I would like to share a few glimpse on the new mania of mallus. It is nothing but taking videos by using mobile phone cameras. Taking photographs is okay but continuously taking the video, that too disturbing the people around them is what's happening here in God's own country. Not only in Kerala, you could witness the same pathetic view anywhere you found mallus.. They have been degraded to such a low level that they do not feel ashamed of what they are doing irrespective of the situation they are into.
Last month, I went to Mookambika mainly to listen to Yesudas performing on his 71st birthday. He visits and spends his birthdays there at Mookambika temple. I entered into the temple after a long queue very early in the morning. After the darshan, anyhow I managed to secure a small space on the swara mandapa where Yesudas performed. I was sitting very close to the accompanists. In-fact just sitting behind them and almost touching the body of the khatam maestro.
Before the arrival of Yesudas, singer Manjari and co were singing as a tribute to Yesudas. The mallu guys were absorbing the beauty of Manjari into their mobile phones. Manjari on that early morning had a well designed hair style. I guess that could have consumed more than 3 hours to make that hair style. I was amazed and guessed at what time this singer got up to get it done to reach here to perform this much early in the morning!!
There was not a single inch of space to move your legs to avoid the pain. When Yesudas arrived, it became very hard to manage the crowd and they were hanging over my head due to lack of space.
I could see a lot of hands with cameras taking videos/photos over my head.
In short, lemme tell you, it was very horrible to sit there, as the mallus with mobile phone were over my head taking videos of Yesudas performing. Some guys did dare to tilt my head to left or right according to their needs. A few people squeezed their hands and cunningly inserted their mobile in between my shirt and my elbows making my sitting uncomfortable. It was not Sukhaasana!
I knew Yesudas would not like people taking videos. But who cares. Nobody wanted to listen to him. Everybody wanted to record him singing. Later Yesudas himself told them to stay quiet and listen rather than struggling to record it. Finally police had to come to make the situation somewhat manageable. They threw many people out. I was almost caught, but I told them that I was assisting the Khatam maestro :)
Last month, I was fortunate to attend many art/music performances at Nishagandhi, trivandrum by KTDC. They conduct Nishagandhi festival every year in January. This time Yesudas's concert was the main attraction on the first day of the festival. I could see a lot of guys with digital SLR, tripods, mobile phones standing in front of the dais blocking the view of the connoisseurs sitting in the front. A lot of foreigners too were present. They had come to watch the traditional dance forms of India and to listen to the hindustani/carnatic vocals and instrumentals.
The doyen ace singer Yesudas before starting the concert, demanded people to not record the concert and allowed the media to record it for the first 2, 3 minutes.. A big Thanks to Yesudas. That was really helping people like me. It helped me avoid watching the back of guys taking the videos!
But sad to say, on all the other occasions no other performers demanded like what Yesudas did and it was difficult to watch them perform as these uncultured mallus made the situation uncomfortable.How could the people do like that? And the foreigners too were struggling to watch the events.. They were fed up watching the backs!! This is infact an absolute shame to the entire keralites..
Last month, I went to Mookambika mainly to listen to Yesudas performing on his 71st birthday. He visits and spends his birthdays there at Mookambika temple. I entered into the temple after a long queue very early in the morning. After the darshan, anyhow I managed to secure a small space on the swara mandapa where Yesudas performed. I was sitting very close to the accompanists. In-fact just sitting behind them and almost touching the body of the khatam maestro.
Before the arrival of Yesudas, singer Manjari and co were singing as a tribute to Yesudas. The mallu guys were absorbing the beauty of Manjari into their mobile phones. Manjari on that early morning had a well designed hair style. I guess that could have consumed more than 3 hours to make that hair style. I was amazed and guessed at what time this singer got up to get it done to reach here to perform this much early in the morning!!
There was not a single inch of space to move your legs to avoid the pain. When Yesudas arrived, it became very hard to manage the crowd and they were hanging over my head due to lack of space.
I could see a lot of hands with cameras taking videos/photos over my head.
In short, lemme tell you, it was very horrible to sit there, as the mallus with mobile phone were over my head taking videos of Yesudas performing. Some guys did dare to tilt my head to left or right according to their needs. A few people squeezed their hands and cunningly inserted their mobile in between my shirt and my elbows making my sitting uncomfortable. It was not Sukhaasana!
I knew Yesudas would not like people taking videos. But who cares. Nobody wanted to listen to him. Everybody wanted to record him singing. Later Yesudas himself told them to stay quiet and listen rather than struggling to record it. Finally police had to come to make the situation somewhat manageable. They threw many people out. I was almost caught, but I told them that I was assisting the Khatam maestro :)
Last month, I was fortunate to attend many art/music performances at Nishagandhi, trivandrum by KTDC. They conduct Nishagandhi festival every year in January. This time Yesudas's concert was the main attraction on the first day of the festival. I could see a lot of guys with digital SLR, tripods, mobile phones standing in front of the dais blocking the view of the connoisseurs sitting in the front. A lot of foreigners too were present. They had come to watch the traditional dance forms of India and to listen to the hindustani/carnatic vocals and instrumentals.
The doyen ace singer Yesudas before starting the concert, demanded people to not record the concert and allowed the media to record it for the first 2, 3 minutes.. A big Thanks to Yesudas. That was really helping people like me. It helped me avoid watching the back of guys taking the videos!
But sad to say, on all the other occasions no other performers demanded like what Yesudas did and it was difficult to watch them perform as these uncultured mallus made the situation uncomfortable.How could the people do like that? And the foreigners too were struggling to watch the events.. They were fed up watching the backs!! This is infact an absolute shame to the entire keralites..
