Comments on Outlook article & other TiS criticisms

Journalists always look for controversy and they are very very good in tweaking the answers.

This is a mode of promotion for their article and their magazine/newspaper.

Here again ,but for that controversial last response which the author claims to be told by ilayaraja,you won't have discussed it at all.

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Originally Posted by rajasaranam

I dont know whether this 'Outlook Anand' is anti-tamil or not. But we very well know IR would have uttered the 'nonsense' whatever we found in that Article.

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How do you know. If you want to know more about IR talk to people who knows him. Outlook never interviewed IR in the last 8 years. So if some fool is saying something, please dont quote IR.

Also, please read the whole article again. There is no flow in the article. Why would someone start talking about TIS and question his "birth" (either as dalit or whatever, it doesnt matter to me. If the highest human in the world is Brahmin, then IR is a Brahmin to me, if the highest human in the world is Catholic, then IR is a Catholic to me, and if the highest human in the world is a Muslim, he is a muslim to me) and eventually his opinion about other people.

Imagine, I give you 10 minutes of your time to interview one of the greatest composer in the world and lets say you are hte "most controvertial" critic that world ever had, then list the questions. I bet you wont ask anything personal but only about music.

Watch IR's speack about his brother, his respect he has for his brother and he quote "Paavalar illanna naan innikku illai, naan illainna yuvan illai, so ellam paavalar thantha pichchai". In another speack he said "enakku muraiyana sangeetham theriyaadhu, naan kaththukitta sangeetham yellam Viswanathan-Ramamoorthy paattu ketuthaan". So he I would never even read such interviews/blog.

Just because you have a free bandwidth, please dont write anything. It hurts lot of people.

I still didnt get Anand's point at the end. Kavin or rajasaranam can probably explain. What was Anand trying to drive at by mentioning Bob Marley or Dylan? without knowing this it is futile to dicuss further.

Also, I have read this guy's earlier stupid article criticizng Kamal/Rajni for the present state of films. He has some serious problems or writes just for sensationalism.

I think what IR means by "garbage" is "music becoming a mode of protest"
I don't think IR is referring to any musical personality.
He simply says he does his work for what it is, not to protest anything or be interpreted in any way other than simple beautiful music.

As for the article, its just silly sensationalist journalism. Anyway, if it encourages four people to listen to thirvasagam and end up liking it then, mission accomplished ;-)

There are many inconsistencies and oddities in S.Anand's article - first of all, instead of asking IR about TiS itself, he is busy writing about IR's uneasiness to talk about his origins/roots - what the hell is going on ? is this S.Anand a bl**dy minded racist ? someone should sue him for brining on print someoneelse's racial/casteist background, and that too an artist's without any relevance!

And we never know what actually transpired between the two - it is all in bits and pieces - best to ignore that useless article

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Originally Posted by rajasaranam

I dont know whether this 'Outlook Anand' is anti-tamil or not. But we very well know IR would have uttered the 'nonsense' whatever we found in that Article. IR is no authority to say that Music should be used only for divine purposes. In Fact IR is nothing If not for 'Paavalar varadharajan'. all those 20,000+ music concerts which shaped IR in his early years were not sung in any temple. It was sung to uplift people and people's movement and were a form of protest against this societal system.
IR has got 'Fans' all over the world but he lacks the charishma of a Gaddar/Bob Dylan. Armed with a single 'Parai' and 'Salangai' Gaddar has the guts to face the atrocious social system and its threats and can make people to wage war against this system. What IR has done in 1000's of films is no equal to what gaddar has done to the movement of PWG in Andhra.
If this is Considered Garbage by IR Then no wonder he will come up with saying one day that his songs 'manitha manitha ini un vizhigal sivanthaal ulagam vidiyum' or an 'Ezhugavae padaigal ezhugavae' or a 'Poaraada daa oru vaLyenthada' too as garbage.
Music is not anybody's Wealth its a part of society and it can be used as means of protest in all means. It applies to all arts. Even religion has been made to play a part in freedom movement by 'BGThilak' to unite people against British. And here comes the 'musical genius' who says '"I am beyond such garbage,"
This said - i can list a no. of Garbages like 'vandhe matharam' , 'achamillai achamillai' etc., for IR to shun as garbage. Let him go ahead with his spiritual, selfish means to attain god and have no rebirths, and let not utter such nonsense on people's movement or using music as a form of protest as garbage.
Apparently, just being a musical genius is not enough.

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Rajasaranam,
We didnt expect this from you. :(
We are not sure if there is anything true in Anand's article.

Rajasaranam,
I fail to understand the need for you to react so strongly about a idiotic journalist's article.Anyone who has followed Anand's articles/movie reviews in the Outlook will know that he is a pervert who takes great pleasure in mudslinging&raising controversies.Why are you giving so much importance to him?

And can you also pls keep out your personal opinions on God/PWG /religion out of this discussion.You might believe it's selfish to work towards realising God,not having rebirth etc but there are many including IR who don't think so.Why start a fight about ideologies/beliefs here.

A very disappointing post from you in a very inappopriate forum.

S.Anand's article in Outlook is often of the nature that is questionable . No matter what topic he touches he writes in an instigating manner. But that's his nature, God help him.

But I don't think people carry his thought, just look at flury of letters that follows after each publication of S.Anand article.

In this article Anand's intentions are not clear when asking what Illayaraja thinks of Bob marley, Bob dylan, Gaddar, Live-8, but God forbid this, Illayaraja's answer is disturbing.

After reading the article my interpretations are like this, Illayaraja terms works/intentions of Bob marley, Bob dylan and Live-8 as garbage.

If Illayaraja had really meant what's printed, then his point of view is not correct. Music can't be used only to attain God.

For me music is first for humans, then comes the God. When people use music for social cause you cannot term that to be garbage, for example Live-8 or Band Aid is not garbage, if music helps to cease the hunger of human beings then it's the music that's more divine than God. People should appreciate what Bob Geldof and Midhe Ure did for Ethiopia.

I only pray what's mentioned in Outlook is fictious. If it's not then there needs to some soul-searching to be done by Illayaraja.

yeskarthi and others - I repeat we never know what actually transpired between S.Anand and IR - if S.Anand was arrogant and insensitive enought to ask IR about his rural roots, he would have touched a few raw nerves and would have got a 'slap-in-the-face' kind of an answer - let us all dismiss this article

and going by the way, the article is written, its tone, it is my gut feeling that nothing went right at the interview - what were Bob Marley and Bob Dylan doing in an interview, which should have featured Handel, Schubert, or other Western classical masters