PR with her best friend in Singapore...

My mom with her best pal Ms. Suseela in Singapore...

PR as a Producer of Radio plays...

Mrs. Parvathi Ramanathan has produced a number of radio dramas in Singapore as well as in Madras (Chennai Vanoli). As a producer, she was very meticulous in choosing the background music, the title music, the actors, the sounds needed like the horn sound of a scooter or car or a telephone bell or that of a passing train or thunder, etc. The most important thing I had noticed as a listener of her plays was that the music used to be soft in the background when a conversation took place among the characters. The volume of music was increased when the scene changed or when the situation demanded. I have seen her working during the mixing, dubbing and editing of radio plays and used to be amazed with her skill of operating the dubbing machines, leaning from one to another, fading in and fading out the music, editing the length of the play by cutting and joining the tapes of the spools...all these with utmost sincerity and dedication. She used to work even till 11pm in the night even though her office timings were 10 am to 5 pm. On those days, she was dropped at home in the office jeep. I still remember those times when we used to be waiting for her to come home and then we used to have dinner. She was a workaholic and used to have her lunch very late in the evenings on some days.

Sharing a picture of my mom taken when she was working in Singapore...CLICK on the foto for larger image...

         

Poornam Viswanathan's Stage PlayThani Kudithanam

Shri Poornam Viswanathan's stage play Thani Kudithanam written by "Marina" was a hilarious popular drama. The play was released as an LP record in the year 1977. The role of Poornam's mother-in-law was enacted by my mother Smt. Parvathi Ramanathan in the LP Record. I still have the record with me and below are the photographs taken for the cover of the Record.

There is a link to the play by a Blogger THINK LOUD which has the whole play in the MP3 format. You can listen to it and enjoy.

http://arvindsdad.blogspot.in/2011/07/thani-kudithanam-drama.html

Poornam as Athimber in the extreme right, Mrs. Parvathi Ramanathan as his mother-in-law is on the extreme left, Mr. Gemini Mahalingam as her son Narayana & Mrs Vijayapriya as her daughter Kamu are in the centre. The actor who is sitting is enacting the role of Poornam's father-in-law.                        

A Group photo of the entire team of actors of the play.