Vasanthi we Miss you!!

It was 7th March 2008 when Vasanthi Hariprakash declared on one of her shows (Joy Ride) that this is the final show she is hosting, its 2 months and 22 days exactly and we are still missing her. I just did a search on Vasanthi Hariprakash on google Blog Search, and found loads of blog entries from people like me, who are missing her sweet, bubbly, chirpy voice. Realized this after Vasanthi left Radio City (to Join NDTV as the special Correspondent, Bangalore) that RJing is an art and all the RJs on all the radio stations know nothing about it! She used to strike just the right balance between English, Hindi and Kannada, I understand Kannada in bits and pieces, and I used to understand each and every word on the show with ease.

I really miss the Friday Flashback, theme based show hosted by her. Used to love the trivia provided by her, and the themes, I know that most of this must have been scripted and some creative director or writer must be writing it. But then the same creative writer is writing for all the people on air currently. I used to like listening to Vasanthi more than the songs, the latest happenings in Bangalore, her spontaneous humor on the calls, her comments about the current affairs in the news papers. I guess she was the perfect girl to host a morning show, when everybody is driving to office.

For me her's was the first voice I used to listen to in my din-charya, while driving to office, and believe me she used to make my morning really bright. Very rightly termed as the "Sunshine Girl". Lately I have started listening to Radio Indigo (91.9 FM), a show called Indigo Rising, hosted by Ayesha D'Souza, she is also good, unlike other RJs she doesn't bore you with her PJs, talks sense, talks about the songs, and last but not the least has a really sweet voice. So right now my Car's favorite Radio station is 91.9, Radio Indigo: The Color of Music!

But we Miss you Vasanthi!!!! :-((

Song Today: 1973 by James Blunt

while coming to office....

- Observed today that the Times of India's initiative "Unlock Bangalore" is actually picking up. all the red lights were manned by Traffic police cops. But I really wonder are we aiming for this, or a better civic sense among Bangaloreans

- Missed RJ Vasanthi Hariprakash on the Radio City breakfast show, this new chap, who calls himself Mr Repairy, is irritating has a pathetic voice and is damn boring, so I have resorted to CDs in my car

- laughed over the pathetic sense of humor the Fever 104 FM RJs have...

- had apple in the car, thats my regular breakfast :-P

- Realized that the bikers ride pathetically, I nearly banged a rider who gave me a bad cut from the left and zoomed, they need to understand that I am anyways in the car, they will be the fellows on the receiving end.

Quote from Calvin:

I say, if your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.

Song Today: O meri jaan
Film: Life in a metro...

Radio City... whatte Fun

Radio City 91.1 FM has become an important number in my mornings, and like me to a lot of people in Bangalore and across the metros. While driving to office this is your daily dose on the happenings around the city, the traffic updates, and a lot of other crap, which is nice to hear. Radio has always been an important part of my morning routines since childhood, I still remember waking up in the morning, getting ready for school, but all this while "vividh Bharati" playing in the back ground, with my favorite show of that time Chitralok! Well that was one show which used to air new latest songs, as at that time the only way to hear new Filmi songs was to buy an audio cassette, but then chitralok was a sponsored program which used to air advertisements and audio trailers of movies.

Nowadays since I don't get Chitralok here in Bangalore on Vividh Bharati, I stick to Radio City, with my favorite RJ Vasanthi on her breakfast show. Lately there has been too many radio FM channels, I used to be quite fond of Fever 104 FM as they concentrated on music more and less on advertisements, but the most painful thing with these radio channels (except Radio City) is that their RJs are PATHETIC, they keep cracking pathetic PJs to which you feel like banging the car to the very next pole. But still if you can bear the pain of some advertisements, the quality of "Bakar" on radio City stands apart. I have been following Vasanthi's breakfast show (in the mornings) and Aviva's Joy Ride (in the evenings) and I find them quite entertaining and informative!

But I still miss my good old vividh Bharati...citralok, hawa mehel, that typical trumpet tune of Jaymala, that brings back my childhood memories, getting ready for the school bus, those chilly winter mornings when you and your vividh Bharati are the only things humming when there is still dark outside. At that time I used to miss new songs on the radio a lot, but now all these FM channels are not able to satisfy my hunger for old songs! except on Fridays when Vasanthi plays Friday Flashback, this is one show I love, and the trivias.....but alas I cant hear that entire program, my office comes after 20-30 minutes drive!

Song Today: Raat Akeli hai...
Film: Jewel Thief