inetk
28th May 2006, 09:47 AM
I cringed at the thought of starting a new thread for this but considering there is no appropriate thread, here goes.
The latest Vikatan has an entertaining interview with these four newbie composers. While Sundar and Balje have interesting pedigrees (Sundar is Veenai Chittibabu's son while Balje was the third person along with Rahman and Suresh Peters to start Nemesis Avenue), Vijai Antony has already seen some success with Dishyum's music (how much of it Oscar Ravichandran's marketing effort is something yet to be discussed - since I'm in Bangalore and in no way to really see how popular its songs are :-) and Dharan has definitely shown some promise in Paarijaatham's music, albeit producing a sound which is an amalgam of today's sounds with very little signature.
Sundar also conceded that the fishy chartbuster is Ulaganaadhan's composition and he merely made it better and filmy. Appreciate his honesty and also feel bad when he says that he has worked very hard other tracks like Idam porul paarthu.
These composers have displayed (barring Balje who debuts with Kizhakku Kadarkarai Saalai - which seems to be a pretty hep movie to start with!) some kind of quality in their ventures and seem to have a plan as to how to go about their musical careers. Vijai has his own studio to fall back upon, while Balje has toured many countries with his pet project (a music label, according to him). Dharan is very young and seems to have struggled the least while Sundar sounded pretty tired at his struggles in an interview to Dinakaran a few days back. And none of these guys had a so-called happening movie for their debut (barring Balje, I suppose) - Sukran is at best a potboiler which was fuelled largely by Vijay's keep-blinking-you'd-not-miss-me guest appearence, Paarijaadham is yet to release and we all know Chithiram Pesuthadi's adoption by Ravichandran and its aftermath.
If you disregard the more successful 90s debutants like Rahman, Yuvan, Karthikraja et all, these 4 sound a lot more confident that many other wannabe composers who came in the 90s with stars in their eyes.
The latest Vikatan has an entertaining interview with these four newbie composers. While Sundar and Balje have interesting pedigrees (Sundar is Veenai Chittibabu's son while Balje was the third person along with Rahman and Suresh Peters to start Nemesis Avenue), Vijai Antony has already seen some success with Dishyum's music (how much of it Oscar Ravichandran's marketing effort is something yet to be discussed - since I'm in Bangalore and in no way to really see how popular its songs are :-) and Dharan has definitely shown some promise in Paarijaatham's music, albeit producing a sound which is an amalgam of today's sounds with very little signature.
Sundar also conceded that the fishy chartbuster is Ulaganaadhan's composition and he merely made it better and filmy. Appreciate his honesty and also feel bad when he says that he has worked very hard other tracks like Idam porul paarthu.
These composers have displayed (barring Balje who debuts with Kizhakku Kadarkarai Saalai - which seems to be a pretty hep movie to start with!) some kind of quality in their ventures and seem to have a plan as to how to go about their musical careers. Vijai has his own studio to fall back upon, while Balje has toured many countries with his pet project (a music label, according to him). Dharan is very young and seems to have struggled the least while Sundar sounded pretty tired at his struggles in an interview to Dinakaran a few days back. And none of these guys had a so-called happening movie for their debut (barring Balje, I suppose) - Sukran is at best a potboiler which was fuelled largely by Vijay's keep-blinking-you'd-not-miss-me guest appearence, Paarijaadham is yet to release and we all know Chithiram Pesuthadi's adoption by Ravichandran and its aftermath.
If you disregard the more successful 90s debutants like Rahman, Yuvan, Karthikraja et all, these 4 sound a lot more confident that many other wannabe composers who came in the 90s with stars in their eyes.