Story of Nan kadavul
http://www.behindwoods.com/tamil-mov...8-06-arya.html
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Story of Nan kadavul
http://www.behindwoods.com/tamil-mov...8-06-arya.html
IR_ Vamsi movie called 'INKA 7 ROJULU '( Another seven days)
To be released in dec.
Shweta singing for IR after 15 years
http://www.musicindiaonline.com/n/i/top%20stories/1908/
Shiva 2006 could be dubbed in Tamil. People can probably listen to the classic "Aananda Raagam" song in a new format!
http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/t...cle/24922.html
thanks,
Krishnan
About Mayakannadi.
http://www.hindu.com/mp/2006/08/31/s...3101620500.htm
Oh my God!! I just can't get enough of "Ghana Shyama" from Kochu Kochu Santhosangal. To me this is one of the best songs of Ilayaraja EVER. The genius has just played with his percussion and carnatic skills.
Did anyone see Vettaiyaadu Velaiyaadu? In that, there is a scene in which Jyotika attempts suicide and KH comes in to rescue her. The camera pans the room and there is a TIS CD shown near her bed, as if she has been hearing it b4 she attempted the suicide. Later when she tells KH about why she tried to commit suicide, she says that she just wanted to try getting into another world. I think the TIS CD was supposed to be a metaphor for being transported to another world. It sure must be a KH idea.
On the other hand, IR critics may say, that it was the TIS CD that drove her to suicide!! :D
12bums,
Already discussed here. Pls continue there.
Shiva song Chor-Police having trouble with censor
http://www.samachar.com/showurl.htm?rurl=http://www.newindpress.com/NewsItems.asp?ID=IEE20060902074035&Page=E&Title=St artrek&Topic=0&?headline=RGV's~Shiva~in~censor~tro uble
RGV doing a series of films with Amithab.
http://www.musicindiaonline.com/ar/i...director/1381/
I wonder how this guy has so much money :) He is churning out directing movies just as IR did in his music in the 80s.
Sorry for going off on a tangenet :)
I have not listened to Hindi Film music for a while now, but thanks to Maestro, I am......
listen to Devi Sri Prasad's interview -
he tells how ardent fan of IR he is and how it is also impossible to ape IR :)
down to earth interview
http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/t...nts/10338.html
IR music for Suhasini's play ?
http://www.hindu.com/mp/2006/06/21/s...2100920100.htm
You could see Devi sri prasad in Andrum indrum endrum tapping his feet to glory for all IR songs..
The glow on his face could never betray his feelings that he was a HCIRF like us all
IR picks up Filmfare Best music director award in Malayalam category for the movie achuvinte amma.
Cheers IR :clap:.... an offbeat movie that can only be enhanced by his close to heart musical score
though i dont bother about these awards i does give a sense of recognition :clap: - oru alpa santhosham thaan :)
Second in the row after last year's 'Manasinakkarae'.... hope he will get a hatrick with next year too for 'Rasathanthiram' :)
My pick of the album 'Achuvinte Amma' were 'Thaamara kurivikku thaatavidu' and 'Swasathin Thaalam' and the third No. 'Enthu Paranjaalum' with shades of 'Pachamalai Poovu' from Kizhakku Vasaal was slo a good one.
rs, agree there. Achuvinte amma had deja-vu all written over it - but it was soothing and touching all the same. Somehow I fell in love with these songs. Endhu paranjalum is much better than Pacha Mala Poovu(inspite of SPB!) - there was something synthetic about the latter maybe because of the situations.
Also, the picturisation of the song also had deja-vu for me with Oorvashi and Meera Jasmine playing out some sequences from Sujatha-Revathi's "Thaalattu maari ponadhae".
Thaamarakuruvikku is a riot - a good ode to the maappila paattu genre, though IR twists it to his style as usual. I couldnt see any obvious recycling here but I guess cynics would.
rs, agree there. Achuvinte amma had deja-vu all written over it - but it was soothing and touching all the same. Somehow I fell in love with these songs. Endhu paranjalum is much better than Pacha Mala Poovu(inspite of SPB!) - there was something synthetic about the latter maybe because of the situations.
Also, the picturisation of the song also had deja-vu for me with Oorvashi and Meera Jasmine playing out some sequences from Sujatha-Revathi's "Thaalattu maari ponadhae".
Thaamarakuruvikku is a riot - a good ode to the maappila paattu genre, though IR twists it to his style as usual. I couldnt see any obvious recycling here but I guess cynics would.
'Shiva 2006' Preponed By A Day to Sep 14th.
http://www.cinegoer.com/archives/sep.../shiva2006.htm
and "Hope" is set to hit the screens this Friday (Sep 15)
http://www.cinegoer.com/archives/september2006/hope.htm
thalai @ Surya Jyothika Marriage :)
http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/t...06/131934.html
shiva is triLingual now :)
http://www.idlebrain.com/news/functi...shiva2006.html
since Raaja Doesn't have much say in dubbing hope they dub the songs with Sjanaki, Chitra and SPB since its been ages we listened them rendering Raaja Songs in Thamizh. Last time I Heard SPB was in the dubbed Telugu version of Virumaandi titled 'Pothuraaju'. And his very last direct Thamizh song for raaja was In unreleased 'Dhanush' Hmmmm :evil:
From Gautham's sIFY chat
gnanasivam asks >> Your favourite director and music director in tamil?
gautham says >> Mani Ratnam & Ilayaraja
Im not really sure how many people noticed...
In VV, the scence where kamal breaks into Jyothika's room when she tries to commit suicide, they will show
ILAIARAAJA'S THIRUVASAGAM IN SYMPHONY CD LYING ON THE TABLE...
that shows his likes for Ilaiaraaja (its my opinion)
i went to a bollywood site after a long time just to see how hindi folks rate Shiva :)
To my consternation and chagrin, Shiva doesnt even appear in top 10.
http://www.bollywoodworld.com/news/b..._from=&ucat=1&
I think the Hindi walas have put Shiva on the backburner once again. Since I dont have the patience to listen to other songs (especially those of Himesh and Sh-Eh-Loy due to my own predilection), can anyone who has listened to these throw light on these songs ? Are they on the melody side or Bhangra side ? Just want to find out why IR's music failed once again in Hindi ?
i dunno whether i should say this or not but i played shiva to my north indian frnds and told them it was a new ARR album.......they listened to it and told me it sounded very tamil-like......they thought they had dubbed some tamil song into Hindi song......they could not relate themselves with the songs.....then when i told them it was by IR and not by ARR, they told they expected that......Quote:
Originally Posted by vem
i dunno, maybe, IR's music is beyond northies' understanding.... :cry: .....or is his music very tamilianised???
i dunno, maybe, IR's music is beyond northies' understanding.........or is his music very tamilianised???
Not both!!
IR did not make the music thinking it would have mass appeal, the mass appeal was just a result by itself. IR caters to music on a self-satisfaction route (a nirvana kind-a of approach). Probably that is the reason the club-going/youth sections who promote the popularity kind of theme promote Himesh and others. There will be a whole lot debate why IR cannot appeal to youth and such. But i wish to say POPULAR music is not always the best in quality (in terms of probing into complexity, critiquing etc), when it came to IR, both fell together just as a matter of fact. Now everybody wants to elevate every other MD's to compare with IR which is kind-a sad, but each of the popular MD's now have some kind of talent that is getting recognized and they should use it before the flame dies down.
Dont know if this link (review of Shiva audio) has been posted here. Anyway, here it is:
http://ww.smashits.com/index.cfm?Pag...rticle&ID=5675
thanks,
Krishnan
There goes the punch line from the review in SmashHits
Veteran Ilaiyaraja's music is feast for music lovers in couple of numbers but will not have many takers from Bollywood music lovers.
Avalothaan Avanga Tastennu oru north Indian'ae othukittan. Namma romba kavalai padavaendaam :lol:
How come? all the other northie friends like the songs and only MADDY's northie friends don't like it??Quote:
Originally Posted by MADDY
ohhh i know the answer - they are all ARR fans just like MADDY
Guys, Ofcourse the songs in Shiva will not sound Northish, most of them are recycled hits from IR's south movies. So i don't think we need to worry about that . We all knew that. The one song he composed original "Dheemi Dheemi" has been acclaimed by everyone including Northies so it proves that IR is capable of scoring for their taste as well.
Most in North are not capable of appreciating good orchestration/complex rythm patterns etc, so IR's genius cannot be appreciated by them. Lets not worry about that.
R
Guys let's face it - it's IR's fault. We cannot complain about the taste of northies (even though their pejorative sense of music, post the times of SDB). He should have given then all "Dheemi Dheemi" type of songs in the album and inspite he dared to introduce "aanandha raagam". Reallity is, the original score is too much even for us as Southies/Tamilians. IMHO RGV wanted to create an album for himself and least cared about the masses. Maybe he wanted the BGM to be powerful. Let's see if the audience can appreciate king's BGM.
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Probably both. North is socially more polarized than the south, which means, the elite patronizes some very high quality hindustani/ghazal and the masses go for the bhangra/beatsy types. In the south, appreciation of music is evenly (comparatively) distributed among the sections of the society (words like raagam, thaalam and bhaavam are more commonly used in daily language). So the south, can appreciate IR better who is a purveyor of classical music couched in popular format.Quote:
Originally Posted by MADDY
It is quite possible IR's music has a south indian touch to it. But this is nothing wrong and I actually prefer somebody doing music 'organically' rather than 'systematically' (even though IR can be accused of this at time). Rahman's success to me is understandable because, his main selling proposition is modern rhythms married to indian melodies. A 'modern' or western rhythm goes a long way in helping remove any 'local'/'ethnic' flavor from the music (atleast 33% if you breakup a song into rhtym, tune and orchestration).
It is not either IR's fault or North Indian's fault. If the music done by IR will be a hit, it will be IR's victory or if IR will change his music style to satisfy north Indians, it will be NI's victory.Quote:
Originally Posted by NormalMan
Check out IR's BGMs from his next telugu film "Hope"
http://www.greatandhra.com/movies/shows/hope/2.ram
http://www.greatandhra.com/movies/shows/hope/1.ram
Hope's website:
http://www.hope-iamforchange.com/
Hope - A film for a social cause
IndiaGlitz [Friday, September 15, 2006]
These days every one is making films on commercial basis. Every producer wants to get back at least minimum returns on his project. Profit-motto keeps forcing the producers to take up subjects which have lots of commercial values. People, who make films for a social cause, are rare and one among such producers is Haranath Policherla, who is a successful and practicing doctor in the US, who had a commitment to strive to play an active role in bringing about a positive change in the Indian society. Director K Sathyanarayana, popularly known as Satish, has come with an excellent subject especially on the evergreen topic, which makes people to rethink and debate it even after returning from theatres. Not only directing the film, he himself provided story, screenplay and dialogues for the film, which is meant to create widespread awareness and spark off meaningful debate on the subject of education and its role in molding the society.
Puja (Kalyani) is the daughter of Rao (Sudarshan). She loses her mother in her childhood. She has a younger sister, who commits suicide, while studying Intermediate as she fails to get good marks. After a few days, Puja's father also dies of heart attack. Prof R.B.V.R. Murthy (Dr D. Ramanaidu), who worked in Columbia University and also a good journalist and the first Indian who bagged the first Pulitzer award, resides in the same apartment complex. He never comes out of his apartment not speaks to any other, except with his servant maid Lakshmiamma (Radhakumari). But the outside world believes that Prof. Murthy is dead some four years ago. Puja, instead of sitting idle, decides to do some research on the suicidal tendency among the children and collects material from the libraries and other sources.
Rajesh (Venu) is an Indian boy settled abroad. However, he returns to India on a two-month vacation, during which period, he thinks of shooting a documentary on Prof. Murthy. After reaching India, Rajesh meets his friends Shekeel, Priyanka and others. On one occasion, Rajesh accidentally meets Puja, by dashing her. She drops all the newspapers she collected for her research. While gathering them, Rajesh comes to know that one of his friends also committed suicide during his studies. Later Rajesh joins hands with Puja to continue her research. In the process, they take the help of Haranath, who runs schools, in the way Puja wants. The students studying in Haranath's school is away from mental stress and is very much happy. So, with the help of Rajesh, Haranath and others Puja continues her efforts to drive away the present system of education, which posed lots of stress on students. Was she able to achieve her goal? What kind of help did Prof. Murthy gives her? What kind of moral support she got from all her friends? What kind of debate she faced while holding a seminar on the present trends in education? Answers to all these questions form part of the climax.
As the film thought of giving a message to the society, the director and producer thought of telling the same through a top personality. In the process, they met Movie Moghal Dr D Ramanaidu. Till now, Ramanaidu played different roles in various films on his own banner. However, for the first time, he played a full length role and drove the message straight into the hearts of the audience. The specialty of the film is that once again S.P. Balasubrahmanyam lent his voice to the dialogues uttered by Dr D Ramanaidu. Kalyani excelled in her character and showed fantastic histrionics once again. The voice of Sunita perfectly matched her acting. Vizag Prasad, who played the role of Prof Subrahmayam also, did justice to his role. It seems the entire film was shot on just three locations. Another highlight of the film is that the film had the playback music from maestro Ilayaraja. It may be mentioned here that Ilayaraja had almost stopped working for the Telugu films, but accepted the request of Haranath and Satish. The nuances in sound, especially while doing the re-recording is worth listening.
Cinematographer Sarath, who graduated from JNTU in BFT worked for the film. Another specialty of the film is that it is being ably supported by Roshni, a non-governmental and non-political organization, who is working for the cause of dejected, pained, depressed, anxious, angry, suicidal, worried, confused and scared people.
IR's BGM has been given a plus point :clap:
But guys i dunt understand why there is much bother about the BGM as Raja never fails in BGM especially this type of movies :confused2:
Shiva (Hindi) review on IndiaGlitz. Gives a thumbs down.
http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/h...view/8738.html
comment on music:
"Music by Illaiyaraja is good, especially for its fabulous orchestration. But the problem is that except for ‘Police Police’ none of the other songs are really needed. They only slacken the pace of the film."
No mention about BGM
thanks,
Krishnan
http://www.hindu.com/fr/2006/09/15/s...1501960200.htm
Some info on the IR-Vamsi new Telugu movie / album...
Ada vidunga, RAAJA RAAJADHAAN......
Avara adichikka aal illai, eppavumae irukkumpodhu adhanoda arumai theriyaadhu, adhu illadhappodhaan theriyum........
avarai pola melody kudukka yaar irukkaa.....
avara paarthu copy adichavanga ethana peru....... :thumbsup: :clap: