IR News and Other Titbits Ver.2009

I dont think rs made a veiled attack. It was an open attack on people nitpicking with IR's singing as "elitism". Personally, inspite of being a 'sangeetha gnanasoonyam' I myself find IR's singing wanting at places. But on the flip side, he is a "successful" popular music singer. His diction is good, he emotes well and connects with the listener. Whether you and me like it or not, there are thousands or even millions of people who enjoy and appreciate his songs and singing. We can say these people dont know much about music and that is why the like his singing. And this is what I think rs calls - "elitism".

Anyways, I hope none of us have the impression IR does not appreciate or give importance to "shruthi suththam". That he even almost made BMK sing on stage the 27 swara sthanams shows he is aware of his limitation as a singer (otherwise he would have demoed it). He has introduced great singers, and used great singers to sing great songs. Only when the situation warrants for emotions more than technicalities or if the pro singer is not available he has sung. So let us stay focussed on this criticism.

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Originally Posted by kiru

Only when the situation warrants for emotions more than technicalities or if the pro singer is not available he has sung.

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Not always - for example, he felt free to sing songs like 'nAnAga nAnillai', 'idhayam oru kOvil' ' ennai thAlAtta varuvALA' etc and release them on the disc, even though he knew there's a SPB / HH version which is also on the same disc and will probably be the one that'll be on screen as well.

Reason ? We'll have to accept that Raja simply felt like asking the admirers of his music -not necessarily his singing- to listen to "his master's voice" :-) Let's not hide the fact that Raja at times had that "creator's ego / pride" and showed off this way.

There were other factors as well - producer or director's "sentiment" that if he sings title song, padam Odum and the like.

Personally I love his singing, though at times feel that there should also be "another version" of the same song :-)

Another question - even regular singers have made blunders (sometimes music notes themselves, often words / pronunciation). Why it's always Raja's singing that's slighted while the 'thEvai pAVAL parvai' gets scot free?

DD aired the 'yaarum thodaatha' song from Ajantha ... :roll:

Picturisation was bad , but not that bad .....as usual 20 dancers , hero & heroines dancing n grass...As usual raaja's voice was not fitting to ramana ..or atleast to the kind of picturisation !

MR - IR indha maadhiri strings, harmony ellaam use panni super smoothaa interludes compose panni paattellaam koduppaaru - namma oor directors konjam kooda karpanai valamo, illai, rasanaiyyo illaama, 'chingu chikkaan' stylela adhai picturise pannuvaanga - EKSI

irir,


Exactly !

For our directors, usage of drums means dance & dance only. A humming in the background means some one should really open her mouth and hum !

No subtle treatments, feelings etc etc !

I would appreciate people like Bharatiraja, Raj kiran etc..even Gangai Amaran to some extent. They knew how to picturize !

"Not always - for example, he felt free to sing songs like 'nAnAga nAnillai', 'idhayam oru kOvil' ' ennai thAlAtta varuvALA' etc and released them on the disc, even though he knew there's a SPB / HH version which is also on the same disc and will probably be the one that'll be on screen as well.
App, these were songs which IR sung track for I believe, and realsing those on the cassette was for satisfying his hard core fans, some of whom believe his naanaga naan illai trumps SPB's version. Sugar content on SPB's voice being high, some diabetics need Raja's insulin to counter-balance the sugar in the album when SPB features in the album :-)

Debutant director Ujjwal Singh’s movie Chal Chalein should have been screened at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival on May 16 at the Indian Pavilion.

Raaja sir has scored a youthful track for the movie.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/B...ow/4505931.cms

always

~~Raaja rules!

It's official website:

www.chalchaleinthefilm.com


always

~~Raaja rules!

Any idea when is the audio of this film releasing. it is interesting to see that the lyricist is Piyush Mishra, who has recently done some brilliant work in Gulaal (as lyricist and also as composer).

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Originally Posted by raja_fan

irir,
Exactly !
For our directors, usage of drums means dance & dance only. A humming in the background means some one should really open her mouth and hum !
No subtle treatments, feelings etc etc !
I would appreciate people like Bharatiraja, Raj kiran etc..even Gangai Amaran to some extent. They knew how to picturize !

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Thats why, many of us IR fans, dont want him to do films, as (i) our films do not deserve his music (ii) his film projects in recent times either dont see the light of the day, or simply bomb at the BO and (iii) his music is not available easily online

he shd hav been focussing a lot on non-film projects professionally done with good labels