Happy Birthday to Raja & Mani...
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Happy Birthday to Raja & Mani...
நகமும் சதையுமாய் இருந்த நண்பர்கள் இப்போது பிரிந்திருப்பது மிகவும் வருத்தமான விஷயம். சேர்ந்து வேலை செய்வதும் செய்யாததும் அவர்கள் வணிகம் சம்பத்தப்பட்ட விஷயம். இருவரும் யாரோ போல் இருப்பது நன்றாகவா இருக்கிறது. அது சரி, இந்த வீடியோ எங்கு எடுக்கப்பட்டது? எப்போது? இதன் தொடர்ச்சி கிடைக்குமா? ராஜா சார் ரொம்ப கான்சியஸாக இருக்கிறார். சுற்றி குடும்பத்து குழந்தைகள் இருப்பதால் அமைதியாக இருக்கிறார் போலும். இருவரும் அவர்கள் குடும்பத்தினரும் நீடூழி வாழ என் வாழ்த்துக்கள்.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9iLIuCRxC8&spfreload=5
Ilaiyaraaja has composed for a Telugu album with two songs (Thikkalodi Vesham and Naa Kadhalo Yuvarani). Naa kadhalo is a smooth breeze of a melody but my personal favourite is thikkalodi vesham! No one does jazz better in indian film music than this guy :D
https://www.saavn.com/s/album/telugu...7/KXs,sTvn9m0_
I am sure many of you would be watching and following this .. good effort
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO_pQPW9x6w
Padma Vibhushan (2018) for Ilaiyaraja.
Glad that he was recognised at least now, even though accoladed only 5 times with National Film Awards [1984, 1986, 1989, 2010, 2016].
Does anyone know who recommended Ilaiyaraja for Padma Vibhushan ? Thanks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmDq94ia_eU
[From Karagattakaran (1989). Written, Composed and Sung by Ilaiyaraja).
Congratulations to our Dear Maestro Raaja in receiving the second highest civilian award from Govt. of India. This is a well deserved award. Raaja thanked the Modi administration for recognizing the Tamil Nadu people while awarding this prestigious award. In many occasions Raaja has mentioned that big Isai Jambhavans like KV Mahadevan, MS Vishwanathan, Salil Chowdhury weren't recognized with Padma Awards. MSV, Salil and Burman weren't even given National Music Direction awards. Our national awards rarely split the awards between two films or artists. Raaja should have received the National Award for Vaidehi Kathirunthal in 1985 but he was given the honor for Sindhu Bhairavi the same year. We can quote several such misses from Raaja's world record of 1,100 film albums. The legendary Italian music director Ennio Morricone finally received his US Academy Award from Oscar committee in 2016 for Hateful Eight, becoming the oldest person ever to win an Oscar. Morricone's signature tune from 1966 hit movie "The Good the Bad and the Ugly" became the most copied musical piece in many movies.
On another note, Maestro is starting his USA Symphony tour in March 2018. He is bringing the Budapest Symphony Orchestra along with Chithra, Mano, Haricharan and Rahul Nambiar. It is expected that the symphony orchestra will be used to render some rare songs and tunes for Raaja's fans. I am waiting to attend the concert after seeing him in US in 2016.
Mayyam admins: Please open a new 2018 thread for Maestro.
Two examples of world class background scores - Raaja's title score from Raaja Parvai and Morricone's signature tune from 1966 classic. Splendid performances from two geniuses.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lewgcm6ic68
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1PfrmCGFnk
Today Prime Minister Narendra Modi talked about the transparency in Padma Awards selection process in his first 2018 Mann ki Baat radio speech and how anyone could nominate any person online. The earlier selection processes was done via political recommendations. In that regard, Tamil Nadu was always dealt a raw deal by state and central governments. It is very unfortunate that one of the most illustrious and famous music director from Tamil Nadu - Mellisai Mannar MSV wasn't conferred any Padma or National Film awards. MSV is considered one of the stalwarts and architects of propagating the spirit of Dravidian movement through his popular tunes with the help of Poet Kannadasan. Look at the number of super duper albums from MSV in classical tunes. MSV should have received the National Award for Aboorva Raagangal in 1975. Vaani Jayaram won the Best Playback singer for the same film. Our subsequent Tamil Nadu state governments failed to nominate or didn't exert enough pressure to confer a Padma Vibushan to Mellissai Mannar. The entire Tamil film fraternity and Raaja spoke about this injustice in various forums. MSV should have received the highest honor - The "Dadasaheb Phalke" Award. We all know how Maestro Raaja lost another National Award for his 2011 Telugu magnum opus album "Sri Rama Rajyam" because the National Film screening committee had bad sound system in the New Delhi screening theatre. There was a big uproar for completely neglecting the Telugu film industry that year. The best music direction award for Raaja was missing. Instead the National Film award jury gave the Best Music Direction award to an unknown Bengali film "Laptop" and Mayook Bhowmik won the award.
At the same time, it is very heart warming to note that two illustrious Tamil Nadu artists - Maestro Raaja and Rahman, both bagged a total of 9 National Awards in a span of 35 years. Their combined awards overtakes the number of national music awards bagged by artists from other states. A national award to Raaja or Rahman is considered as a honor to the people of Tamil Nadu. That's exactly what Raaja mentioned during his Padma press conference. The number of awards bagged by the two great Tamil citizens is a testimony and honor to all the great music directors who worked in Tamil films - MSV, CR Subburaman, TK Ramamoorthy, and G Ramanathan.
The reach of social media and internet was so rudimentary in early 1980 and 90s. The phenomenon of YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp all started just 10 years back. Today, New York City is hosting the 60th Edition of Grammy Awards. As you all know, unlike Oscar Academy awards, the Grammy music awards is given to music artists all over the world including religious choirs and traditional folk albums. It's a glaring omission to note that Maestro's outstanding non-film music albums - Nothing But Wind, How to Name It and Thiruvasagam weren't even nominated for Grammys. Madhura Sudha is doing an amazing job in analyzing Maestro's tunes. Kudos to Madhura.
It's time to fix this imbalance in neglecting the immense talented artists from India in international stage. India continues to nominate three hour long movies with songs and dances to Oscar committee. The Academy jury will doze off after 30 minutes of watching our films. I can guarantee that Padmavat will be nominated from India for next year's Academy Award. Padmavat songs are terrible. The producers spent crores of money in lavish sets and paying artists but fail to spend a fraction of the money towards background score and music album. Maestro Raaja could have brought Budapest Symphony Orchestra and provided a world class score for the movie.
Listen to our great Raaja fan Shri. Madhura Sudha describing the intricate details of "How to Name It" album. Folks at Grammy selection jury should listen to this video clip.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_qmfmJGapQ
ஆனந்த விகடன் சினிமா விருதுகள் 2018 - எஸ்.எஸ்.வாசன் விருது
இளையராஜா
இசையின் திசை. தமிழர்களின் உயிர் நரம்புகளுக்குள் ஊடுருவிய ராக ராஜா. தமிழ்த்திரையுலகில் இசைக்கு ஓர் இருண்டகாலம் இருந்தது. இந்தித் திணிப்பை எதிர்த்த இதே தமிழ் மண்ணை, இந்தித் திரைப்பாடல்கள் ஆக்கிரமித்துக் கொண்டன. அப்போது விடியலுக்கான புதிய பூபாளம், மலைவாழைத் தோப்புகளின் மத்தியில் இருந்து ஒலித்தது. அந்த ‘அன்னக்கிளி’யின் ஒலி, இருட்டைக் கிழித்த இசையின் ஒளி. இளையராஜா என்ற மகத்தான கலைஞனின் வருகைக்குப் பிறகுதான், தமிழர்கள் பின்னணி இசையின் முழுப்பரிமாணத்தையும் முக்கியத்துவத்தையும் உணர்ந்துகொண்டார்கள். சிற்பி, ஒரு சிலைக்குக் கடைசியாய்க் கண்களைத் திறப்பதுபோல, படங்களுக்குப் பின்னணி இசைமூலம் உயிரூட்டினார் ராஜா. ‘நீ பார்த்த பார்வைக்கொரு நன்றி’ கேட்டால், காதலிக்காதவர்களுக்கும் காதலிக்கத் தோன்றும். ‘கற்பூர பொம்மையொன்று’ தமிழில் நனைத்த தாலாட்டு. ‘மனிதா மனிதா இனி உன் விழிகள் சிவந்தால் உலகம் விடியும்’ புரட்சிப் பாடல் கேட்டால் நம் நரம்புகளுக்குள் தீப்பிடிக்கும். தமிழர்களின் தருணங்கள் அனைத்தையும் இசையால் நிரப்பியவர் இளையராஜா. திரையிசையைத் தாண்டியும் ‘திருவாசகம்’, ‘ஹௌ டு நேம் இட்’, ‘நத்திங் பட் விண்ட்’ என்ற இசைஞானியின் ஆல்பங்கள் அவரது மேதமைக்கான அழுத்தமான அடையாளங்கள். சிம்பொனிக்கும் சிறப்பு சேர்த்தவை மேஸ்ட்ரோ மேதையின் விரல்கள். ஆயிரம் படங்களைத் தாண்டியும் தொடர்கிறது பாட்டுப்பயணம். நெடுந்தூரப் பயணம் செய்பவர்களுக்கு எப்போதும் ராஜாவே துணை. தாயின் மடி, தலை கலைக்கும் வளையல் கரங்கள், குழந்தையின் மென்மை, பூக்களின் மலர்ச்சி... இன்னும் எத்தனை எழுதினாலும் நிறைவுபெறாத நித்தியக் கலைஞனின் மகத்தான பணிகளுக்கு எஸ்.எஸ்.வாசன் விருது தந்து வணங்கி மகிழ்கிறான் விகடன்!
https://www.vikatan.com/anandavikata...ards-2017.html
Actress Sri Devi's sudden death is shocking... Most of her songs were composed by Maestro... Raaja fans can quote several hit songs of Sri Devi with many leading actors.
Maestro's statement is here
http://www.thehindu.com/entertainmen...le22850226.ece
The "Nari Kathai" song from Moonram Pirai where Sri Devi and Kamal recorded the audio portion in the studio.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhiTk0NJcL0
My favorite Sri Devi song composed by Maestro and the interesting story mentioned by Maestro during Seattle 2016 music performance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghCJiRlfdwo
The mesmerizing song sung by KJY and written by Poet Kannadasan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpi_BHr09bk
Aagaya Gangai - Dharma Yudham (1979)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1lRlbdl4EE
Andalalo Aho Mahodayam (Telugu) - Agadeka Veerudu Atiloka Sundari (1990)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_XMrtlN014
Enthan Kannil - Guru (1980)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rcztns_tpDA
En Vannile - Jhonny (1980)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kT047bbPwnY
Vaanengum Thanga Vinmeengal - Moondram Pirai (1982)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pHM6pDGOZQ
Today Maestro Ilayaraaja will receive the prestigious Padma Vibushan award from the President of India. It was so heartening to see Maestro performing in San Jose, California just yesterday March 18 (USA Pacific time). Maestro's USA tour started the week before (March 10) in Houston which was followed by Dallas, Texas. The Budapest Symphony Orchestra from Hungary is accompanying Raaja in this USA tour. On Saturday, March 17, he performed a full Telugu concert in San Francisco Bay Area (San Jose) followed by a Tamil concert the next day (March 18). It was an amazing concert and watching the Budapest Symphony folks was awesome. Raaja had to leave the concert towards the end to take a special chartered flight to New Delhi from San Francisco. Today he will be receiving the Padma Vibushan award in Rashtrapati Bhavan and probably fly back to USA (Chicago) to continue the remaining part of the tour. I wish Raaja performed a dedicated BGM concert with the Hungary Symphony group. I was expecting the Raaja Parvai BGM to be played in this trip though they played the song from the movie.
Having been to Raaja's international concerts during the past few years, I can always return back with a sense of 200% fulfillment. Rahul Nambiar rocked with his performance and so was Vibhavari Apte. She was literally amazing with her rendering of S Janaki's platinum hits. KS Chitra and Mano were the peak performers. Super Singer 2014 participants (Sharath and Niranjana) performed in Chorus and duet songs. There were few other Super Singers in the group.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn9j9_pzRVA
Watch the Doordarshan video of Padma Award ceremony. Maestro is seen right in the beginning, then at 03:10 and the award presentation by the Honourable President at 13:50. Congratulations once again to our Dear Maestro Raaja... Wishing Him a safe trip back to Chicago to resume his USA Tour this Saturday. He landed in New Delhi on March 20 after conducting the San Jose music concert in California.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIDMdodVixQ
Watch Maestro Raaja at Google Campus, Mountain View, CA before his San Jose, USA concert during the week of March 16, 2018. This was a busy week for the Maestro. He had two back-to-back concerts in San Jose (Telugu & Tamil). On March 18 he took a chartered flight to New Delhi to receive the Padma Vibushan award on March 20 and flew back to Chicago for his concert on March 24.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhCC-LsdmbI
Maestro has successfully wrapped up his 2018 Symphony Tour with Budapest Symphony Orchestra. Haricharan posted this group photo with the entire group posing before Washington Memorial in DC. Karthik Raja and KS Chitra are not to be seen. Chitra is staying back in US for another Malayalam music concert tour with Shareth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hp97RVzyXE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu0vUU51T6I
Could anyone redirect me to the full AV version of these concerts, please?
Exotic visuals and music!!. IR has created an enchanting and pleasing music even for the trailer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGbc...ature=youtu.be