Lyrics by ONV Kurup | Melody meets Poetry

You could read this as a continuation of the earlier post appreciating the inherent beauty of ONV Kurup’s lyrics in Malayalam films. A film song becomes sweet due to the combined effort of the lyricist, music director with the background music and the singer. Quite often, the role of the musician gets ignored and I feel that it is an injustice. Everyone admires V Dakshinamoorthy who composed the song Chandrikayil Aliyunnu Chandrakaantham. But who cares to know that the excellent interludes which supported the song is composed by R K Sekhar ? By just recollecting those musical gems of the past in totality, let me put down a few songs enriched not only with the lyrics of ONV Kurup but by the compositions that made those songs to live in the memory of all music lovers with its synergy.

Sajith Bhaskaran’s The Missing Sound Project | First Set.

This is the first set of the dual-versions existing in Malayalam film songs. To make the entire experience more engaging and useful, I have uploaded the track excerpts on SoundCloud so that it is possible for you to put your comments on the Song Track DIRECTLY, at which ever part you would want to comment against.

The non-identical twins in Malayalam Film Songs

Introducing Sajith Bhaskaran‘s The Missing Sound Project.

{ The Missing Sound Project is a journey through an interesting aspect of the Malayalam film songs of the 60s to 80s – the concept of “dual existence”. No, we are not talking Particle Physics here, but the very fascinating fact of two versions of a song – the real and edited versions existing for some of the very popular tracks that we have so come to love and cherish.Sajith Bhaskaran has painstakingly collected a cross section of audio files of popular Malayalam Film Songs – each as a set containing an  excerpt from the Vinyl Record, and an excerpt from the movie soundtrack. He diligently explains with his notes on each set , his thoughts and observations of the Song and its Twin.}

Tribute to Arjunan Master | Sajith Bhaskaran’s Update

Pix Credit : Sajith Bhaskaran

[ Sajith Bhaskaran, who luckily got to attend the Tribute Concert to MK Arjunan Master despite his busy work schedule was kind enough to send across a short note and  a set of photographs of the event and his disappointment at the overall quality of the program's musical content . Thank you so much, Sajith ]