Siva. Shankar. Selva. Srinivas. And one Ustad.
Midweek in Bangalore. Midweek evening rush hour to be precise. Midweek evening rush hour mega madness on museum road to be doubly precise. I wore thin my leather sandals, struck up back slapping conversations with total strangers, all for what? One Extra Pass. By zeus, the trials and tribulations one has to endure for a live concert. But then again, this wasn't just some coked out grandpa rocker concert, this was something else. Personally, live concerts are up there with free first day first show tickets to the latest rajni release. The experience become even more profound when the performers up there are some of modern India's greatest living musicians. And so it was on a Wednesday evening in Bangalore when the collective talents of five astounding gentlemen had us totally in their spell. Someone could have exploded a laxmi bomb under me and i won't have noticed. The performers were Sivamani, Shankar Mahadevan, Mandolin Srinivas, Selvaganesh and Ustad Zakir Hussain. The