Shankar Mahadevan Gananayakaya

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ahilaj
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Shankar Mahadevan Gananayakaya

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Can someone let me know the raga of the above song?

Sachi_R
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Re: Shankar Mahadevan Gananayakaya

Post by Sachi_R »

Are you referring to something like this one?
https://www.youtube.com/shared?ci=dy_R655oAYQ

If so, it begins in Brindavani and goes on to Piloo. It comes back and forth a couple of times. The word Misra suits the raag very much.

I heard someone, an effusive NRI starting off his wife's Bharatanatyam dance performance in Blr, with rendering theatrically a Karaoke version of this song. I was quite offended by the jazzification and western drums etc. in what was purported to be an invocation.

Dheemahi is a Vedic word meaning "let us all meditate on". So such a contemplative idea should not be jazzified.
Just my opinion.

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