IR's New albums - Ver 2008

To me, Ilayaraja is an over achiever , a genius , a complete Musician excelled in all facets of music . Some of the records that he had set like the maximum noof movies in a year , the over all movie records, nobody can achieve that.
All these, had achieved those feats within a span of 20 years ( I am discounting the period from 1997 till date ) . I think, this is an awesome performance which even greats like MSV or R.D.Burman took a much longer duration. And its not just that he did those movies, a majority of them were super hits . He had given life to many heros who actually wouldn’t have made it big otherwise. Mohan, Ramarajan, are classic examples.

When he did compose for guys like Mohan, ramrajan, he didn’t look at the theme, story etc but was giving awesome numbers.

Its just a change and the change has happened totally in the taste of music followers.

One thing, he will not change himself to today’s metallic music , which means his albums might not get the hit status. Resultantly, the producers may not view him as a marketable man . After all its money invested no ? everyone will look for returns.

Let me revive the same old topic now. If Mani Ratnam can use his services, we can get a glimpse of the old IR for some more time.

Aa dinagalu was a decent album. I liked the songs.

Mani was ready to use Raaja's services anyday. For Iruvar and Alaipayuthey He tried hard to rope in Raaja. But It was Raaja who rejected those proposals :( Even recently he had hinted that for working with Raaja he should have a challenging script and given that Raaja is willing to work with him Its his pleasure. Namma Thalai thaan konjam irangi varanum If at all what he claims is true that 'Music is his breath'. If he keeps rejecting people like this one fine day he will be left with no work to do.
But nothing is lost for him. It's we fans who are cribbing about this, he is in his own world and I heard from a close aide that he has composed (Tuned, Orchestrated and Recorded also) around 500 songs in his leisure times and lying in the archives. May be He will continue doing that after he has become jobless.

IR rejected Alaipayudhey ??
It is news to me..

Only Film Music Is not Music, Music has no boundriers, namma THALA can play any where in the music world not only in Films, we the fans will listen whatever he produce, so let all wish him to produce great music in his life time.

Hey common guys...

IMO, just one album will bring IR back on track.. of course, we have to wait for some time..

I personally feel, when we fans are little bit frustrated :( with his Music in tamil at least for the last year..

Also, we are expecting too much from IR thanks to the very high standards he set himself...

to be honest, I am happy about our frustration which shows the expectations may be faded .... which help IR to give us a surprise..

IR WILL COME BACK LIKE A Phoenix... :)

of all this, I DONT think Kamal left IR deliberately out of Marmayogi - MY is not RajKamal prodns' movie - if it was to be produced under RK banner, IR wud hav been the MD by default - i dont understand why DFers dont see this even though the Kamal-IR combo being restricted to RajKamal prodns has been discussed n no of times before

IR will definitely treat us with a surprise in TAMIL.

w.r.to, Marmayogi, there were discussions in this forum which said Adlabs wanted only ARR and hence Kamal couldn't do anything.Now, the latest doing rounds is that Kamal has backed out from Adlabs and that GeminiFilms circuit would be the producers.Though nothing is yet official, if GFC are the producers, Kamal can certainly rope in IR..no excuses there.
Again, let us wait for the confirmation.

To me, kamal doing away with IR is unacceptable.remember he has always shown to the world that he is a HCIRF and he has made certain statements for IR which no one else has done in TFM.

one of them.. "IR is a great composer and when the statue of IR is opened,there will be gatecrash and the producers who say IR won't sell will be crushed in that crowd".

I hope most of you are aware of this statement...

rooky: even if Gemini has taken over MY, there are issues such as contract (though i dont know the dynamics of sch things in the film industry) - if ARR has been signed officially (with Adlabs as producer), then I doubt if he wud be taken away, unless of course, the new producer insists so (lets say Kamal indirectly forces Geminis hand in this, its possible) - OTOH, if Kamal and ARR fall out like Kamal n LSubramaniam did (with Hey Ram), then IR is a possibility -anyways, we dont know how things wud turn out - but one thing for sure, for all non-RajKamal prodtns, we have seen that Kamal does not/cannot force the producers to accept ONLY IR - he goes by whatever the producer wants

and IR undrstands this peculiar situation of Kamal as well! thats why they both maintain excellent rapport/friendship/ camarederie even now

I personally think age is no issue here. Look at John Williams ,the genius, who is 75. He is still churning out classics - be it Harry Potter or the getting ready for Indi-4.

So all we need and hopefully it becomes a reality, is for IR to get to do a score that has high value and visibility. I hate to tell this, but he has to work with someone like Vidhu Vinod Chopra, who by the way for all he is, has an amazing music sense/ears. Remember he extracted wonders out of RDB, when RDB was written off.