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Sindhu Bairavi told the story of a classical musician and thus the need to have a heavily classical based musical accompaniment. In the same situation, most MDs with classical background can do justice to the scope.
Regardless of what some fans may want to imagine, IR's legacy in classical music per se is not very extensive, and is in fact minute if you compare with real classical composers like KV Mahadevan.
but I dont think anyone made classical music so popular that its(sindu bairavi) is even liked by the mass!...ilayaraja made the mass listen to it!Quote:
Originally Posted by NOV
He got national award for sindhu bairavi .... so I think he is very good in classical music to get a national award for a classical music based movie!
he got national award for salangai oli ...which is also a classical album
he got it for rudra veena...someone can tell whether thats a classicla album!
i dont wanna compare him with K.V.Mahadevan....but Ilayaraja is not inferior to anyone...he made classical music popular(among the masses) which itself a great achievement
The most popular songs in SB were in fact the folk songs, not the classical songs.
I wont call Salangai Oli a classical movie. A classic movie perhaps. 8-)
that exactly is the point when you begin comparing. IR is not inferior to anyone and neither are ARR and VS. Each have their own strengths and weakness and when you begin this comparison game, there is going to be no end to it.Quote:
Originally Posted by mazhaichaaral
I brought in KVM to stop the assumption taken here that IR is the best classical musician ever, which he is certainly not.
KV Mahadevan is a well-known classical music composer with kandhan karunai and sangarabaranam under his belt....thats why I replied both are not inferior to each other...!Quote:
Originally Posted by NOV
vidhyasagar is good!
but arr...he is a great composer of our times....but in classical music he hasnt done greatly...!
This discussion is going nowhere. I have already answered your points raised in your last post in my previous two posts. :wave:
This week's AV carries an interview of VS. He says that HJ, YSR lack uniqueness in their compositions, and it is hard to identify who composed which songs nowadays.
And my questions are "does this guy have any unique style? has he created one for himself to talk about others in the first place?"
Judge i doubt if VS would say such things...he is a very quiet and unassuming person...he does have a unique style...especially his classical instrumentation for melodies..that alone is his trademark..the rest is just typical :D
Mazhai...KVM is the best classical composer we ever had..his usage of sitara and veenai makes it like a real life devotional song...IR's usage of classical songs is not exactly classical..it is using classical format with WCM instrumentation...quite different...but as NOV said nobody is inferior to anybody...each have their own strength and weaknesses..:D
Vijayr i think when they say packaged they mean making the tune sound according to the current music trend. In a way it means appealing to all sections of the audience. That is what HJ has been doing..going for soft rhythms with some hip sounds to make it appealing :D
Dude, he has said it. Check yourself if you don't believe. I think he couldn't digest their successes and vent out his frustration of losing out in the game. He also says "their albums's success is based on the movie's fate at BO. Quality is not important only hit matters here"Quote:
Originally Posted by Hulkster
I'd be very sad if VS had truly said that. I can imagine Srikanth Deva or Sabesh Murali saying that but VS.... :cry:
As for classical composers, KVM is just the tip of the iceberg. Many others before him including the greatest G Ramanathan... Well, lets have that on another day. :D