Shuddha Saveri is a rāgam in Carnatic music (musical scale of South Indian classical music). It is an audava rāgam (or owdava rāgam, meaning pentatonic scale). It is a janya rāgam (derived scale), as it does not have all the seven swaras (musical notes).

The equivalent of Shuddha Saveri in Hindustani music is Durga. According to the school of Muthuswami Dikshitar, this rāgam is called Devakriya. Karnataka Shuddha Saveri, a janya rāgam of 1st melakarta Kanakangi, is called Shuddha Saveri by the Dikshitar school.

Shuddha Saveri is a symmetric rāgam that does not contain gāndhāram or nishādam. It is a pentatonic scale (audava-audava ragam in Carnatic music classification – audava meaning 'of 5'). Its ārohaṇa-avarohaṇa structure (ascending and descending scale) is as follows :

    ārohaṇa : S R2 M1 P D2 S
    avarohaṇa : S D2 P M1 R2 S

It is a scale that uses the following variants of the swaras – chatushruti rishabham, shuddha madhyamam, panchamam and chatushruti dhaivatam.

Shuddha Saveri is considered a janya rāgam of Sankarabharanam, the 29th melakarta rāgam, though it can be derived from other melakarta rāgams, Kharaharapriya, Gourimanohari or Harikambhoji, by dropping both gāndhāram and nishādam.

Singers : B.S. Sasirekha and Jayachandiran 
Film : - Puthumaipen 1985
Music: Ilayarajaa 

Source : LP Vinyl. Remastered.  LP Rip using AT92E cartridge. 

Kathal Mayakkam

Maestro’s only film for NTR
“Don” – One of the highly acclaimed formula films which became sensational hits in all the languages it was remade in the late 70’s and early 80’s. In all the Don films, the making and presentation were always stylish and the Lead actors played the roles exceptionally well. However, all the early Don movies lacked stylish presentation in songs and BGM except this remake starring NTR & Jayasudha and the reason is too easy to guess. 
Listen to this song from the film “Yugandhar” which was the only film Maestro scored for N.T.Rama Rao. This 5th Direct Telugu film was released in 1979. Supreme work in Bass guitar, Electric Violin and Keyboard add style to a Don film’s music track. The melody has classical touches throughout the composition. 
In the Audio formats, only two preludes were provided but the film had three preludes. I have uploaded the CD version which has 2nd and 3rd preludes. I have also added the first prelude which figures in the film after the end of the CD version.  
Exactly 25 years after the release of this film (2004), Maestro was selected for the “NTR NATIONAL FILM AWARD” but due to political reasons, the award was given only in 2007 for all the recipients from 2003 – 2006. NTR National Film Award is an award instituted by the state of Andhra Pradesh in the honour of N.T.Rama Rao. 
Read this if you are interested to know more about Ragas / Scales / Notes in either Carnatic or Western or in both the forms. 
Maestro has always changed his composition styles from time to time. But this style comprising the orchestration in Major Scale and Melody in the Raga “Anandharupa” has been in use till date including the recent hits Sayndhu Sayndhu from NEPV and Chellam Konjam from Megha. Many identify this wrongly as Mohanam. There is an addition of the note Ni3 in both Arohanam and Avarohanam which has a unique name “Anandharupa”. Thus Anandharupa’s Arohanam and Avarohanam are Sa Ri2 Ga3 Pa Dha2 Ni3 Sa”. Sa” Ni3 Dha2 Pa Ga3 Ri2 Sa. While the Orchestration would contain the full Major scale (Touching the note “Ma1”), the melody does not touch Ma1. So Anuradhapura can also be easily described as Shankarabharanam minus Ma1 (OR) Mohanam plus Ni3 in both Arohanam and Avarohanam.



Maestro's Only Film for NTR_Maestro Ilaiyaraaja Sir_The God of Music

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lMW4-jO3Wk
Arnab Goswami is a man of depth. He unleashes rationality and factuality by assembling 5-6 experts every day night and interrupting them at every step. Subramaniam Swamy is a professional Dream Stealer whose task is to infiltrate the subconscious realm of Arnab's own kingdom and interrupt the interruptor, name-call the name-caller and implant the idea that it is possible to reduce prime time news to even more unimaginable depths of ridiculousness

To capture the essence of his genius, we have adapted Hans Zimmer's Time from Inception. 

The source material is largely from this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FykqCkDDrW0

Interrupception

Celebrating Superstar's birthday through this quintessential piece of rock'n'roll which attained cult status in late 80's & early 90's.

Rock'n'Roll Rajni Style

This Music was composed by Maestro Illayarajaa for the HIndi film Sadma Starring Sridevi and Kamalhassan Directed by Balumahendra which is a remake of the Tamil film Moondram pirai by the same Director and Star cast.A Western pop piece that completely bowls you over. 

Illayaraja-Sadma-SoundTrack-Life Happened

A place to share My Master's Voice!!!! ISAIGNANI!!! 

Kathal Mayakkam

Dhinakar Rajaram

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