Wise men say that success is something that needs to be enjoyed by the heart and not the head so there are a respected few who realize it and make it to the peaks of fame and success but then there are a few others who reach success first and then start taking it into their heads. It appears that even a down to earth Devisri Prasad is no exception to it now.
Apparently, Devisri Prasad's behavior in the recently concluded ATA received the curses of classical dancers and artistes. It is heard that he occupied the stage for a long duration just for rehearsals and when he was requested to vacate the stage for the classical dancers, he shouted on the organizers for asking him to leave that quick.
It is heard that he vented out his fury implying "Who am I? I'm Devisri Prasad!! Who are you to put deadlines and time frames for me? It is me first and next all others". This has come across as a shock to the classical artistes who felt humiliated and cursed Devisri. We have to see if he changes his mind set in the time to come. He has his next show on 27th of this month in Virginia.
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This comment is about his performance at Houston on July 19 2008.
I had a VERY good impression (young and dynamic music director). But after attending his show it was gone.
I still appreciate his talent but could not stop putting my criticism. He was late for the show about 2+ hours; many came to the performance hall about 6pm with kids not having their dinners, though there is some food available from restaurant but many did not have because they thought they might miss DSP show if they sit in food hall. I saw many elders could not satisfy for his explanation “I was told to come at 8pm and it was not my mistake”, A child like explanation. He tried to give a satiric reply to audience response, which was ended with some bad comments. The funny comment was after his introduction, he shouted “Are you ready Houston?” some one replied from the back “Will you please start the show? “
One of the organizers for this show is “Andhra Mirchi Radio”, they were new and growing, and they tried their best. My suggestion for them is “please present about your radio not the employees” (every one tried to show themselves on the stage).
DSP played some humor, which was not entertaining for all kinds of audience, some times it was vague. May be it is good humor for Hyderabad’s mass minds but not for Huston’s.
Apart from my above comments Mlli, Gopika, Kalpana and Sagar’s performance was good. The dance troop did their job very good and Malli’s chiru steps were entertaining.
My overall experience is the show was more like a big “inter university competition” not like a show from a great music director. In hope DSP will come with some decent performance in his next show.
He even insulted the organizers and audience in Dallas. He started the show 90 minutes late while he was in Dallas on 18th July.
Looks like he has no value for others time.
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