Great video for old timers

[varsha]

In the opening bit ,is it MM Iyer ? If yes this is exhilarating stuff
Is the violinist Venkatram Sastry ? If yes , the resemblance to RK Sriramkumar is fascinating.

And the bit by Jasraj !!!!! And MLV . And what looks like S Rajam in his younger days . I may be wrong in many places . But it still looks real vintage

The beauty is that the video does not mention any names . The positions of mikes in some come clips are intriguing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-_P57mc-rw

Thanks Sreeni, for this gem .

[arasi]

Varsha,
Thanks to you (and Sreeni) for the vintage footage

Young S.Rajam accompanied by Sethuramaiah on the violin and Madras A Kannan (in his nineties now!).

Yes, how much like his grandfather Sriram kumar looks! Most of them AIR artistes??

MLV delights, as always.

The dancer is Nirmala Ramachandran, I think...

[uday_shankar]

Is the violinist Venkatram Sastry ?

No, it is definitely not R K Venkatarama Sastry, who looked very different (imagine R K Srikantan much younger, same look..i.e, how Shri Venktarama Sastry must have looked in 1965-66). The closest I can come to guessing is that it is probably the late V K Venkataramanujam of Banaras Hindu University, father of violinist V Balaji, also of of BHU. My reason for that guess is that the violin is being tuned as (high to low) Sa-Pa-Sa-Pa instead of the usual Pa-Sa-Pa-Sa. I have only heard a V Balaji recording using a similar tuning apart from Narmada, who uses it sometimes when accompanying high shruti vocalists/instrumentalists. Also, the vocalist in that Viriboni clip is definitely not MMI. I have a greater than 50% confidence that the mridangist is a young Karaikkudi Krishnamoorthy.

[uday_shankar]

The dancer is Nirmala (Viswanathan?).

Arasi, yes! It is Nirmala Ramachandran, an outstanding BharataNatyam exponent who would have been much more famous had not been the fact that she was outside India for a long time due to the posting of her husband Mr. Ramachandran with Air India in different parts of the world.

[arasi]

Uday,
Not knowing that you had posted anew, having recollected her name, I just went and corrected it!

I don't think it's MMI either in the other picture...

You are right. The young looking violinist (looking so much like Sriram kumar) cannot be his grandfather. I remember seeing him mid-twentieth century (with not rich locks to boast even then) and this concert is from the mid-sixties.

[Pratyaksham Bala]

Collated:-

01:35 Ustad Niaz Ahmed Khan
02:10 Manik Varma
05:00 M.L. Vasanthakumari, Tiruvellore Subramaniam, RS Krishnamurthy Rao
06:30 S. Rajam, V.Sethuramiah, Madras A. Kannan
07:40 Ramnad Krishnan, V.L. Vedagiri, Coimbatore Ramaswamy Pillai
08.28 Nirmala Ramachandran
09:29 Ustad Hafeez Ahmed Khan
11:23 Pt. Jasraj
15:56 Pt. Sangameshwar Gurav

[arasi]

Bala's bhalE search, as usual!

Now to the all women ensemble: who is the young vidushi who sings 'manasulOni'? Komalavalli on the violin? Just a wild guess. Kanakambujam was a mrudangam player but she would have been older at this time, I suppose.

And I couldn't spot Manik Varma

[Thalaivarda]

http://www.rasikas.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=21607


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