Sri and myself gave a program on "Aboorva Ragangal in Tamil Film Music on 20th July 2011 in Itsdiff, an US based radio. The recording is available in the following link.

http://www.itsdiff.com/Tamil.html

Recently I met Kamal Haasan at a book release function at Book Point auditorium in Chennai. After glancing through the book, he asked few queries on the basics of Carnatic music. I hope he would have gone through the book at his leisure.

 

A short review of the book by Shrinidhi Hande in this link