# One main reason is that perhaps no one knows about his guru. Infact only when shri narasasimhan of Ashtik samAjam told his guru was Shri PK vishwanAtha sharmA in one of the concerts, I knew about that information. Incidentally PK vishwanatha sharmA used to play a lot for chitoor subramania pillai
Some super plus points about his play.
# excellent shruthi suddham , I have only seen him having a mediocre shruthi suddham in only one or two of his last 20 concerts in the last few years.
# Returns are very precise for alApana . Never has he crossed the golden rule of 1/3rd to 2/3rd of vocalist alApana(just the opposite to one female accompanist who always shoots the runway).
# More important he shows remarkable restraint , and shows only occassional aggression to supplement the vocalist play. To that extent he does not preempt the manodharma of the fore coming sangathis /swaras of the vocalist.
# Never he is a block during sangathis or swara kalpana during vocal delivery (I particularly feel with one male established violinist that at times there is a bit of too much of playing intrusion)
# I see him playing regularly for all established vidwans vidushis. SudhA, Mah Ramachandran,unni , suryaprakAsh and sanjay is whom I see him accompanying a lot . To that extent he is a favoured accompanist for all vidwans/vidushis.
# Once the musicologist Dr shrivastava was referring in his lecture with few marathi words , I am assuming his mother tongue is marathi and he belongs to tanjore belt . Who knows he may be just the 11 th cousin and great great grand son of serfoji maharAja of tanjore
.(Some one can confirm his mother tongue??)# On a side note , there is one program titled ranjani shri ranjani where he and VL kumar pair up in vivadh bharathi AIR 8AM slot where he explains connections of tamil cinema music and carnatic music . He is quite good , though at times I dont like their dry humour.
Though this post is short , I feel that is a right tribute to this great vidwan in his own precision style .
