En Iniya Ilangai Makkale

En Iniya Ilangai Makkalae
My voice could never be stentorian as Director Bharathi Raja's nevertheless I decided to use or rather borrow his expression that I am really delighted after the performance on the 18th of August in Ratnam Stadium Kotahena,Colombo.
The show was one of the best ever I had performed in my career so far..Although I had performed a new years eve show in the very same country few years back amidst a crowd of nearly a lakh,that was mainly a Sinhala show which also featured Tamil artistes but this one was totally different.This one was organised for the Tamils mainly and also featured some Sinhala artistes like Ginger girl.
The organisers viz.Sooriyan FM were extremely efficient in show promotions and the whole city was covered with colourful banners of us.The previous day was full of my songs and the next day featured Chinmayis.There was also a special show of 2 hours with full of my songs in the afternoon RJ ed by Shankari.I also did RJing along with Navaneethan from 4 30 to 8 pm the previous evening.I could also talk live to few listeners from Thirunelveli district who are regular listeners of Srilankan Sooriyan FM.That was a different experience talking to our country men from another country radio...
The sound check happened around 5 pm on the show day and I sang few songs which I usually dont perform regularly in India but which are big hits there in SL.There were huge crowds watching from their households and waving and cheering up..

At 9 pm the show commenced .There was an attendance of 60 thousand almost 99 percent of them being Tamils.It was a great thing that they gave the same response to slow melodies like Sakkarai Nilave and Puliya Kili(Veerappu) as that of Kutthu songs...In fact the kutthu songs were only Sinhala Bai La Songs and only the group dances were done with Kutthu songs played from CD direct.All other songs sung by us were melodious numbers.The show went on till 1 pm and the audiences were all cheerful till the end....Where can we find such lovely Tamil audiences...Hats off to Tamil and Srilanka...En Tamizhukku Nandri En Tamizhargalukku Nandri...