Sir Mutha Venkat Sabba Rao is wearing clothes in the shade on stage in the concert hall, the way you lend forward and wait for something to start. A unconscious spread of light then catches the edges of the microphone, outline the standctor’s stand, and the twinkling of the brass collides in a corner. For a moment, the audience becomes a part of the frame: still the son -in -law for the first Q is waiting with breath. Then, ‘A Night at the Movies’ begins as the sweet circle leads the song players.
Act one: Overcher
The opening cords auditorium of ‘A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart’ fills the hormones, a reminder that the song played by the players of Chennai for two decades.
Disney Medley revealed like a film shot with ‘Ek Puri Nai Duniya’, in which ‘I Got a Dream’ spontaneously gliding when you wish on a star ‘. When ‘can you feel the love tonite’, with the ballet movements that detect arcs on the stage, it felt less like a song and more like a scene – the way it leaves a theater that leaves for a few seconds after the previous note.
It was a gentle beginning, but it set a high bar. As Crystal Paarel, the lead female singer of Retro Band A26, later said, “We wanted people to feel that they were stepping to watch a film, not only a concert. The singers gave us the correct inauguration – which makes you feel the right to Nostlezia and hope that you also make you realize.”
The choice of demonstrations – music that talks about flexibility, pleasure, craving and connection – seemed to reflect without reflecting that purpose. ‘A Dream is a wish your heart’ of the opening Cords of Auditorium, Auditorium, polish their harmony, yet hot, a reminder that these songs have played this song for more than two decades in the heart of the community music scene of Chennai for more than two decades
A song played was also a part of the performance. , Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
It was a gentle beginning, but set a high bar. Crystal Paarel later said as the lead female singer of A26, “We wanted people to feel that they were stepping into a film, not only one concert. The singers gave us the correct opening – the sweep of the nostalgia and hope you attract you before you feel it.”
Act two: The score comes alive
The change in mood was almost cinematic. As soon as the singers retreated, A26 took stage with confidence. Inaugurated cord top Gun The theme range-out and the second act of the concert began with the crowd of instrumental film theme. Mission: impossible Tightly pulsed with wound rhythm, The good, the bad and the ugly Took the infallible whistle of a desert deadlock, and Righteous Unfilled in guitar lines of Gruston Waz with a reverence is usually reserved for the orchestra.
“Some of the greatest scores in cinema are important,” said Crystal. “We wanted to give them our reason, but can also make them your own. You can’t just copy an orchestra, so we re -prepared them with our texture: guitar solos, trumpet accents, rhythm classes that still take the play.” From there, Pirates of the Caribbean Clifford proceeded on Drumming of Psychiara, first game of Thrones Came in the form of a braiding, in addition to this, which fit so well, it looked unavoidable.
Only after this the voice came. ‘Nathing Notes Gona Stop As Now’ served as a title-card and declaration, both bright and expansion. ‘Mrs. Robinson traded the folk edge of Simon and Garfankal for a relaxed, more playful tone. ‘Skyfall’ was followed – dark and intentionally, the lower register of the crystal adds weight without tipping in copying. ‘Life is a highway’ sent energy back to high gear, ‘Randrops fall on my head’ offered a terrible interval, and ‘shallow’ closed this sequence with an intimacy of a confession.
Goan Band-A26- gave a high-energy performance in Chennai. Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
Performing, band – Lester Rodrigues (Lead Male Vocals and Guitar), Crystal, Alfin Fernandes (on keyboard and trumpet), Ignatius Rodrigues (on the keyboard), Marino Dacosta (on Bass and Flute), Gruston Waz (on Seed Gather) and Clifford Skicier (Clifords). The place for expansion was: A trumpet line tucks into a chorus, a flute phrase that catches light, a guitar single that is played like an internal monoton of a character.
Act three: Artists contingent returns
The return of the singers marked another shift. From ‘tomorrow’ Annie The underlying careful layers, its optimism passes through restraint. Senior dress went into ‘unknown’ Frozen IITheir reconciliation waves are growing in the cinematic urgency of the song. The junior songs performed ‘I can’t wait just to be the king’ Lion kingHis bright, playful delivery smiles smile.
From there, A26 stepped into an familiar area, offering a rock-rawl-tinged Bollywood-Madeley and Konkani Classic: ‘Godacho Panav’. “Retro is coming back in a big way,” Crystal said. “The songs of the 60s and 70s were live-band energy, clean harmony and rhythm that crossed the cultures. You can bend them and bend them and they still feel fresh.”
Act four: closing
Attitude climbed through ‘what emotion’ Flash Dance And patience of ‘Tiger’s Eye’. By ‘Footlos’, the corridor had his first dancer. The audience who was sitting through instruments in a quiet focus, was now clapping in the rhythm.
Ballet movements detected arcs on the stage, making it less like a number and more like a scene. , Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
The final stretch felt like a closing montage. ‘The Young Oms’ made a touch of young apathy before the early wire of ‘Time of My Life’. The singers and the band filled the stage, the audience joined the chorus, in those last minutes the line between the artist and the audience blurred.
“We did this for the first time in Canada,” Crystal shared. “Now that the production is tight, we want to take it to Mumbai, Bangalore, Dubai.
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Published – August 12, 2025 03:53 pm IST
