Shenbagame Shenbagame (Tamil Cover)
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A lovely Asha Bhonsle song by IR, the maestro from the movie Enga Oooru Paatukaran(1987).
I still remember falling for this song during the tape recorder days.
Srini had asked me to cover this song almost a year back and gave me this vocal cut he had done for me. Sorry, Srini that i took so very long to get this here.
This is one of the toughest song that I have covered till date. Only when it came to recording this, did I realise that I was carrying a much diluted version of this song for a long time, which i found difficult to undo from my mind.
Though I have given it my best shot, am certain this can be a lot better. And my apologies, if I have butchered the language. Looking forward to your feedback, as always.
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January 10, 2011
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Harry Chops
said
Wow….you are sounding so much Ashaji. Lovely singing. Liked it.
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Kameshwaran Sevugan (exams over..lot of notifications!!) said
Dear Radhika Sis,
Lovely singing by you of this beautiful composition of Ilayaraja sir!…Really loved it a lot:)…I think you tried to match Ashaji!…Unga voice romba superba iruku…Ashaji doesn’t know tamil…so that only her pronunciations will be differing!…you have captured her singing accurately. Hats off!…Higher notes pogumpothu konjam gavanam thevai…mathapadi I liked your singing a lot sis:)…tc…
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Thinkal govind kumar
said
Radhika…….
WOW ! What a nice selection which you have beautifully rendered in style most expressively !
Just LOVED your voice, style & expressions !
Please let me humbly supplement Harry’s view about your voice….it is sweet like Ashaji’s voice during her young days !
Hats off ! You have done very well !
GOD Bless !
Loving Best Wishes,
Thinkal Govind Kumar.
Kaushick M ( catching up on listening ) said
Lovely cover Radhika… agree with Harry … you truly sounded like Asha ji.
I felt that in your rendering of the opening humming and mukhda, particularly the latter, you sounded a mite tentative…I may be wrong… in fact in each of the pallavis you didn’t sound very certain , almost groping cautiously… but both the charanams were excellent… you just cruised through them near perfect… the feel also was quite good… closing na na na was superb however…
Regarding butchering the language…. you did no more and no less than the butchering Asha herself had made in the original … lol…
Overall… an excellent cover
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Saroj Nair said
very good rendition Radhika
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And live like it’s heaven on earth.’
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Radhika Nair (away) said
>Harry – That was super quick. Thanks a lot for listening in.
>Kameshwaran – I have absolutely no false illusions about myself and I cant even dream of matching Asha B. Thanks much for your detailed feedback.
>TGKC – thankyou so much for your quick feedback. Glad that you liked this.
Radhika
Radhika Nair (away) said
Kaushick & Saroj – thanks a lot.
Kaushick – thanks a lot for those pointers. You are spot on about the humming (thanks to a very different convenient version that i had latched onto!), but the pallavi – didnt feel too uncertain there, but will check what you pointed out.
Radhika
Srividya Kasturi
said
Nice singing, Radhika!
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Bala (composer/producer) said
Nice Radhika…. Listening to your voice after a long time :) I felt this song deserves some more perfection (esp. the beginning alaap)….
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Jaishree said
Radhika- I wanted to cover this song also for a while now. Now I understand how tough its going to turn out :)….Liked your singing very much Radhika. No butchering at all except I thought the word(pettu) had a mal touch to it :)
Adwait Ranade (busy, away)
said
Thanks for attempting Ashaji song, Radhika. Haven’t heard the original but you gave me a complete idea of how it would be :).
Loved the murkis and those subtle places – Ashaji’s speciality. Kudos……!
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Dinesh Mani (away indefinitely) said
Great song pick. Nice singing. Liked it a lot.
Kala Kalpat said
Very nice!
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Anup said
beautiful song and very nicely done Radhika…
Latha Ganti
said
Beautiful pick & rendition Radhika …
Harshan (away) Nambiar
said
Radhika …not familiar with this song….but as everyone stated …could feel a tinge of Ashaji in your tone….well done ….liked it.
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Dwarak - back in slow motion said
Amazinggggggggggggggggggg pick!!! Such a marvelous tune that even a layman like me wud love to hum – Thanks to the Maestro IR Sir. Hats off to you for attempting this cover irrespective of the language barrier. This is certainly not the place to show my prowess on Thamizh/ Tamil diction…. It’s the music and ur voice that adds beauty to this rendition…. Asha ji has undoubtedly sung this in style and Radhika ji has sung in her own style to the best of her ability at this point of time. That’s the way I would like to register my honest opinion…. And u wud know that many try their best to butcher their own sweet mother tongue…. It’s called official butchering if it had been ur mother tongue; otherwise it’s not…. In the second stanza, I felt ‘Paarthu’ @3:27 required more sustenance at the turnings. Nevertheless, a laudable performance by you. Once again, it was a pleasant treat to my ears. Many thanks Radhika for kindling the nostalgic moments through this rendition…. Best wishes for the future renditions in other languages….
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Kumar Srinivasan
said
Very nicely done Radhika. The ‘longing’ feel which is the soul of the song was well captured. Liked your modulations and expressions.
-Kumar.
Dev Dasan said
Radhika,
Very well sung….
Felt the start didnt come out as well as you could. Maybe you were trying hard to match the original in all aspects(?).
The rest of the song is as good as the original, except at few places.
Good job done. Keep singing.
Dev
Sowmya Srini (getting back slowly....) said
It’s a beautiful song and you’ve sung it well Radhika:)
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Srini S (bye bye friends)
said
Thanks a lot radhika for covering this song.Atlast you made it.Thanks a lot.Great job.All the best.Loved that ‘na na na na’ last so much.
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Rajesh Nair said
One of my faaaaaaaaaavorite songs (from “vadaxxx” dayz)….thankzzzzz…….
thenpodiHEY (
0:37,0:57,2:20, 3:47, 4:11) un paadam pohum paathai (1:32, heard as “paajam” and second time its ok)vandene, ninnene of first stanza and kallyanam, sandosham of second stanza (sangathis??? while repeating)
minor flaws in diction [pls get expert advice from native speaker(s)]
in short, a very good attempt…keep singing…
RN Sr.
Rajesh Nair said
and….closing na…na….na…….was superb….
Biju Ramachandran
said
very good singing radhika.
enjoyed it all thru.
voice is superb…
congrats
biju ramachandran
Nanduz Nanduz said
Hi Radhika… wonderful singing… Voice modulations and the folk tone are superb… the feel too has come out well… Keep it up… Wishing you all the best for the Concert you are going to do at Chennai…!!
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S.a.nair said
Well done. Very good expressions. The last part ending “na….na….naaa….naa” was superb.
Keep it up, dear.
S.Ayyappan Nair.
Rinu Srinivasan said
Good one:)
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Sudha Bala said
gud song selection n a gud attempt too….i thght u cud improve on ur diction n also certain sangathis clarity….otherwise a neat n commendable performance….the finishing touch was jus lovely….regarding butchering of language, even ashaji hasnt done much justice to it….am more familiar with the duet version (sunanda & mano) n personally like tht more thn the solo….keep up the gud wrk radhika & all the very best to u….
regards, sudha bala
Raj kumar Anjan said
Not many of us would like this movie but only the songs and as usual, due to my eccentric fondness, I like this movie very much for its stupefying melodies; diligently weaved background scores and down-to-earth screenplay… And you recreated that magic with your inimitable tone/texture and I could spot Asha ji only at a couple of places in this whole cover… Initial humming could have been better and would have come out well, had u understood the succeeding lyrics… I mean, the humming ought to be delivered with a glee that gushes on face, thinking someone ‘special’ and the rest will surely be felt by the listeners… :-) This is the basic problem that frequents when we cover songs from another language without any clue of the meaning or the gist of the movie… But honestly speaking, I loved this rendition and an additional care to iron out those phonetic glitches would ve made this the best compared to the original… But I remember having listened to this cover version from you long back… Not sure… May be a deja vu… :-)
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Rajeev Onv(away on a long break) said
Radhika, not familiar with the original, but enjoyed the song in your voice. Initial humming and tail portions of charanams require more perfection. Congrats!
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Nivedan(away) said
Hi Radhika,
Great voice and singing. Am sure you are aware of that :) but what a plesant song and tune. For you being inspired by it and to sing it in Tamil. You have so beautiful sung and emoted and painted a beautiful picture with colors of your own vocal music.
Enjoyed it
Cheers
Nivedan
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Jose George
said
hi Radhika, great selection of song and very complimenting singing!
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Uthra said
Rads: Nice song pick for your voice. The best thing I liked about your rendition is the expression – how well you captured the ‘feel’ of the song and presented it. Knowing your potential, there are some places I think you could do even better – flow in pallavi, the initial alaap and a little more care in diction. Charanams were lovely and the ending was neat.
Radhika Nair (away) said
>Vidya – Thanks
>Bala – thanks for stopping by and for your feedback
>Jaishree – all the best for your take, looking forwrad to it.thanks for faving too
>Thanks, LK
>Adwait – thankyou for that nice feedback and for faving
>Dinesh, Kala, Anup, Latha – thanks a lot
>Harshan – thankyou for the feedback
>DWarak – thanks for your honest opinion and also for faving
>Kumar – good to hear on the feel, espec when I didnt know what half the words actually meant. Just held onto the shokam overall :-)
>Dev – you are right about the alaap. My intent was to get closer to what she did, but backfired. Thanks for the feedback
>Sowmya – thanks
>Srini – glad you liked and favd and happy that i finally got it here, though imperfect!
>RN Sr – hope your fingers arent hurting with that looong comment :-)! Know that you dig this song and actually your dabba player made me carry a lighter version (Yeah, when your vocal chords dont have it in them, blame it on xyz!) Problem is that most of my recordings are weekend impluses and you know that AM the best native language speaker around there – Point well taken – wish i had picked up the language like you did, at least folks would know that its Tamil thats being attempted :-P!)
>Biju, Thanks a lot
>Hi Aniyetta, so good to see you here. And, athiney concert enu paranjaal concert naanichu pokum :-) – but thank you very much for your wishes
>A&A , thank you. wish the entire song was na na na !!!
>Rinu, thanks a lot
>Sudha – welcome to my space and thanks for your candid feedback.
>Raj – thanks a lot for that useful feedback and for faving. And its dejavu alright – havent done this before (Goodness, had to brace myself to do this even one time!)
>Rajeev, Thanks very much for listening and for the pointers.
>Nivedan – thanks for that nice comment
>Jose – thanks a lot.
>And Uthra – thank you. I know what you mean. Wish Asha B knew better Tamil (just kidding !) – a self-proclaimed Tamil expert (in Mal there is a saying – mookiklla rajyathe murimookkan rajavu – will translate for you offline :-)) like me would have scraped thru this better!
Radhika
Uthra said
Rads: Why don’t you collaborate with Srini and sing “Poongatru thirumbuma”… – “raasave varuthama” :) – have been waiting for that one from you. (Mudhal mariyadhai is the movie, I think)
Ramesh Tadi said
Radhika… beautiful song and very well rendered in ur very expressive voice with great feel… liked it…
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Kitcha Swamy said
I love this song. I’m sure this song would definitely attract the cows too :-).
Beautiful voice and you did very good justice to the song Radhika. Nice sangathis & expressions. Well done….
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Surendran Menon
said
Radhika….
A bit late here….
Fantastic!! As usual the “asha” style evident from the beginning to end…the diction too hahahaha. As Kumar pointed out, the “longing” feel was superb….enjoyed this rendition of yours. Liked it. Keep it up. Cheers
Priya Shankar said
Beautiful song Radhika…. well sung… like it
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Adithi said
Lovely pick, Radhika! Some places were awesome (eg. un mogam paarthu, en veettukkaaran paatta). Agree with others above on beginning aalaap I think you retained the original humming in second interlude. But I know you are capable of much better than this with a little more diligence.
Enjoyed it much! :)
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Ibolya Horváthné orbán -back to work but hope to sing soon!
said
Wow…simoly gave me goose bumps!Wonderful singing!
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Radhika Nair (away) said
>Uthra – you are right. Its a long time since we talked of that song first. Will keep it live in my to-do list.
>Ramesh – thanks a lot
>Kitcha – thank you for the nice feedback.
>Suri – Thanks again for the feedback. Diction sword dangles above me all the time – but will work on that aspect too.
>Sai – thank you for liking this
>Priya – thanks.
>Adithi – good to have your views. Thanks a lot for those pointers too.
>Ibolya – so good to see your comment. Thank you.
>Anju – happy that you liked and favd.
Radhika
Rashmi Nair
said
Radhika, excellent song choice and very well rendered. Very expressive. Liked it a lot.
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Bharathi Dinesh said
Radhika,
Very nice to hear this song in your voice!
Diction issues and alaap clarity etc already pointed. The original itself had diction issues….so a non-native cannot rectify them and pronounce it correctly in the cover.
you sang very well, your feel was excellent.
Very welldone….really enjoyed it.
keep posting more songs
cheers,
Bhar-Din
Sudha Kumar (recovering and getting back to listening..)
said
Lovely pick, Radhika and your voice is just awesome like Ashaji – alaap at 2nd antara – was it the original or you? Beautiful expressive singing, and I can’t comment on diction/accent much, but I felt that could be improved on. Esp. wherever you say “hey”, if you sang “ey”, it may give a more Tamizh feel perhaps?
Liked,
Sudha
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Radhika Nair (away) said
>Thanks Rashmi, glad you liked it.
>Hey Bharathi, thank you very much.
>Sudha – thanks much. The second interlude here has the lady herself – actually had sung that portion too since i like that bit a lot but since the track already had her I had to blank my portion out. And thank you for that hey-ey tip, will bear in mind :-)
Radhika
Vishnu Mohan ( busy mode) said
Wow super pick assalayi paadi radhika chechi kunju kunju sangathies onnode claritiyil paadamayirunnu ennathozhichal kalakkan performance
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Sushanth Shankar said
Hi Radhika…
Sorry for coming here so late… Am not too familiar with this song… Good singing… However, I am sure you can do much better than this… There was something missing in your singing… Not able to quantize wat it exactly is… Am sorry abt such a vague comment… IMHO, would be great if you could consider re-doing this… Would love to hear it once with your usual punch and great singing… :)
All the very best!
- Sushanth
Sunitha Sanjeev said
luved it….u have sung it in ur own style…
sunitha
Radhika Nair (away) said
Vishnu, Sushanth & Sunitha – thankyou very much. Sushanth, at this time, am not sure if I will attempt this one more time, but thanks a lot for the pointer.
Radhika
Ding said
Hi
I really very very like shembagame song thank you so much.
Raja.j Mohamed said
well sung and your voice scale are very soothing….nice one this….from your beautiful voice…!
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Vinod (away for a while) Kumar
said
Good singing….you tried Ashaji’s style through and through….good song pick and good rendition….:)
Warm Regards
Vinod Kumar
Shaji Panicker said
well sung, vce suits perfect—-reminds me of college days….