Summary:
With folded hands, Neyveli Santhanagopalan said, “It is my own composition.” So, the lesser-known dimension of the vocalist as vaggeyakkara was revealed. In-between, Santhanagopalan sang Patnam Subramanya Iyer’s ‘Abhimanamu’ (Begada) and Dikshithar’s ‘Sri Matrubhutham’ (Kannada), which could have been sung a bit faster. It practically screamed that Santhanagopalan is an artiste who is being consistently overlooked for recognition. In the swaras that followed, at least twice, Santhanagopalan seemed to experiment with a swara sequence, miss the tala cycle, do it again, and succeed. The elegance of the chittaiswara-studded ‘Pratyaksha Parameswara’ in Poorna Chandrika, in Tamil, on Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati, did intrigue..