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Young Revathi's rendition of Annamacharya keertanas and the accompanying visual presentation on the saint poet enhanced the devotional fervour of the evening.
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DEVOTIONAL RENDITION: Revathi makes a mark.
A FITTING tribute was paid to Annamacharya on his 500th death anniversary with young Revathi Vinnakoti treating the music lovers to a feast of Annamayya's keertanas . Her resonant voice rendering select compositions of the saint poet permeated the Thyagaraya gana sabha with devotional fervour. She sang as many as 15 compositions to an audience comprising mostly of elders cheering the young woman as she went on to render keertana after keertana with full throated mature voice accompanied by a youthful exuberance so typical of a teenager.
Revathi who entered the Limca book of records by singing Annamayya keertanas non-stop for 12 hours has an ability to bring out the intrinsic devotional fervour.
Each composition she sang, preluded with a brief commentary explaining the gist of the composition enabling even a layman to understand the undercurrent of each rendition.
The vocal rendering and the simultaneous visualisation was well projected by way of a slide show. The visuals picked for the show with Lord Venkateswara in his various moods and forms along with his consort Padmavathi were all beauties filled with aesthetic essence. The slide show on screen enabled audiences in the back rows also to enjoy the evening.
Revathi started the evening with Hariavatharame and closed with Jo atchuthanada jo jo mukunda. Compositions Jagadapu chanuvula jajara, Vinnapalu vina vale vintha vinthalu, Harinamame kadu anandakaramu and Antharyami alasithi solasithi were the highlights of the evening.
Dattareyulu on flute, B.V. Ramanamurthy on tabla, J. Saibaba on violin P. Ravi Kumar on key board gave able support to Revathi in her endeavour. On the occasion Revathi was conferred with a title `Annamayya Gana Sindhu' by Uyyala Communications and Annmayya Amruthavani who were instrumental in organising the evening. Revathi who started her career in light music at the tender age of seven, under the tutelage of Bunty, later on evinced keen interest in Annammayya keertanas and approached Parupalli Sricharan who was instrumental in shaping her as singer par excellence in rendering Annamayayya's devotional songs. Revathi who is in her first year degree has a string of achievements to her credit. She also participated in TVS sa re ga ma, Padutha theeyaga and several other concerts on television. She entered the Limca book of records by singing non-stop for 12 hours on her 12th birthday.
Says Revathi, "I am also interested in singing for films. At present I participate in chorus for some music directors and I am hopeful that some offers may come my way in future.''
G. MANJULA KUMAR
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