Suppose Shri V.V.Sdagopan is alive, he is 98 years now. It’s sad that we could not locate him after his disappearance from a train journey in 1980 when he was traveling from Delhi to Chennai. There could be three reasons for his disappearance, 1) His own option to withdraw from the madding crowds to some point on earth in search of peace of his choice 2) As sudden shift in one’s mental state by which a person loses his track and could not come back to his self as he didn’t get the right person’s helping hand at the right time 3) Death itself probably due to an unnoticed fall from the train in which he was traveling. But even the body was not found.
29 January was his birthday. He started giving concerts all over Tamil Nadu in his teens itself. In mid 1940s, at the height of his music career he entered into Tamil films and acted in the films like Madana Kamarajan, Athisayam etc in leading roles. Later he served two terms as a professor in the music department of Delhi University. He was known as a musicologist of tall order with an amazing skill as a singer as well.
Here are two rare music tracks of V.V.Sadagopan
1. Ramabhajanai- Ragamalika- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdtwwIMOw1U&feature=related
2. Saraswati Manohari: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-vs_uQif4Y&feature=related
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