Music, Dance, Cinema : A Flashback and Progress

Contents:  1. Charming Chanteuse. 2. Dancing Queen. 3. Anchorage of music. Music: 4. Torch bearer of a tradition.  5. Sudha sings for the love of her illustrious guru. 6. The Mohanam Maestro. 7. Mohanam lives forever. 8. The power of music. 9. The genius of Lalgudi.  10. Glorious melodies of Lalgudi Jayaraman. 11. Singing sensation.  12. Carnatic music is an endless ocean. 13. The sweet sound of music and applause. 14. Shining in versatility. 15. The Vani that rendered one of the most sensuous film melodies is now turning to bhakti songs. 16. Weaving the Saptaswaras. 17. Mature Veena player. 18. She mixes sensuality of Ghazals with the divinity of her Veena. 19. Inheriting Lalgudi’s Violin. 20. Eminent violinist. 21. Of divine melodies. 22. Young mandolin Maestro. 23.Meditative music. 24. The little master. 25. A child prodigy from south. Dance:  26. In search of roots. 27. Dance is an expression of my soul. 28. The dancing queens. 29. An aesthetic Bharatam. 30. Down the memory lane. 31. The Travancore sisters mesmerized with their dances. 32. Recalling the sisters as neighbours. 33. Dance is Shobhana’s passion, and also a step to success. 34. Star in the Southern sky. 35. The month of magical melodies. Cinema: 36. A Golden Innings. 37. AVM’s Banner flies high. 38. Studio success story. 39. When the bugles blew there was a great show. 40. The Gemini showman……

From the  Foreword  the present book is thought of because almost all of them have made tremendous strides and in fact are shining stars in the cultural firmament today. A few of them like Lalgudi, the Tracencore Sisters and Sivaji were stalwarts even then and they had since passed into memory leaving behind a rich legacy and their children are in their footsteps bearing the cultural flag. This book is an attempt a sketching this progress.