This has now been taken to the next level.
At the November Hindu Music Fest, there was this program to pay tribute to the Late Srimathi MS. The concert was titled Katrinile and featured the Priya Sisters, S Sowmya and Nithyasri.
The reaction by a member of the audience suggests that Katrinavile would have been a better title. Here of course I am referring to Hurricane Katrina rather than Katrina Kaif, though readers can be pardoned for connecting the actress to the event since the particular song was from the movie Meera and a tenuous connection might be inferred by some persons.
It seems that a well-dressed member of the audience (he is described as wearing a suit and tie) jumped up on the stage in the middle of the concert, ran up to the mridangist, grabbed one of his microphones and started saying that he must make his views about the concert known, presumably to the artistes on stage as well as to the rest of the audience.
Whatever he said was somewhat incoherent and he probably was not holding the mic close to his mouth for his comments to be heard in the hall. Nevertheless, our informants report that some of the comments seem to be addressed to Smt Sowmya.
Some people rushed the man, took the mic away from him and escorted him to the door, after which the concert resumed.
This is far better than Live Blogging. People staying at home may be thrilled to get a blow-by-blow account of the concert in progress but the artistes themselves don't get any feedback until they get home and read the review and by then it is too late to cater to the whims and fancies of the blogger. This is why I don't blog live. That, plus the fact that a couple of thousand meters of cable would be needed for me to connect my computing device to my home network.
However, if more people adopt this approach perhaps even the deadest concerts would become lively.
The November Hindu Music Fest has the pretentious tag line "Let the music begin."
They could now conceivably change it to "Let them fight it out on the stage."
PS. This has been reported in today's Dinamalar. I don't know if other newspapers carried the news. Perhaps some diligent reader would scrutinise The Hindu from yesterday onwards to see how they react to this incident.
