Vani Jayaram's songs

[Neel D]

VJ Interview

http://www.hindu.com/2009/02/01/stor...0150760200.htm
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[Neel D]

Nice duet. Short and sweet.
If anyone knows a complete version please point in that direction.

[Naaz]

Neel D -

Chanced on this thread today after a long, long time (I know!), and what a delight!
Pyaar Bhara Kajra, Zulf Leharaai Tho, Lay Chalo, Teri Jheel Si...all fine hits from the 70s.
Amazing to think that VJ was the voice for Jaya Bhaduri, Shabana Azmi, Parveen Babi, Rehana Sultan, Asha Sachdev, Tanuja, Hema Malini...and Bindu!
Thanks for sharing!

[Neel D]

Y'all,

VJ is being featured in this week's Thirumbi Paarkkiren on Jaya TV.
Monday through Friday from 10:00pm to 10:30pm. Do not miss. Please watch and share.
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[Neel D]

Award for Vani Jairam

http://www.hindu.com/fr/2009/08/07/s...0751560100.htm

[Naaz]

Neel D -

That's wonderful news! Thanks for sharing the link.

[Neel D]

Delhi Tamil Sangam held a concert by VJ on November 22, 2009. Here is an article by columnist Priyadarsi Dutta of The Pioneer.

The Pioneer (November 25, 2009)

Column: Second Opinion (Edit Page)

Language is inconsequential

Priyadarsi Dutta

Two hours seemed a short time as Vani Jayaram’s lilting voice enthralled the listeners at Delhi Tamil Sangam on a Sunday winter evening. I was perhaps the odd man out with my Tamil vocabulary practically restricted to Vanakkam (Namaskar). But the way her mellifluent voice moved my heart and head, I ran the risk of being mistaken as a connoisseur of Tamil. Devotion was the string of her pearls as she conjured magical numbers dedicated to Meenakshi Amman of Madurai, goddess Kamakshi of Kanchi, Lord Krishna (Govinda), Ayappa (in Malayalam), to Lord Venkateswara and Devi Chamunda of Mysore (in Kannada).

With advertisements printed in Tamil, the concert was targeted at Tamils exclusively. Yet, as I discovered, language posed no barrier since her spirit and devotion were characteristically Indian. It reminds one of Fr Xavier S Thani Nayagam, an expatriate Sri Lankan Tamil, who said during the First International Tamil Conference at Kuala Lumpur in 1966 — “If Latin is the language of law and of medicine, French the language of the diplomacy, German the language of science, and English the language of commerce, then Tamil is the language of bhakti, the devotion to the sacred and the holy.”

In fact, Tamil Nadu is the refuge of classical India whether in philosophy, architecture, dance or music. This explains why Swami Vivekananda received a roaring welcome from the Tamils in Sri Lanka and India although many of them knew only Tamil, which the Bengali monk did not know. And why Ananda Coomaraswamy, son of a Sri Lankan Tamil father and a British mother, gelled with the Tagore family in Calcutta. KS Ramaswami Sastri wrote Sir Rabindranath Tagore: His Life, Personality and Genius, published by Ganesh & Co, Madras, in 1916. The idea, as opposed to the language, of Hindu ethos is one.

The West, where public-speaking effloresced since ancient past, has excelled in transmitting ideas in contemporary idioms. India has demonstrated that ideas can be transmitted wordlessly. From India rose the art of meditation that we may realise the Truth by direct realisation. Our classical arts are not modes of entertainment but the quest for the Divine. When language chauvinism is raging in a western State of India, will somebody look beyond the spoken word, and discover that great unifying idea?

[Neel D]

Nice video.

[tvsankar]

Thanks for the youtube Neel. really NIce one.

[tvsankar]

Dhoraguna - VJ's rendition is ecvellent.

Soulful a padi irupanga. Epo kaetalum, kandipa kannula kannir vandhudum...

KVM Isaiyum, padiyavargalum - SPB and VJ um - azha vechuduvanga....