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Maestro Ilayaraja has scored the music, but he has past his prime and seems to have lost touch. The lyrics are not insightful and information like in Gaayam, where Sirinivennala Seetharama Sastry chipped in.
Suresh,
thanks for the review..frankly speaking..i am planning to hear it from online after read your review.
revert back to you with my likes and dislikes.
Jai,Quote:
Originally Posted by jaiganes
I will let raagas answer you in detail :) Here is my take on the song. Raja's singing is inch perfect wrt the emotion the song wants to convey. I don't hear any problem with the pronunciation as well. I do hear a bit of strain in his voice during the charanams.
My saying that Vijay Jesudas would have been a good fit was for different reason. (I don't think he would have conveyed the emotion with the same intensity that Raja did. ) Raja has sung many such songs (a very similar type of song appears in the movie 'Sunny'). People nowadays just seem to skip these songs saying, 'oh, one more sad song sung by Raja'. Very unfair I know but that seems to be the reality. My feeling was that if Vijay Jesudas had sung it would probably have a wider reach. People may listen to it because it is not Raja!!! I chose Vijay Jesudas because he did a very nice job of 'chirugali chirugali' (Mallepoovu) , which also falls in the same genre.
'Gayam -2' has been in loop for quite some time now. Enjoying all the songs. A close friend had called from Kerala to say that he heard the songs, that they were melodious and Raja is now fully into the 'Paa' sound and overall sounding very youthful!!! Can't help but agree with him.
My feel is that this album will reach more Raja fans than his earlier Telugu album, 'Om Shanthi'. As far as it reach with the general audience, I have no clue nor can I make a prediction. There have been many songs of various music directors, which I thought were pretty unimaginative and dumb but they went on to become big hits. So I will not take the risk of predicting how these songs will be received by the general public.
Loving 'andala lokam' a lot. I find this song a very different construction from Raja. It seems to be build around a small 'theme'. The prelude ends with this 'theme'. After the first two lines of pallavi are sung, the tune again becomes this theme. They way the violin (maybe synth violin) follows the pallavi gives goosebumps. The first interlude ends with a different 'theme' which follows the song in the charanam. The charanam itself ends with the main theme tune again!!! The second interlude ends with a variation of the pallavi played!!! Very intelligently constructed tune, where the main theme keeps appearing regularly.
It is now clear that this sound is going to be Raja's sound for the time being. This is quite different from the synth of the late 90s. Here the synth effect is not much. It doesn't show up much in this album. I am pretty happy with this sound and I feel Raja is now in a phase where he is going to use this sound for some more time. I am sure we will get lot more great songs in the future.
A reco of the songs where you can get a feel of the new Raja sound:
- Most of the songs of 'Paa'
- 'Unnai Patri Sonnal' - Madhiya Chennai
- 'Pudu Pournami Nilavu' - Kannukulle
- 'Edaya Bagilu' - Suryakanthi
- 'Chinna Polike Ledhu' - Om Shanthi
- 'Aaro padunnu doorie' - Katha Tudarunnu
- 'oli tharum sooriyanum' - Valmiki
- 'nilavu varum neram' - Jaganmohini
If you listen to these songs carefully, you can understand why I don't crib about the 70s or 80s Raja. This Raja is a new Raja and I am loving him.
I saw "saravana poikaiyil' a devotional album under IR and Shobana's name in another website. Although most of songs are remake of old original tunes, there were couple new.
Is this album done by IR?
I dont think there is anything wrong in the emotional aspect of the singing.But it is apparent that his is putting in lot of effort and the output isnt smooth. We all have 'trained ears' for ilaiyaraaja's music and can instantly look for certain aspects to like a song. i like this composition a lot.I dont know the situation in the film and all. But if the situation or the song demanded a non-young voice, which prompted him to sing it, then i feel even Yesudas could have sung it better(he can sing it without showing the strain).Again ilaiyaraaja sings the Anu-pallavi lines perfectly. but the strain in Pallavi lines and charanam lines is very apparent. And i just didnt want to believe in my own opinion. I played the song to a friend and my wife too (a fresh pair of ears helps) and they too felt that there is something wrong.My wife tells me that the grip on sruthi is not perfect and that there is slight slippage,which happens due to age(particularly when the scale is lower). Probably thats the discomfort i can sense(which i couldnt exactly pinpoint).I couldnt feel this in "Oil Tharum"(Valmiki) but could again sense it in another similar song that he sang in Hindi for Shiva-2006. However, i feel this "Kalagane" is a better composition than that Shiva-2006 song.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sureshs65
Visiting a relative and he played 'khajurAhO kanavilE' from ONOK and was telling me and another relative in the car that this is an unknown IR gem - came few years before - not noticed - but much superior to most songs in the recent times. (He is not a regular IR-admirer and doesn't know that I'm one. I was silently enjoying his marketing of Raja music to me and the other relative, never revealing that I've heard this song a lot of times before :-) )
When we reached home, the third one, who claims to listen to TFM only very rarely - can't even speak fluent Thamizh due to living outside TN most of his life, got hooked to this number and went on playing repeatedly in the big Bose system at home.
Everyone seemed to be enjoying the song so much and talking highly about this to me who pretended to not know much about this movie or song. It was fun to ask questions like - is the singer HH etc :-)
I was stunned with the bass score in this song - the melodic bass, so typical of IR but seriously lacking in most current TFM which relies on only 'thALakkozhuppu' to thrive!
From a tune point of view, 'Kalagane' is lovely and I like the way the rhythm goes after the first two lines of the pallavi, 'naalo..'. This song is in similar style to the one Raja tuned for the Telugu movie 'Sunny'. Similar smooth flowing melody for a tragic situation. Raja seems to give such numbers for Telugu movies. 'Kalagane', the Sunny song and 'Chirugali'. All of them very good compositions.
app,
I am sure they would not have expected you to have such an id in tfmpage :)If they visit TFMpage that is :D
ONOK had some nice songs. Heard the movie was good only during the interval, when nothing was screened. Difficult to believe it was a Fazil movie.