Monday, September 17, 2012

Shreya Goshal's Munbe Vaa

Wow Wow Wow What a voice, What a diction and What a beautiful young lady Shreya Goshal is! She is really unbelievable - she sings Hindi like a North Indian, Tamil like a Tamilian and most important malayalam like  a malayalee - have to listen to her 'Kannin ima neele' from Anwar to believe it.
Shreya has a clear, very feminine voice  like K.S. Chithra that is plain 'sweet' and not distinct - so automatically becomes the voice of all sweet girls and choice for all sweet songs :). Matches Lata Mangeshkar in the open throat, effortless singing high pitch and has the language dynamics of Vani Jeyaram! And got the looks of a model, rocks on stage... Above all, appears very modest in her interviews.  Truly, a  consummate singer !!
What more proof do you need to say she is the Best we have now than, the fact that she has already sung more than 1000 bagging four  National Awards along the way at this young age when there is so much competition!
I first heard her in 'Munbe Vaa' her Tamil super hit from 'Sillinnu Oru Kaadhal'.
Actually, was a fan of 'bairi piya' for Aishwarya Rai but little did I know that Shreya was the singer and her voice had added some magic there. Same with Challamai chellam, ninaithu ninaithu .... !
She sounds so native in unnavida- virumaandi, uruguthey - veyil, the recent sollittaale - kumki and so on especially when Tamil songs sung with a non-Tamil accent have become a trend now :)!

Here is my humble attempt at Munbe vaa...




Happy Vinayak Chathurthi - Modhak recipe

Modhakam as we know is Lord Ganesha's favorite prasaadam. The modhakam that I knew was what my grandma made - a brown sphere of a homogenous mixture of broken rice, jaggery, dhal, coconut etc. And my mother also made an erukkalam kozhukkatai which has a white rice flour covering with jaggery/dhal/coconut filling inside.
Somehow never tried making either of them but last year, when I came across this 'modhak' which is a Maharashtrian special that looked very artistic, wanted to give it a try for Vinayak Chathurthi which was near approaching.
While I started to prepare on Chathurthi, to my pleasant surprise my neighbor/friend dropped in for  a casual visit...
So handed her the camera (Thanks madam, you are a wonderful camerawoman :) !) with the intention of making a food video some time - a dream for a long time...And it has been fulfilled today after one year at least in time for  Chathurthi this year....
Here is the video - how to make modhak

Hope you like it and find it useful!