movie- nayagan
album - idhaya kovil
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movie- nayagan
album - idhaya kovil
ipdi oru panchayathu nadandhukittirukkA?
Movies - Mouna Raagam (Biased opinion - one of the earliest movies I had a fascination for. Manohar was everything an introverted, timid schoolboy wished to be, and Divya - confession mode - was everything a teenager wished for in a girlfriend. The one film which made me a life-long fan of Revathy, a state which refuses to go away despite some incontrovertible evidence that she *may not* be all that that schoolboy thought she was - like, the best freaking actress ever in the history of cinema, for instance :-).
Subsequent viewings have been enriched by ability to 'receive' Mr. Mottai's contribution in BGM. One of the best ever for Raja in terms of BGM.
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Album - Very difficult. Is it Geetanjali? Mouna Raagam? Idhaya Kovil? Thalapathy?.....(*after a brief fight and win against Raja bias*) Dil Se?
Even pagal nilavu stakes claim. enna seyya. Case adjourned :-)
Note - the one absentee in the albums' list above might be the dark horse.
ARR vs IR in a mani movie
similar situation and different scores.
mani movie musicnala post pandren.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9VQ0Aa_c6U
Lovely editing by Yowan. What stands out to me is how Maniratnam chooses to depict the intimacy between his characters, even within the boundary conditions imposed by the Indian Censor Board.
Roja
The phrase 'a long cold winter' has come to signify, if anything, a lack of passion. But turning the tables on the analogy can make just as much sense. The honeymoon period of a marriage might well be akin to the cover of snow. Passion, just as ice, has this ephemeral tendency to melt away. If what remains after it has melted away is fertile land then you've got it made. Otherwise you are in for a rocky road ahead.
Mani does just this - use the cold to signify heat. This trip to Kashmir is ROjA's first unbiased time alone with her man. Much like the solid precipitation and new age background music, it is new to her. And in the larger sense much like the expansive nature of what lies before her eyes, it seems like her future is limitless and full of hope. The passion while good, at that time, only seems like it can get better. That entire song signifies hope - a hope for a life that will become worth fighting for in the near future.
Mouna RAgam
The Taj Mahal has been represented countless times in Indian film, often as a symbol of love. But these foolishly romantic notions cloud another very important feeling it symbolizes - loss.
Loss is also the feeling Divya allows herself to be defined by. She is different from Roja in that she isn't led to what she sees. She walks up to it independent of Chandrakumar. What does this building signify to someone who has lost but must live on? Her past? Or her future? The somber choral background may even be alluding to this confusion. Then follows the analogy from before - the cold becoming a gateway to heat.The questionable dance moves apart, what becomes immediately obvious is the need for Divya to heal. The wounds of the past will only be mollified by the passion in her future.
compli :clap: .
Pudhu vellai mazhai - something never seen, never heard before, swerving away from anything that existed.
to me, the closest they sounded similar in a mani movie was this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5mkv...eature=related
Ay hairathe from Guru
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ujET...eature=related
Nee oru kaadhal sangeetham from Nayagan
matter ennanaa, mani just rehashes his scenes..Quote:
Originally Posted by Vivasaayi
Compli :thumbsup:
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The questionable dance moves apart
:lol: yeah, sick!
Adhellam vidunga...
Can we say unanimously(?)... THIRUDA THIRUDA is the mokkiest of Mani's films in tamizh...
innum nan andha padam parthadhillai... nEthu kadaisi oru 20 mins parthEn... ayyoo samee.. thangalai...
oru visayam parkka nalla irundhadhu.. 2 playback singers together in a scene (SPB & malaysiya vasudevan)
I will watch Thiruda Thiruda anyday when aalaipayuthe or kannathil muthamitaal are given as other options.Quote:
Originally Posted by HonestRaj