No
melody …. No life.
We lost a good human being in P.B. Srinivas’ death; how many golden songs he has given to Tamil and Kannada cinemas; we are very much indebted to the great voice of P.B. Srinivas. To get rid of stress, I used to sing always old songs, anything in Tamil, Kannada or Hindi; I never bother about my voice, but surely, after singing his some old songs for an hour, I would become very cool and calm. On several occasions, songs of PBS helped me very much; I use to sing always his songs whether it is in Tamil or Kannada.
Indian
cinema has produced two melody kings, one is Rafi in North and another one is
PBS in South. Both are equally
great. PBS voice is so smooth and fits
for all occasions.
My
favourite hotel in Chennai is Woodlands in RK Salai. They had another restaurant in the same road
called Woodlands Drive-in. It was a
sprawling area with hundreds of very big trees;
even though it was not maintained well, still it was pleasure to visit
that garden and hotel itself was a
wonderful experience. Many VIPs used to
come there daily. We are unfortunate,
today we don’t have a place in the heart of the City today. Whenever I went there, I could see PBS was
sitting in a corner of the building, eating dosa along with a cup of
coffee. He was keeping more than 6 pens
in different colours in his shirt pocket.
I used to go to his table, start singing his songs. Without any gap, he joined with my voice.
It
had happened several times; every time,
it was a lovely experience for me with him.
In Tamil, Manidan Enbavan Deivamagalam, Kalangalil Aval Vasanthan and in
Kannada, Nee Bandu Ninthaga, Suvvi Suvvi Suvvale are all time favourites for
me.
I
cannot say there is no singer today in the field like PBS; I sincerely feel, it the duty of the music
directors to tune such melodious songs and try with the singers. Gone are the days with the legends like
Viswanathan and Ramamurthy.
Will
my expectation reach someone who are really concerned ? If so, I am really lucky and we will get
singers like PBS again with the blessings of PBS and Rafi.
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