I will sing for you once more, a song of separation/

So how true to form is a Malayalam ghazal like, say, Veendum Paadam? Play Umbayi's cover of 'Kis shaan se woh aaj beintehaa chale'. With Pranamam, Umbayi became the face of the genre in Kerala, managing to almost singlehandedly prop up an alien form for five decades, until his death on August 1 at the age of 68. This was alien to the state вЂ“ it would sound forced in Malayalam, they protested.ДЇinally, it took a relatively unknown poet, Venu V Desom, to write Pranamam, the first-ever Malayalam ghazal album. Most of them were hesitant, including the biggest names in Malayalam poetry and lyric writing at the time вЂ“ ONV Kurup, Yusufali Kecheri and K Satchidanandan. Umbayi started looking for Malayalam poets to write ghazals for him. вЂњThe pangs of love and separation arenвЂ™t the preserve of only North India, are they?вЂќ the singer said years later in a television interview.

Photo credit: Umbayees ghazal/Facebook The originsДЄt a Delhi concert for members of Parliament from Kerala, an admirer once asked Umbayi: вЂњWhy canвЂ™t we have ghazals in Malayalam?вЂќ It set off a new line of thought in Umbayi, who had so far been doing covers of Urdu ghazals of legends such as Mehdi Hassan, Ghulam Ali and Jagjit Singh. Not only did he popularise ghazals in Kerala but, more importantly, he pioneered the idea of ghazal writing in Malayalam. That tall singer, with smiling eyes and long, tapering fingers that flew over the keys of the harmonium was PA Ibrahim, who came to be known as Umbayi. Before long, the singer acquired a fan following. But there was something hugely appealing about the melancholic songs of love, heartache and loss that had until then been the preserve of Malayalam films. Very few in that audience knew Urdu and fewer still had heard Hindustani music in a landscape dominated by the Carnatic system. Their newest protГ©gГ© was singing in Urdu and the songs were set in unfamiliar Hindustani ragas with brilliant harmonium and tabla backing. So it wasnвЂ™t surprising that in late 1980s, when word got around that a singer with a new musical style was doing dinner concerts at Abad Plaza, then the fanciest hotel in downtown Kochi, quite a few listeners turned up.ДЄbad Plaza, owned by a Kutchi Memon family who made Kochi their home in the 19th century, had started offering a stage for struggling musicians. Seafarers, traders, travellers and conquerors have given the city as many as 30 languages. How вЂZombivliвЂ™ created an Indian zombie epidemic in the middle of a pandemicДЄs a port city, Kochi has been a welcoming anchor for diverse cultures for over 500 years.How Yusuf HamiedвЂ™s Cipla developed an affordable generic medicine for Aids.вЂAbide With MeвЂ™: TM Krishna, artists around India sing the hymn dropped from Beating Retreat event.The big news: NYT report says India bought Pegasus spyware from Israel and nine other top stories.Is Omicron natureвЂ™s way of curbing the pandemic?.BJP, Bajrang Dal workers protest against вЂrenamingвЂ™ of sports complex after Tipu Sultan in Mumbai.

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