Music explores and revels new parts in our body and soul. Music always has an authoritarian status in every human's life.. Music many a time de-legitimizes the socially-engineered indexes in our brain. It either pulls every loose threads of your life to gather or dismantle it.. Music does not make your eyes open in wonderment but closes it like passionate lovers on bed....No jail is built to a hold human brain except music. I was held as captive from my cradle by the music of Visawanathan & Ramamurthi and later just MSV.. His music moved my birth mark from an officer and a gentleman status to a writer and a nomad.. With a mathematical certainty MSV and four other legends re-wrote my future's penal code..
I retreat back to my memory lane because I miss my past n it's ambiance dearly.. I would compromise my life even to an insensitive posture to get back to my past.. Many a times I have felt being alive means you have ran away from your past with a dream pack for your future. Actually you are not supposed to be celebrating this feat. Living is a lust, a disgraceful fashion..
When i see a radio i am fueled up with sentiments... It's a machine which invited singing angels and MSV into everyone's house.. just pure music without visual disturbances... Radio and MSV are the actual candidates for the Good Samaritan award.
Once my grandmother came out with a very defendable hypothesis about my queries on radio... My doubt was stretching out for years how radio is able to flirt with such beautiful music and voices.. How this small box is able to illustrate such scintillating harmony in different languages.... Actually our police orderly articulated the right answer, "from somewhere the music and the voices gets twisted in the wind and ends up in this box".. But my grandma after discussing the matter with her kitchen cabinet came out with a science fiction story that I swallowed for many many years, "The singers and the musicians are inside the box singing and playing for you". How true her story is!! I realized this in these last few years.
What a huge subject he had started in our thoughts.. I am still dazed confused and flabbergasted with this gr8 human sanctuary for hidden secrets of music, 'MSV'. His music cannot be scrutinized or judged.. He created mysterious burns in our brain cells.. He caught and slaughtered our inconsistent intolerable emotions, but today we gossip about His greatness and made him a product of the past. He is the only public property created by our illusional marshals.... He is the first musician with innumerable affairs with listeners and swam with their personal currents and never against it.. No comparison can be drawn to his musical beauty. He is a devil and an angel who crusaded from hell to heaven.. He looks huge through our naked ears and very tiny through our eyes.. His music is the mother of many musicals, spunked by different lyricists, but fathered by just two, Kannadasan and Valli... I have enjoyed his kiddish brawls in the composing room and his in-tolerance towards a single note mistake at the recording studio... MSV has another name, "NATURE"
Who are the actual music mules of india. The Hindustani-carnatic-stalwarts or our heart, culture and political scenario-breaking masters, the Indian film industry music directors!? Who sponsored and navigated a huge chunk of Tamilnadu political publicity propaganda for the Dravidian party in mid-60s !? From where those trillion votes jumped into million ballot boxes!? With Tamils very stringent in supporting then ruling party, then from where the massive vote loafs were baked for Dravidian party in then Madras state..!? What motivated this massive change in the cuckoos nest's design... It would be in-appropriate and in-sensitive if we don't donate a part of that winning spree to MSV'S harmonium. He was not only a game changer of Tamil music but also one of the innocent background strategist to change TN politics. His charming conversation with music with the charismatic MGR, performing for his tunes and the two legends penning revolutionized lyrics brought trouble to DMK's political opposition's paradise.. DMK won the elections with an absolute majority and its break away party is still ruling the state and the humble MSV silently walked back to his recording studios and later to his retirement.... History has a glorifying way of forgetting to travel in different paths..MSV'S contribution to Dravidian politics is one of History's forgotten lane..
When MSV finished his assisting programmers with great mystical stalwarts like Subbiah Naidu and Ramanathan he returned with infinite wisdom on the pulse of the audience, variations in different storyline and different directors' story-telling methods with their style of visuals and editing... With his refreshing musical madness which lighted lamps in Srilanka, Singapore, Malaysia and naturally in TN, it was a rainy season throughout Tamil speaking world till he was in-charge of Tamil musical market.. M. L. Vasanthakumari who had one of the highest scores in Carnatic classical music once said to her Sishyas, "MSV is a prodigy, without any classical or western music training, but with confident ease he can tell which car starts in which Raga and on what Suram each door opens" .. Job became easier for script writers, whenever there was a lag in the movement of a script they enhanced the punishment for MSV by creating a song situation. For MSV it wasn't a punishment but more a fertilizer for his imagination.. Lyricist wrote lyrics without active consideration to the composer's limitations but MSV'S creative audacity changed their prose into poetry. .. So you wud have seen a lyricist unlimited creativity was staged easily and fluently on his tune with our thoughts provoked.... Kannadasan Valli and other writers saw MSV as a music festival damped by rain of creations... The listeners heard every fiber of their life abused with MSV'S Musical hospitality.
To me personally MSV a shade far above from the Melody and orchestral brilliance of R. D. Burman.. In par with quiet and thoughtful classical pieces of S. D. Burman and he was a huge fan of Naushad and Shanker Jaikishen's multiple talents.. Civilization has the practice of insulating persistent corruption on our minds and has perverted sexual inter-courses with cultural bottlenecks.The massive Bombay film industry took into their bosom South Indian storylines and producers but other greats from south were left to throttle a gasoline less motor car.. Nobody knew MSV(a musical angel in Dhothi) outside South Indian film industry. All the big Indian film and musical awards pronounced divorce to this genius tiny husband. Probably they were jealous of 'Lady Sarawathi' sitting inside his brains... Or MSV'S involvement with evolving Tamil Cinema and state politics and he was in galloping mood in unleashing violent brain washing musical techniques on TN, probably National awards were looking like sporadic incidents for him..
MSV is one of the two astonishing pearls gifted to us by God's Own Country..
(End of part one)
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