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On the occasion of Smt T Brinda’s 113th Birth Anniversary, BrindaMukthi pays homage to her timeless artistry through this exquisite rendition of “Vadiga Gopaluni”, a Kshetrayya padam in the radiant raga Mohanam.

Padams formed the emotional and aesthetic heart of the Veena Dhanammal bani — an art that demanded not just vocal mastery, but bhava anusandhanam — the internalisation of emotion through sound. Smt T Brinda inherited this legacy in its purest form, and her singing of padams remains unmatched in its subtlety, repose, and truthfulness to emotion.

In this rendition, Brinda’s voice caresses the gentle contours of Mohanam with effortless grace. Each phrase blooms naturally, without ornamentation for its own sake, revealing the raga’s pristine luminosity. Her pacing is deliberate, her gamakas measured, and her articulation of sahitya imbued with lived experience. What emerges is not a performance, but a meditation — music as bhava itself. Ritha Rajan’s responses are subtle and perfectly timed, reinforcing Brinda’s aesthetic of quiet grace. She absorbs the mood of the padam and mirrors it without intrusion — an artistry that requires humility, empathy, and complete immersion in the main artist’s thought. In her voice, one hears the continuity of the bani — disciplined, poised, and reverent — a true reflection of musical sensibility of Smt T Brinda & Smt T Muktha.

The composer Kshetrayya, the 17th-century poet-saint, wrote his padams as intimate dialogues between the nayika and Lord Krishna, blending human longing with divine surrender. In Vadiga Gopaluni, the heroine’s gentle complaint to Krishna — both tender and reproachful — unfolds with grace and emotional complexity. Brinda brings out this duality with astonishing restraint: the pain is implied, never dramatized, allowing listeners to sense the still flame of devotion beneath the words.

Through this curation, BrindaMukthi celebrates not only Smt Brinda’s genius, but the ethos of an entire lineage — one that treated padams as soulful narratives, not stage pieces; where music was meant to evoke silence rather than applause. The Dhanammal family’s approach to padams elevated them to a form of spiritual introspection — each syllable alive with emotion, each pause speaking volumes.

Vadiga Gopaluni thus becomes both a song and a remembrance — of Brindamma’s luminous artistry, of the Dhanammal family’s quiet discipline, and of the eternal bridge between human emotion and divine grace.

Smt T Brinda - Vocal
Smt Ritha Rajan - Vocal Support
Sri TR Murthy - Flute
Sri MA Sundareswaran - Violin
Sri KV Prasad - Mridangam

Excerpted from a performance of Kshetrayya padams for the Sant Vaggayekara festival conducted by ITC Kolkata at Narada Gana Sabha, Chennai in the early 1990s.

00:00 - Opening Credits

00:06 - Anupallavi
vaDiga gOpAluni vadda jEramani prAya mEla vaccenE vanUguccunE

03:05 - Pallavi
paDakiNTi kika pOvalenE ninna vadda vADu dalaci veracEnE

04:34 - Charana

paTTa pagaluyoNTi baDina samayamuna paiTalO ceyi vEsenE
eTulOrtu nani geTTiga kemmOvi engili cEsenE nijamugAnE

9:05 - Closing Credits

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