Odes to a Temple | Episode 1 | Tirumayilai - Kapalishwara Temple l Ramakrishnan Murthy l MOPA

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Odes to a Temple is a docu-series that explores the rich heritage of India's deep South, a land of emerald rice fields and palm forests, dotted every few miles with magnificent temple towers. These temples, crafted by visionary rulers driven by faith, stand as some of the world's most remarkable stone treasures. Throughout history, revered seers and composers have dedicated songs and poems to the deities within, serving as a comprehensive encyclopedia of culture and spirituality. From ancient Saivite and Vaishnavite saints to the Carnatic Trinity of the 18th century, to modern-day composers, temple-inspired music remains central to Carnatic music.
Each episode takes you through a temple, with a selection of songs rendered by ace Carnatic vocalist Ramakrishnan Murthy within the temple premises. The narration traces a Carnatic trail through the temple and highlights the harmonious interlacing of temple iconography, history, literature and music.
We begin with the temples of Chennai, the capital city of Tamil Nadu and heartland of Carnatic music today. Episode 1 features Kapalishwara Temple, situated in Tirumayilai or Mylapore, in the heart of the city.
Songs featured:
1. karuNAnidhiyE tAyE - bowLi - mishra chApu - Papanasam Sivan [01:17]
2. maTTiTTa punnayangAnal - mAyAmALavagowLa - mishra chApu - Gnanasambandar [05:33]
3. aRamilA ati - sAlagabhairavi - chanda tALam - Arunagirinathar [07:32]
4. sukha kara - dhAtuvardhini - Adi - Koteeshwara Iyer [10:04]
5. pUraNi manOnmaNi (viruttam) - rAgamAlikA - Tachchi Arunachala Mudaliar [12:40]
6. kANa kaN kOTi - kAmbhOji - Adi - Papanasam Sivan [14:44]
7. karuNai deivamE - sindhubhairavi - Adi - Madurai Srinivasan [19:12]
8. kamalAnanE - dEsh - Adi - RK Shriramkumar [22:07]
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[@gayathrisundaresan478]

Superb production! Cannot expect any less when people like Savita Narsimhan and Ramakrishnan Murthy are involved! Just touches the heart - heart strings!

[@meenakshishivram1020]

A very precious documentary...so melodiously presented. Thank you 🙏

[@user-SHGfvs]

4:00 big applause for exposing the Truth great work 🙏

[@sowmyavenkatramanan5339]

Splendid production. My humble salutations to all .. from Shri Ramakrishna Murthy, Srimathi Savitha to all involved. Well researched shows how our Karpagambal and kapali have encompassing lives from the early centuries. My namaskarams to all masters!! Please continue your service 🙏🙏

[@padmaiyer5423]

India needs more of such culturally and religiously centred productions. Presenting the temple and its background and tying it closely to the evolution of arts and compositions around the time is a very refreshing perspective to capture. Please keep more of this coming 🙏🏽 Kudos to the entire team, Ramakrishna's vocals are unparalleled in clarity and devotion!

[@pachampetramamurthy930]

Ram Ram Wonderful. No words to describe. Sri.Ramakrishna Murthy and Ms.Saviths have given an outstanding presentation. Very informative and arresting our attention. They must cover more temples. God bless.

[@jasmine4654]

Lovely presentation depicting the temple histoey!!

[@shobanaramkumar4215]

Karpagavallinin porpadangal is another iconic song on the Goddess of the shrine popular among Her devotees

[@pradyumnakanthamraju6111]

Thoroughly loved the curation! Please consider releasing the songs as individual musical pieces as well, as some of them seem to b rarely heard gems

[@srichodavarapu]

The classicism and the essence of timelessness of RKM’s singing perfectly captured the temple and Mylapore’s culture pride and rich heritage. The visuals and setting beautifully complemented the depth of the vocals, creating an immersive experience! Feels like the project was divinely ordained! Looking forward to more!

[@rvraksh]

Blissful❤❤

[@RangaprabhuParthasarathy]

Such a great production- a treat for the mind, the eyes and the ears. Absolutely loved it and can’t wait for the next one! And Ramakrishnan Murthy’s music is as always incredible.

[@raghavannarasimhan6404]

Thank you for the lovely presentation.

[@gayathriramachandran8282]

Absolutely wonderful program. The rare Kritis on kapaleshwarar and karpagambal sung in the mesmerising voice of Ramakrishna murti. Was so fabulous. The narration in Savita Narasimhans melodious voice was informative and evoked the glorious days of our art culture and music. Wonderful production. Excellent photography. Can we have many more of this. Thanks Savita.

[@kamalasubramanian7978]

Hello Savita and Ramakrishnan murthy your altogether new video on Odes to a temple episode 1 tirumayilai kapalishwara temple is a well thought out, brilliantly conceptualized, excellently scripted, outstandingly rendered event in the premises of the temple after making in depth research for the details. Savitas narration and Ramakrishna murthys singing complemented with each other. Several incidences narrated were unknown to many hitherto which highlight the greatness of this temple . Congrats to the entire team for bringing out this wonderful video.

[@Akshay.Ramanathan]

Such a beautiful production. To see the beloved Kapali temple captured so artfully, with some timeless music and succinct, insightful narration. Much bliss ❤❤

[@drcskfamily]

Goosebumps - that is all I can a say. Brilliant audio and video production. Ram is superb. Savitha’s narration is crisp and clear. This one must be preserved. Thanks to everyone involved in this production.

[@geethavenkataraman7484]

Simply superb!! Excellent presentation and rendition of kritis..looking forward to more such!!!!

[@Ilovemusicful]

I grew up in Bihar and had no idea about Kabali Koil ! Thanks for this cultural documentary 🙏🏾

[@aaarenco5658]

Thank you for the immensely immersive experience... at once transformed and transported in time by the presentation and rendering into a different age and time ...

[@bamamoorthy8690]

Very very nice to listen to. I enjoyed this video very much.thank you for sharing🇨🇦

[@lalithajairam6640]

Inspiring program! Looking forward to many more such programs with such good singing by Ramakrishnan Murthy and narration by Savita Narasimhan. Thank you for this presentation!

[@abinayab3858]

Love the "Notes to myself" series and now this series. Looking forward to more such episodes.

[@umasekhar2629]

Excellent series. Great singing , Ramakrishnan Murthy. You have been blessed by Sri Karpagambal and Sri Kabaleeswarar 🙏🙏

[@gayathriramachandran4746]

thanks for the excellent presentation

[@chandrasekars7211]

Wonderful presentation by Ramakrishna Murthy and narration by Savita Narasimhan. Thanks for sharing.

[@nalinisridharan8026]

Wonderful documentary beautified by Mr. Ramakrishnan’s divine music

[@lakshminarayananr5773]

Excellent. Watching it again and again. Ramakrishna Murthy's singing is sooo good.

[@umaram2815]

Wonderful , with a brilliant content , Ram’s rendering is amazing ,

[@abisrivatsan_music]

Wowww.This documentary is amazing ❤❤

[@rajamkasiviswanathan8439]

Thoroughly enjoyed this episode. Thank you

[@shobakannan2819]

Wonderful audio visual treat backed by excellent narrative

[@indirasubramaniam5571]

Thank you MOPA for yet another innovative presentation.

[@Srihari.K.R.]

A great initiative by MOPA, hatz off to Vidushi Savita Narasimhan and Vidwan RKM for their awesome contributions, Thanks to all who made this video possible, list of compositions rendered is available at 25:50 (for the benefit of interested rasikas) 🥀🥀🥀

[@ravisankar1581]

excellent presentation

[@SatishNathan]

Amazing! Every aspect of this production. Thank you for putting out such high quality content. I hope we get to see many many more such episodes!

[@sakuntalaramaswamy7915]

Most Amazing Presentation with Blissful Songs and Show. 👌👌👌

[@shobhasuryanarayanan438]

Excellent program with wonderful singing and competing. Hoping to see more such programs.

[@pshantilal5031]

So wonderful, going through your compilation itself gives one Divine Bliss ! Your team is so fortunate to undertake this journey! It's tough and arduous, but keep going ! Best !

[@gayathriramesh6226]

Wonderfully presented, engrossing

[@priyavalli7093]

Great work, team 👏

[@sunithagopi6518]

Amazing. Looking forward to many more episode

[@bhanumoorthy6818]

Aha.. Top class music documentary

[@gangac3038]

Great production. So enriching

[@aravindv504]

Thanks for this video

[@lithinsaireddy4010]

Wondeful! I completely support you. Please bring on more

[@living__learning9221]

Such a wonderful idea….

[@karpagammohan469]

Wonderful programme

[@user-pd8sg4je7k]

We welcome like this documents on other important temples.

[@gayathrikeshavan6417]

Very nice. Informative

[@sudhanvashastry5789]

Very good information

[@prasadpushkar3191]

I wish all those houses around the temple tank were Trees and large open grass lands! As seen in Colonial Images of the East India company records ❤

[@manojchandran869]

Thank you so much

[@justforyoufromdr.santhikv220]

Om Nama Shivaya🙏🙏

[@kcganesh]

Brilliant 👌👌👌

[@ramanmahadevan2212]

Very blissful singing, narration and video about the rich temple. One suggestion if you could please do the narration before a song begins so that we can enjoy the rendition without interruption. Please post more such videos about other temples as well.

[@vagvilasiniparishat4932]

A laudable effort ! A suggestion - The commentary is lost when the powerful voice of Sri. Ramakrushnan Murthy is running simultaneously in the background. Please avoid overlapping of the commentary and the singing , so that the interesting details are appreciated by all

[@VSPG_SIVANI]

True but the voice can be subtle I feel!!

[@shambavichandru2337]

The kritis too could have been subtitled in italics considering they form the mainstay of this venture. Please do consider. Excellent effort. Keep it up. Best wishes!!!

[@sreeharimeledam1152]

kapali😍😍😍😍

[@chamundeswaridevi1424]

🙏

[@srikau2891]

Pramadham

[@VSPG_SIVANI]

22:09 ❤

[@krishnamurtiganesh6902]

Certainly we need better graphics for closer and more visible script.

[@funfacts-world6096]

Why not to visit kamakshi ambal temple in kanchipuram where shyama sastri , thyagaraja , dikshithar have contributed even oothukadu, chengalvaraya sastri have there part in it

[@januj1]

Can’t we have Tamil narration? When you try to appeal to everybody in the South by speaking in English you lose the very essence of what makes temples and the culture worthwhile, the soul. What people from Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra want from Karnatic music is soul not garden variety bbc copy and narration. You don’t do justice to the amazing singing of Ramakrishnan Murthy. Please get Madhusudhan Kalaiselvan to do the narration

[@gayathriramachandran4746]

thanks for the excellent presentation