Friday, December 16, 2005

After Ages...........

I have caught up with movies playing.. So caught up with Kanda Naal Mudhal, Navarasa, Hanuman, Aaru and Thavamai Thavamirundhu. Over two days thanks to a friend who had come down from abroad on holiday and also because I surprisingly had an unexpected 3 days off. Funny how one other person can get you to do some stuff.. So off we went gallivanting about the city.

Have been singing a lot as well. So I had my hands full, Thanks God and touche.

I sometimes feel that freedom of speech or expression doesn't exist in reality. It is only in writing. It is my personal opinion, it can be subject to change, that the blog is one's own views on the various things they come across in life and the benifit of doubt should if not must, be given. Because each person has had their individual experiences to a given.... anything. Be it people, clothes, colours or whatever. Just because someone says that something is crappy, it gives no free rein to another to pounce on him and give rise to online brawls and slander.

I have been witness to a so much of this in the past few months that after a point in time I was disgusted. The absense of desire to blog and the lack of inclination resulted in me to the extent ofnot checking my own blog for weeks now.

Most of the Blog-brawls I think basically stem from the instinct to oppress another, to keep insisting that he alone is right and everyone else has dropped down from Hell. It is quite clear that tolerance has drastically reduced, to reasons which I intend to find out. And then there are groups and anti-group groups...

True that when something is on a public space like this, it restricts your style, and one must expect a lot of opinions to a said view. But what I would call for is a decent and polished manner of reacting in general. We have been taught to be polite and nice even when we disagree with someone or something, but where has all that gone? The first thing that I hear on the roads are a hell of a lot of beeped out words, which is now another addition to dictionaries. Road Rage. And another 'deviation from normal behaviour' for psychiatrists or psychologists to treat. And I guess there will be one, if not more 'deviations' which will arise from behaviour while blogging.

I just got plain sick of things and more than anything else I started dreading comments. Its crazy how just ONE comment can turn the face of everything around!

Anyway, that said, my newest songs are in Kalaba Kadhalan and Sandakkozhi.
And I have also recorded two very interesting programmes for Vijay TV - Sangamam and one for Kairali, it focuses on me alone and runs on the same lines of Sangamam.

I have sung a whole variety of songs in these shows which I havent had a chance to do previously. Both of them showcase most of what I can do in a nutshell. So we were extremely happy to do them both. Its seldom that a singer in the movies get a chance to sing anything else than what he/she is famous for.

But then this is the case with everyone and in everything. If more of this happened then may be there is a wonderful artiste dormant in a corporate honcho....

It was distress without rains till now and it is disaster with the kind of rains TN had. Anyway it rained in so much in Tamilnadu that we dont have to worry about water for quite some time to come.

And it also seems to be the season where a lot of my close friends are getting married in the next couple of months. Great times ahead!

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

hi chinmayi,
your blogs have been excellent. I just came across this only today. And I get instantly connected to your musings. And I'm sure lots of others would feel the same. And just after giving my comment to another of your blog, I read your "absense of desire and lack of interest" to blog, it feels a bit bad. All I could say is 'take it easy'. Hope to read more of ur thoughts.
-Mani

paurna said...

hey chinmayi.if i ain't mistaken aren't u the girl who sang in sami as well.or was it some one else.well its just coincidence that i stumbled upon ur blog as i just checked whats the blog next to me.

nice to see singers maintaining blogs.hope u make more posts.will be waiting for them

Chinmayi Sripada /Chinmayee said...

Nope Paurna not me.

Anonymous said...

WB :-)

paurna said...

yeah i realised that.she's mathangi right?sorry for the mistake.anyway atleast one of the singers is writing.its good

IBH said...

well said chins abt the blog-brawls...

i totally agree with u!

hey waiting to hear ur songs :)

Harish Sivaramakrishnan said...

Welcome back! Good to c u blog again. So have a lot of songs of urs to catch up! will do that sooon!

God bless!
Harish
www.insaneinstincts.com

Ram Viswanathan said...

Chinmayi

Good to see you back in the blogoSphere.. Ignore the irritants and keep blogging..

Your silence can be misconstrued as 'their' success...

Anonymous said...

This is one cool blog and being my first time liked the contents.

Blog brawls ?..human ego @ its pinnacle unable to stand something written against their viewpoints, but this ur own space so carry on blogging.And ur new song is for Sandakkozhi..seems an apt title for the context :).. Cheerios!!!