IR New Albums - Ver 2006

Guys, Ofcourse the songs in Shiva will not sound Northish, most of them are recycled hits from IR's south movies. So i don't think we need to worry about that . We all knew that. The one song he composed original "Dheemi Dheemi" has been acclaimed by everyone including Northies so it proves that IR is capable of scoring for their taste as well.

Most in North are not capable of appreciating good orchestration/complex rythm patterns etc, so IR's genius cannot be appreciated by them. Lets not worry about that.

R

Guys let's face it - it's IR's fault. We cannot complain about the taste of northies (even though their pejorative sense of music, post the times of SDB). He should have given then all "Dheemi Dheemi" type of songs in the album and inspite he dared to introduce "aanandha raagam". Reallity is, the original score is too much even for us as Southies/Tamilians. IMHO RGV wanted to create an album for himself and least cared about the masses. Maybe he wanted the BGM to be powerful. Let's see if the audience can appreciate king's BGM.

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Originally Posted by MADDY

.. maybe, IR's music is beyond northies' understanding.... :cry: .....or is his music very tamilianised??? ...

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Probably both. North is socially more polarized than the south, which means, the elite patronizes some very high quality hindustani/ghazal and the masses go for the bhangra/beatsy types. In the south, appreciation of music is evenly (comparatively) distributed among the sections of the society (words like raagam, thaalam and bhaavam are more commonly used in daily language). So the south, can appreciate IR better who is a purveyor of classical music couched in popular format.
It is quite possible IR's music has a south indian touch to it. But this is nothing wrong and I actually prefer somebody doing music 'organically' rather than 'systematically' (even though IR can be accused of this at time). Rahman's success to me is understandable because, his main selling proposition is modern rhythms married to indian melodies. A 'modern' or western rhythm goes a long way in helping remove any 'local'/'ethnic' flavor from the music (atleast 33% if you breakup a song into rhtym, tune and orchestration).

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Originally Posted by NormalMan

Guys let's face it - it's IR's fault. We cannot complain about the taste of northies

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It is not either IR's fault or North Indian's fault. If the music done by IR will be a hit, it will be IR's victory or if IR will change his music style to satisfy north Indians, it will be NI's victory.

Check out IR's BGMs from his next telugu film "Hope"

http://www.greatandhra.com/movies/shows/hope/2.ram
http://www.greatandhra.com/movies/shows/hope/1.ram

Hope's website:
http://www.hope-iamforchange.com/

Hope - A film for a social cause
IndiaGlitz [Friday, September 15, 2006]

These days every one is making films on commercial basis. Every producer wants to get back at least minimum returns on his project. Profit-motto keeps forcing the producers to take up subjects which have lots of commercial values. People, who make films for a social cause, are rare and one among such producers is Haranath Policherla, who is a successful and practicing doctor in the US, who had a commitment to strive to play an active role in bringing about a positive change in the Indian society. Director K Sathyanarayana, popularly known as Satish, has come with an excellent subject especially on the evergreen topic, which makes people to rethink and debate it even after returning from theatres. Not only directing the film, he himself provided story, screenplay and dialogues for the film, which is meant to create widespread awareness and spark off meaningful debate on the subject of education and its role in molding the society.

Puja (Kalyani) is the daughter of Rao (Sudarshan). She loses her mother in her childhood. She has a younger sister, who commits suicide, while studying Intermediate as she fails to get good marks. After a few days, Puja's father also dies of heart attack. Prof R.B.V.R. Murthy (Dr D. Ramanaidu), who worked in Columbia University and also a good journalist and the first Indian who bagged the first Pulitzer award, resides in the same apartment complex. He never comes out of his apartment not speaks to any other, except with his servant maid Lakshmiamma (Radhakumari). But the outside world believes that Prof. Murthy is dead some four years ago. Puja, instead of sitting idle, decides to do some research on the suicidal tendency among the children and collects material from the libraries and other sources.

Rajesh (Venu) is an Indian boy settled abroad. However, he returns to India on a two-month vacation, during which period, he thinks of shooting a documentary on Prof. Murthy. After reaching India, Rajesh meets his friends Shekeel, Priyanka and others. On one occasion, Rajesh accidentally meets Puja, by dashing her. She drops all the newspapers she collected for her research. While gathering them, Rajesh comes to know that one of his friends also committed suicide during his studies. Later Rajesh joins hands with Puja to continue her research. In the process, they take the help of Haranath, who runs schools, in the way Puja wants. The students studying in Haranath's school is away from mental stress and is very much happy. So, with the help of Rajesh, Haranath and others Puja continues her efforts to drive away the present system of education, which posed lots of stress on students. Was she able to achieve her goal? What kind of help did Prof. Murthy gives her? What kind of moral support she got from all her friends? What kind of debate she faced while holding a seminar on the present trends in education? Answers to all these questions form part of the climax.

As the film thought of giving a message to the society, the director and producer thought of telling the same through a top personality. In the process, they met Movie Moghal Dr D Ramanaidu. Till now, Ramanaidu played different roles in various films on his own banner. However, for the first time, he played a full length role and drove the message straight into the hearts of the audience. The specialty of the film is that once again S.P. Balasubrahmanyam lent his voice to the dialogues uttered by Dr D Ramanaidu. Kalyani excelled in her character and showed fantastic histrionics once again. The voice of Sunita perfectly matched her acting. Vizag Prasad, who played the role of Prof Subrahmayam also, did justice to his role. It seems the entire film was shot on just three locations. Another highlight of the film is that the film had the playback music from maestro Ilayaraja. It may be mentioned here that Ilayaraja had almost stopped working for the Telugu films, but accepted the request of Haranath and Satish. The nuances in sound, especially while doing the re-recording is worth listening.

Cinematographer Sarath, who graduated from JNTU in BFT worked for the film. Another specialty of the film is that it is being ably supported by Roshni, a non-governmental and non-political organization, who is working for the cause of dejected, pained, depressed, anxious, angry, suicidal, worried, confused and scared people.

IR's BGM has been given a plus point :clap:

But guys i dunt understand why there is much bother about the BGM as Raja never fails in BGM especially this type of movies :confused2:

Shiva (Hindi) review on IndiaGlitz. Gives a thumbs down.

http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/h...view/8738.html

comment on music:

"Music by Illaiyaraja is good, especially for its fabulous orchestration. But the problem is that except for ‘Police Police’ none of the other songs are really needed. They only slacken the pace of the film."

No mention about BGM

thanks,

Krishnan

http://www.hindu.com/fr/2006/09/15/s...1501960200.htm

Some info on the IR-Vamsi new Telugu movie / album...

Ada vidunga, RAAJA RAAJADHAAN......

Avara adichikka aal illai, eppavumae irukkumpodhu adhanoda arumai theriyaadhu, adhu illadhappodhaan theriyum........

avarai pola melody kudukka yaar irukkaa.....

avara paarthu copy adichavanga ethana peru....... :thumbsup: :clap: