Every morning I listen to this radio station that plays an assortment of Hindi and Kannada songs.
Couldn't help but notice how many Kannada songs Udit Narayan, Kunal Ganjawala and Sonu Nigam (all primarily Hindi singers) sing nowadays. It gladdens my heart and my heart swells with .. (whatever hearts swell with under these circumstances - painted myself into a corner while writing that phrase and am too lazy to reconstruct it correctly) to see this crossing of boundaries between Bollywood and Sandalwood (which believe it or not is the unofficial name of the Kannada film industry - got to know from a Quiz I attended recently).
Now that the political correctness is done, I can speak the truth without fear! These songs sound so so funny when these guys sing them!! I cannot get Udit's "gubbachi goodi nalli" out of my head!!! And then these guys not only pronounce every single letter and sandhi from Kannada they even add their own Bollywood like endings to every raaga which sound out of place in Kannada Songs. They literally sing Kannada in Hindi!
Wonder if the Kollywood guys feel the same way (thats the Tamil film industry BTW, named as such after Kodambakam apparently).
It would be nice to hear Tamil being spoken in Hindi for a change, which brings me nicely round to another topic (maybe another post) of how many people I have had speaking English in Tamil to me.. I think I will post a set of words that I had so much difficulty in recognising as being English in my next post. I could have sworn they were Tamil.
V Madhavan Nair (1945-2025)
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2 comments:
April 22, 2008 at 4:27 AM
All very well for Kumar Sanu and the like to be warbling away in quasi-kannada, but think of the poor Kannada singer whose job has been taken away. From where is he supposed to earn his three ragi mudde a day ? Revolution, that's what we need !!!
May 4, 2008 at 3:22 AM
A purist Tamil friend once told me - either you are kannada or you are a singer.. you cant have both. Adu ondu oxy-moronu.
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