Charulatha Mani uses Tremolo technology from Opera Tradition in Thug Life Song

Last week, when the world heard the songs of Mani Ratnam’s thugs life at the audio launch, he received an AR Rahman album, who used to catering for different moods at once-among the lovers-among the lovers, ‘Vinveli Nayaka’ by Shruti Haasan, ‘Vinveli Nayaka’, with Chinmi-Laman, painted tramolo technology drawn from Opera tradition.

‘Anju Wana’ also became an educational experience for the audience, many of which were surprised at ‘special effects’ in the song. Charulatha Mani, Karnataka singers, who also do doubles in films, and do doctorates in ‘Hybriding Karnataka Music and Early Opera’ from Australia, said how the powerful song naked them to try to try to tremble in some routes and how the music composer’s acceptance.

Charulatha is a familiar face for followers of both Karnataka and film music. She has always been this bridge between the two with her Isai Pionem series, where she makes classical music more acceptable to those who do not know it, using film music as a type of guide. Conversely, it also helps purlogists to see the congenital classical effects on film music, sometimes in unexpectedly pulsed numbers. He presented anything – both more famous for music director Vijay Antony, ‘Uchi Mandla’ and ‘Chillax’.

Charulatha Mani with director Mani Ratnam and musician AR Rahman. Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

“When I read the songs of Karthik Netha, I knew that it was a lullaby, but the word ‘Katha Vairain’ felt like a mother’s assurance. There was also a tingling of pain and helplessness. Lines ‘Pinju Veral Engery, Conjum Kuraral Enz’ (where Tiny Finger, which was Tiny Finger, was the top of the Opera period. For a trembling effect for a trembling effect, it is the jewelery that connects to the soul, “Charulatha.

And then the researcher took over in Charulatha. “The Kanppo was considered important to bring emotions back into music after the spiritual inclination of the Renaissance era. And my PhD was in the 17th century Italian Opera, when Claudio Montewardy composed the first Opera Lorphio in Mantua city in 1607.”

Why did someone search for opera for Karnataka and film music? Charaulatha credited this to her husband Karthik Balasubramaniam. “I entered a world of music with which I was not even familiar with, outside the Karnataka region and western pop. And then, he first introduced him to Opera, when he started his PhD, with the work of Claudio Montewardi.” This is an interesting time in music. There were a lot of cross-cultural pollination between East and West. Oriental sounds were traced through Venice, which was seen as a center of multi-culturalism. They were private for sounds. Brighas.

Charulatha performed Opera Lorphio of Claudio Montedery with a lute artist in Brisbane in Australia. Photo Credit: Mitchell Wine

While doing his PhD, Charulatha entered the opera music deeply. “My professor was a specialist at the early opera, and I saw similarities with our music. I learned Italian and, under his guidance, traveled to Mantua, where Montedi lived and worked.” La music meets Saraswati that I meet Saraswati ‘I had a fusion piece in my production. Montewardi rebuilt,

All this cross-cultural integration has resulted in interesting things-Charulatha published several letters from his thesis, learned to better support his voice with diaphragm breathing and easily navigate complex sangathis.

Most importantly, she says, “This taught me to bring back emotional connect in singing”. This helped him a lot in film singing.

These interactions also saw Charulatha going back to his roots and it was found that Mussiri Subramania Iyer had sung a tramolo very naturally.

Interestingly, when Charulatha started his career in film music with the songs ‘Kuthu’ in 2007, there was not much opposed to the kind of opposed to the late actress Srividya (daughter of Stalwart ML Vasathakumari), when she sang ‘Waithala Potta Sokkula’ in 1992 Karthik-Starrar Amarran. “I think my audience was ready to make that transition. I am his ‘Chela Ponnu’ (fond child) and he knew that I was not a person who was satisfied with regularly walking. I gave me a lot of happiness, and I wanted people to experience that joy of searching and knowledge that every form of music is submerged in a normal pool.

Apart from singing, Charulatha has also published academic letters – there are not many doctors who publish. “When I started, and wanted to find a quotation, I was mainly reading Western researchers speaking about Karnataka music from his perspective. It provoked me that while searching for dickoloning the music, we still depended on their earlier writing. As an internal person, my perspective was very different, and it was not a matter of anything, but I did not understand it, but I am not clear, Understood.

Artistic research is a cumbersome field. And when Charulatha studied his post-doctoral in Lori, he received a grant to work with refugees and migrant mothers at the Perinatal phase in Brisbane, Australia. “They all used to sing in their language, and I got to hear a lot of lullaby. I published a book. SingTea. But, even more importantly, he talked about refugee camps, where he lost children, it was also difficult to get food. I was with him for 11 Tuesdays, and it was probably the most rich experience. ,

He may probably add it thug Life Experience, because it came to him after five long years – his last was Greatness Hit number ‘Sada Nannu’. “I recorded ‘Anju Vanna’ in December 2023, and was easily known that it was special, not only the people involved. Just 72 hours after the song was released, life changed. It has left me – and I am borrowing the words of Kartik leader – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Pratunarki (A sense of freshness). ,