1st Anniversary of "Ee Prapancha"

“Ee Prapancha” turns one year old today. The first post on this blog was published on June 22, 2006.In the one year passed, there had been posts on topics related to Cricket, Bollywood, Kannada, Karnataka, Mangalore, Bangalore etc. A total of 36 posts have been published so far. There had been some time when there was not much activity in this blog. But the blog is in full swing yet again with new posts. In the coming days hope to provide you with more posts in the above topics and other new topics as well.

Regards
Raveesh

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Confused by the title? This is referring to the bollywood flick, Bheja Fry, which stands different from the rest. Even the movie duration is short being less than 90 minutes where in some movies run for more than 4 hours in bollywood testing the patience of movie audience. Here the entire story revolves around 5-6 characters and no songs, no dance sequences, of course.

This is the story of a man who invites one of his new found ‘talents’ to a dinner party every Friday and will have pleasure in making fun of their talent (but without talents realizing this, as he argues) and he confesses this as his only stress buster. But this time the story is different. The so invited guest ends up being a trouble for the host himself. Stupidities displayed by the guest leads the host to problematic situations. In trying to solve these problematic situations, the ‘talented’ guest digs up more troubles. Humorous dialogues and some good performances by the protagonists get your attention more often. One particular expression to note in the film was TGIF – Thank God Its Friday!! And a victorious laugh of Vinay Pathak after saying this.

Worth watch if you are planning to see a movie out of the mill. I would like to mention here Khosla Ka Ghosla which got good response last year, was different and had Vinay Pathak in a role who helps a middle class family to get their land from the real estate mafia. Now we have forerunners for comedian role along with Paresh Rawal, Boman Irani and others in Hindi Cinema.

Engineer by Profession, Musician by Passion

What a engineer has to do with music? Well, that may seem a vague question for many. But not to this man. Some times its the sheer passion which drives people to excel in their hobby or as they say in Kannada Pravruththi. Here, I want to talk about a man who holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from one of the world's most reputed universities, Stanford. Well, he also has one an associate degree in music composition. He is the man who made blockbuster of a movie with his music composing skills. Yes, you guessed it right. I am speaking of well known music director in Kannada Film Industry or rather Gandhinagar, Mano Murthy, who gave a musical hit of this year by scoring music to Mungaaru Male.

Here is a man who made his mark in both the fields Networking as well as Music. He founded Allegro Systems, which was later acquired by Cisco Systems for $181 million in 2001. Previously, Murthy had co-founded Assured Access Technology which was then acquired by Alcatel for $350 million in 1999 and in the late 1980s, he and three associates founded Alantec to be acquired by Fore in 1996.

And when it comes to music he has got a many hits to his credit in Kannada Film Industry. This musical journey began with 1997 Nagathihalli Chandrashekhar film America America. One particular music score I would like to mention is the one for Yaava Mohana Murali Kareyitho Doora Theerake Ninnanu. Great lyrics by renowned Kannada poet Gopalakrishna Adiga and equally good music. Then again in 1999, he scored music for Nanna Preethiya Hudugi shot in a American campus. Car Car song from Nanna Preethiya Hudugi went on to become the biggest hit of the year. Ramesh Aravind starrer Joke Falls too had him as a music director. And then in year 2005 Amruthadhaare made to the hit charts. And come year 2006, there is Mungaaru Male, or shall we say the Monsoon Rain of Music. Every song of the movie is a hit: Anisuthide Yaako Indu, Kunidu Kunidu Baare, Onde Ondu Saari, Araluthiru Jeevada Geleya, Ivanu Geleyanalla, Mungaaru Maleye, Suvvi Suvvaali. Surely one of the great music directors Gandhinagar has ever seen.

All the best Mano Murthy for all your future ventures, be it be technical or musical!!!

To find out more about Mano Murthy check out the following links
http://www.thestandard.com/article/0,1902,28502,00.html
http://www.viggy.com/interview/manomurthy_eng.asp

Glimpses of Nature

These are some of the photos taken by me presenting the glimpses of nature.

Bannur Village, Puttur, Dakshina Kannada

Bannur Village, Puttur, Dakshina Kannada

Kudlu Village, Kasaragod, Kerala

Kudlu Village, Kasaragod, Kerala

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"Ee Prapancha" goes Illustrated

Almost a year ago "Ee Prapancha" was started on June 22, 2006. Today it is going illustrated. This post brings you the Mangalore city photos, first post on Mangalore in this blogs dates back to June 26,2006.

Mangalore City Corporation Office Building

Dr. TMA Pai International Convention Centre, MG Road



Dr. TMA Pai International Convention Centre, MG Road



MG Road



Bharath Mall, Mangalore



Bharath Mall



Inside Bharath Mall

Sri Gopalakrishna Temple, Shakti Nagara, Mangalore

Above are the photos of Gopalakrishna temple, Mangalore



Empire Mall, MG Road, Mangalore



Manasa Towers, MG Road, Mangalore



St.Aloysius College, Mangalore



Theosophical Soceity, MG Road, Mangalore

Ullala Bridge for Nethravathi River

For all the pictures of Mangalore visit the this web page. http://raveeshkumar.slide.com/
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Lyrics Or Music ?

New post after a long long time. Hope you like it !!!

This is very contentious issue to answer. The question here is when a song be it a film song or other becomes a hit, whether it is because of its music or its lyrics?

There are songs written exclusively for the music(most of the times when tune is from any other language hit film song). So here lyrics is compromised at the cost of music or tune. But most of the times those songs are going to become hits. One of the classical examples is tamil film Kadhalan being remade in Hindi as Hum Se Hai Muqabla. There lyrics were not upto the mark set by yesteryear hindi lyricists. Latest addition to this is Jane Do Na song from Amitabh Bachchan starrer Cheeni Kum whose tune is similar to Jothe Jotheyali song from Shankar Nag starrer kannada film Geetha (music by Ilayaraja in both cases).

Nowadays well written lyrics is hard to find in film songs. But there are exceptions. Songs from kannada film Mungaaru Male are unique blend of good lyrics and equally good music. Anisuthide Yaako Indu has almost become the State Anthem of Karnataka with its huge popularity across the state.

But most of the times I feel a song becomes a instant hit because of its music. But wait, these songs which tend to become instant hits purely because of its music usually tends to have a short life span. People tend to forget these songs once a new song with better music takes over. This is mostly the case with songs with loud music. But not with the songs with good lyrics and of course light music. That is the reason I feel old songs still enjoy the popularity as before with their excellent lyrics. Can you ever forget songs from Hindi films like Dil, Saajan, Sholey, Aaraadhana or Kannada films like Kasthuri Nivaasa, Nyaayave Devaru, Gandhada Gudi, Amruthavarshini?

What is your say on this?

Regards
Raveesh