Comments on: Marghazhi Kutcheri Season 2004 takes off

By: Mani

Mani — Fri, 03 Jun 2005 17:47:22 +0000

artists from Carnatic, Hindustani, classical dancing to Rock and World fusion.
ew… Keep Rock and Carnatic seperate. And fusion stinks. “Mutton in Avial” is bad taste.

By: Maverick

Maverick — Tue, 07 Dec 2004 11:07:40 +0000

Bangalore too has got its own cultural fest season in December which started last year. Called as ‘Bangalore Habba’, this cultural extravganza’s lineup for this year looks pretty exciting.
Keeping in line with the city’s cosmopolitan nature, the cultural fest lines up country’s top artists from Carnatic, Hindustani, classical dancing to Rock and World fusion. And they have got the popular Pakistani group ‘Strings’ too performing this year.

By: Shobha

Shobha — Mon, 06 Dec 2004 23:49:47 +0000

Oh cool……kindly pass ont he details of the Mumbai fest if you could please…

By: Lazy Geek

Lazy Geek — Mon, 06 Dec 2004 17:02:35 +0000

Maverick, I did read it. Though many of them will only be implemented in the distant future, given the speed of our sabhas, they are certainly good ways of crowd pulling.

By: Maverick

Maverick — Mon, 06 Dec 2004 15:50:37 +0000

Check out Sujatha’s article about Maragazhi Kutcheri season in Chennai in this week’s edition of Aa.Vi. He laments about the lack of crowds these days for the kutcheris and his ideas that might help solve this.

By: Lazy Geek

Lazy Geek — Mon, 06 Dec 2004 15:31:00 +0000

Venkat, you could be partly right. Because Arusuvai Arasar has restaurants open in couple of places of chennai. hopefully, I believe people would no more come to kutcheris just to eat.

they probably could make a good joke in ananda vikatan but not essentially true. as the concert tickets are sky rocketing, who wants to pay a hefty 100 bucks to eat a couple of bajjis and onion rava.

By: Lazy Geek

Lazy Geek — Mon, 06 Dec 2004 15:29:03 +0000

Balaji – This link http://www.kutcheribuzz.com/season2004/tickets.htm says you can gift tickets to your folks back at home. Probably it s a feature thats coming up as I don’t see it live anywhere in the link. but you could probably use this.

Prabhu – SVe Shekar’s drama ‘Mega Vasool’ is the latest hit. Gotto see it before i talk about it.

By: Lazy Geek

Lazy Geek — Mon, 06 Dec 2004 15:25:22 +0000

Shobha, As the Chennai festival concludes by december, the mumbai one starts. Interesting. I’m thinking about the strain on the vocal chords of performers.

By: venkat

venkat — Mon, 06 Dec 2004 13:18:21 +0000

Just a note on what I heard about these Kutcheries.. Because the timeframe (about a month??) is very limited the queue for booking established artists is huge, hence the budding artists either go quite unnoticed or manage to get booked in very small (converted sabas / halls just for the season) gathering… quite frustrating for them, as this could be one of their BEST launching pads !!! Also, the emphasis on food / miscellaneous commercial activies to pull crowd is also increasing rather than the actual quality of the performance..(crowed queued near ARUSUVAI Natty’s canteen rather than being attentive to alapanas, etc..) Anyways, I would term this as a COMMERCIAL CARNATIC (CULTURAL) episode !

By: F e r r a r i

F e r r a r i — Mon, 06 Dec 2004 09:54:30 +0000

Any news on the drama’s (Especially Cho or SV Sekar) this time? Its been long since I saw a tamil drama