Chennai It's the Margazhi season in Chennai which means a series of carnatic music festivals for a month. But this year, music buffs can enjoy the concerts with 5.1 digital sound, special effects and pop corn too because Margazhi Raagam, a first of its kind two-hour long concert movie was released in theatres this Friday.
"It's taking carnatic music to a place where nobody thought it could be taken and visually, it's a phenomenal job,” says Carnatic singer, TM Krishna.
With national award winner PC Sreeram's cinematography and the late H Sridhar's sounds, the film promises to be an audio and visual experience and that's just what the director wanted.
"Every time I went for a carnatic concert, I thought the presentation wasn't doing justice to the caliber of the musicians and if it’s presented better, it'll be more evocative and attract audience," says Director, Jayendra.
And the artistes too are looking forward to this initiative.
"I'm sure this will create a stir. Its been presented in such a contemporary and beautiful way, everyone is going to love it," says Carnatic singer, Bombay Jayasree.
"There's a necessity to up the level of presentation of classical arts. In content we are contemporary, classical and traditional but in presentation, we are not as contemporary. This gives a contemporary presentation for the art form that lives today," says Carnatic singer, TM Krishna.
With the exorbitantly high ticket rates in these sabhas, a movie theatre could well be a better option for the rasikas(audience) to watch a concert this season and Maargazhi Raagam might just be leading the way for many more such movies to follow.
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