http://www.dinamani.com/Malar/Ilayaraja/
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http://www.dinamani.com/Malar/Ilayaraja/
Looks like this may have some interesting info...can anyone who has subscription to dinamani post an abstract?
Vijay, it sounded as if you said "IR had lifted the orchestration off of Viju Shah's." Anyway, I agree with you fully that synthesized orchestration is never as good as natural orchestration.
Teja
Thanks for the link.
Pardhoo has always has provided a balanced outlook of the great yesteryears.
However his comparison of "poovizhi Vasalile" to the telugu version sounds unbalanced IMHO. Pasividi Praanam had only one good number 'Kashmiri .. lo, Kanya kumari.., O chanda Mama'. The rest of them were all usual CHakravarthy stuff. The Tamil Movie had excellent songs.
His comments that Telugu version of "16 Vayathinile" had better songs is a misstatement IMHO. I have no heard the original "Mappillai" songs, so I cannot comment on them.
Chakravarthy was a popular MD no doubt and had provided music that became great hits, but most of them were very repetitive and rythm based. To compare him to MSV/KVM/IR/ARR is a little far fetched
BY the way, I loved his 'I love you Sujatha SOng' from Kodeswaran Magal.
Bala
http://www.coolgoose.com/music/song.php?id=175113Quote:
Originally Posted by tmrrmt
Balaji,
I agree with you. IMO, whatever said and done, Chakravarthy is responsible for taking telugu film music down the drain after the golden era till early 70's. Ilayaraja came to the rescue from time to time...
Chakravarthy composed for ~900+ films, but the good ones out of those 900*5 songs are < 10.
tmrrmt, "Padum vanambadi" song is from "Naan paadum padal".
A few posts back, while there was discussion on "vetri vizha songs", the song that sends a rush of hot blood down my head is the underrated "thathom thalaanga thathom" sung by SPB and SJ.This song could have probably been a popular dance floor song for the yesteryear hiphop crowd and is very reflective of the disco fad of the 80's.Everytime, Iam awestruck at the way the guitar drives the rythm along with acoustic drums. The high pitched violins in the lines
"thazhuvattum thazhuvattum
iLavattam iLavattam" is the crowning point
thumburu - the overall poor quality of the recording + a mediocre tune + horrendoud singing by SJ were major negative points about that song from Vetri Vizha - it is the guitar, violin accompaniments and the interludes that make this song listenable
Correction - pls. read 'horrendoud' as 'horrendous'
mumbai xpress movie review http://www.chennaionline.com/film/Mo...baiexpress.asp
says that the movie is a kadi -
teja - thanks for the link - can you also upload the telugu and hindi versions of Mumbai Xpress ?
Thanks
The same site had a review of the film in it's 'Youth club' section last week where the reviewer had gone ga-ga.Quote:
Originally Posted by vem