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It seems it was a deadlock in deciding on who would be the national award winner (for music) between "Roja" and "Thevar Magan":

http://www.behindwoods.com/tamil-mov...-25-02-09.html

thanks,

Krishnan

Good pick RS

news to me

For people like Vyasar, this comes as a view from other side.

http://www.vijayvaani.com/FrmPublicD...le.aspx?id=409

For people like Vyasar, this comes as a view from other side.

http://www.vijayvaani.com/FrmPublicD...le.aspx?id=409

For people like Vyasar, this comes as a view from other side.

http://www.vijayvaani.com/FrmPublicD...le.aspx?id=409

Sorry for that multiple postings :)

RS, :-). On IR's opinion on awards, adhe dhaan. IR's attitude to recognition, I remember posting before, should be surmised from his lack of cooperation with his own fans trying to make selfless efforts to promote his music. Idhukku mela, words, speeches ellam analyse pandradhu waste. His actions speak.

On Roja vs Devar Magan, while what you say about IR's maturity is true, I dont agree about BM's noble gesture. While I wouldnt call it a betrayal of his friendship to IR, I would call it a betrayal of his commitment to the art of cinema. It was right of him to leave the decision to the jury in the first place because of his friendship with IR - now that sort of behaviour, you can hardly see - when the bollywood types head the jury, they give awards keeping in mind their friendships and a view to impress producers to give them chance - I remember Hum Tum got awards becuse the jury chairman was an Hindi alternate cinema director who wasy trying to get an opp with Yashraj films that time. So, yes, that was a noble gesture by Balu M. But casting the casting vote in favour of Roja wasnt. As a soundtrack for a movie, and BGM, Thevar Magan was superior to Roja. Clearly Balu says he gave it to Rahman to encourage the youngster. So that shows what he thought of the relative merits of the soundtracks as a soundtrack for movie. This being the case, choosing Roja was 'droham' to the art of cinema that he stayed fidel to for years.

I would put it this way - if we have a Grammy and Oscar equivalent in India, Roja could have got Grammy(for breaking new ground in popular music arena) but the oscar should go to Thevar Magan because we are evaluating a movie sound track. While that is only my opinion, the reason i am saying this is that cleraly that seems to be BM's opinion, and he seems to have given the NA like it were grammy while it is actually closer to Oscar.

raja_fan, let's ignore Vysar. I think the first two letters in his name stand for Vayatherichal :-)

That said, the religious politics discussed in your link is distasteful.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by rajasaranam

BM was responsible for giving away the National award to Rahman instead of Raaja.
At first I was digusted at the 'Karugaalithanam' of BM... Few seconds later it gives me immense pleasure to understand him - What a noble gesture by Balu Mahendra! he should have known DM was musically superior to Roja (Apart from the friendship with Raaja) and still gave away the award :thumbsup:

...and Raaja had maintained his friendship with BM till date shows the amount of maturity he has and the degree of importance to an award he gives.

This adds on to my respect over Raaja and shows what his fans should take from his life. What I said yesterday is validated now 'Its afterall an award'. So stop whining kids and move on... :)[/tscii]

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I actually wonder how many of this close battles actually happened.