“Romancing the Words: A Conversation with IPS B Ravi Menon and Writer Sandhya”

# Ravi Menon

IPS B is a person who loved songs a lot despite the busy life. Ravi Menon says it is evening. He also says that he knows writer Sandhya more closely than Sandhya who is a senior police officer. Ravi Menon writes about the romance with Sandhya, who is about to become active in the world of writing after retiring from service.

Senior police officer B. Writer Sandhya is more familiar than Sandhya. Sandhya loves poetry and music and keeps songs close to her heart. There’s one song that regularly floats into our song conversations: “Unarunaru Unnipoove” sung by S Janaki from the film “Ammaye Vatna”. The song still warms Sandhya’s musical mind by imparting the same feeling as the first listen. P. Sandhya shares an interesting experience related to that song written by Bhaskaran and arranged by Raghavan Master.

A memory from the beginning of professional life. “During my training I am participating in an anti-terrorist operation on the Punjab border. It was my first experience, so I was anxious and worried. I had to sneak through dense sugarcane plantations with guns and grenades to search for hidden enemies; that too in the pitch black. Only a few frightening calls of the wind in the background. Walking forward was an unforgettable sight. In the wind The sugarcane plants are swaying. It’s really a spectacle of nature. For a moment, I felt like I was in a dream world. I stayed away from the group and watched the sight for a while with curiosity.”

I had a song in my mind then. The couplets that I have heard since my childhood: “O wind that sways on your shoulders when the sugarcane sprouts, O wind that dances on your feet and see the play of the sea that jumps on your feet..” The lines of the beautiful song sung by Janakiamma.

It will be amazing when you look at it; Also curious: how deeply must that song have affected us to come rushing into our minds uninvited in such a terrifying environment? Poet and lyricist Sandhya believes that music is the sensuality of music. “When I was a child, I heard that song for the first time from the radio at home. Not only the sound and the melody but also the lyrics stayed in my mind then. There is a picture that Bhaskaran Master’s writing draws in our imaginations without us even knowing it. Today that picture is still there with the same clarity at the bottom of my mind. When I listen to all those songs today, I remember a beautiful time that has gone and disappeared. .”

Sandhya never thought of writing a song for a movie. That opportunity came like a mission. He started by writing the song “En Kinavile Thenmalarmanam” sung by Unnimenon in the movie “Hallelujah”. Music by Chandran Ramamangalam. Also wrote in Bijibal’s tune in “Sarvopari Palakarani”. Jayachandran sang that song “Ikkaliveetil”. Sandhya is going to become more active in the world of writing after retiring from service.

Sandhya took the dreamy actress with her who harbors a lot of love in spite of the hustle and bustle of IPS life, which looks rough from the outside. Couldn’t the poet who wrote “Orka is I am Mulla, yesterday was Chandanam Chartininna Charuvenma”?