Raghavan Master, a Musical Oyster of the Malaylam Film World !

K. Raghavan (Malayalam: കെ. രാഘവന്‍) , affectioately called as 'Raghavan mash/Raghavan Master, is a Malayalam music composer.  Sri K Raghavan, completed 97 years on this December 14.  Born in Thalasheri of kannu District, Kerala , Raghavan Master is given credit for the renaissance of Malayalam Film Music, along with Baburaj.  He set a new trend in Malayalam film music with the release of the 1954 movie "Neelakkuyil" , a Sathyan starrer film.  The Lyrics for this song was penned by Sri P. Bhaskaran, who is also a renowned lyricist of Malayalam film songs. Raghavan Master himself has rendered his voice for one of the songs in 'Neelakkuyil'.  This song "Kayalarikathu valayerinjappol" became a hit song!  You can hear the song here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7oRdTJZFTE

In his career spanning for four decades, he has composed Music for more than sixty films, and most of his songs remain as 'ever-green ones', which many of us still keep humming even today ! During those times when there were only a few Playback artists were being made use of , Ragavan Master was dare enough to introduce many new singers to Malayalam Filmworld.   Famous Artists like Mehboob, Brahmanandan, Balamuralikrishna,  M.L. Vasanthakumari, A.P. Komala, Gayathri Srikrishnan, Santha P. Nair, A. M. Rajah, K.P. Udayabhanu, M.G. Radhakrishnan, P.B. Sreenivas, Vani Jayaram, Jikki, V.T. Murali, G. Venugopal, etc. have sung for him. 

He was awarded so many times for his fabulous contributions to the World of Malayalam Film Music; "PADMA SHRI" Award during 2010, Kerala State Film Awards during 1973,197and 1997, Best Lifetime Achievement Award during 2000, Swaralaya Yesudas Award during 2006 and M.G.Radhakrishnan Awrd during 2011.

 Raghavan Master Celebrated his 98th Birthday yesterday!
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3oOxrvQlDM


We are really proud of having such a great Musician in our midst!

Please click the following link for my Playlist containing some of  Raghavan Master's melodies:

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL59B4E2E758491DC3&feature=mh_lolz

Reference: Wikipedia

FLEETS OF THOUGHTS !

                

FLEET OF THOUGHTS !

Sitting under the shades of  tree,

After a lifetime's running free,

Thoughts of Paths he ran across

Made him count his gain and loss!

Thought of what little good he did,

Thought of what he spoke all bad,

Thought of whom all came across,

Sweet of Faces nourished his thoughts!

The days of past ran so fast,

Sweet and Sour all at last,

Proved a myth at the Magic Hands

Of the Merciful Maker of all, alas!

K.Balaji

November 20  2011

Memoris of the past !

MEMORIES OF THE PAST!

Sitting at one corner of my house, I am seeing through the windows of my memories. with no other better jobs to do, rather say, enjoying the present retired life!

Old memories of the childhood days do throng my memories then and there, seeing the present hectic days for the children! There are so many things of the present, I am amazed of and I immediately compare the times of those olden days!

The first thing that would come to my mind is the communications facilities. Take for instance, Telephone. Mobile phones are in extensive use nowadays! If there are four persons in a family, each of the four is having a mobile number of his/her own. With each one's hectic life both in and out of the house, a mobile phone becomes almost necessary . I am reminded of the good old days, when Telephone was a very rare thing. Even as late as sixties or seventies, hardly one in thirty would be owning a telephone. We had to make friends with the one nearby who had a telephone connection and depend on them for any urgent STD calls to be made or received. I remember the days when this kind of disturbances naturally used to irritate them.

I would say that scarce of facilities used to develop confidence in the minds of people. Days were peaceful when there were less facilities of telephone communications.
Needless to say about present days' advanced mode of communication through telephone or mobiles!

Some years back it was a very scarce possibility that all the people around us had a Television in their house.  I remember having gone to one of my neighbour's house to see a particular programme of old film music which used to be relayed every Friday! I can never forget those minutes of bliss when I could hear my favorite old songs! The situation is still green in my memories!  All the people would throng there to spend that 45 minutes and the small house would be fully crowded.  Sometimes the head of the family would even curse others within himself ; it is so natural! The moment he enters home after spending a stressful day outside, if he does not get a little privacy in his own house once he peeps in, how bad that  poor man would feel !  Compare those days with that of the present, Computers have taken the place of TV and Internet is freely available even on mobile phones and the fortunate or unfortunate thing it is that almost all can afford to own one nowadays! 

Like this there are so many and many facilities of the Present days which were just unheard of, those days!

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