Music And Movies

 'Music Beyond Boundaries' : I have published this book, which contains a series of essays, on Kindle Direct Publishing.  These are selected and edited essays from this blog. I have been writing articles on my blog since 2007. On advise of friends, I am giving this in a book form now, so that the essays remain archived. This book is free on Kinde Unlimited. If you want to buy it, for the next week you will get it for a special prize of Rs.149 before it reverts back to its original price of Rs.199. To buy in India, this is the link : https://www.amazon.in/dp/B0965LWN2C To buy outside India, here is the .com link : https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0965LWN2C Cover design is by my daughter, Harini Suresh

( You can read the earlier parts here:  Part 1 ,  Part 2 ,  Part 3 ,  Part 4 ,  Part 5 ,  Part 6  ,  Part 7 ,  Part 8 ,   Part 9 ,   Part 10 ,  Part 11 ,  Part 12 ,  Part 13 ,  Part 14 ,  Part 15 ,  Part 16 ,  Part 17  & Part 18 ) SPB career spanned more than five decades and for the majority of the time, he was the dominant singer in Telugu, Tamil and Kannada. Now wonder he has left behind a lasting legacy. The most important thing SPB taught many singers is that film singing is a different ball game compared to classical music. He was not a classically trained musician but was able to emote so well that his singing style suited the film idiom perfectly. He gave hope to thousands of singers, amateurs and professionals, who may not have been classically trained, that they too can sing if they put in the required effort and tried to build their own musical personality. SPB's singing career is a lesson to any aspiring singer. SPB was unsure of his own singing in the early days, a

( You can read the earlier parts here:  Part 1 ,  Part 2 ,  Part 3 ,  Part 4 ,  Part 5 ,  Part 6  ,  Part 7 ,  Part 8 ,   Part 9 ,   Part 10 ,  Part 11 ,  Part 12 ,  Part 13 ,  Part 14 ,  Part 15 ,  Part 16  & Part 17 ) In the post 2000s, the number of memorable SPB songs came down. He did keep singing the hero intro song for Rajni, I personally am not a fan of 'balelakka' and other songs of the same nature. It was clear that the new gen, with its constantly changing singers and that unending quest for something 'different', was calling SPB only for select songs. There was no guarantee that these songs were good. Telugu and Kannada probably gave more opportunity to SPB compared to Tamil. The Hindi imports became popular in Telugu and Kannada as well, with Sonu Nigam become a big hit in Kannada.  A couple of songs of SPB that I like from the 2000s are Raja songs. I will give them here and then we will talk about SPB and his program, 'Paadutha Theeyaga'. Here