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Thanx Hulkster!
Just heard good quality Ajanta songs in good headphones, the album is AMAZING! IR magic is back in the orchestration. "Thoorigai indri" and "yaarum thodaatha" are stunning. all songs are great (not considering "kaiyil keyboard' and "poduda" as songs!). Only complaint is IR's voice sounds a bit old and strained in "yaarum thodaatha". (btw anyone think the coughing at the end of "enge irunthai" KJY version is actually IR?)
Thanks Hulkster.
Three songs are good..but what use..the movie should win to lift up the songs..
http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/200704...tmospheresings
Proof of MUSIC IN OUTERSPACE - read on
http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/200704...tmospheresings
This is incredible! - sound is at the core and the essence of all of creation!
Todays RAJ TV super 10 songs listed mayakannadi at 1,paruthiveeran at 2.
Actually, if you look at the 10 latest songs listed there, "Ulagilae" indeed deserved to be there :)
http://sify.com/movies/malayalam/ful...hp?id=14435558
vinOdha yAthra termed success...the songs may get some more airtime...at least a couple of them deserved praises...
Sometimes i read our neighbourhood forums. When reading kannadiga's forum, I found a review of Ajantha
http://viggy.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=3982
Quote:
Yes, it should be some crash film! Totally unknown to everyone! I don’t know the hero, heroine… I can see the names of Tamilians for director, producer… So this could be the kind of film that just comes & goes without any willing intensions. OR it could be a straight rip-off from Tamil or other language film.
But my interest in this album lies on something else! Because, it is the work of a highly-skilled and tremendously-professional individual who doesn’t take anything casually! Just look at the way he sings a Kannada song and look at his pronunciation, enunciation, boldness, confidence, crispness & elegance… Something that any singer (irrespective of whether a local or an outsider) can learn from! This was the intention behind my anguish all these days. Kannadigas forgetting the basics of what’s required to their language…! Look at how this great-man gives importance to the language that he can apprehend… Just deciding to “sing” itself is a testimony to his “seriousness”. That’s why Kannadigas can still remember all the great songs that he rendered to Kannada at various instances, though the “quantity” is limited!!!
“Elli iruve svarave…” (9.4) just goes to show the confidence while composing… The strong foundation in “tune” inspires the rest. The subtle variation in drum beats and violin patterns goes to show what a superior talent he was all these years! His quality has not eroded even now! A single tune has the depth to adjust various moods. Drums to Tabla, Saxophone to Olaga variations just goes to show that “Music” is universal (and everything else is unified on this earth!)
“Bannavu kunchavu…” (9.3) is another perfect song with everyone (composer, lyricist, singer) complementing each other. The singer is brilliant and the alert instrumentals harmonize the voice perfectly. The usage of flute and high-bass violin is just perfect.
“Yaaroo illadha…” (9) is a superb duet which stands way apart from the usual tunes which we see around! The singers again look outstanding (forget their origin!) Somehow this magician can extract the best out of any singers given to him! Instrumentation is again of high-caliber! Guitar (of all frequencies) play an important role. Good lyrics to go with it.
“Kaigalali keyboardu…” (6.8) should be a song trying to match the sequence in a film (rather than other way round). Hence the “forcing” lyrics may overshadow everything and hence the dip in its impression. But you cannot miss out the variations.
“Oh ho yavvana…” (7.8) is a soft song and again you can enjoy the variations in instrumentation. The capability of exploring too many things at a given point, and yet come up with outstandingly unique stuffs all time, amuses like anything! The changeover from “Western” to “Indian Classical” happens so spontaneously, as if there was no such “difference” existent!
“Nannolage yaaro bandha…” (7.9) is a typical Ilayaraja brand song! How many such he gave us in the past, but yet each one of it had its “unique flavor”! Though he is not at his peak right now, you cannot miss out his charm!
“Haaku baa…” (5.8) Not sure about the intention. The lyrics is so carefully written! Looking at the outlook of the songs (I know nothing about this film or its story), I guess a bunch of people (maybe both Hero & Heroine) want to run a Music or/and Dance group! So I don’t think this album or film can be neglected, at least for these songs!
Kalyan (though intentionally tries to play second fiddle to the music without too much experimentation and just trying to match up with tunes) has done a decent job at that. The singers have done a neat job.
The album gets 8.5 (More than Good)
PS: Due to unavoidable circumstances and personal reasons, this maybe my last F.I.R on this forum! Thanks for all the support. Hope I conveyed my feelings & intentions. And I hope I was honest in these reviews. And good that I got a decent album (at least for me) to end up!!! Last thing: I’m not a hater of anything from anywhere, regardless of whether it is good or bad. It is just my intensity to dig-out best.
BTW the reviewer HiFi blindly opposes Tamils and related things. But surprisingly he has great respect our IR and reviewed Ajantha songs very well.
listen to the Ajantha album here in Kannada:
http://kannadaaudio.com/Songs/Moview...e/Ajanthaa.php
This is the reason why he is churning out good numbers in malayalam.From what i gather,This sathyan makes family oriented movies and hardly any of them fail at the BO.He makes about two movies per year and IR is the default MD(atleast in the last 5 years i know).so, IR has a director in malayalam who has a good success rate.cos of this combo, he will obviously be more involved there.Quote:
Originally Posted by app_engine
But in telugu and tamil, he doesn't have a combo with a director who could give atleast one hit per year consistantly.This could be a good reason for him not inspired in giving good numbers.
Rooky,
If that is the case, why pretty decent tunes for Ajantha ?
Once in Ananda Vikatan, they compared IR to natural rain. It will pour heavily some times, just a drizzle some times, gather cloud but fail to pour sometimes etc..We do not know what will happen when.. I think that is true with IR !
But the sad part is usually it pours well at unwanted times and goes unnoticed :(
my review on Ajantha
http://www.thuligal.com/index.php/ajantha/