The Raga Khamas is a janya raga of the melakarta ragam Harikambodhi. In carnatic music concerts, this raga is employed often for short kritis (tukkadas) as opposed to Hindustani music where Raga Khamaj is elaborated quite a bit.
The erstwhile Tamil film actor/singer M.K.Thiagaraja Bhagavatar (MKT) has sung several nice songs in Khamas. This song is "Oru Naal Oru Pozhutu" in Khamas from the movie Thiruneelakantar.
A modern version of the song "Vaishnava Janato" sung by various artists including Pandit Jasraj is set in Raga Khamas:
The raga is also featured as the title song in the movie "Morning Raga" -- the Muthuswamy Dikshitar kriti "Maathey" set in Raga Khamas:
Carnatic vocal singer P.Unnikrishnan's film song "Uyirum Neeye" is also set to Raga Khamas:
The telugu movie Shankarabharanam featured SPB singing the classical kriti "Brocheva Evarura" in Raga Khamas:
3 comments:
How abt the song from andhimantharai?
Dear Aniroo,
Thanks for this. I'm working on a paper right now on speeches and nationalist songs from the Swadeshi movement, 1907-08. His 'Sri Krishna Stottiram' (enru taniyum inda sudhandira tagam) is put in the Khamas raga. Do you have any sources, or do you have any intuition, about what kind of rasa this might have effected? Or have been meant to effect?
Thanks a bunch,
Yours,
Bernard Bate
Try listening to, Idathu Padham, by Sudha Raghunathan, in the album, Dance of Shiva - Kamas Raga. Its simply brilliant.
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