Hi, Finally after 4 months, posting in TFM.
Listened to ME by becoming one more sinner among the 500 and odd sinners thro' Coolgoose, verenna seyyaradhu, the highly egoistic Kamal's erratic attitude towards both release of audio and movie has made several true fans sinners atleast temporarily.
Now my personal opinion, like many other's ...
considering this movie in the lines of MMKR /Aporva Sahodarrgal...meaning Singitham/kamal/IR combo and claimed as a wholesome entertainer, obviously I was expecting some thing on par with those two in terms of music, but definitely it is not on par with them. However , I still consider it a very good album, not an extraordinary album, but atleast with one extraordinary gem.."poo poothadhu", we knew it.. Raja you woudn't disappoint us.
Many have said it already this album has lots of jazz ( more contemporary than the classic or American jazz style, which I always liked)
My picks are, 'Poo poothadhu, Yelae nee ettippo, Kurangu kaiyil maalai in that order. I wish when Kamal works with IR again, will come out with two versions of his songs ( one for the movie where he can have all those dialogues" Engakka peru Inba, En thangachi peru sittrimba etc.." although it did sound Ok, and one version purely for audio release so we can have complete interludes), but it is a total disappointment to shorten the interludes
( vayitheruchalaa irukku), fantastic interludes in "Poo poothadhu " and " Yele nee ettippo'
I have strong suspicion if KR had to sneek in in the 'Kurangu kayyil" song composition, and if that is true, aptly he has done the first line of the song as his job ( just joking), it lacked the perfection and finer nuances of typical IR song despite being a mediocre tune (IMHO opinion) if someone really finds and establishes it was indeed 100% IR's creation, then it is probably the way Kamal insisted to have for the sake of narration/picturisation of the song in the movie. I feel it is not 100% IR compostion, atleast some percentage of the creation has been from one of his sons. The other two songs " poo poothadhu" and "'Yele nee ettippo" are outright IRish ( not Irish) which KR and YSR can not even dream of. ( It was ridiculous somebody comparing Deva to score a similar song)
"Kurangu kayyil maalai" song sounded sort of slow but bad version of " vaanam enna Keelirukku, Bhoomi enna melirukku" of "Vettri Vizha", I will check it out with time scaling with the creative media tomorrow.
About the number of songs, extraordinary brain of Kamal, saving the audio release to avoid negative publicity due to assumed poor music as per some , I think it is total absurd. Why will Kamal think this one is poor album to begin with, and Kamal's movie have audience by virtue of his class appeal and word of mouth, if the movie is too good, just because the songs are average ( Not in my opinion in ME's case) people will not avoid watching the movie.
"Autograph" a big example from last year, despite average/mediocre songs, movie became a huge hit, well adhu maadhiri niraiya irukku.
I am always optimistic that Kamal will do a great job when it comes to picturising the songs and who knows what kind of treat Ir fans will have for the BGM score, remember "aporva sahodarrgal" the same old twins, villains, taking revenge etc etc... but the nice script and presentation and the fantastic BGM score which no one expected for a movie of that kind made much difference ( only Kamal movie I have watched more than 7 times, theatrele daan, thiruttu VCD le ille).
Kbee what is your original TFM screen name,? is this movie going to be in the same "sori" theatre in NJ where they played " Virumandi", I can't imagine what the heck with this poor marketing, when they have almost week long showes for CM in NY why not one show for ME, I am surprised if the distributor thinks there are less fans of Kamal in NY, there are lots of non tamil Kamal fans ( Kannadiga and Telugu guys) from NY. When they could release "naladamayanthi" here , why they couldn't do ME.?
I make it a point to watch all Kamal movies in theatre despite my schedule because of the great admiration for his enormous talent
( in otherwords I am a hard core fan of him too ) let us see .
Hi Thops..nice seeing your posts.. how are things?
"Cinefan" are you " vishy"- freind of Sridhar Rajanna from
Bangalore?
Iniya Puthandu vaazhthukkal to all in advance
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