Revathy Kumar, featured this year in the junior category has confidence and good voice control. The confidence emanates from her exposure to music, dance and nattuvangam. As a promising student of the late Sulochana Pattabhiraman, and later having trained under her son P. Vasanthkumar, she has gained insight into the art.
Kasiramakriya and Kharaharapriya provided her with a vast canvas in both the middle and upper octaves. According to the Dikshitar School, Pantuvarali is known as Kasiramakriya, or, sometimes, as Ramakriya. Revathy rendered pleasing phrases in the raga. The Kharaharapriya alapana was well-etched. K.V. Krishna on the violin came up with a fine version of Kharaharapriya. Revathy did justice to her rendition of Dikshitar’s ‘Visalakshim’ in Kasiramakriya by carefully rendering the phrases with right sangatis. Niraval and swaraprastara were at ‘Kasi Rajnim Kapalinim.’ In Kharaharapriya, she presented Tyagaraja's ‘Nadachi Nadachi,’ in which she came up with sparkling niraval and swaras. Rohit Prasad (mridangam) added appropriate touches to kritis. . A brief Vardini alapana was followed by Tyagaraja’s ‘Manasa Mana’ with niraval on ‘Vinusaketha Raju.’ Revathy began with ‘Namami’ (Hamsadhwani) of Krishnaswami Ayyaa that had both madhyama kala and crisp chittaiswaram. Swati Tirunal's ‘Bogindrasayinam’ in Kuntalavarali, Annamayya’s ‘Narayanadri’ and a ragamalika virutham were the other pieces.
