Ravikiran's Surati Pada Varnam | Punnagai azhahil | Leela Samson & team | Dance concert

Punnagai azhahil mayangi vizhunden is a weighty pada varnam in the Carnatic Indian raga Surati on Lord Muruga, with an interesting tailpiece after charanam swaras that leads back to the pallavi, this creation of Ravikiran has been choreographed and/or interpreted by leading dancers including Smt Padma Subramanian, Smt Vasantalakshmi & Shri Narasimhachari in the past. This was among the pieces presented in a special event Dance Margam concert of Ravikiran's Compositions for Brahma Gana Sabha by Smt Leela Samson & various talented dancers on 5 Jan 2018 to an overflowing audience that included some of the top exponents of Bharatanatyam, Kuchippudi as well as leading musicians.
Dance: Renjith Babu & Vijna Vasudevan
Direction: Dr Leela Samson
Vocal: Anahita & Apoorva Ravindran
Nattuvangam: Girish Madhu
Mrdangam: Karthikeyan Ramanathan
Flute: Sujith Nayak
Violin: Sanjay Suresh
Sangeet Samrat Chitravina N Ravikiran (www.ravikiranmusic.com), hailed as the "Mozart of India" (Wisconsin State Journal) and renowned for his "Teasing precision & dazzling effects" (New York Times) and for "Taking his music to new audiences" (CNN TV) discovered a new raga, Choodamani at age 2 and composed his first full piece at age 11. Youngest to win the President of India's Award for artistic excellence and a number of other honours, he has collaborated with frontline artists of several genres including Classical, Jazz, Blues, Rock, Pop, Chinese, South American, African and Middle Eastern.
Highlights:
Over 800 compositions
5 languages - Tamil, Sanskrit, Telugu, Hindi and Kannada
Music and dance forms: Geetam, Varnam, Krti, Tillana, Padam, Pada Varnam, Javali, Chindu, Bhajan, Kavuttuvam, Shabdam and his own inventive forms like Swarakrti (krti form but sans lyrics) and Shiruppuhazh (a la Arunagirinathar's Tiruppuhazh)
Operas, dance productions: Ramayana, Mahabharata, Lakshmi Prabhavam, Vinayaka Vaibhavam, Almighty Trinity, Savitri, Cosmos, Illusion to Resolution, Panchakriya, Pushed to the Edge etc.
Ragas Discovered: Keshavapriya, Vaishnavi, Katyayani, Mohini (dedicated to Mahatma Gandhi), Veetavanam (in honour of Beethoven), Andhakarini etc.
Unique Works: Ravikiran is perhaps the first to:
Compose in each of the 35 talas of Carnatic Music,
Compose the 72-mela-ragamalika geetam.
Explore "Schematic svarakshara" pieces (where svaraksharas themselves have an underlying theme in each line like SR - RR - GR - MR or S,D - R,D - G,D- M,D etc)
Employ innovative approaches to incorporating Raga-mudra (name of raga) in multiple ways within the same composition, "Adharam nee enakku" where the raga name Kedaram appears directly or suggestively 8-9 times).
Other creations: Eulogies on Vyasa, Ramanuja, Ramana Maharshi, Kanchi Paramacharya, Mahatma Gandhi, M S Subbulakshmi, Guru Chitravina Narasimhan and social critiques or commentaries.

[@kavyadas3419]

Now a days lots of experiments, themes, beautification are getting indulged into Bharatanatyam.. But I always feel overjoyed with this kind of classic pieces with classic style. It has that temple dancer aroma, modesty,boldness, devotion.. and never want to go back to those modified bharatanatyam.. this is a treat for my soul..

[@renjithvijna]

Thank you 🙂🙏🏽

[@gomatikanchan4832]

Beautiful performance.

[@msubramaniam8]

bought tears to my eyes ......... awesome singing ......so beautiful in tamil...amazing dancing and choreo...sweet tamizh on 'Tamizh Kadvul Murugan'...the male dancer has great control and very clean anggasudha & clarity...kudos ..great araimandi too

[@renjithvijna]

Thank you so much for your comment 🙂🙏🏽

[@Luvly2938]

Pride of India these 2 dancers. Bharat Natyam is pure art and bliss to watch!!

[@maithreyikeshavanbarve127]

Excellent...what a choreography...just precise...short jathis...I really enjoyed every minute of the video..I can imagine how excellent the live program must have been. Renjith and vijna...perfect grace, coordination...subtle and very neat abhinaya...

[@renjithvijna]

Thank you so much. This composition has been set to dance by Leela Samson.

[@vaidyaga]

This is so beautiful. The music and dancing touch the soul. Both of you are so graceful and dignified. I truly feel elevated and transported watching you. I aspire to dance as purely and gracefully as you one day. Lots of love to both of you ! Such soulful dancers !!

[@renjithvijna]

Thank you very much 🙏🏽

[@karthikiyengar6141]

Both are dancing very neat dignified blessings

[@rajana5886]

Super all the male dancer is good control body movement amazing

[@polivios6100]

Dancing scripture! What a tradition!

[@renjithvijna]

Thank you 🙂🙏🏽

[@sathyaprakasanpulickel6461]

So brilliant....

[@saigitasasi1191]

Twinkle, Ranjit... Beautiful performance... Awesome moments.. 👌👌👏👏😍

[@msubramaniam8]

punnagai azhagil mayanggi vizundhen..ahahhahhahhaa..so beautiful..thoroughly enjoyed every momemnt..crisp adavus with precision..and the aanggikabinaya was amazing

[@radhikaramachandran8264]

Beautiful composition with such a very romantic raga suruti

[@ramnaras25]

Superb performance !

[@bindra1731]

Dancers - Very graceful & perfect Singers - Very sweet & devotional Composer - Very good composition Orchestra - Did justice to all the above. Keep it up !!

[@Swarnagowrishiva]

ranjith kanna very beautiful da

[@mridhulasivakumar7556]

What a beautiful performance.. so very perfect . Beautiful song ..

[@dharus8960]

So beautiful pair! Watching them dance is so nice

[@appabombay]

Super performance with pleasing melody✌️Radhe Krishna

[@yashaswiniraghuram8889]

Fantastic composition!!

[@kaliswarikali815]

Leela samson and team excellent gens dancer is too liked

[@renjithvijna]

Leela Samson set dance for this song. Thank you 🙂🙏🏽

[@baluc4917]

I am dancing this song in my school annual day it is very amazing

[@dr.deepthyprakash6726]

Simply Amazing !!

[@bichitranandaswain6637]

Wow so beautiful

[@renjithvijna]

Thank you Bichu Sir 🙂🙏🏽

[@nirmalaganesh4594]

Great!

[@DivineRoyalDesigner]

#beautiful #😍 #👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@vinny6521]

Excellent composition and impeccable presentation

[@swatiyadav640]

Just beautiful, perfect 😄 shortest varnam ever 😄 What is the Ragam?

[@AishwaryaRamakrishnan]

Suruti ragam!

[@swatiyadav640]

@@AishwaryaRamakrishnan Thanks!😄

[@ushamenon4559]

So sad that it has only below 100 likes But if it was actors dancing nonsense it must have 10000 likes Kashtam

[@ashapisharam4566]

True. .

[@TheTinboy]

Very True!

[@kaliswarikali815]

It's correct

[@manjusumesh4776]

Its true

[@bindra1731]

Why even bother about it? Consider it as our classical dance meant for few blessed one.

[@sathyaprakasanpulickel6461]

neengal nikar evarayyaaaa.....

[@simpleseesaw2551]

Can i get lyrics plss

[@purvajas]

What thalam is this composition?

[@chitraramachandran6896]

Aadi talam

[@karthikiyengar6141]

In adi talam

[@ManuManu-hq2hf]

I want to learn but age 24 so

[@ahgela]

Manu Manu I started at 24, final year of university. I finished my arangetram last year when I was 30 😊 Nth is impossible!

[@savithan8251]

I am 32 , I started a week back

[@simpleseesaw2551]

Can i get lyrics plss