Pallavi Natarajasundaram Pillai, as he was known, was renowned for mallaris. The available recordings are an invaluable documentation of his style and a testimony to his astonishing grip on layam or thalam. There would be no dull moment in a concert by Natarajasundaram Pillai, says thavil maestro Haridwaramangalam A.K. Palanivel
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