thiruvasakam in symphony

Now he wants money upfront.

"Rusi Kanda Punai"

05.02.2006 Ilaiyaraaja addresses his fans...

My dear fans

I am thinking of a new project. Before going into details, I wish to talk to my fans about something... Because the financial aspect has become very important to create, the quantity of pre-order is important for me to decide about the project.

Greetings

Ilaiyaraaja

"Pillaiyai Killi Vittu Thotilai Adukirathu" Ithuthano

02.02.2006 Ilaiyaraaja addresses his fans...

My dear fans

I never meant to hurt the feelings of my fans. I only tried to convey my feelings to those who made copies of Thiruvasagam audio CD. If my fans have not copied, then they need not worry about it.

Thank you for your email promises.

With love and greetings.

Ilaiyaraaja


http://www.raaja.com/maestros_desk.html

Vysar,

Does 'pre-order' necessarily mean 'money up front'?

I don't think so. If so I will be 'soodu kanda poonai' :-)

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Originally Posted by Vysar

Now he wants money upfront.

"Rusi Kanda Punai"

05.02.2006 Ilaiyaraaja addresses his fans...

My dear fans

I am thinking of a new project. Before going into details, I wish to talk to my fans about something... Because the financial aspect has become very important to create, the quantity of pre-order is important for me to decide about the project.

Greetings

Ilaiyaraaja

"Pillaiyai Killi Vittu Thotilai Adukirathu" Ithuthano

02.02.2006 Ilaiyaraaja addresses his fans...

My dear fans

I never meant to hurt the feelings of my fans. I only tried to convey my feelings to those who made copies of Thiruvasagam audio CD. If my fans have not copied, then they need not worry about it.

Thank you for your email promises.

With love and greetings.

Ilaiyaraaja


http://www.raaja.com/maestros_desk.html

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Friends, I am telling you IR is losing the confidence with his fan base...The confidence that was there with TIS, ie. it could be made just with donated money is lacking now..He thinks just pre-order is good now . What a miscalculation/mistake by IR on the TIS finance handling !!!!

(MSK, I am not angry with you. I still enjoy IR's songs, maybe more of the film variety than the devotional ones..My opinion of his skills ..ie. he is a genius with music still remains)

Well, TiS handling was wrong so IR 'learns' from his mistake, and goes the pre-order way. But, ofcourse, we should not let him do that right? we should taunt him as losing confidence in fan-base, right?
:-)
Vendaadha marumagal kai patta kutham kaal patta kutham :-)
(laagic saar, laagic)

Pala Naal Thirudan Orun Naal Agapaduvaan! He is a very money minded person. He lost all the good rapports to Kollywood elite group. He is a genius agreed but it should not be proved on someones monetary loss.

Vyasar,

Are we all ready to pay for his "genius" work? Are we not very money minded? paNam dominate paNNum kaalam idhu. If Raaja is not an exception to it, so be it. Why do we expect him to be? Raaja would be well aware that recording companies are ready to jump on his works and make millions out of it. That could've been the only reason why he ventured into this novel idea of making a publicly funded project. It is rather unfortunate that even some of his die-hard fans have taken the "guilty under proven innocent stance".

Mr. 'sudhakarg's' reply is interesting.
If that is so, one should go for a 'privately funded project and not a 'publicly funded one'.
If it is publicly funded, then the proceeds must also be shared publicly and not by one person.
It amounts to to sucking the public to make one's profit.

If also IR is indeed just "money minded", he would have done anything to get back with Manirathnam or Bharatiraja or KBalachander. I cannot agree that Raja is driven by money. He definitely may be driven by what someone else may claim as inflated valuation of his work but to me the fact that he did not lower his pride to get back with MR, BR, KB is eveidence enough that he is not driven by money.

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Originally Posted by kr

If also IR is indeed just "money minded", he would have done anything to get back with Manirathnam or Bharatiraja or KBalachander. I cannot agree that Raja is driven by money. He definitely may be driven by what someone else may claim as inflated valuation of his work but to me the fact that he did not lower his pride to get back with MR, BR, KB is eveidence enough that he is not driven by money.

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I just went to India and one IR fanatic showed me an article that came in Vikatan during Iruvar time where IR rejected MR despite his many pathetic attempts. IR is definitely not money minded, but the whole TIS is a very grey (or black) area and like you said, he is "controlled" by some external force.

"It amounts to to sucking the public to make one's profit."

Very strong statement in TiS context:-), considering that

a) public 'DONATED' for a devotional album (and hence do not have any claim on money thereafter unless the purpose is not achieved or there has been a large scale malpractice / fraud with the public money itself - both are untrue in TiS' case)

and

b) the artiste delivered what is expected of him - i.e. to produce and release a devotional album - in other words the purpose for which the public donated has been accomplished.

I definitely sympathise with the "co-producers" and also the "volunteers" and agree that they have probably been 'sucked to one's profit':-(

However, the "public", by and large, have not been given a bad deal...IMHO...