Maestro ilaiyaraaja news & titbits

[jaiganes]

crvenky,

Prashan's 'graha bedam' finding is a good one. Is it a 'thanga magan' remake? I wish IR did it in the tamil version. Anyway tks for posting.

nope it is not thanga magan remake -
This movie is all the more popular due to "I Love you" and "Anuraaga enaaithu" some mindboggling awesome melodies sung by Dr.Rajkumar (it was his first with Raaja).

[Plum]

It was also his last with IR. Nee nanna gellalaare is an awesome album. Jeeva hoovaagidhe(I love you as Jai put it) is still popular and had a remixed version recently. Nanna neenu gellalaare(ennai nee vella mudiyaadhu) is brilliant - and that is one heck of an observation by prashan. Such are the joys

[sakaLAKALAKAlaa Vallavar]

That is a very nice find, SKV!

Is it AV?

I definitely remember reading it when it originally appeared (though we never had the habit of saving old issues...mom's friends used to take them and typically never return, some used them for "binding thodar kadhais")

This part is really funny :

App, yes its from Ananda vikatan Pokkisham! I was doubtfully posting that someone would come and say "hey why r u just copy pasting from facebook" Surprised to see that no one said that!

btw, whatever great hubbers we have, its highly recommended for every Raja Fan to join 2 groups in facebook. Many things happen there

http://www.facebook.com/Ilaiyaraajaa - this one run by Agi Music.Ssometimes Raja himself reads and posts in this comm!

http://www.facebook.com/groups/IlayaRajafans/photos/ - This is a new but highly active group

http://www.facebook.com/prashan.jayatheepam - his posts are technical, nice ones!

[sakaLAKALAKAlaa Vallavar]

IT IS FROM SRI KAMALHASSANs OFFICIAL PRO. Kamal talks about Raaja sir...a part of it came in the LATEST Concert held in dec 2011

As the above Video has been removed and the same reposted with different address, I am posting that

THIS IS A MUST SEE FOR BOTH RAJA FANS KAMAL FANS, INFACT FOR ALL MUSIC AND CINE FANS

[sakaLAKALAKAlaa Vallavar]

Plum, ur comments are expected after watching above video

already 1 day late ithai vida vera enna velai?!?

[app_engine]

Do you remember a Serial (a silly fairy tale kind) he started writing for Kumudam, that he stopped the second week. (someone tell me it is not my imagination or some corrpt memory). Cant imagine what he was thinking then..

No, I don't recall

He did write a series about his EU trip (sangeethakkanavukaL) during my college days in Kumudam and that was quite interesting. That's where he mentioned about Bach as his nAtha dEvan, talked about the meeting with Paul Mauriat and joked about others wearing sweater "inside" while he wore one outside only

[skr]

Truly awe - inspiring
One Legend speaks about another Legend
Watch this exclusive 15 Min spl of Kamal talking about Maestro Ilaiyaraaja

[sakaLAKALAKAlaa Vallavar]

[krish244]

It seems Balki (cheeni kum and paa) was part of IR's "ENDRENDRUM RAJA" show and he talked about IR on stage. A snippet:

"...But then, Balki dropped the bomb! "When Raja sir played me the tune, I suggested that he use this for a song rather than waste it as a piece of background music. But he went ahead with this. I would ask today's composers to not lift tunes from his songs; instead, they could lift from the BGMs for even the tunes of his background scores are so good," he said..."

Not much value add being on stage, because what he demonstrated (showing scene with and without BGM) is known to everyone!

PAA had IR experimenting more with JAZZy stuff (and electric guitar, especially). Wish Balki had talked about such things.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/e...w/11412621.cms

thanks,

Krishnan

[krish244]

Star wars: IR V/s ARR:

http://entertainment.in.msn.com/spec...31057#image=17

thanks,

Krishnan