Darbuka Siva returns to the stage with a particular reside live performance in Chennai

Darbuka Siva is not any stranger to the stage. Part of impartial music bands earlier than plunging into films full-time, Siva has seen a number of Chennai phases as a percussionist and musician; his final look was is 2012.

Greater than a decade later, Siva — now armed with a number of movie album hits as a composer, apart from his performing and directorial ventures — returns to the stage. This Friday, he’s presenting an “intimate reside live performance expertise” that will probably be constructed across the emotion and nostalgia of his acquainted songs, alongside together with his bigger musical world past movie tracks.

Introduced by The Madras Collective, the live performance has been aptly titled ‘Maruvaarathai Pesaathey’, after one in every of his greatest hits. “It’s thrilling and nerve-wracking on the similar time,” he says, “I be at liberty once I’m on stage, and once I see an viewers in entrance of me, it helps me to push myself extra.”

Whereas Siva will carry out his hit tracks like ‘Mudhal Nee Mudivum Nee’, ‘Visiri’ and ‘Hey Nijame’, he additionally hopes to share particulars concerning the diversified world musical influences that made him discover the humanities. “It will be an intimate setting geared toward making it an immersive expertise, moderately than a standard large-stage live performance model present.”

The night can even function Grammy winner Tanvi Shah and different Siva’s frequent collaborators like Gautham Vasudev Menon, Kishen Das and Meetha Raghunath. “He (Gautham) has been following my work since my impartial music days, which led to me working with him on movie initiatives as nicely. He has all the time supported me and stored enquiring a few reside efficiency,” reveals Siva.

With some shock performances and a night filled with musical preparations and storytelling, this live performance comes at a time when Chennai is already basking in loads of music, because of the continuing Margazhi season. “This metropolis’s audiences have all the time been receptive to new music kinds; I hope they’ll uncover one thing new throughout this present too. I’m excited to start out the 12 months with a reside efficiency, which you’ll see extra of,” says Siva, who’s presently busy with the music rating of director Dayal Padmanabhan’s Lakshmikanthan Kolai Vazhaku, director Umapathy Ramaiah’s satire, and a few different initiatives.

‘Maruvaarthai Pesaathey’ is on January 2 (3:30 PM and seven PM) at Museum Theatre, Egmore. For tickets, go online to district.in