DEVA IS GOOD AS ILAYARAJA

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Originally Posted by Kumanan

Just because vincent stated such a comparison, we should not insult Deva. Even though he lifted a lot, he did make some nice melodies("Gokulathil Seethai", "Ennasai Machan" for instance). Also he was the main competitor in the latter part of IR and early years of ARR.

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Please add some more like:

kAthal kOttai
ninaithEn vandhAi
kannethirE thOdrinAL...... somany.

In 1990, Deva got Cinema Express award for best MD, for Vasantha kAla paravaigaL, pudhu manithan. These selection is not by four or five persons like National Award. Its purely by polling votes by public, throughout Tamil Nadu. Atleast for that year people accpted he is better than IR.

Why I was posted such comment in my previous posting is, because that guy vickyvichu is not even to accept Deva as a man. (accepting him as a MD is another thing).

Scale dude, in future please read posts carefully before jumping on someone.

Kumanan, thanks for your support. Nice to know there is at least one person out there who thinks I am ARR supporter :) However, I also regard IR as one of TFM's all-time best, although I much relish the music of MSV and ARR.

music4ever, i dunt think anyone needs to xplain here to anyone that whose fan is he......their statements are enuf to identify their mindset.....so i dunt think u need to xplain to scale that u r a ARR fan....

however, u shuld also know that there were threads "Vidyasagar is as gud as ARR" and YSR vs HJ vs ARR.....i think it was more condemnable than this thread( given that u r a ARR-fan), where there was no trace of u.....insult to ARR is as big as insult to IR.....

MADDY, there you go without really understanding the import of my post. NJV's post cast some aspersions on ARR fans and I felt justified to reply that not all his assertions are correct. And to prove that I cast my vote in favor of IR. Otherwise I do not involve myself in this voting business. That should explain why I have not replied to other posts comparing ARR to other current MDs.

IR's achievement, IMO, is beyond cavil. Thirty years of significant achievement is not something to be scoffed at. Very few, if any, can match him.

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Originally Posted by Music4Ever

Thirty years of significant achievement is not something to be scoffed at. Very few, if any, can match him.

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Superabbu, Superabbu, there stands IR :thumbsup: :clap:

back then he didnt have much competition as he has now!!!! only magazines praises him and the very old generation, the young generation celebrates ARR.

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Originally Posted by interz

back then he didnt have much competition as he has now!!!! only magazines praises him and the very old generation, the young generation celebrates ARR.

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This is one more Accusation thrown on IR's supremacy in TFM. Well i belive there was competition from SG, CB on a big scale and there were people like SAR, devendran, VSnarasimhan, Adithyan, deva and many more obscure composers who wre trying hard to break even. But IR's Aura was such magnificient that nobody was able to outcast him. Until another brilliant composer like ARR stepped in to give a stiff competition and was able to gain supremacy over IR after a brief stalling time.
You cant be always saying that just because IR didnt have competition he was the winner in other words i see IR was the best who was able to over power his competitors. Still he is revered among critics and tamizh makkal as the only all time best composer proves his caliber.

wAit wait!! Oh my goodness...what a topic...it is like comparing "Thayir vadai" desigan to N.S.K

After MSV's movies (& hits) reduced to a great extent, and S-G mostly doing remakes of Hindi songs (or remakes of Raja songs), it was TR's songs which were reverberating through out TN...Infact, TR's songs were as much popular as ARR songs later in TN (as an alternative to IR).

Even if we exclude OTR (which outshone most IR songs of that year) as a combo effort with AA Raj & things like that, RP & UU made his music immensely popular...and so was the `julie I love you' song...

One of my classmates, a HCIRF, used to remark that he hears as many times TR songs of just one album in public (tea shop, bus, functions etc) as IR songs from many albums. Though limited in his range and prolificity, TR was one competition to IR for a while...

Deva, while scoring for many movies and had his share of hit songs, never had a single album (other than his Rajinikanth ventures probably) reverberate everywhere in TN like the TR stuff...that's probably one reason why he faded out fast...

TR could have become a true competitor to IR had he not gone mad - putting his hand in everything, including politics...just sticking to lyrics & music would have earned him more name & fame IMO...

//digression

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