Beats Music Troupe Show for New Year 2010

Can six hours of team practice create three hours of musical magic? Yes, it did happen at Abirami Mega Mall food court on 3rd Jan, 2010. The Beats music troupe was at its best when they performed with energy, joy, and concentration. The crowd was cool and ate hot food, but they showed appreciation with shining eyes and quiet smiles.


The Beats music troupe was formed 16 years back by engineering, management, and science students of Anna University,Guindy. On the recent musical night there were instrumentalists and singers on stage. But the musicians were also Entrepreneurs who run a chain of companies, Vice Presidents at banks, Project managers at multinationals, media anchors, writers, journalists, teachers, and enterprising homemakers. Of course they all came with their lovable family members too.

We started the music show with a devotional song “Aayar Padi Malligaiyil.”. And followed it up with peppy numbers, melodious tunes, and rocking beats.
Instrumentalists – Keyboard - Joseph Ambrose & Eugene Xavier, Guitar - Vijay Anand , Pascal & Raj, Drums – Thamizh and friends.

Singers- Murali, Prabha, Raji, Nagarajan, Malathi, Anitha


Akilan, an IAS officer was the Chief Guest of the day. An excited Chai shop owner in the food court praised us and supplied free coffee and tea to the team members. Apart from the seated audience, we had fans peering from the first and second floor balcony of the mega mall. We were touched by such simple gestures of love.

The Beats music team performance was all about living life to the fullest, exploring musical interests, and bringing passion into performance. We did miss few pals of our golden times who could not make it to the show. Wow, we enjoyed the day. Praise the Lord!!!


Click here to read the blog post about our previous reunions.

Musical Days@College - The Beats...

I was part of my college(Guindy Engineering) music troupe for around two years. Our troupe named the “Beats” was dominated by M.E students and quite a few talented B.E students.

Our practise sessions were more interesting than our on stage performance. We had a separate practise hall inside the college were we would assemble after college hours. We would practise with joy, pulling each others legs when possible. Our troupe was complete in the sense that we had a casio player, guitarists, drummers, and male and female singers. So, we did not hire or borrow talent from outside!!!

We performed at IIT (Madigras), MCC (Deepwoods), REC-Trichy, DalcemFes (Fest organized by Dalmia Cements), MIT, Stanley Medical College, Madras Medical College and few more colleges. Most of the time we won the first or second prize. Our constant competitor was Loyola College. If we won the first prize, Loyola would win second place and vice versa. But still we all were good friends of Loyola College music troupe members.

The hit song of our troupe was “Jhoom Jhoom Jhoom Baba” by Salma Agha. Whoever sang the song used to get best vocalist award. I also got one when I sang the song at Stanley medical college. Incidentally, my mother was a HOD at SMC when I won the award.

My personal hit song was “Chinna Chinna Aasai” from the Tamil movie Roja. As usual, when I was on stage I used to freeze and only my voice would flow fluently. Showmanship on stage while singing was a no no for me!!!

The music troupe was referred to as OB gang( time-wasting gang) in college. Obviously, because the college was filled with the most studious people in town.

I had sang so much in college that my autograph book was filled with just comments about my singing and voice. That may be because I was reserved and my classmates would have seen me as a singer than as a friend!!

I enjoyed healthy friendships with all my Beats teammates and I'm still in touch with them. One of the singers Murali, now runs a music troupe named “Mouna Raagam.”