Bubbliness set the mood of her two-and-a-half-hour concert when Srividhya began with Vasantha. Avoidable was Poornachandrika next to Vasantha, the alapana of which had opened with a touch of Kannada — another Sankarabharanam janya. Amid her largely neat 10-minute alapana, Srividhya shifted the scale that ushered in Madhyamavati after a whiff of Mohanam. In ‘Sri Satyanarayanam’, Mohanam reappeared after a streak of Hindolam down the swara passages Srividhya took up subsequent to a pleasing niraval. Meanwhile Srividhya conjured up three ragas: Mohanam (yet again!

Source: The Hindu December 18, 2023 09:05 UTC