Breathless Singing

I still remember when I heard for the first time SPB singing "mannil indha kadhal inri" from "Keladi Kanmani" and hearing in TV and newspapers that may be this was first time anyone had sung such a tough song catching his breath throught the entire pallavi! Of course he also gasps and acts of shortness of breath after singing in the movie and someone suggested that all this may be an act or the song may have been edited in the studio to sound like that. However there is no denying that anyone who attempts to sing this song and do full justice to it needs to have good lung capacity. The funny part is those days in the college we would just sit and try to take this up as a challenge and try to fight it out just to complete the stanza "vennilavum Ponni Nadhiyum.." and by the time we get to the end of the challenging stanza "Adhisaya sugam tharum..." we will all be gasping for breath and admiring the singer......

Anyway the point of this post was Ilayaraaja in an interview mentioned that he had done this much before with Janaki in "Kanmaniye kadhal enbadhu karpananyo....." in the movie "Aarilirundhu arubathu varai" and now after listening to that...this one too is a tough beautiful song to sing holding one's breath......

I guess instead of doing Yoga and other breathing exercises people could just attempt singing these two songs daily morning and evening before food......and I am sure they would all remain as healthy as those doing sudharshana kriyas....

so lets all take up the challenge and see if we can find any more breathless songs to sing and remain healthy!!!