Music-o-2011(with a difference!)
Not the usual format, right? Well, I have started writing a column for our office newsletter and the above was my second article.
And, this was my first attempt :
PS : Couldn’t update V-Tunes regularly this year, because of the series of electronic disasters I went through. But, I have no intentions to spare you all in 2012. No, seriously !!! 
Chotta mudhal chudala varey – My new short video !
Based on the theme-Every husband has a sad story to tell, Chotta mudhal chudala varey, is, by far, my most ambitious project (woah ! I sound like one of those bhatts, na? ). The 12 min. video, written and narrated in Malayalam with Malayalam movie songs and a few dialogues, features my Dad, Mom, Brother (yes, Mr.Vinoj Vijayan), S-i-l, the Missus and of course, yours truly, as the main leads. Aaaah, now you understand that I wouldn’t even leave my dad and mom, if all that I need in life is a few legs to pull ! 
This isn’t the actual launch of the video; it has already (or only ) garnered 108 hits as I write this, and has been showcased to only a few of my relatives and extremely close friends. I wanted to share the video in FB, for a wider audience, but definitely not before I upload it in V-Lokam, because this is where I started it all.
Guess what, I had sent the video to a few non-malayalam speaking junta too (Northies, actually), and it looks like the video and its ‘underlying theme’, is understandable!! Anyway, let me know how it is!
Here’s the youtube link - Chotta mudhal chudala varey , in case, the video uploaded here isnt working!
Oh btw, if you are planning to watch it during work, make sure you have a headset or an earphone plugged in; ‘cuz on mute this video would make absolutely no sense 
And, for people who are wondering how the women folk reacted after watching the video, well, ‘they all took it in the right spirit’. The fact that I am still alive is the best evidence for that tall claim!
Duet with Shruthi – Aaj Ki Raat; Movie : Don (Hindi 2006)
Technically, this is my first duet and that too with another blogger. Shruthi, if you guys didn’t know, is a classically trained singer and even does stage shows. Very often, we discuss and gossip about music and at times, I even take tips from her on certain songs. All of my earlier duets were recorded by retaining the original female voice of the song and once, in my desperate attempt to do something different, I also went ‘bisexual’ for chaiyya chaiyya. But this thought of singing with somebody else had always been in my mind. None of my plans worked out because of various reasons and when I suggested this idea to Shruthi during one of our conversations, she agreed without giving it any second thoughts.
Well, as you know, this is not one of those regular film duets but it was fun doing something different and I consider it as an honor to have sung this song along with Shruthi.
Ok, ok, enough of my yapping; listen to the song and, this time, please let ‘us’ know how the song is And, also please read Shruthi’s post here.
Yeah, Don 1 song on the eve of Don 2 release! Now that’s what I call timing!! Well, actually no, both of us have been planning to publish this ever since we completed the song, more than a year that is! We wanted publish the song in both the blogs at the same time, but then, like all the late comers say, everything has got its own time and better late than never!! Oh, there is another reason for posting this now; Shruthi is supposedly leaving the Indian soil in a couple of days and I am sure, with her new role, “Shruthi ko pakaddna mushkil hi nahi, naa mumkkin hoga” !!!
PS : I actually had a huge anti-SRK write up here; almost a page and a half, you know, trying to provide some negative publicity for Don 2. But, decided to delete the whole part since this is Shruthi’s first song over here and I didn’t want all the attention to shift towards that loser SRK. Also because, being a huugge Ex fan of SRK, all those remarks against him would make me sound like I am bashing an ex-girlfriend !!! Not worth it, seriously !! But you know what, I feel much better now; I have managed to reduce Mr. SRK to a mere ‘PS’
((The V-mphony page is also updated with the song))
