Definitely a new concept for carnatic music, Margazhi ragam has had its share of limelight over the December season. I, for one, would question the decision of releasing it in the last month along with the hype and excitement of the December music season in Chennai. Given that theaters usually would not run such a movie for more than three weeks, at best, it would have been better to probably release it in March/April or something like that. But thats just me..
I do not attempt to review the concert , mainly because its already done by many people and secondly the overall experience was pretty darn good. The detailed movie review(if we can call it that) can be found here http://www.rediff.com/movies/2008/dec/22review-margazh-ragam.htm .
What does peeve me a little bit is ' Is there enough value added , in adding admittedly a great video(with lights, camera angles, split screens etc) for the Carnatic music concert?'. Would a carnatic music lover be much bothered with how the concert looks as long as the music is pristine? My two cents, I have taken the last seat tickets in a lot of concerts, hardly being able to see the artist, and enjoyed them a lot... So , for me, No!!! Seeing the artist comes pretty low in the list.
Having said that , a theatre guarantees you a good well balanced audio system largely missing in many sabhas, where sometimes mridangam is too loud,violin is too loud, audio of main singer is choppy and sometimes the mike and speaker systems are of sheer low quality . Not to mention the comfortable seats and decent restrooms in theaters. So , good audio quality , being able to see the 'dialogues' the main artist has with the accompanist (via gestures etc), and PC Sreerams stunning camera work definitely does earn some brownie points !! :-)
So I guess, to each his own!!! Only time will tell how much this format succeeds...
Sayonara!!!
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