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Shank,

Ofcourse I know you well enough and so no question of taking what you write in the wrong sense at all. Moreover you are one of the most level headed person who writes here. So it is always a pleasure to discuss things with you.

I agree with you and I also want the critic to not necessarily be in tune with the popular opinion. Infact there are many works of art which got their recognition fairly late and that was only due to the critics relentlessly pointing to its merits. And the critic here plays a very important role. Unfortunately I don't watch many films but going by what I heard from people who have decent taste in movies and also like BR's writings, what he wrote for 'Rockstar' was probably good prose. Ofcourse, not having seen the movie, I could be completely wrong.

Again, I reiterate, I would love the critic to be against popular opinion. I wish it had happened in Raja's case as well :D

Kamal,

As you rightly point out, there are enough and more people who refuse to budge from "Raja's greatest was 80s and whatever you throw at us, we still believe 80s was the best." In other words they want the 80s sound _only_. But Raja has deliberately moved away from that to the 90s sound, then the late 90s sound and the newer sounds in 2000s. To be fair, BRangan admits he does like some of the songs he heard. There are others who will not even admit it and they will be huge fans of Raja !!

Shank - the failed writer bit came from me. It is a theory I have formed after careful deliberation. To be honest, I am a fan of BR's writing - there are very few who can write like that. And definitely not anyone else who writes on topics of my interest. I also believe in his integrity and honesty - I don't think he has any agenda to put down later Raja works deliberately. I do believe he is reacting honestly to the actual impact of later Raja works on him. This is so different from certain people who have had a constant agenda to degrade Raja's music and his character - they can be recognised by their quoting of Braja Bchandar Mrathnam Vmuthu Gvwaran and co. and Raja's tiffs with them as solely products of Raja's character. These are the ones with agenda - and GV actually I believe planted these stories in media post thalapathy after the tiff with Raja. Just consider this, till date Raja hasn't spoken ill of any of them whereas BRaja, GV and Bchandar not to mention vanavasa kavignar of 80s have tried to debase his character. The honourable exception is Mrathnam who hasn't resorted to such cheap tricks. Brangan Is no way related to any of these kinds of fellers.

Plum,

Fully agree with you there. I don't think BR has any agenda whatsoever against Raja.

Suresh65, I agree that BR does not have any agenda and he puts his points un bias with current situation and current trend but only thing disturbed me as IR admirer that by giving example like MR going to MSV and good that it was edited in the final output.

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Originally Posted by suresh

"I call it the Raja genre" - Baradwaj Rangan
http://baradwajrangan.wordpress.com/...he-raja-genre/

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Looks like a movie promo targeting CD sales. It is waste of time to give too much importance to this article.

After seeing the hype created over many IR movies (Nandhalala for example) in the past few years here in this forum, I am keeping my expectations low!!

Here is what's going to happen...

1. Most of the HCIR fans going to declare NEPV is the best GVM album after few hours of release.
2. Since it is a GVM movie, it is going to have decent opening and CD sales. (HCIR fans responsible for 5% extra sales?)
3. If the movie does well in the box office, the songs are going to get some air time.
4. If the movie does well and the songs are good, the songs are going to get more air time. HCIR fans going to jump from earth to sky with joy and explain how IR reversed GVM's deteriorating career!!
5. If the movie does not do well in box office, the songs are not going to get much air time. HCIR fans will blame GVM and move to hype IR's next "big" project!!

Please note: I have not said anything bad about IR!!

^ This is one super mokkai post.

genesis - any thoughts on what will those ever annoying Not-So-Hard-Core-Raja-Fans-But-Still-Fans say or how they will jump to sky or dive into deep blue sea?

Note - I haven't said anything bad about IR.

Ever since this project was announced, the reactions from various quarters are :notworthy: