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The Pittsburgh Patrika, Vol. 20, No. 4, July, 2015
PITTSBURGH MONROEVILLE
CONVENTION CENTER
101 Mall Boulevard, Monroeville, PA 15146
412-373-7300 www.DoubleTreeMonroeville.com
At the DoubleTree by Hilton Pittsburgh - Monroeville Convention Center,
personalization offers you an authentic celebratory weekend with friends and family.
Let us wow you and your guests from start to finish.
For additional information or to discuss how we may assist you in planning,
please contact Kimmie Fitzhugh-Kelly, Director of Catering,
at 412-843-4416 or via e-mail at kfitzhughkelly@doubletreemonroeville.com.
Here at the DoubleTree by Hilton, the little things mean everything.
• Over 20 musical pieces in Sanskrit, Tamil, Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi,
and Gujarati; some of them very old (16th and 17th centuries).
• The songs chosen covered Tamil and Hindi/Urdu film classics
made over five decades, and were interspersed and sequenced well.
• The emcees came well-prepared, delivered their tightly and tastefully
written brief introductions for each piece, and quickly left the stage
for the artistes. Refreshingly, nobody hogged the mike.
• The tuning of instruments in-between pieces — a bane in Indian
pop music events — was kept to the barest minimum.
Overall, an enjoyable program.
Indian film songs describe different moods — joy, pathos, irreverence,
sarcasm, humor, irony, paradoxes, and the dilemmas of life
— often conveying great insights into life’s complexities. Some of the really
good ones are as good as paid sessions with psychologists. So, lyrics
are the heart, soul, spirit, and the very life of film songs, especially the
good ones. (There are, of course, many bad ones, really tasteless and even
obscene ones, I concede.) In this context, here are two observations from
someone who bought the ticket and sat through the whole program.
1. Leaving out the names of the lyricists who penned the masterpieces
in printouts and announcements while mentioning the names of the films,
music directors, and the singers who simply lend their voices (however
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