thiruvasakam in symphony

In Vettaiyadu Vilaiyadu when Kamal comes to NY and breaks into Jothika's room he find Thiruvasakam CD (original!) on the table and conclude that Jo is a Tamil girl.

Good choice there! I cant think of anything that identify tamil folks than Thiruvasakam (ofcourse Thirukkural book or Bharathiyar Kavithaigal will also tell you the same, if the cover is written in Tamil!)

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Originally Posted by njv

In Vettaiyadu Vilaiyadu when Kamal comes to NY and breaks into Jothika's room he find Thiruvasakam CD (original!) on the table and conclude that Jo is a Tamil girl.

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Exactly.... I also told to my friend regarding this scene.

Dont know whos idea it was. If it was Kamal's then no need to thank him since he is just like us, HCIRF. If its Gautham, big thanks to Gautham.

Most probably it is Kamal's idea, since we all know his admiration of IR!

Kamal being an ardent admirer and constant patron of IIR, this must have been his idea only to compensate in not being able to have IIR's music for this film!

He is known for such poetic gestures!

Hats off to him!

YIA!!

I'm moved 'Gautham Menon&IR" discussions here:

http://tfmpage.mayyam.com/hub/viewtopic.php?t=8013

Polla Vinayen Nin perum Cheer Pugazumaru Ondrariyen

http://www.kumudam.com/magazine/Kumu...10-18/pg12.php

ARR's says TbI is 'fantastic attempt'...

Is there any tool or software by which i can just extract the non vocal part of TIS

Reposting from another thread -

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Originally Posted by Shankar

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I feel TIS was a wasted effort in terms on marketability on the technical front, as it sounded like a studio album with voice mixing (like a film song) instead of a pure orchestral score.
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Precisely my feeling !! Technically I was expecting more from Raja. It may sound blasphemous, but IMHO, to make a technically competent product, Raja must've made someone else sing the lyrics. But given that it wasn't done for purely commercial purposes, I was able to accept his singing, purely for the emotional aspect of his singing. I would've anyday preferred a professional singer sing those lines to market Raja in the international circles.

I just hope he does a live orchestra performance like Yanni did. I feel he's in the leagues of people like debussy who can take music from one era to another, but he chooses to be a well-frog (perfectly fine from his view point) which unfortunately is bad for listeners like us.

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It is not the 'quality' of singing that bothers me, because people fault even popular tenors like Pavarotti in certain performances. It is the 'kind' of singing that should have been part of the creative effort. Innovation was focussed on the orchestration, but not on the singing aspect of it. If you listen to an opera or an oratario like Handel' Messiah you get a different texture to the music, unlike TIS.

To be fair, this is really a challenge. because in another link in this forum Sanjay Subramaniam says he can't even sing with small arrangement like mridhangam & violin in an unamplified/acoustic arrangement. But nothing becomes great without overcoming challenges. Probabaly more experimental albums of this kind should have preceded TIS, when so much money was being spent. Father Jegath has realized the mistake and probably corrected it in his next venture, but I am not sure about the quality and creativity with the artistes involved in that new venture (I have yet to hear it, so may be I should not say this).

We should probably take this discussion to the TIS thread.