vEdam.. aNuvaNuvuna nAdam" song. When Balu asked the audiences if they needed a 10-minute break, most of them preferred to continue the show with no recess.

Balu quoted that there were a few instances that people got positivley inspired after watching the movies in the old times and that there is an argument today that the current generation movies are doing more harm to the society than any good. If we put such controvertial comments aside, we could still see a few songs that have highly inspired the people. Chitra beautifully sang "mounam gAnE edagamani" song from My Autograph movie.

Then Balu mentioned that Chiru did an awesome job for bangAru kODipeTTa song and one such song mass melody is "balapam paTTi bhAma vaLLO" song from bobbili rAjA movie. Both Balu and Chitra sang the song together.

Balu said it was time for a serious song and he sang (along with Sailaja and Sri Krishna as chorus), "mAtRu dEvObhava anna sUkti" song from pAnDu rangaDu movie. He mentioned that the lyricist, Suddhala Ashok Teja did an awesome job and complimented him on the usage of some pada prayOgam like "ammaku, brahmaku" in the song. Balu thanked K Raghavendra Rao to let him sing that wonderful song.

Sri Krishna then requested Balu to allow him to do some jalsA with the audiences. He then sang the vibrant Jalsa title song while receiving a big encouragement from the audiences.

Sailaja sang "manasA.. tuLLipaDakE" song from Sreevaariki prEma lEkha movie. Balu recalled that Jandhyala was a director with a great music taste.

Then Balu and Chitra sang "abba nee teeyani debba" song, while Sailaja and Sri Krishna joined them in the chorus.

Balu opined that a song picturization means a lot to elevate some songs. If we have an excellent combination of a great writer plus music director plus singers and if such songs are picturized beautifully by directors with good taste, they would be alive forever and one such example is "O priyA.. priyA" song geetAnjali movie. Balu and Chitra sang this song.

Chitra and Sri Krishna then sang a song, "paDDAnanDi prEmalO mari" from Student # 1 movie.

Balue requested the audiences not to take his request (of solacing their kids and thereby not diverting the singers' concentration) in a wrong note. When a few Chiru fans shouted for Chiru Songs, Balu humbly said that he would never go by the artists' list, but only by the song list. Balu and Chitra then sang "ennO rAtrulostAyi kAni" song from dharmakshEtram movie.

Now Vijaya Aasuri gAru came on to the dais requesting the audiences for a small break to felicitate the sponsors of the event. All sponsors were called on to the dais and each of them was hand-shaken by SP Balu gAru.

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