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Music Brought Us Together – Says Kavita Krishnamurthy

Kavita Krishnamurthy is a well-known celebrity in Bollywood. She married Dr. L Subramaniam on November 10, 1999. But, she insists that they never had a love story. Here is a dekho at her marriage from her own point-of-view.

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    KK

    So far, it has been a very beautiful journey. Shall I say we have held hands in all these years and we have walked through life together? And I would say that there are lots of things that I have imbibed from him, his calmness, his very spiritual approach to life, etc. I think I am very calm when I am with him. I feel that he takes care of everything and I don’t have to worry. Similarly, I think for him also to get married to someone like me, who is at a very short fuse. I am very hyper, a typical Aquarian in every sense of the word. But, I think in certain ways, I have brought some amount of North Indianness in his life. He was born and brought up in Chennai and did his medicine there and then for 20 years he was in the US. Now, he has learned a little bit of Hindi. He is not aware of the North Indian way of life. Though I am a South Indian, I have been brought up in North India. The journey consists of a good part of friendship more than anything else.

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    KK

    It was a very quiet ceremony in his home in Bangalore. Everything happened so quickly. Actually, we did not inform many people. My aunt and mother were too old to travel. My cousin sister’s family came for the wedding. We had announced in the newspapers thereafter. I wanted a very quiet wedding because it was not a 16-year-old’s marriage. Both of us had decided that we would have a very quiet marriage and that’s how it happened. It was a simple wedding. It was typical Tamil Brahmin wedding. We had the priest coming from Kachipuram because my husband is attached to the Shankaracharya Matt in Kanchipuram. For the marriage, I was supposed to wear a 9 yards sari. The sari and Tali or the Malgalsutra both came from Kanchipuram. I am not sure if you are all aware that he was married and had children. The only unusual thing was that I could think had happened during the wedding - he was married much earlier in life. He was in US for many years and his wife died in 1995 due to cancer. 4 years later he met me and we married. When we got married, his eldest daughter was about 15. His youngest son was about 10 years old. Overnight, I had become a mother of 3 children. Suddenly, from Kavita Aunty I became Amma.

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    KK

    Earlier I just had myself to think about. I would go to the studio from morning till night, work. Come home. I used to be pampered. I had somebody to take my shoes off and put on the shoes I wear at home. And there is somebody to pack my clothes for me when I go on a tour. But now, suddenly, my son is a musician, my husband is a musician, so when I go home I am not packing for only myself, I am packing for them and making sure that they have their concert clothes. On top of that, when they are not well, I worry about them. Earlier I used to worry about me only. I was a confirmed bachelor. Now, I am not just running a household, I am the most responsible person in that household. So obviously, there will be some change in me. I am a family person now. I am a mother of 3 kids. There are so many things I have to be responsible for. In these 20 years, my life has changed a lot.

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    KK

    Only thing is that I am very punctual and he is not punctual. He will reach the airport the last minute. But, I am such a nervous traveller. I like to be on time and relaxed in the airport and he’s always rushing at the last minute. That’s the only thing I would like to change. Of course, I have managed to change him so much now. He’s so punctual, now, compared to what he was. I think I have succeeded up to 50-60%.

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    KK

    It will be my first concert with him, which happened before my marriage. It happened in Shanmukhananda Hall, Bombay. He wanted me to sing fusion compositions and I was nervous, as hell. I did not know what I was going to sing on stage. He told me to sing the piece I did for the recording. And when I went there on stage and he was playing the violin so beautifully. It was the first time in my life that I heard a fusion concert with him. And he played so beautifully and my nervousness disappeared.

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    KK

    To the point of sounding very boring, I think it is essential.

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    KK

    Someone definitely because earlier it was my aunt, now probably it is my husband.

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