Balabhaskar. Thank you for the music.
Taken from balabhaskar.in On Tuesday, 2nd of October 2018, Malayalis and other Indians across the world woke up to the news of musician Balabhaskar's death. Just a week prior, they woke up to the news of the car crash that took his daughter's life on the same day. I woke up later than usual today, the 2nd of October being a holiday. I woke up and scrolled through Twitter only to see that Mohanlal had shared a video of Balabhaskar playing Kanneer Poovinte from one of Mohanlal's most prominent and moving films, Kireedam . The song in itself is a sad song - and while it is one of my favorites of Mohanlal songs from the 80s and 90s, I listen to it on rare occasions because such is the power of that song to move you to sadness. The violin is a beautiful piece of instrument. When I was 9 years old and had gone to summer camp, I had learnt to play it - although I did not continue once summer ended for a myriad of reasons. My first encoun...