Jottings - Slice of life - 234 ( Sankarabaranam - a masterpiece )
Jottings - Slice of life - 234 ( Sankarabaranam - a masterpiece ) There is a scene in Sankarabharanam, in fact its climax. Set in a newly renovated auditorium, sponsored by a lady (Tulasi), whose love for music and platonic veneration of the aging Musical Guru Sankara sastry brings her back to the village to pay silent respects to the man who transcended frozen traditions through music and offered the shade of his home and art when she most needed it during her traumatic younger years , and, if possible. leave her young son under his tutelage to absorb his oceanic art. The master is about to sing after years of involuntary hiatus, caused mostly due to Tulasi's presence in his life at a crucial stage .She now has a sacred duty to perform, and an art to redeem. The hall is buzzing with expectant listeners ; the master is ready to sing once again. Overwhelmed by the generosity of this absent benefactor, the master clad in simple attire without the regal paraphernalia of maestro, b