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A Great Evening in Dallas!

OK, so you go to a music concert by some South Indian singers and you expect some
"kuthu paattu" and "item numbers". And what if you did not get them all but a very
good rendering of good songs and as a bonus some Karnatic and Hindustani "aalaaps"?
A great evening with "complete" entertainment?

Then I would like to call it a complete entertainment for the concert that was held by Vibha
on 5th October 2007 in Dallas. The singers were Unni Krishnan, Sadhana Sargam,
Ganga & Karthik. Wow, what a night it was!

After a brief introduction, Unni walks in with a Ramarajan kinda shirt (Is Vijayakant
auctioning off his wardrobe after getting into politics?) and starts singing "Haira Haira
Hairabba" from the movie "Jeans". It was really superb. He sang a couple of Tamil
songs originally sung by him. Ganga joined with him for a couple of songs too. Then came
Sadhana Sargam. She sung some good Tamil songs with her mellifluous voice. Her Tamil
pronounciation was much better than some Tamil singers who sing Tamil Songs
(KK, Yuvan Shankar Raja to name a few).

Then came that "podi payal" Karthik. Wow.... I still remember that kid singing in
"Saptha Swarangal" with large glasses :-) He has a great voice and he sung many songs
with Ganga & Sadhana and a few solos too.

In all, Unni, Sadhana, Ganga & Karthik gave an outstanding performance that night and
was enjoying every bit of that.Needless to say, the band consisting of just four people
(Tabela/Mridhangam, Drums, Keyboard and Guitar) performed excellently and giving
the best out of them. I would say, it was my good luck not to have missed such a concert
if not for my wife.

The surprise is yet to come.

When the concert ended about 11:45, I was pestering my wife's friend whose wife was
a volunteer for Vibha, to take me to the back stage and let me talk to Unni for a few
minutes. For, I had a question to ask. He tried all possibile ways and finallygave up and
said he doesn't have much influence to take me to the back stage. So much dejected, my
wife and I walked out of the Auditorium at about 12am, got into the car, pulled out of the
Auditorium and was about to get into the street. That's when I noticed Unni talking to
someone at the side entrance to the Auditorium. Voila, there's my opportunity!

I took my wife along with me to speak a few words with Unni. Guess what, he spoke to us in
a nice manner as we did to him. My wife was all of appreciating his voice and thanked him
for providing such a magnificent performance that evening. He acceptedall that and was
just magnanimous. Then came my question to Unni if he got the shirt from Ramarajan
or someone as it was just as jazzy as Ramarajan would wear in his movie songs. For this
Unni gave a big time laughter as an answer. And I liked that in him. Before leaving, he gave
his email ID to contact him in the future.

Thanks to you all. A special thanks to Unni for singing the Indian National Anthem after someone from the Audience yelled at him to sing the National Anthem.