Unnikrishnan - 7.2 - brOva bArama - bahudAri - mArgazhi mahA utsavam 2008

Tribute to: Madurai Mani Iyer
Song: brOva bArama
rAgam: bahudAri
tALam: Adi
Composer: Tyagaraja
Language: Telugu
Concert: mArgazhi mahA utsavam 2008
Violin: Embar S. Kannan
Mridangam: Tirvarur Vaidyanathan
Kanjeera: B.S.Purushottam

(courtesy: http://www.karnatik.com/c1002.shtml )
pallavi

brOva bhAramA raghurAmA bhuvanamella nIvai nannokani

anupallavi

shrI vAsudEva anDakOTula gukSiNi yuncakOlEdA nannu
(brOva)

caraNam

kalashAmbudhilO dayatO namarulakai adigAka gOpi
kalakai koNDa letta lEdA karuNAkara tyAgarAjuni
(brOva)

Meaning:
Oh Karunaakaraa (a name for Vishnu), is it a heavy burden for you to protect a single soul like me? You are the whole universe itself and as Krishna showed it all to be in your stomach. Have you not lovingly borne for the sake of the Devas the whole weight of Mount Mandara when the ocean was churned, and have you not lifted Mount Govardhan for the sake of Gopis?

Category:

Music

Tags:

• mahotsavam
• urchavam
• mmu
• South
• Indian
• Classical
• Carnatic
• Thyagaraja
• bharama
• baarama
• bahudaari

[iwanurreply]

Watch the Videos of the great Dr. M Balamuralikrishna for instance, inspite of being a telugu man, notice how he manages to deliver with such unbelievable perfection even while singing in a language that is not his own mother tongue, be it Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Hindi, Bengali!

The contemporary vocalists must take a leaf out of his book!

[sid040691]

Is it really that difficult for you negative pansies to judge an artist based on his merits, and not on his weaknesses? If every artist had the same intonation, pronunciation, and creativity as YOU want, it would take the music out of music. EVERY artist has his own style and it defines Carnatic music as it is today.

I too think his pronunciation is substandard, but his musical ideas are very unique, and I listen to this video for that.

[SOMASUNDRAM100]

Folks, it will take a decade ( minimum ) before you critics can recite leave alone raga alapana. Just listen and enjoy. If you want to say something, say only positive things as negative comments will be carried by you to your beloved grave.

[snarayananr]

His pronunciation was better long time back but now it's terrible. I feel like getting out of the hall during the thukkada session in his concerts.

That said, his musical ideas are really good. I'm not sure about much of the technical stuff in his singing, but his swarams/neraval sound very interesting (if you can put up with his pronounciation). In the last music season, I attended 20+ concerts in Chennai and only 2 ppl sang long thanams more than once, one was Sanjay and the other was Unni.

[nagarajcs]

Folks, Assuming that none of us knew kannada, malayalam, samskrita, tamil and telugu but only we had the passion to listen to good sangeeta, wouldn't we have appreciated this performance?

(Note: I put the names of the languages in English alphabetical order so as not to attract time wasting comments)

[youisfun]

Even the swara-pronunciation is terrible! Surely the swaras are not in Malayalam. For instance, Ga-Ga is guhggaaa. Such a turn off!

[submadkicdar]

pallavi

brOva bhAramA raghurAmA bhuvanamella nIvai nannokani

anupallavi

shrI vAsudEva anDakOTula gukSiNi yuncakOlEdA nannu

(brOva)

caraNam

kalashAmbudhilO dayatO namarulakai adigAka gOpi

kalakai koNDa letta lEdA karuNAkara tyAgarAjuni

(brOva)

[spicyjulep]

@uptothe that's very nice...

[uptothe]

@spicyjulep Okay Sir I will put you suggestion into consideration!

[spicyjulep]

@uptothe well that's what i meant...why dont u try reading comments for a change as well