Hilarity in kutcheris

mridhangam · Post by **mridhangam** » 22 Mar 2009, 19:47

One off track ... Joke

What is the difference between Piles and Files ?

Piles --> pAthu Ukkaranum

Files --> ukkAndu pAkkanum

J.Balaji

erode14 · Post by **erode14** » 22 Mar 2009, 21:51

vidhwAns may be pazham peRum (perum too) artistes, but, "rasikas" only reap the fruits of their performances

(In thamizh, peRum means getting and perum means great and huge. This two types of Ra and ra are called periya Ra (big Ra) and
siRiya ra (small ra). The intersting episode is, to denote periya [big], the small ra is used and to denote siriya [small], big Ra is used!).

thagarARu is a word meaning a quarrel or a amall fight or problem. If anyone asks a doubt in this word about, how to write, ra or Ra, we say, if the fight is small use the smaller one and if it is terrible and severe, use the bigger one

erode14 · Post by **erode14** » 23 Mar 2009, 11:19

great...

mridhangam · Post by **mridhangam** » 23 Mar 2009, 12:40

When we give money to the vidwans alongwith fruits and if they dont have the Bag .. then will they sing .............

giri pai ?

nAdu pai ?

(pai in Tamil means Bag)

J.Balaji

ragam-talam · Post by **ragam-talam** » 23 Mar 2009, 19:41

Era na pai

mridhangam · Post by **mridhangam** » 24 Mar 2009, 12:43

There was one vidwan who went to a famous town for concert where once he has witnessed Rifle Shooting competition.

When he went after some 5 or 6 years to the same place he asked the Host :

"Thuppakki Sudara potti nadakkume .... inda samayathula .... is it there ?"

"Sir ada yaen kekkareenga ... inda town la irunda thuppakki ellam oruthan suttundu poyittan... so we hv cancelled all the events...

Mannarkoil J Balaji

erode14 · Post by **erode14** » 24 Mar 2009, 13:17

We organized a concert in dhArApuram for rAgavendhra ArAdhanA[1994 or 95]. The then trustee read the names of artistes written in the proof of invitation.

Ramani -Flute
Chandhrasekaran - violin
Karaikudi Mani - Mrudangam
Harishankar - Kanjira

My friend Gopalakrishnan: "idhu ellAm artistes names"¦ sElathula irundhu Ramachar vandhuduvAr, thampurA pOda"¦ avarukku oru Rs. 100 kuduththudalAm"¦" (These are the names of artistes, ramachar will come for doing the thampura, from salem.. we can pay him Rs.100 for it)

Trustee: yEmpA"¦ already ivLO Per irukkALE, indha thampura vEra vENumA? (See, already you have lot of artistes, what is the need of this ramachar?)

mridhangam · Post by **mridhangam** » 25 Mar 2009, 12:37

Ha members .. kindle our thoughts ... y there is a sudden lull in this topic ?

J.Balaji

semmu86 · Post by **semmu86** » 25 Mar 2009, 12:51

During mrudangam arangetram of one of my friends.. (nAgrAj sir knows about this

).. A prominent personality was the chief guest for the programme..

After the thani , the chief guest was invited to talk and the speech was like " inniki andha kozhandha vAschathla visEsham enna nAka avan rendu kaiyAlayum vAsichAn."

(Today the best thing about his playing was that he played using both his hands)

Arvind

gobilalitha · Post by **gobilalitha** » 25 Mar 2009, 14:26

once a zamindar arranged a kutcheri by a great artist, with violin,mridangam, ghatam, kanjira and a konnakkol as pakka vadhyams for his daughter's marriage. While making payments to the artists he refused to pay anything to the konnakol artist .When asked, he retorted ' why should I pay him,he did not play any instrument,he was only making strange noises .. gobilalitha
INCIDENTALLY,I cannot forget the fast , excellent,rare konnakkol byan artist (sorry I forgot his name)at the performance of Ashwin,Rohin during december ,graciously arranged by kaumaram at his residence, attended by many forumites. gobilalitha

mridhangam · Post by **mridhangam** » 25 Mar 2009, 15:56

was it Trichy Thayumanavar ?

J.balaji

Lakshman · Post by **Lakshman** » 25 Mar 2009, 19:03

Saw this on another discussion forum:

Years back, a senior Vidwan was giving a performance in Veeravanallur (adjacent
to Harikesanallur). When the "Tukkada" session started, somebody in audience
shouted "oru english nottu venum!" (one English Note please")
Musician replied "enkittey oru rupa nottukkooda Illaye; english nottukku engeppa
poven?" (I don't have even a rupee note; where will I go for English note?")

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 25 Mar 2009, 19:54

Lakshman,
My ancestral village!

same · Post by **same** » 26 Mar 2009, 00:28

oh my god i enjoyed each and every postings.. keep it up...

erode14 · Post by **erode14** » 26 Mar 2009, 11:59

(I don't have even a rupee note; where will I go for English note?")

the vidhwan ruled out the note of those who ruled us, though the request gone unruled(blank)!

gobilalitha · Post by **gobilalitha** » 26 Mar 2009, 16:43

Post no262 by Mridhangam,the konnakkol artist was sri.Manian,who also played the kanjira that day.
He simply mesmerised the audience. gobilalitha

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 26 Mar 2009, 21:31

Erode,
unruled--blank, Ah!
Your imagination is never ruled, nor can it ever be blank

mridhangam · Post by **mridhangam** » 27 Mar 2009, 22:16

One day in our Class our Guru had given some combinations to be worked out and we were all working on that by breaking our heads. Suddenly one sishya of our Guru came and asked Can you tell tisram, chatusram, khandam, and misram all in Arai Avartanam. All our thoughts suddenly turned to this idea and started working on that forgetting our guru's combinations for sometime.

Later we had to admit to the sishya that we couldnt get them within arai avartanam since the total is 19 and asked him to render if he knew.

What we saw next was one hell of a laughter for all of us....

He was putting Adi talam from samam and then when the arai avartanam started he said

Thisram for the beat
Chatursram for the wave
Khandam for the beat
and Misram for the wave not the sollus just the Tisram, chatursram, Khandam, Misram Tha.....

All of us burst into laughter.
J.Balaji

erode14 · Post by **erode14** » 28 Mar 2009, 15:52

Once, there was a retired mAmA, who spent his time with regular poojA and gardening. His neighbour gOpAlakrishNan had a cow which troubled him by eating the plants. The mAmA got very much annoyed by this and complained his neighbor who turned a deaf ear. Since, beating the cow is one of the great sins, mAmA became helpless and sad. (You can beat the ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã‹Å“bushÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢ but not the jersey!)
Everyday, after poojA, he used to sing,
swasthi prajAbhya: paripAlayanthAm
nyAyayEna mArgEna mahIm mahISA:
gObhrAmaNEbhya: Subhamasthu nithyam
lOkA samasthA: SukhinO bhavanthu...

but today, after singing the third line, suddenly it appeared to his mind that if he prays for all the cows, then this gOpAlakrishNanÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢s cow will also be hale and healthy to invade his garden! So, he sang the slOkam like this...

swasthi prajAbhya: paripAlayanthAm
nyAyayEna mArgEna mahIm mahISA:
gObhrAmaNEbhya: Subhamasthu nithyam
gOpAlakrishNan pasu neengalAga! (except gOpAlakrishNanÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢s cow )

as told by Dr.Srivatsa, in one of his speeches in guruguhanjali series

erode14 · Post by **erode14** » 28 Mar 2009, 16:03

hariharan, a sishya of mine, suggested bluetooth to get rid of OBCT, as it enables "vayar-less"

vganesh · Post by **vganesh** » 28 Mar 2009, 16:21

A non-stop thani avarthanam(s). Very interesting indeed

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 28 Mar 2009, 21:21

(an imaginary encounter between the stalwarts that I dreamt up

(with my limited vocabulary of the laya lingo

Erode: enna bAlAji sangati ingE kaapaali kOvililE?
Balaji: sangationnum illai; Summa varNamnu thONitthu!
oru aavarthanam kaapaaliyai SuRRi paarkalaminnu..
Erode: aDa munnaalEyE Sonna naanum SamatthA vanthiruppENO illiyO..
Balaji: athu eppaDi! naan thaniaa vaRadA irunthEn..
Erode: roMba durithama naDakkarEL. konjam chavukka kaalatthile pOna naaanum vara muDiyum.
Balaji: antha chaal chappu onnum vENDAM. ummaale muDiyuM..
Erode: appaDi vanthaa enakku thaan naShTaM ummoDu veechu enakku varaathu...naan methuvaatthaan aDi pODaNam. aanaatthaan enakku laghu.. ithu enna kuLirilE thoppi illaama vanthirukkEL..
Balaji: athu paRaNle kiDakku.. eDukka muDiyalai. aDaaDaa maatrai chaapiDa maRanthuttEN.. Good Bye!
Erode: kaNDa kaNda maatrai ellaam misram paNNi jaMBatthukku chaapiDathEngO...
Balaji: Oy! intha viShama pEcchu vENDaamE. naan chaapiDaRathu vitamin maatrai So long! (runs)
....
(advance apologies

coolkarni · Post by **coolkarni** » 28 Mar 2009, 21:47

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 28 Mar 2009, 22:07

What about during? since their mouths are still free

rajeshnat · Post by **rajeshnat** » 28 Mar 2009, 22:59

cml
Brilliant !!!, very very creative.

erode14 · Post by **erode14** » 28 Mar 2009, 23:39

ha ha, cml... great... it may go like this too...

"enna.... anga inga suththi, edaththukku vandhuttEL pOla irukkE?"

eduththa vodanE, vishamamA?

pAththu nadandhu pOngO.. kal-ANi irukkap pOradu...

paravAyilla... kAl-la padum, mukkAl vAsi pAththu dhAn pOyiNdirukkOm...swAmi dharisanam AchA?

bEshA... prasAdhamE, nannA thinnAchu...

sangeetha rasikALLAm yEn, cofee priyargaLA irukkA?

pAdhi pEr, T."nagar"nu solrathunAla irukkum...

umakku tea pidikkumA?

rombap pidikkum, infact, tea mattumilla, ellAmE romba pidikkum..

ellAmEvA?!

AmAm, pocket, purse, indha summer-la tank, bucket.. ellAmE "romba" pidikkum...

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 28 Mar 2009, 23:57

ha ha!
.. and that is the difference between a vidvaan and an eDam theriyaamal pESum araivEkkaDu Rasika

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 29 Mar 2009, 00:03

Once comedian N S Krishnan was asked as to what was his favourite drink.
He replied T A Madhuram ( tea is the sweetest)

(.. and I guess he was living at T nagar at that time

PUNARVASU · Post by **PUNARVASU** » 29 Mar 2009, 06:28

cmlover wrote:ha ha!
.. and that is the difference between a vidvaan and an eDam theriyaamal pESum araivEkkaDu Rasika

Yes, araiyum teriyalai, mukkAlum teriyalai, ippaDi (a)samattA irukkaravAlai (nammaLai) pAttA oru aRai viDalAm pOla irukkum.

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 29 Mar 2009, 07:02

The mridangist was coaxing and pampering his instrument in different ways for quite a while. The artiste finally lost his patience and asked " enna problem?".
The mridangist responded "shruti sariyaa vara maatengaRathu.." (shruti is not coming properly). Suddenly a little girl (named shruti)rushed to the dais and said: " paravaa illayinna maamaa naan vENumnaa vaREn.." (if it is OK I will come)

Moral:
A mridangist may always have a little girl named shruti to accompany him. Then he can always claim "enakku eppovumE shruti kooDa iruppa" ( I am always with shruti)

(In case the Hindu reviewer ever claimed that he was without shruti in his performances he could always sue them

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 29 Mar 2009, 07:09

Punarvasu
"eppO pOnaalum chennayilE aRai kiDaikkum"
(any time you go you can get a room in chennai/ any time you go you will get a blow on your cheeks!)
(aRai = blow/room chennai = Madras/cheeks)

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 29 Mar 2009, 07:52

CML,
Your imaginary 'naDai' of the 'Two mirthful mrudangists of Chennai' was very amusing. Nagarajan was inspired and continued in the same naDai. 'eDuppAga' irundadu, used to be an expression in our days (meaning something distinguished, a stand-out). While I enjoy the two gentlemen from layA delivering richly to this thread, I do feel sorry for those who cannot follow tamizh or the puns and references here which are difficult to translate. Nick is better off though, because he knows more of the layA terms than I do...

mridhangam · Post by **mridhangam** » 29 Mar 2009, 08:02

CML: mridangists kittendum aRai (chaapu) kidaikkum

J.B

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Kudikkalam Adikkalam Paadalam adu enna Raagam ?

Kaapi

J.Balaji

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Kuthum Raagam edu ?

KalyANI

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sApidakUdiya rAgam edu ?

Keera Vaani

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Justice Ragam edu ?

Neethi Mathi

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Just Ragam edu ?

Dharma Vathi

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More later

J.Balaji

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 29 Mar 2009, 08:04

Arasi
I feel too bad since these jokes depend on the usage of the language and are not easily translatable. I can feel the pangs of the nontamils as much as I feel frustrated when I listen to T's songs

mridhangam · Post by **mridhangam** » 29 Mar 2009, 08:08

ragam-talam wrote:Era na pai

haha sanmanam isnot given in the beginning .. so era na Pai may be out of place ....

Giri pai is OK as it might be a main item .. Nadu pai fits in as madhyamavati could be last piece.

J.B

mridhangam · Post by **mridhangam** » 29 Mar 2009, 08:10

Once a Secretary gave a pittance as sambavanai and said this is not sanmAnam just abhimAnam ....

After seeing the cover i said to myself it is not even abhimAnam but was sheer avamAnam ..

Anda secretary namakku sanmAnam kudukka koodathungaradula theermAnama irundirukkar

JB

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 29 Mar 2009, 08:12

mridhangam
I know and they can play a tani aavartanam on the back! I remember the days travelling in trains when singers would bare their stomachs and play beautiful rhythm on them just for pennies. Do they exist any more?

By the by who is the mridangist who is always addressed respectfully even when you get angry/upset with him?

I will answer later

mridhangam · Post by **mridhangam** » 29 Mar 2009, 08:16

CML

Bala JI ? (Thats me of course)

J.B

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 29 Mar 2009, 08:19

erode14 · Post by **erode14** » 29 Mar 2009, 16:50

After laya lAvaNyA function on 27th, we were packing things.

Ammangudi S. Ram Narayanan, Calcutta Karthik and Shri K.V.Ramanujam were there...

me: karthik, ram narayanan has no ego when he plays the mrudangam, but he is an egoistic rider on the bike...

ram, karthik & kvr: ???

me: yes... he has 'head weight'.... his helmet!

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 29 Mar 2009, 19:48

Nagaraj,
Artistes without 'head weight' who ride 'with' a head weight are praiseworthy--joke-worthy too,; yes, you got the drift--they are no egoists

erode14 · Post by **erode14** » 29 Mar 2009, 23:38

From jayamohanÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢s (writer) site"¦

Once, when Chembai was in a train, a passenger looked at his tuft and asked, "bAgavatharAkkumO?"

rbharath · Post by **rbharath** » 29 Mar 2009, 23:49

[quote="erode14"]From jayamohanÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢s (writer) site"¦

Once, when Chembai was in a train, a passenger looked at his tuft and asked, "bAgavatharAkkumO?"

erode14 · Post by **erode14** » 29 Mar 2009, 23:51

mridhangam wrote:Once a Secretary gave a pittance as sambavanai
JB

that should be either some- bhAvanai or sambhava- nai [hindhi]

dear cml,

the deity in erode is Ardhra kapAleeswara and that is why the name eera-Odu... so, me and balaji meeting in kapAli koil is poruththam only...

erode14 · Post by **erode14** » 30 Mar 2009, 00:03

In a chamber concert held (vasudha ravi-kalyani shankar-me) at Adambakkam,when the violinist was about to do her AlApanA for the main (koluva maragadhA), the organisers served a great coffee for us.

So, we had a break and I said, "hmm... pEru kalyANi, kudikkaradhu kApi, vAsikkaradhu thOdi... enna idhu!"

srkris · Post by **srkris** » 30 Mar 2009, 01:46

Adikka adikka thaan varum...

1. mridangamum
2. thaalamum
3. jokeum
4. azhukaiyum.

Nagaraj sishyarkalai adippaara theriyale meethi moonum assured.

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 30 Mar 2009, 05:01

'aDikka vaippAr' That is--make them play...

PUNARVASU · Post by **PUNARVASU** » 30 Mar 2009, 05:30

mridhangam wrote:Once a Secretary gave a pittance as sambavanai and said this is not sanmAnam just abhimAnam ....

After seeing the cover i said to myself it is not even abhimAnam but was sheer avamAnam ..

Anda secretary namakku sanmAnam kudukka koodathungaradula theermAnama irundirukkar

JB

That was some bhAvanai(ptretence).

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 30 Mar 2009, 05:44

'jAlarAvukku (khanjira) bAvalAvA?