With some Intersting Projects in the pipeline, we all hope IR continues his good run in Malayalam,Hindi,Kannada and most importantly a successful year in Tamil
Wishing all the Music Fans a Wonderul New year!
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With some Intersting Projects in the pipeline, we all hope IR continues his good run in Malayalam,Hindi,Kannada and most importantly a successful year in Tamil
Wishing all the Music Fans a Wonderul New year!
Ayya lighted up Prasad with amazing melodies for the latest Sathyan-Mohanlal production.Madhu Balakrishnan,Manjari and KJY turned up.Sathyan anthikkad was seen giving Ayya a 7 up and saying thiss our 7th in a row
Ayya romba poramaiyya irukku :evil: engala ellam verupaethraa mathiri theriyuthu :lol: ( NOM JFF YOu keep continuing to post such news in future too )Quote:
Originally Posted by rajaalltheway
Why raja should not take steps to tamilize his other language albums / songs. Even though he has given pretty good songs in other languages, there was no landmark album in 2007 for tamils :cry: . Perhaps 2007 was his worst year in terms of success. Sadly he is giving popcorn linke snacks to elphants (tamil fans).Quote:
Originally Posted by rajaalltheway
According to me, remixing IR songs won't be success. Rather than remixing his songs musically, I will welcome whole heartedly remxing his old songs with new visuals atleast for his unpicturized songs such as Putham puthu kaalai, etc.
Sanjeevi, just for your info -
Puthampudhu kalai tune has been used in the film: Africavil Appu (Tamil).
Re-posting..Movies in the pipeline:-
Tamil:
1)NaanKadavul,
2)Mayilu,
3)Dhanam,
4)Movie directed by P.Vasu's asst director,
5)Uliyin ooasai,
6)RajKiran's movie
and 7) the long pending "Ajantha"
Malayalam:
1)MohanLals' movie (sathiyans'),
2)Mammoottys' mega budget PazhassiRaja,
3)SMS.
Telugu:
1)Jai Vengamamba,
2)kalyanRam's OKKADOSTUNNADU.
Hindi:
1)Balki's PA (Amitabh and Abhishek)
***An Animation movie on AYYAPPAN in Malayalam,Tamil,English,Hindi.
Rooky, add Quick Gun Murugan (Telugu) to the list.. Only Nan Kadavul looks big among tamil films :-(
Sure it stars a Telugu star but I thought Quick gun murugan will be in English/Hindi.
There is also Muqbeer in Hindi which is likely to release in early 2008,which credits IR as MD along with KR
There are lots of "mysterious movies" associated with IR nowadays :)
B.T.W, There is a writeup in the latest Kumudham issue on IRs' dubai concert and says this will be Kalaignar TV's main Pongal attraction.
Anadhavikatan have chosen IR as the best playback singer of 2007 for "Ariyatha vayasu" and "paravayae engu irukkirai". Yuvan chosen as best MD for ParuthiVeeran and Katrathu Tamil.
In Tamil, IR had a better year as singer than as a MD.
I've not heard even the news :shock:Quote:
Originally Posted by crvenky
வருக 2008! வருடங்கள் தேய்ந்தாலும் என்றும் இளமையாய் இருக்கும் ராஜாவின் இசை பொழிவை நோக்கி மற்றொரு காத்திருப்பு துவங்கட்டும் :)
Welcome 2008! though the years pass by, lets start another waiting towards the shower of Raaja's music, which is always young :)
RS and other friends,
Wish You All a Very Happy New Year ! :)
For IR, this is going to be a great new year but in Malayalam :)
In Tamil, let us get ready to hear a powerful background score in "Naan Kadavul" !
And his greedy fans like me (!!) will continue to wait for a big anouncement of a re-union with Rajni and/or Mani Ratnam :wink:
Music fans :)
Wish you a very happy new year 2008
SATHYAN ANTHIKKAD signs AYYA yet again.After the unnamed Mohanlal home production,the recording of which is currently taking place,Ayya and Satyan coming together for eigth time.Movie stars JAYARAM in the lead,veteran producers KOKERS making a come back.Im hearing phrases like full length musical,romance etc etc...cant help getting excited
How many movies have IR-Sathyan done ?
1. Kochu Kochu Santhoshangal.
2. Manasinakkare.
3. Achuvinte Amma.
4. Rasatanthram.
5. Vinoda yatra.
Only 5 I can recollect ? Which is the missing one ?
Looks like ARR does the background score for "Dasavatharam" !!
why not IR ?
http://thatsmalayalam.oneindia.in/mo...n-mt-film.html
it looks like Walt Disney is making a movie to be written by MT Vasudevan Nair with Kamal in it! what chances are that IR will do the music for such a project ?
So looking back at 2007, there were no exciting + visibility projects (san if you care to quote Cheeni Kum). Looking forward into 2008, nothing either in the pipeline. With everyone deserting him, should I feel content that my iPOD is full with IR's magic numbers and should not expect anything more. Is it time for curtains to come down? Sad it may sound, but looks to me its the truth.
NormalMan,
I have myself felt angry when people were commenting like "IR is on his way down, does not have it any more etc".
But now, I too feel like you. I am not able to look forward any more from him in tamil ( I don't look forward to Bala's movies..., sorry ! )
Here is a genius with everlasting talent , but who faded away just due to his attitude..
Pity on us (his fans) ! I have been in this forum for years now, I have seen times how this thread would be flooded with posts. but I have never seen this thread being so idle as now, without any news to post :(
I am sorry to type such negative thoughts, but couldn't help :(
Yes, Raja_fan. Your words are 100% agreeable. All depends on his attitude. A head filled with so much talent and an equal percentage of ego causes his fading away from TFM. :( . Even geniuses don't want to catch up with the way the world is going on. Yet this was the same genius who adopted himself, to the market when the situation demanded so. that was a time when he wanted to establish himself. that was a time when he wanted to make him indelible on the minds of his fans. Now, all that quest has gone and simply the common old man's arrogance remains. I don't yearn for 20 movies a year, but why he can't pace himself to the trend and churn out a few movies to satisfy his fans?. The other day, i was in T.Nagar. chennai silks and heard his old gem 'idhu namma veetu kalyanam' in annakili remixed and packaged with the recent trend, and it was catchy and was nice to hear. Why can't he come down and compose music for the masses?. why has he to think that the current film music trend is so low, that he doesn't want to compose music?. didn't he experiment with ossibissa in the early eighties?. didn't he experiment with yennadi meenakshi in the eighties?. the fact is that he can come out with soul stirring music better than his sons and he is simply not doing it. Atleast he can compose tunes and his sons can do the music arrangment. that way atleast we can still hear his soul stirring compositions. Wishful thinking i believe. I cudn't help this feeling of being let down. Can somebody who is close to him point this out?.
Even kamal who has great respect for him is slowly switching away due to commercial reasons.
" Can somebody who is close to him point this out?. "
Exactly ! Is there any way at all that IR can know what his fans feel ?
Do any body here or yahoo fan club have contacts with his assistant / manager ?
If IR does not care about all this, then we are help less.
But if he has ears to hear us, he need not meet us..he can just visit this forum for just 30 mins in a month.
If this goes this way, then as Normal man said, we have nothing to do except to confine ourselves with the golden 80s,90s and brood over the sweet memories..
Though it is true that his tamil films for 2008 doesn't give a great hope,there can be some new "interesting announcements" and i am hopeful of that.
In TFM, anything is possible.ARR had a terrible post 2000 in tamil for six years without any notable hits,but is back to contention with two out of three hits in 2006-2007.
One or two big interesting projects and IR will be back on song.Again, Anything is possible and esp with IR.
Till then,we got to look outside of our window for his Malayalam/hindi albums.I am always hopeful.
I don't want to care too much on whether he had / has / will have EGO or not. As ramk pointed out, I want him to compose for the masses with catchy tunes. Hey ! Even "Kaana karungyilae" was good in Sethu. Not to forget the other tunes. With his music, he should first connect to the masses. (Not by composing Maaya kannaadi etc). I have a feeling as if IR is not keen to do tamil movies.
He is already 60+. Are age and personal problems playing with his interest ? Will his old companions join with him and give us what they gave !
Atleast for IR fans, I want Naan Kadavul MUSIC or the single song to STAND APART from the regulards :D
Ithanai Varushama Yaar Abandon Pannabodhum Enakku uraikala Kamal Avaroda dream Projectnnu sollittu 'Marmayogi'la Abandon Panna Poraarnnu kelvipadum bodhu Romba Manasu Valikuthu.Quote:
Originally Posted by NormalMan
:cry2: :( :cry2: :( :cry2:
Yes We have to accept the fact that he is slowly fading away from the limelight only due the iron curtain he himself had built around him. :evil: And definitely not because he has burnt out on his talent.
Avar Exit konjam gracefulla irunthiruntha (Gavaskar Mathiri) nalla irunthirukkum!!!
Yes, very sad situation for IR fans now :oops:.Quote:
Originally Posted by rajasaranam
Only Naan Kadavul is in his hand now. After? :cry:
Only BR tells in his next dream project (Kutrapathirikai) he willl pick IR and I've no big hope this film will be pictrised.
Yuvan is going to start production house. Why he should not assign IR to compose music for some films?.
IR should avoid to do music form uppuma films :twisted:. It is the time to IR to concentrate on pure music albums. will he do?
Even his TIS didnt strike the right chord with the music lovers - instead he was accused of plagiarism by many reporters. I dont know how far this is true.
In a recent interview from musicindiaonline, Pyarelal of the famous LP duo, has admitted that they copied around 60 songs due to pressure. Of-course, it is hard to believe that they copied just 60 songs; i feel that other music directors should take a leaf out of Pyarelal by giving credit to the original music directors. Afterall, dearth of creativity is the cause for lack of melodies in today's music world.
Ithu Enna Puthu Karadi :shock:Quote:
Originally Posted by vem
I agree ! ARR had a long dull period after giving two hits in 2000 (AlaiPayudhe and Kandukonden Kandukonden).Quote:
In TFM, anything is possible.ARR had a terrible post 2000 in tamil for six years without any notable hits,but is back to contention with two out of three hits in 2006-2007.
But if you think, you can find the reasons - His two big patrons Shankar and Mani. Shankar's Boys flopped. then he went to HJ for Anniyan. Mani's Kannathil.. and Yuva flopped. So ARR had to wait few years to come back. The point is he did not lose his combination.
Good directors may fail occassionaly, but they will be able to come back with force. So ARR was able to sail along with them.
But think about IR. Apart from Bala in tamil, he has no other winning combination. Kamal was there, now he he has departed ( for whatever reasons ). Thankar to some extent was there, now he is also gone..Only hope is the new director of Mayilu.., but then he is yet to be tested.
Take in Malayalam, IR does not have too many directors to work with him. But a single man called Sathyan Anthikkad is able to carry IR's talent to the people. Idhuvum evvalavu naal-nu theriyalai ( IR can dispose of any body ).
So IR has terribly errored in his approach to people.
Imagine. If only IR would have accepted ChandraMukhi, it would have surely made a difference. It had all scopes for melodies and stunning BGM ! Why should some body reject when a superstar and the production house is pleading you to take the task ??
The fans can wait for even 2 years , but the problem is we do not know what we are waiting for :(
IMO, in today’s context, you cant compare ARR with IR simply for the reason that ARR has quickly re-positioned himself . Whereas Raja is still on his old frame & not entering into metallic music which his son is doing .
Sadly, YSR may command better premium than his illustrious Father. But his Dad is more ORIGINAL .
Worst actually is that even the next in line Superstars like Ajit, Vijay, Surya, Vikram..even they aren’t working with IR . Why ?
ellarum avara thaniyaa vittutaanga :( Namma rasigargal yaaravathu Film Industry'la poi padam eduthathaan (Balki Mathiri) avarukku Velai varum pola. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Billgates
To me, Ilayaraja is an over achiever , a genius , a complete Musician excelled in all facets of music . Some of the records that he had set like the maximum noof movies in a year , the over all movie records, nobody can achieve that.
All these, had achieved those feats within a span of 20 years ( I am discounting the period from 1997 till date ) . I think, this is an awesome performance which even greats like MSV or R.D.Burman took a much longer duration. And its not just that he did those movies, a majority of them were super hits . He had given life to many heros who actually wouldn’t have made it big otherwise. Mohan, Ramarajan, are classic examples.
When he did compose for guys like Mohan, ramrajan, he didn’t look at the theme, story etc but was giving awesome numbers.
Its just a change and the change has happened totally in the taste of music followers.
One thing, he will not change himself to today’s metallic music , which means his albums might not get the hit status. Resultantly, the producers may not view him as a marketable man . After all its money invested no ? everyone will look for returns.
Let me revive the same old topic now. If Mani Ratnam can use his services, we can get a glimpse of the old IR for some more time.
Aa dinagalu was a decent album. I liked the songs.
Mani was ready to use Raaja's services anyday. For Iruvar and Alaipayuthey He tried hard to rope in Raaja. But It was Raaja who rejected those proposals :( Even recently he had hinted that for working with Raaja he should have a challenging script and given that Raaja is willing to work with him Its his pleasure. Namma Thalai thaan konjam irangi varanum If at all what he claims is true that 'Music is his breath'. If he keeps rejecting people like this one fine day he will be left with no work to do.
But nothing is lost for him. It's we fans who are cribbing about this, he is in his own world and I heard from a close aide that he has composed (Tuned, Orchestrated and Recorded also) around 500 songs in his leisure times and lying in the archives. May be He will continue doing that after he has become jobless.
IR rejected Alaipayudhey ??
It is news to me..
Only Film Music Is not Music, Music has no boundriers, namma THALA can play any where in the music world not only in Films, we the fans will listen whatever he produce, so let all wish him to produce great music in his life time.
Hey common guys...
IMO, just one album will bring IR back on track.. of course, we have to wait for some time..
I personally feel, when we fans are little bit frustrated :( with his Music in tamil at least for the last year..
Also, we are expecting too much from IR thanks to the very high standards he set himself...
to be honest, I am happy about our frustration which shows the expectations may be faded .... which help IR to give us a surprise..
IR WILL COME BACK LIKE A Phoenix... :)
of all this, I DONT think Kamal left IR deliberately out of Marmayogi - MY is not RajKamal prodns' movie - if it was to be produced under RK banner, IR wud hav been the MD by default - i dont understand why DFers dont see this even though the Kamal-IR combo being restricted to RajKamal prodns has been discussed n no of times before
IR will definitely treat us with a surprise in TAMIL.
w.r.to, Marmayogi, there were discussions in this forum which said Adlabs wanted only ARR and hence Kamal couldn't do anything.Now, the latest doing rounds is that Kamal has backed out from Adlabs and that GeminiFilms circuit would be the producers.Though nothing is yet official, if GFC are the producers, Kamal can certainly rope in IR..no excuses there.
Again, let us wait for the confirmation.
To me, kamal doing away with IR is unacceptable.remember he has always shown to the world that he is a HCIRF and he has made certain statements for IR which no one else has done in TFM.
one of them.. "IR is a great composer and when the statue of IR is opened,there will be gatecrash and the producers who say IR won't sell will be crushed in that crowd".
I hope most of you are aware of this statement...
rooky: even if Gemini has taken over MY, there are issues such as contract (though i dont know the dynamics of sch things in the film industry) - if ARR has been signed officially (with Adlabs as producer), then I doubt if he wud be taken away, unless of course, the new producer insists so (lets say Kamal indirectly forces Geminis hand in this, its possible) - OTOH, if Kamal and ARR fall out like Kamal n LSubramaniam did (with Hey Ram), then IR is a possibility -anyways, we dont know how things wud turn out - but one thing for sure, for all non-RajKamal prodtns, we have seen that Kamal does not/cannot force the producers to accept ONLY IR - he goes by whatever the producer wants
and IR undrstands this peculiar situation of Kamal as well! thats why they both maintain excellent rapport/friendship/ camarederie even now
I personally think age is no issue here. Look at John Williams ,the genius, who is 75. He is still churning out classics - be it Harry Potter or the getting ready for Indi-4.
So all we need and hopefully it becomes a reality, is for IR to get to do a score that has high value and visibility. I hate to tell this, but he has to work with someone like Vidhu Vinod Chopra, who by the way for all he is, has an amazing music sense/ears. Remember he extracted wonders out of RDB, when RDB was written off.