{"id":152,"date":"2009-02-08T23:30:54","date_gmt":"2009-02-09T05:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melodiouslife.wordpress.com\/?p=152"},"modified":"2009-02-08T23:30:54","modified_gmt":"2009-02-09T05:00:54","slug":"raagas-in-films-hamsadhwani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianmusics.com\/?p=152","title":{"rendered":"Raagas in Films: Hamsadhwani"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hamsadhwani is a very auspicious raaga, we refer to it as a “mangalakara” raagam i.e. its heralds happiness and prosperity. It is a raaga which is generally used to begin the proceedings (as in concerts, prayer meets, and even other functions).\u00a0 The famous prayer to Lord Ganesha- Vakrathunda Mahaakaya is generally sung in Hamsadhwani. Hamsadhwani gives a lot of scope for music composers to experiment. There have been so many scintillating tunes in this raaga that its impossible to list all of them here. So I am listing the popular ones here, the more recent ones which I know, where the beauty of the raaga has been fully demonstrated. Read it as Song-Composer-Movie<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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  1. Vaa Vaa Vaa–Ilaiyaraja-Velaikkaaran-The charanams are mindblowing with piano backings!<\/li>\n
  2. Poo Mudithu-Ilaiyaraja-En Purushanthaan Enakku Mattumthaan<\/li>\n
  3. Sri Ranga Ranga-Ilaiyaraja-Mahanadhi<\/li>\n
  4. Unnodu Vaazhaatha-Bharadwaj-Amarrkalam-Wonderful tune set in westernized orchestration!<\/li>\n
  5. Vellai Pookal-A.R.Rahman-Kannathil Muthamittaal-a serene tune.<\/li>\n
  6. Theekuruvi-A.R.Rahman-Kangalal Kaidhu Sei-Whoa! what fusion-Hamsadhwani laced with bass guitar backgrounds and Hindustani-styled ghatkaas!<\/li>\n
  7. Natta Nadu-Vijay Antony-A Aa E\u00a0 Ee-Composed so beautifully that I could not recognize that it was Hamsadhwani, during the initial listens.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Hamsadhwani is a very auspicious raaga, we refer to it as a “mangalakara” raagam i.e. its heralds happiness and prosperity. It is a raaga which is generally used to begin the proceedings (as in concerts, prayer meets, and even other functions).\u00a0 The famous prayer to Lord Ganesha- Vakrathunda Mahaakaya is generally sung in Hamsadhwani. Hamsadhwani…More <\/svg><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[103,217],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-raagas","tag-hamsadhwani","tag-ragas","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianmusics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianmusics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianmusics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianmusics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianmusics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indianmusics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianmusics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianmusics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianmusics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}