A tongue twister to showcase the musical variety

The 40 CRPF jawans who lost their lives in the dastardly attack of February 14 at Pulwama were remembered by observing a minute’s silence and renditions of patriotic numbers by the singers of Dakshin Dhwani music group at an open mic function on Sunday evening.

In a bid to broad base its reach among the cosmopolitan population of Hyderabad and enable singers to sing in their own mother tongue, a programme ‘Tongue Twister’ was organised by the group. 15 singers ( including the group members and seven new crooners) thus got a prized opportunity of singing all-time hits and the latest chartbusters in languages as varied as English to Hindi, Bengali, Punjabi, Malayalam and Tamil. Telugu songs were song too, which completed the variety that the group had aspired to achieve in the first place.

Purnima Julka, the organiser of the programme and a techie in a leading IT firm said: ‘ This programme was named ’ Tongue Twister’ as in our country, my mother tongue can be a tongue twister to you if you cannot speak it. Yet, we at Dakshin Dhwani believe that it adds to the sweetness of the compositions which we get to hear, even if we don’t understand the lyrics.’

Encouraged by this open approach, the event, in which one got to hear nearly two dozen songs by the singers truly heralded the fact that our filmi music itself has much to offer for its patrons and followers. ‘What we liked about this event was that the singers were just requested to give a brief introduction about the song and that was enough for the audience to connect to the core of it as many cross-country productions are being made in south India which has familiarized heroes and heroines from each other’s states by now’ added Sajith and Prabita, as the family sang songs in Malayalam, Tamil, Hindi and Telugu to a rousing welcome by the small, but involved audience.