Mysuru: What if the song is old, it still rings in one’s ears and this feeling was uppermost yesterday at the Mysore Palace where the young rising singers of Mysuru, through their melodious voices, rendered beautiful Kannada movie songs, filling the hearts of the large audience gathered.

It was the fourth day of the Mysuru Winter Festival organised jointly by Information and Publicity Department, District Administration and Palace Board as part of the cultural festival.

The programme ‘Ganayaana’ conducted by Mysuru’s  Sunitha Chandrakumar and Raghuleela musical troupe featured young male and female singers that included the likes of Shreya K. Bhat, Vasudha Shastry, C. Sinchana, Akshara Parashar, Navneeth Krishna, Karthik, Poorvaj Vishwanath and Rakshitha Suresh who sang some old Kannada movie songs drawing everyone’s attention.

Navneeth began the first song from the movie Jeevana Chaitra’s popular number ‘Naadamaya ee lokavella Naadamaya,’ followed by Sinchana singing from the movie Ranga SSLC  ‘Oorakannu, yaarakannu, marikannu, horikannu.’

Karthik chose the song from the movie Naanu Nanna Hendathi ‘Yaare neenu roja hoove,’ and another hit number ‘Bombe Heluthaithe’ from Puneeth Rajkumar starrer Rajakumaara, which Karthik and Navneeth sang to the delight of the audience.

Vasudha picked the lovely number ‘Karedaru kelade sundarane’ from  the movie Sanaadi Appanna, the 1977 Rajkumar – Jayaprada starrer, Shreya Bhat sang ‘Jyothi yaava jaathiyamma’ and Rakshitha chose the number ‘Nannade kogileya olavina pallavi’ from the movie ‘Olavu gelavu.’

Movie screening

The four-day open air movie screening organised by the Tourism Department as part of the Winter Fest began last evening at the Maharaja’s College Grounds with the screening of the award- winning Kannada movie Rangi Taranga starring Nirup Bhandari and Radhika Chetan. It attracted a huge crowd, as all the chairs were filled up, with a few forced to stand and watch it.

Today (Dec.27), Hindi movie Airlift starring Akshay Kumar and Nimrat Kaur will be screened at 7 pm.

Light music: Puttur Narasimha Nayak and his troupe will render Bhavageethe, Vachana, Dasarapada, folk songs and sugama sangeetha at the Palace premises today from 7 pm onwards as part of the ongoing Flower Show.