Kishore's best..

Up with one more old hindi number. This is one of my fav romantic melody.. One of Kishore kumar's best hits too. It is from the movie "Blackmail" - Dharmendra is the hero and heroine is Rakhee, the "Kabhi Kabhi mere dil mein" fame actress.. Old is gold! Chk out my version uploaded on my jukebox.

Raja's melody

Yet another beautiful score by Ilayaraja after his come-back was this one. The movie was a huge hit too! One more movie for Vikram for proving himself. And in this one he had to prove it without delivering even a single dialog all through the movie! He won the Silver Lotus Award as the Best Actor in the 2004 National Film Awards (India). I liked Surya's performance in it though ;-) My version is on the jukebox. Enjoy! Here's the original song too.

Guzarish..

If it is Hariharan in Tamil for me, then it is Sonu Nigam in Hindi.. There's none to beat him in romantic and sad melodies.. He is good at other genres as well. But there's so much life in his voice when it comes to very expressive songs. There are so many of his songs that I completely enjoy even today. Ones that I remember right now are Tanhayee, Khamoshiyan gungunane lagi, Rabba mere rabba, Saathiya, Main Agar kahoon.. the list goes on.. One of them in his latest hit-list is Guzarish from the movie Ghajini. Although he has sung this along with Javed Ali, it is obvious why they wanted Sonu had to sing some parts of this song in between! Coz there's no other voice which could it so well.. 


And I love this song for Aamir is my fav hero as well.

My Guzarish is on my jukebox. Sonu's Guzarish is here..

Whistling enthusiast!

Ok.. Finally my husband agrees to at least whistle for me ;-) I've been persuading him to sing a song for me since a long time.. He sings really well, but just doesn't do it when we want!! Grr.. he's quite moody about it. But somehow I pulled him in this time and he has whistled a full song for me while I strummed it along. Its a very beautiful song with good electric guitar effects and one of Ilayaraja's best compositions.. I've uploaded our instrumental version in my jukebox. Peep in!

Queen of carnatic world in Austin

Wowwww... we were so contented to see her and listen her sing yesterday evening. The auditorium was overflowing with crowd. The IFA (India Fine Arts) organizer got a citation from the university police as the auditorium capacity was less than the crowd present inside! Beautiful light and sound arrangements, such grace on her face, she was looking so elegant. There was not a single soul inside which stopped shaking the head or tapping the hands for even one moment. And the way she kept the audience bound to her, she even humbly requested people not to leave for any pause in between! Bombay Jayashree.. her majestic self in Austin!

The door was closed for 3 hours and we were not expected to leave.. And she made it meaningful through her amazing brigas and her overwhelming vocal talent! She sang continously with not even a drop of water or nothing to rest herself. And even after 3 hours of it, she still looked like, "I'm ready for more!" Astounding performance.. 

Even the violinist Mr. Bhaskar and the Mridangist and the youngboy on Ganjeera were rocking. It was so mind blowing to see her simply challenging the instrumentalists around her, who also did their best to match her. Me and my husband, both of us are her great fans. Even in the cine world, she is famous for singing melodies in her base voice. We were really glad to see her performing in Austin. This was her first visit here after 15 yrs! And the next visit is planned after six yrs only! Me getting her autograph in the pic here.. This was the first time I met her too ;-)

Airtel super singer Junior 2010 - Grand finale - Alka wins the title!

Alka at her best!! No words to say.. She has crossed all our expectations! Dressed like a queen, she won her crown too! She did it..

Brilliant!! Here's the video of her grand performance at the grand finale!! No one would believe how young she is and if she is singing under the Juniors' category..

Namma ooru singari - Ninaithaale iniukkum

Here's one of my fav Rajnikanth number. Well, I'm not a great fan of him and his styles.. But there are a couple of his movies like Baasha, moondru mudichu and Aval oru thodarkathai, where I have felt that there's nobody who could have done it better. One of my all-time fav among those movies is Ninaithaale Inikkum.. especially this song and the sequences before and followed by it, where he falls in love with every other girl he meets and ends up being proposed by a mad woman, well played by Jayasudha. It is hilarious to watch him in this movie! And the pic here is the best scene, where he bets he can throw the cigarette on to his mouth without missing it down, ten times continuously! One of Balachander's best deliveries. In fact I enjoy Rajni more than the hero Kamal in this movie, although I regard Kamal one step ahead of the superstar. I've strummed and hummed this song, check it out on my jukebox..

A scene from the movie here..

Super singer Junior 2010 Srikanth

I'm not sure if this little super star deserves the Super singer title. All reality shows are usually a big hulla gulla about their contestants just for the sake of TRP ratings. However as audience we still take all that hype for our favorite singer. But this little boy is definitely a prodigy! He is definitely not the best among the five, but he is too much for his age! And the path that he has traversed from the beginning of the show to the finals, specially after being pushed to the wild card and then pulled back into the finals by the public has given more credits to his popularity than his voice or expressions. On the whole he is a good package. I'd love Alka to win the show but I'm sure this little one has the capability to draw more votes. But the last few perfomances he gave are really convincing even if he would win it. This is a small video about his journey from the recent episode. And the pic here is his best expression that I enjoy whenever he sings ;-)

I'm going away.. Me voy!!

I'm not going away anywhere!! I've just come back. Its been more than ten days that I wrote a post. That is quite a long time!! Spanish lessons are more intensive this time. It is not like the courses that I did previously. This instructor is up to a lot of activities inside the class as well as outside :-(

The good thing is that there's a lot to learn than what I expected. There's so much to it when we learn a language. Culture, people, tradition, art, music, history, geography.. the list is pretty long. He is so fast and doesn't let even one moment of the class go worthless. Textbook, games, quizzes, assignments, presentations.. he is full of energy! And he talks a lot about Mexico, being our neighbor country. What I like most about him is that he  comes to the class like a typical hispanic guy with a hat and all those ruff n tuff clothes that they were..  I sometimes wonder if he leaves his horse and gun in the parking lot while coming to the class!! One more thing that I like is that he has three kids ;-) Ha ha.. just kidding.. He makes the maximum use of Google maps, images and Youtube!! yeahh.. sounds fun, no?? But he has three kids in deed!! He showed us his family pics too while teaching us how to call the family members in Spanish..

This is one of the songs that he showed us in the class and I really liked it. As such Spanish music uses a lot of Guitar in different styles. One of their most popular styles of playing Guitar that I like is the flamenco, originating from Spain. This one that we saw in the class is a famous Mexican song by Julieta Venegas. She breaks up with her boy friend and sings this song.. "Me voy" - meaning "I'm going away" -  I tried playing it and thought of sharing it with everyone.. It's quite tough to sing in a foreign language, play music along with it! I had a tough time getting the lines!! Followed by it I recorded a Bollywood song too "Bheege honth tere", which uses similar chords done in "Me voy". Enjoy it on my Jukebox!

Watch the song too.. "Me voy" - The video is very funny!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0v92OsaD40w

Surprise gift

It looks cool, isn't it?? This is the new surprise Mohan gave me.. He bought two of this froggy online, one for him and one for me! And do you know what it is? An MP3 Player!! Yippee.. It has all the usual cool features but with a difference. Like its mouth that you see here, the big black thing is the LCD. To adjust the volume, you have to turn its left eye on top towards left or right. To scroll through the menu or play next/previous track, twist its right eye on top.  Its fun! A usual device with some innovations.. It has a mic, so I have to try recording on it once. This has the option of adjusting the equalizers also. The surround sound is WOW, awesome!! My songs sound much better on it.. It has the jack for earphone on top of its head between the eyes. And the USB port lies straight underneath, yes it can be charged via computer, so no batteries are required and btw it is so small a thing, not even the length of a AAA battery ;-)

Its memory capacity is only 1GB, but it can be pretty handy while travelling or jogging. You can simply tuck it inside your palm or your pant pocket. And it costs hardly anything.

NEXTAR MP3

- Music Player

- LCD Display

- Folder Navigation

- Voice Recorder

- SRS WOW Surround sound

- Removable storage device

- Built-in rechargeable Li-Polymer battery

- Customized settings

It would be of great help while travelling to my Spanish classes from tomorrow..