http://www.hindu.com/fr/2007/04/27/s...2700170300.htm
sooryan (MalayALam) album may be the next one to come out...
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http://www.hindu.com/fr/2007/04/27/s...2700170300.htm
sooryan (MalayALam) album may be the next one to come out...
Today's DC carried an article on Chenni Kum. It seems Balki is going to direct a new movie called 'Pa' with Big B and Abhishek playing Father-Son roles. Will Ilayaraja score music for this movie? One more movie for IR in Hindi??
I will be glad if it is by IR, but my strong feeling is that it will not have music by IR.Quote:
Originally Posted by vanavil
BTW, there is no news about CHEENI KUM audio. Any updates about the audio release?
thanks,
Krishnan
Chenni Kum is releasing on 25th May. Audio is still not out, I guess.. Will there be enough time for the songs to reach the masses?? (According to Balki, movie has excellent melodies) One more IR effort in Hindi going waste??
This time, less probability that it will be a waste. Because atleast for Amitabh, people will see the film..but still not sure if the hindi audience will still appreciate the music..
Hearing the songs hmm...one romantic and one sad version of mandram vantha thendralakku....kuzhal oothum kannanukku remixed in a hip fashion and jote jote joteyaali from kannada film geetha sounds abit modernised..its just samples with no prelude or anything...guess have to wait for the audio to come..:D
Listen to the songs here dudes Raaja is ROCKING
http://www.cheenikum.com/
The Website Says:
"Possibly the greatest composer Indian cinema has ever produced. Ilaiyaraaja has composed music for over 850 films, most of it for south Indian films. His tunes have been merrily, freely adapted by many of Bollywood's original musicians. Today, this 64 year old genius is as fresh, as brilliant and as enthusiastic composing score for his first major original Hindi film. Only because he liked the script."
The samples are sweet to us, no doubt...it's not surprising because all the tunes are already embedded into our minds, hearts...
There'll be very few DF'ers who are not familiar with mandRam vandha thendRalukku, kuzhaloodhum kaNNanukku & vizhiyilE maNi vizhiyilE...
Having said that, I'm sceptical whether these will strike a chord with our northie friends:-( Hope they do...
I hate to be a naysayer, but for some reason, while I can listen to the current rhythm arrangements of Raja and even like them a bit, I'm not sure whether I'll ever "love" them...everything else is fine, but Raja's recent rhythm / percussion arrangements turn me off...Take the case of Ajantha also, the few seconds of "Asaya kAththula" beats in one of the interludes of an average song make me hate the rest of the whole album...("why can't Raja do such innovations any more"...)
I strongly suspect he "sub-contracts" the percussion / rhythm arrangements now...and that too a sub-par contractor:-(
The remix of "Jotheyali.." reminds us how IR's magic is timeless.
But as app_engine has put it, I really doubt the music sense of our dear northies :)
Anyways, I would have been happy if "Kuzhaloodhum.." had been avoided..
And the lyrics part seems to be poor. Sameer has struggled to put words for the south indian tunes..
A number of songs that are continuously on my car have really lovable rhythm / percussion arrangements by Raja (oldies of course)...
-the drum twists when SPB sings 'nAn dhAn sakala kalA vallavan'
-the mild chord based rhythm for the pallavi of 'kodiyilE malligappoo' turning into a strong tabla-bass guitar-chords combo during interludes and saraNam
-the surprise "kick" drums that take off in the prelude of 'muththAdudhE, muththAdudhE' with electric organ sounds, creating great ambience, after a lacklusture jass drum beginning
...I can keep talking like this...why there's nothing like that but what sounds a programmed, unimpressive beat pattern...as in the case of 'cheeni kum'? In comparison, even the original mandRam vandha had lovely jass drums...
I yearn for another Raja score with powerful thavil, urumi, tabla, mridhangam and such sounds, recorded at really high decibels - even eclipsing other instruments...something like the beginning of 'adiyE manam nillunnA nikkAdhadi' or 'pOdu thandhAnaththam' (a relatively less known song from nalla nAL)