Watch Yogi B, Arivu, Maalavika Sundar at The Hindu’s Made of Chennai Food and Music Festival 2024

Twenty years in the past, Yogi B, a younger Malaysian Tamil tv government, arrived in Chennai for the primary time. The sights and sounds of autos, tea outlets and town’s persons are nonetheless recent in his thoughts. To say that he was in awe, is placing it mildly.

“Individuals don’t perceive however as a baby of the diaspora that learn the Thevaram, watched Tamil movies and heard songs from right here, it felt I used to be lastly touching the soil of my origin. All the things felt like an absolute tradition shock. Neurons burst. I couldn’t shut my mouth. I noticed Tamil Nadu in all its glory and selection. It was a magical, sensory overload,” he says.

Through the years, this rapper and music producer behind blockbuster hits like ‘Madai Thirandu’ and ‘Engeyum Eppothum’, says that his relationship with town has reworked with years of flying out and in for performances and recordings. The romance nevertheless, is unshaken. “Makkal Inga thangamanavangam (Individuals have coronary heart of gold),” he says.

It’s this romance and years of cross-cultural alternate between the Tamil diasporic neighborhood internationally, that the headliner and his long-time collaborator Emcee Jesz will deliver on stage on the second version of The Hindu Manufactured from Chennai Meals and Music Pageant 2024.

Excessive Octane Industrial Rock that includes JHANU
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The 2-day occasion marks the top of The Hindu’s 40-day Manufactured from Chennai celebration that put town’s quite a few sides beneath the highlight in a set of occasions that showcased pageantry together with cinema by the seashore and an archival photograph exhibit on the newspaper’s head workplace on Anna Salai. At this competition that includes 10 acts and 40 meals stalls, on September 14 and 15 at Island Grounds, watch performers like Arivu and The Ambassa Band; Haricharan and the Drums Kumaran Collective that includes Sireesha Bhagavatula; Maalavika Sundar; Motta Maadi Music; Paul Jacob’s People Agenda and Gowwli, the band.

Excessive Octane Industrial Rock that includes JHANU, guarantees uncooked vitality and explosive music, says Harkirat Singh Sangha (Harry), the bassist of the band. Though well-liked bands like Justice and Rammstein have been their inspiration, Harry says that Ilaiyaraaja finds his manner into their minds whereas creating music. “Our imaginative and prescient is to see crowds until the horizon after we carry out,” he says.

Workplace Gaana from On the Streets of Chennai alternatively, will mix storytelling, workplace drama and reliability in a peppy, gaana-style format, says Keerthivasan Raghuram (Monk). Count on covers of well-liked Tamil songs and originals from this band that got here collectively as a result of somebody of their workplace determined to play a forgotten dholak. “We’re 200% excited,” he says.

Monk’s enthusiasm just isn’t his personal. A number of different acts encompassing genres like hip hop, gaana, Carnatic-fusion, people and rock, in all their Tamil glory, will discover methods to convey the resplendent sounds of Chennai. Take your decide.

Essence and flavours

Bun butter jam from Gopaul Dairy
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Meals maketh a competition. It’s why Shabnam Kamil and her organisation Social Bee, have determined to populate the meals stalls on the competition with solely manufacturers from town. Her second stint of curating this occasion is stuffed with learnings. It’s legacy manufacturers like C Kunhiraman Normal Shops (well-known for promoting mango ice cream and mango milk, year-round), Gopaul Dairy (with house-made butter and jam) and KGN Arifa promoting paya biryani, that promote out in a matter of hours.

“Individuals may need to attempt the early morning biryanis of Pulianthope or the grape juice at Kunhiraman however could not be capable to journey the space for it. The meals competition gives all these Chennai delicacies in a single place. That’s maybe its biggest USP,” she says.

Akilesh Baskaran, behind the 99-year-old Kunhiraman General Stores, says that they have been bought out in two hours final 12 months. This 12 months, the chilly, tart but candy, and delightfully purple grape juice, will probably be made in extra to cater to the calls for of the competition. He’s ready and will probably be introducing new flavours like black currant to the combination.

Shabnam says that no two biryanis, grills, dosas or butter buns will probably be like another on the competition. She has been cautious about avoiding repeats, she says.

Akilesh being show Varity of juices at Kunhiraman Normal Retailer at Royapuram
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“That is the place our paya biryani, made with tender, succulent meat is available in. We serve it with a pudina chutney and have been in a position to maintain a gentle crowd for 3 generations now. It’s totally different from the opposite biryanis within the metropolis. Truthfully, we didn’t count on to promote out final 12 months. This 12 months, the manufacturing has been amped up,” says Syed Moinudeen S of KGN Arifa, who assists his father within the enterprise.

The competition can even have stalls serving Mexican tostadas, iced espresso, halwa, sandwiches and ice lotions, in addition to the staple South Indian fare on the occasion. Like Yogi B, put together to be in awe and fall in love with Chennai as soon as once more.

The Hindu Manufactured from Chennai Meals and Music Pageant is on September 14 and 15 at Island Grounds 5pm onwards. Entry is free however members should register at madeofchennai.thehindu.com.

The Hindu Manufactured from Chennai Meals and Music Pageant is held in affiliation with ACKO, Beepkart. In partnership with: GCC, GCTP, TTDC and Namma Marina. Affiliate Companion: Ather, Akshayakalpa. Skilled Companion: Social Bee. Artist Companion: ACTC. Radio Companion: BIG FM. Happiness accomplice: On the streets of Chennai. Occasion accomplice: Torque