Varadaraj and his son Abhijit lead their team at Chamarajpet to add new design elements, a tad loud they may be, to the Big Tent of Sreerama Seva Mandali.
There was a light drizzle that welcomed rasikas and guests to the inauguration of the month-long music fest that began here this Wednesday evening.
The Mysore royal scion was the chief guest. The emcee reminded Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wodeyar of his ancestors' connection with the area and with the music festival. Yaduveer spoke briefly as did the other guests. The watering of a tulsi plant was a symbolic gesture to mark the start of the music fest.
A few eyebrows were raised when one speaker on stage, took off at a tangent, gloating over the days when the region was ruled by a king and suggesting the minus side of democracy. That reference hit a low note but was forgotten when Bombay Jayashri walked on stage to start her concert. With her were manoj Siva, K. V. Gopalakrishnan and Embar Kannan.
By then, the Big Tent was full; some 4000 plus rasikas were here to listen to Jayashri. It was a concert twitched often by interruptions by the artistes to get the sound engineers get a 'balance'; it never got done till the end.
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