Lingua Kannada
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For all your Kannada needs. Check out the drama section for some unbelievable clips from theatre - hiranyayya with everything on it.
Ok, ok, here's something for the rest of you to munch on. You simply have to listen to Dr. Rajkumar (yeah, yeah kidnap-rajkumar) belt out this English number. I guarantee a good time. Go to If you come today and click on "If you come today".
posted by yangry star @ 1:34 PM
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My favourites are the trills and the raaga alaapanas (alaaps) on words like "noo-o-o-o-n" and "desi-i-i-ires. English language can't handle 'gamaka's man! Of course the piece de resistance:
"you pick the time
tik tik tik tik"
Space hit the nail on the head there. Western style gammakas are different though. Check out Sarah Vaughn singing "I'll Close my Eyes" - just the first half - the rest is full of back-of-the-throat warblings that'll make you puke.
Do you think Veerappan kidnapped this guy to make him sing for him and his fellow bandits in the forest? I'm sure you can picture this - Veerappan and fellow Daakoos, all drunk, resting on string cots around a fire and this guy being lashed at regular intervals while he sings a song awaiting the arrival of the cops.
If you come today -its too early.
If you come tomorrow - its too late.
Did you say morning? Did you evening? No, no, no...
You pick the time... tik tik tik
uh, tik tik tik tik...
On an unrelated note, I think desi DJs should stop murdering old classics with their remixes and should start remixing this kinda songs. I would love it if I heard a good DJ Tiesto level remix of this song in an Indain club. I think people will pay for it too. Tigle, are you reading this?
P, please, heart bled listening to the story. Incidentally, for those of you annavaru (dr. raj's epithet) fans who were following the kidnapping from the edge of their cubicles, brave-heart-appan was wont to sending videos periodically. Un-holi friend of mine thought it might be funny if, suddenly, a video contained, what one might entitle "rajkumar, veerappan and henchmen gone wild"! My heart bled then too.
Nugget:
Someone I know (and you know) heard the opening bars of the song and this is what happened:
Me: Have you heard this?
(Opening 10 seconds play)
Him: Herbie Hancocka?
Me: Please wait and listen...
Him: Oh! Must have cogged it from Herbie
Me (resignedly) : Must have
Please tell me that wasn't tigle. Yo tigle, wah wah guitar huh ?
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