Manato Entertainments

Chennai · Live music, curated by theme

One theme. One night. Every song, live.

Manato Entertainments stages tribute evenings for the songs you grew up on — a composer, a pairing, a golden era — twenty to thirty songs, sung live, one song at a time. Grand stages. Golden memories.

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12+

Nights staged

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300+

Songs sung live

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40+

Singers on stage

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5,000+

Guests welcomed

Who we are

Evenings built like concerts, not playlists.

Manato Entertainments is a live music house. We don't book acts and hope for the best — we build each evening around a single theme, and hand it to singers who carry it from first song to encore.

Every Manato night honours one body of music. It might be the film songs of a single composer, a golden era of two studios, or two maestros — Ilaiyaraaja and A. R. Rahman — sharing one stage for a night.

Twenty to thirty songs per theme. Every song sung live by our hand-picked singers, and every song that was born a duet is sung as a duet, with a co-singer on stage. Nothing is playback. Nothing is filler.

“We don't stage playlists. We stage the songs people ask for on their way home.”

How a Manato night is built

  • #01

    The theme

    Every evening is built around one artist or one pairing — Koti's greatest era, or Ilaiyaraaja and A. R. Rahman sharing a single stage.

  • #02

    The singers

    Hand-picked vocalists carry the set, with co-singers stepping in for the duets these songs were born as.

  • #03

    The setlist

    Twenty to thirty songs, sequenced for the night — openings that lift, duets that hold, finales that stay with you.

  • #04

    The night

    One evening, start to encore. No opening acts, no filler — just the songs and the people who love them.

The stage

One composer at a time.

Each edition is announced when the setlist is ready — never before. Here is where we are headed, and where we have been.

The next edition

Ilaiyaraaja × A. R. Rahman

Two Maestros, One Stage

Coming soon · Chennai

One evening, two composers who wrote the soundtrack of a generation. Our singers trace the golden thread from Ilaiyaraaja's ragas to Rahman's Madras choruses — twenty-eight songs, sequenced as one story.

  • 28 songs
  • 6 singers
  • 2 duets

Announcements for our next edition drop first on Instagram.

A taste of the setlist

  1. 01

    Kaadhalin Deepam Ondru

    Aarthi Krishnan

  2. 02

    Chinna Chinna Asai

    Vignesh Ravi · with Meera Sundar

  3. 03

    Nila Kaigiradhu

    Deepak Menon

  4. 04

    Munbe Vaa

    Meera Sundar · with Aarthi Krishnan

The remaining twenty-three songs are revealed on the night.

The archive — past editions

  • 2025

    An Evening with Koti — The Golden Hour

    24 songs · 4 singers

  • 2024

    MSV × KVM — The Golden Era

    26 songs · 5 singers

  • 2024

    K. J. Yesudas — A Retrospective

    22 songs · 3 singers

Questions

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A single-theme live concert. We pick one composer or one pairing — Koti, or Ilaiyaraaja and A. R. Rahman — and build one evening of twenty to thirty of their songs, performed live.

Get in touch

Plan an evening with us.

Private celebrations, corporate nights, singer auditions, or a question about the next edition — write to us.

Studio
12, Eldams Road, T. Nagar, Chennai 600017, India

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