Visaka hari concerts chennai silks
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We attended nearly 12 concerts as part of the Chennai December music season and this has got us hooked. We certainly hope to come back every year during the music season to hear some truly great musicians and some budding greats. I also realised that its the sari season and I enjoyed watching the many beautiful saris that many women wore. I have to do a special callout for the really old women who are frail and walk with some assistance but have an awesome sense of color and were beautifully turned out in stunning saris. Hopefully next year I will photograph some of them 🙂
I wore this sari to U. Rajesh&#;s concert, the very first concert that we attended in this season. This was bought at Kumaran stores in some 6 years back. Its one of Krishnan&#;s favourite and he had insisted that I buy it. The neckpiece is from Desh Maheshwari and interestingly was bought just before Renuka, Neeti and I were about to attend a client meeting in Noida :). I was wearing a different sari and didn&#;t have the matching neckpiece when I saw this and just bought it.
This sari I wore to Dr. L Subramaniam&#;s concert on Dec 28th. This is a Benarasi silk that I bought at Valkalam saris in Varanasi. I just love the colour and the intricate embroidery &#; look at the classy work done on this sari
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By far, the Chennai December music season this time has been a case of &#;I went, I saw, I ran away&#; kind of experience for me. I began writing a stiff &#;Carnatic music and consumerism &#; Making the audience buy&#; type of article. But considering my sworn readers who cannot brook one grave sentence from my pen, I have here a series of (loony) snapshots on the music season.
- I thought I had wandered into a South Indian wedding when I entered a concert hall this December season. Rustling silk saris, fragrant jasmine strings, deep namaskarams, aroma of filter coffee and idli-sambar, snatches of gossip&#;eh? If I had anticipated such heavy dressing, I would have at least remembered to comb. But what the hell? I came to listen to music, not be seen. The violinist on stage had enough kohl in her eyes to put Johnny Depp to shame, while the vocalists glittered like Christmas trees. So much so, I was tempted to carry one back home and hang some gifts for my kids. My vote any day is for Sanjay Subrahmanyan, who prefers to throw his flamboyance into his music rather than his clothes. If musicians felt glittering jibbas and flashy saris added weight to their music, then why wear just one? Why not wear four? Or maybe I belong to that dwindling population which expects only a good co