thiruvananthapuram kritis written by poet prabha varma will be featured in a carnatic music concert at vyloppilly samskrithi bhavan on december 30 it will be performed by k r shyama who has also composed the kritisvylopilly samskrithi bhavan is hosting the carnatic music concert as part of efforts of a group of classical music lovers to regain the glory of carnatic musicr ramachandran nair was the last malayalam poet to write carnatic music kritis under the pen name thulaseevanam writing and composing kritis for carnatic music often considered an arduous task requires a combination of excellent vocabulary musical awareness and classical music listening skillsin carnatic music the kriti is arranged in tune with the melody all the carnatic musical kritis so far have been composed with requests to the deities their praises and synonyms for the deities prabha varmas works are distinguished by beautiful imagery and symbolism prabha varma adopts a different approach when writing kritis in the tradition of swathi thirunal irayimman thampi thulaseevanam and many other writerscarnatic music concerts should always have a variety of melodies and rhythms even the rhythms themselves have to be prepared at different speeds to make the concerts extremely heartwarming carnatic music must blend melody and musicality all these qualities are plentiful in prabha varmas works and they are full of literary beauty according to the organisersprabha varmas kriti such as neelabha prabha nee neerazhiyil veenayo nin neelimayal kadalalaneelichaayo shows that his carnatic hymns are rich in poetic beauty the work on hanuman which begins with pavanam paripavanam in the nattakurinji raga is arranged in a misra chapa rhythm there will be eight such kritis in the concert