Has he tried to teach the boys music? Has there been any effort to make them follow in his field? It suits me fine, I am neither a great cook nor do I enjoy cooking. He loves to experiment with food, he can cook Thai, South Indian, make great salads and soups. I do believe if he had not been a singer, he would have been a chef. I think that shows how he balances his life and priorities.ĭoes he have time for any chores around the house? it’s amazing, and he makes time for it, for us. No calls, no couriers, no people landing up. Now, we have learnt to get away from it, sometimes. We had an open house, I got used to it, there were people coming in and music happening all the time. His mother said, “it’s your life, you make your choices.” so there was no tension. Luckily for us, we had no family pressure either. But we were in it together, and had known each other so long. Of course I felt that my husband is not giving me enough time, and so early in the marriage. That must have been tough, his being away so early in married life? When work started coming in, Shankar would be away for long hours, at the studio. I gave up my job soon after marriage when I got pregnant. We lived in his Chembur house with my in-laws. We both came from middle class families, and we were quite happy with whatever we had. When you are young you don’t think about the future. He was so passionate about music that it was obvious that he needed to change tracks. If he got a call, he would not be able to take the assignment because he had to go to work. Music was his passion, and his job was hindering it. Then just before we got married, about six seven months before the date, he quit his job. On the side there were jamming sessions with friends, where he played with the Divya Band. But he had been learning Carnatic music and would perform at concerts. Well, he was studying for his Engineering, and then completed it and got a job. There were restrictions on our meeting after that. My brother, who is nine years older than me, and was also in our badminton group realized that I was in love, and he began the elder brother act. I was so young and he was just two and a half years older. I remember telling him, "You have a good voice, you could be a singer one day." Well we used to hang around generally, and one day I heard him humming a Kishore Kumar song. I was not even aware he was learning to sing.īut there was some occasion surely when you heard him sing? He lived in a building diagonally opposite our small ground floor bungalow in Chembur, and we would all get together and play every evening. I knew him first when we were kids, I was 14 and we played badminton together. His wife, Sangeeta Mahadevan talks to Firstpost about her other half, composer, singer, music lover Shankar Mahadevan.įirstpost: Was he already a singer when you met him? Shailaja Srinivas Sujatha Sukhwindher Singh Suresh Peters Susheela Swarnalatha Tippu TM.He left listeners 'breathless' when he released his album of that name, and has gone from strength to strength since in partnership with Ehsaan Noorani and Loy Mendonsa in movies such as Kal Ho Na Ho, Bunty aur Babli, and Dil Chahta Hai. Srinivas Sadhana Sargam Sasirekha Shahul Hameed Shankar Mahadevan Shreya Ghoshal SN. Rehana Arun Mozhi Asha Bhosle Bombay Jayashree Chitra Deepan Chakravarthy Febi Hariharan Harini Harish Raghavendra Illayaraja Janaki Jency Kamal Hassan Karthik Kay Kay Krishnaraj Mahalakshmi Iyer Malaysia Vasudevan Manicka Vinayagam Mano Nithyashree P. Rajendar Udhaya Vedha Vidyasagar Vijay Antony Yuvan Shankar Raja Rajkumar Sabesh Murali Shankar Ganesh Sirpy Soundharyan SP. Vishwanathan Pravin Mani Ramana Gokula Ranjith Barot SA. Mahadevan Mani Sharma Manoj Gyan Maragatha Mani MS.
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