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Purvi Devi
Purvi or Poorvi () is a raga in Hindustani classical music that exemplifies its own thaat, the Poorvi thaat. Purvi has a deeply serious, quiet and somewhat mystical character. It is uncommon in performances nowadays. Aroha & Avaroha Arohana: Thus: C D-flat E F-sharp G A-flat B C+ In German: C Des E Fis G Aes H C+ In ''Arohana'', S and P are often avoided, specially in fast taans. Avarohana: Vadi & Samavadi Vadi : Ga Samvadi : Ni Pakad or Chalan Organization & Relationships Thaat: Purvi is the main raga of Purvi Thaat. Samay (Time) 4th Prahar of the day (3pm-6pm) Film Songs Language: Hindi Language: Tamil Related Ragas Puriya Dhanashree Rasa Raga-Kalpadruma: Charming and beautiful, scantily dressed, lotus-eyed Puravi appears at the end of the day. Idle and sleepy, she suffers from the pangs of separation and dreams only of her lover.Kaufmann 1968 Cattvarimsacchata-Raga-Nirupanam: Master of archery, seated on an elephant and dressed in w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poorvi (thaat)
Purvi or poorvi is one of the ten basic thaats of Hindustani music from the Indian subcontinent. It is also the name of a raga within this thaat A ''thaat'' () is a "parent scale" in North Indian or Hindustani music. It is the Hindustani equivalent of the term '' Melakartha raga'' of Carnatic music. The concept of the ''thaat'' is not exactly equivalent to the western musical scal .... Description Poorvi thaat adds a Komal Dhaivat to Marva thaat. These thaat ragas usually feature komal Rishabh, shuddha Gandhar and Shuddha Nishad along with teevra Madhyam, the note which distinguishes evening from the morning ragas (dawn and sunset). The thaat raga Poorvi is deeply serious, quiet and mysterious in character and is performed at the time of sunset. Pictorial depictions in early texts, often mention the poise, grace, and charm of Poorvi. Ragas Ragas in Poorvi thaat include: * Poorvi * Puriya Dhanashree * Gauri * Shree * Paraj * Basant * Lalit References Hin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apoorva Raagangal
''Apoorva Raagangal'' ( ) is a 1975 Indian Tamil-language romantic drama film written and directed by K. Balachander. It stars Kamal Haasan, Sundarrajan, Srividya and Jayasudha, while Nagesh and Rajinikanth, in his feature film debut, play supporting roles. The film revolves around Prasanna (Haasan) who falls in love with the much older Bhairavi (Srividya) while Bhairavi's daughter Ranjani (Jayasudha) is drawn to Prasanna's father Mahendran (Sundarrajan). ''Apoorva Raagangal''s theme was based on a riddle featured in the Indian folktale collection '' Vetala Panchavimshati'' about a king marrying a woman and his son marrying her mother, and Vetala, the riddler asking Vikramaditya what would be their kinship relations if these couples were to beget children. The film was produced by V. Govindarajan and J. Duraisamy under the Kalakendra Films banner, photographed by B. S. Lokanath and edited by N. R. Kittu; the music was composed by M. S. Viswanathan. Unlike many contemporane ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madhu Balakrishnan
Madhu Balakrishnan (born 24 June 1974) is an Indian playback singer who primarily sings in Malayalam. He has also sung songs in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada languages. He has sung over 10 thousand songs in films and several devotional albums. Personal life Madhu Balakrishnan was born on 24 June 1974 to the late Balakrishnan (d. 1987) and Leelavathy at Paravur in Eranakulam. His earlier life was at Koratty, near Chalakudy, Thrissur. He completed his schooling in Mar Augustine Memorial Higher Secondary School, Koratty. He was inspired by his mother to take up music. Later he shifted to Paravur, his native place. He is married to Divya, elder sister of Indian cricketer S.Sreesanth. The couple has two sons - Madhav and Mahadev. List of songs Devotional Private album by Musical Bee Productions Malayalam Tamil Kannada Telugu Television **All shows are in Malayalam television unless noted ;Reality shows as Judge Malayalam Television series title song Awards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pithamagan
''Pithamagan'' () is a 2003 Indian Tamil language, Tamil-language action film, action crime drama film written and directed by Bala (director), Bala. The film stars Vikram (actor), Vikram, Suriya, Laila (actress), Laila and Sangeetha Krish, Sangeetha, with Karunas, Karunaas, Manobala, Mahadevan (actor), Mahadevan. In the film, a boy raised in a graveyard with no understanding of the world forms a bond with a conman. ''Pithamagan'' was released on 24 October 2003. The film became a success and Vikram won numerous accolades for his performance, including the National Film Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. It was remade in Kannada as ''Anatharu'' (2007). Plot An anonymous woman dies while giving birth in a graveyard. Her child, Chithan, is found and raised by the caretaker of the graveyard. Chithan grows up among corpses with minimal human contact and is seemingly autistic. He growls, runs like a beast, but seems to understand loyalty and is a social animal. He ventures in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jikki
Pillavalu Gajapathy Krishnaveni (3 November 1935 – 16 August 2004), more famously known as Jikki, was an Indian playback singer from Andhra Pradesh. She sang around 10,000 songs in Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Sinhalese, and Hindi languages. Early life Jikki was born in Chennai on November 3rd, 1935. Her parents, Gajapathi Naidu and Rajakanthamma, a Telugu family, had moved from Chandragiri, near Tirupati in Andhra Pradesh to Chennai for their livelihood. Her uncle, Devaraju Naidu, worked as a music composer with the celebrated Kannada theatre legend and movie pioneer Gubbi Veeranna and this introduced the young Jikki to the music and film world. Career Krishnaveni began her career as a child artist in 1943 and played a minor role in a Telugu movie named ''Panthulamma'', directed by Gudavalli Ramabrahmam. In 1946, she appeared in the movie ''Mangalasutram'', a remake of a Hollywood movie ''Excuse Me''. She was already being noted for her musical prowess and her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vattathukkul Chaduram
''Vattathukkul Chaduram'' () is a 1978 Indian Tamil-language female buddy film, directed by S. P. Muthuraman and written by Panchu Arunachalam. Based on the novel of the same name by Maharishi, the film stars Latha, Sumithra, Srikanth and Sarath Babu. It depicts the depth of friendship shared between the characters Anu and Malathy. The film was released on 29 July 1978, and Latha won the Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Tamil. Plot Anu falls in love with Karthik, the brother of her best friend Malathy from childhood. Karthik doesn't like her, since she was born out of wedlock. Malathy has always done well in school and wishes to continue studying further. Kartik and Malathy's mother tries to get her married. Anu suggests that she could take her along to Chennai, where she could continue studying while Anu pursues a dancing career. Anu has to compromise and get along with her hotel managers to get a dancing contract to earn money to educate Malathy. Meanwhile, Malathy's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Illayaraja
Ilaiyaraaja (born R. Gnanathesikan) is an Indian musician, composer, arranger, conductor, orchestrator, multi-instrumentalist, lyricist and playback singer popular for his works in Indian cinema, predominately in Tamil in addition to Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada and Hindi films. Regarded as one of the most prolific composers, in a career spanning over forty-nine years, he has composed over 8,600 songs, provided film scores for about 1,523 feature films in nine languages, and performed in over 20,000 concerts. He is nicknamed "Isaignani" (the musical sage) and is often referred to as "Maestro", the title conferred to him by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London. Ilaiyaraaja was one of the first Indian film composers to use Western classical music harmonies and string arrangements in Indian film music,Venkatraman, S. 1995. "Film music: the new intercultural idiom of 20th century Indian music". pp. 107–112 in A. Euba and C.T. Kimberlin (eds.). ''Intercultural Music Vol. I''. Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ninaivellam Nithya
''Ninaivellam Nithya'' () is a 1982 Indian Tamil-language romance film written and directed by C. V. Sridhar. The film stars Karthik and Gigi, in her only acting role. It was released on 18 June 1982. Plot Chandru, a young and carefree man visits an estate on a hill region along with his friend Thyagu. He meets Nithya, a local girl. At first they have a bit of stand offs but eventually they fall in love. At a time, when their love affair is known to the girl's family, the whole village joins hands to separate them, but Chandru and Nithya escape to Chandru's hometown. Chandru was of the opinion that his father, a well to do businessman will support him, but he turns Chandru and Nithya away. Chandru and Nithya temporarily stay with Chandru's other friend. What happens to both of them forms the balance of the story. Cast * Karthik as Chandru * Gigi as Nithya * Nizhalgal Ravi as Thyagu * Nithershan Kugenesan Production Gigi, a daughter of Gemini Ganesan, made her acting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mano (singer)
Nagoor Shaheb, known by his stage name Mano, is an Indian playback singer, voice-over artist, actor, and composer. Mano has recorded more than 35,000 songs for film and private various Telugu language, Telugu, Tamil language, Tamil, Bengali language, Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam, Hindi, Tulu language, Tulu, Konkani language, Konkani and Assamese language, Assamese films. He has also performed for over 3000 live concerts across the continents. He has recorded many songs for music director Ilaiyaraaja. Mano is also recognized for being as the full-fledged dubbing artist for Rajinikanth in Telugu from Muthu (film), ''Muthu'' (1995) onwards. Career Early days and debut Taking the criticism in his stride, Mano went on recording as many as 500 songs with Ilaiyaraaja and slowly branched out to sing for other Tamil composers as well. Voice-over dubbing The year 1995 also saw another face of Mano as the voice-over dubbing artist in the Tamil film industry. He dubbed his voice for alm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vaidehi Kalyanam
''Vaidehi Kalyanam'' () is a 1991 Indian Tamil-language drama film directed by Manivasagam. The film stars R. Sarathkumar, Rekha, Ramarjun and Uthra, with Delhi Ganesh, Goundamani, Senthil, Ilavarasan and Kavitha playing supporting roles. It was released on 11 July 1991. Plot Rajamanickam is the village chief and he is respected among the villagers. He has two daughters : Gowri and Vaidehi. Gowri is married to a rich drunkard who beats her while Vaidehi is a college student. Later, Rajamanickam's servant Chinnasamy's son Kalyanam and Vaidehi fall in love with each other. In the meantime, the doctor Krishnamoorthy comes to Rajamanickam's village and Rajamanickam loans him a clinic. The school teacher Vasanthi has a boy but has no husband, they live near Kalyanam's house. Vasanthi advises Kalyanam to not elope with Vaidehi but to marry her with Rajamanickam's blessing. In the past, Rajamanickam was the manager of a textile company. Rajamanickam and Vasanthi had an affair but V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hariharan (singer)
Hariharan Anantha Subramani (born 3 April 1955) is an Indian people, Indian playback singer, playback, bhajan and ghazal singer who predominantly sings in Tamil language, Tamil, Malayalam, Hindi, Kannada and Telugu language, Telugu languages. He has also sung over 15,000 notable songs in 10+ languages including Marathi language, Marathi, Sinhala language, Sinhala, Maithili language, Maithili, Bhojpuri language, Bhojpuri, Odia language, Odia, Bengali language, Bengali, Sanskrit, Gujarati language, Gujarati and English language, English. He is an established ghazal singer and one of the pioneers of Indian fusion music. Hariharan is widely regarded as one of the greatest playback singers in Indian cinema. In 2004, he was honoured with the Padma Shri by the Government of India and is a two-time National Film Awards, National Award winner. Hariharan, associating with Lesle Lewis (composer), Lesle Lewis, formed the duo Colonial Cousins. They have cut many private music albums and als ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hello (1999 Film)
''Hello'' is a 1999 Indian Tamil-language romantic drama film directed and written by K. Selva Bharathy. The film stars Prashanth and Preeti Jhangiani. It was released on 7 November 1999. Plot Chandru works in a flower shop. He tries to woo girls and enter into a relationship, but it does not materialise. His friends tease him for being unable to find a girlfriend. Chandru has a plan to prevent them making fun of him. He requests his close friend Gayathri to come to the temple along with some of her friends so he would introduce her as his girlfriend to his friends. Chandru takes his friends with him to temple with plans of introducing Gayatri's friend as his lover. Unfortunately, Gayatri does not turn up that day, and Chandru simply points out a girl among the crowd in the temple as his lover to his friends. Chandru pretends as if he is talking frequently over phone to his lover so that his friends would believe him. Suresh is Charle's friend who comes to Chennai to visit a g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
