thiruvasakam in symphony

It is heartening to see some sanity prevailing here .....at last!!
Thank you MR!
Spoke to Fr. last night.
IIR will be making an announcement[press meet] on Feb 2nd.
Watch for details.
Thanks.
YIA!!

Please see Fr.'s announcement at www.tis-usa.com.
Thanks.
YIA!!

TODAY IS 2ND FEBRUARY. ANY PRESSMEET ANOUNCING THE RELEASE??? EAGERLY AWAITING TO KNOW THE DEVELOPMENTS.
Further, I request someone to draft and send me a forward mail covering the details of the project, attached with some photographs, so that I can atleast circulate to my friends, many of whom are still unaware of this great project.

From: TISK on Sun Jan 23 9:22:47 2005.

It is heartening to see some sanity prevailing here .....at last!!
Thank you MR!
Spoke to Fr. last night.
IIR will be making an announcement[press meet] on Feb 2nd.
Watch for details.
Thanks.
YIA!!


From: TISK on Mon Jan 24 23:10:50 2005.
Please see Fr.'s announcement at www.tis-usa.com.
Thanks.
YIA!!

Fr.'s announcement at www.tis-usa.com
[January 24, 2005]
Dear Friends,

I am pleased to announce that Maestro Ilaiyaraaja and Tamil Maiyam have together decided to dedicate the THIRUVASAKAM album to the victims of Tsunami and donate all the profits to the educational rehabilitation of children orphaned or affected otherwise by Tsunami. We have commissioned Ma Foi Management Consultants Ltd. to bring out an unique plan of rehabilitation that will not only include scholarship but career guidance and livelihood/placement security. The implementing NGOs will be identified after further consultations and study.

I can perfectly understand the frustration of some of our friends about the delay in releasing the album. You will never probably know the emotions we were undergoing as persons who were closely part of the Tsunami tragedy. I myself lifted 52 dead bodies along with others in a village called Colechel. I had gone to visit a friend of mine from a village close to this costal hamlet in Kanyakumari district. In the context of Tsunami we genuinely thought as inappropriate and unethical to talk even about release of our album. To those who even went to the point of using abusive language for the delay I beg you to be charitable.

Thank you.
fr.jegath


SO FEB 2 HAS FINALLY GONE....GENTLEMEN CAN YOU PLEASE COMEUP AGAIN WITH A NEW DATE AND RELEASE.

AND IAM SURE I WILL BE LABELLED INSANE, ARROGANT...BUT CAN YOU PLEASE COME OUT WITH A LEGITIMATE REASON FOR THE DELAY....ONCE IT WAS MONEY....MANY A THINGS WERE SAID "DEBT, PLEDGE, DOLLARS"...THEN CAME TSUNAMI.....

WELL I DO REMEMBER THE DATE WHICH WAS FIRST ORIGINALLY SAID WAS AROUND DIWALI, THEN IT WAS NOVEMBER, THEN IT WAS NEW YEAR....THEN TSUNAMI CAME...SO NO PONGAL RELEASE...AND FINALLY IT WAS FEB 2....

ONLY GOD KNOWS.....

ALL I COULD SAY IS "IT IS THE MOST UNPROFESSIONAL WAY OF HANDLING A PROFESSIONAL WORK"

IF ANYONE WHO IS REALLY CLOSE TO RAAJA SIR, KARTHIK RAAJA, YUVAN....PLEASE TAKE THIS MESSGAE TO THEM...

AND I BEG YOU PEOPLE...DO NOT COME WITH ANOTHER DATE....EITHER RELEASE IT ELSE KEEP QUITE LET IT DIE A NATURAL DEATH....

In utter frustration....
A true Raaja Fan

Raaja rasigan
Those who are close to raaja sir ...vera yaarum illa father Jegath um SSSAV um thaan !!!!

See ,more than you and me - do remember that Father jegath has risked $1,00,000 for this and Sankar Kumar has risked $40,000 for this -Infact Sankar Kumar and FJ should be the persons who will be more frustrated for the delay !!!Not just from the money perspective ,these guys ( SSSAV ,others ,FJ) have been through with Raaja right from its infancy !!!


EVen iam bit frustrated - but let us wait patiently - it is we who have to be patient !!!!

BTW ,i fully support them for not rleasing it until Jan 26 th - Nobody would buy it when such a huge disaster has struck TN !!! I think this is the right time to start heating things up !!!

The reason is - we are used to all such quick made stuff - everything quick and coupled with the fact our expectations are there every time a date is raised - Please releaise this is not ajith's film ( JI ) or any other film which is being released !!! The planning has to be done perfectly ..


SO WAIT PATIENTLY !!! AND HELP US TO DO SO !!!

Hello please stop telling us to be patient. And stop building on the crab about so and so risking money. They have come in just like any typical fellow to do a business venture. They have collected so much from all of us also in the name of donations...don't you forget that.....we have yet to verify the details of actual sum collected for this project. I can't see anyone in this deserving special status......for thei involvement..

What is extremely clear is that they have wasted precious time and have done nothing to market the product. The only active and creative thing they have been doing is come up with all sorts of silly excuses for their incompetence and lack of sense in making this project a success. Instead they keep on saying they need to plan and plan and plan.....tillllll now we all know what kind of work have been put in to promote the finished product. We are not fools to sit back and accept all these bull shit theories and excuses for the lack of effort.......stop telling us to be patient when you have been patiently sitting on a project like this and waiting for it all to rot away like IR's first Symphony!!!!!

Dear Sankar Kumar and team!

I was eager to hear good news either from TIS USA or Tamil Mayyam or this thread. I was disappointed not to hear any updates. I hope you people will come up with a specific date for the release as I am excited to buy the CD as and when it comes up for grabs. The longer the delay, lesser will be the interest and therefore lesser the sales. Looking forward to speedy release of Thiruvaasagam in Oratorio by IR.

Well friends,

Iam again here, just to remind the things i have put in this forum. Well i placed my comments before you people. Well by now you yourself know the involvement and professionlism as far as this Project goes. So no more comments.

To quote from Fr.Jegath last message posted on 'TIS - website'
In the context of Tsunami we genuinely thought as inappropriate and unethical to talk even about release of our album. To those who even went to the point of using abusive language for the delay I beg you to be charitable.


Well, i would like to say my comments, well I do agree that Tsunami created such a havoc and made life miserable for many, whats my ideas are you people could have arranged a Press meet and should have made IIR address the people. You said the profit from this would go to Tsunami victims. If you have done the same during the last week of Dec or Ist week of Jan. The sales would have been like anything, since it would have got such a nice opening with many of the dailies, weeklies helping their bits in supporting 'TIO' and 'Tsunami victims'. Hope iam talking sense.

But it didnot happen.

Well, i would like to say my personal experience. Basically iam from Trichy. Many of you would have heard IR's Geetanjali, a devotional album on Mookabiga, Vinayagar and Murugan. I think it was 1999. I went to 'Uchi Pillayar' Koil, i went to Thayumanavar Sannathi, after worshipping Lord Siva and Thayaar i was returning. I hope many have been there, to say exactly, you take the right to Uchi pillayar and right to Thayumanavar Sannathi. You go straight and you climb few steps and you take the left to go to Thayumanavar Sannathi.

I was just climbing down that 'few steps' when i listened to the song 'Thaniyaga Naan Enna Ketten' for the first time in life. It was played through a Public address sytem through 'Ahuja wall mounting vertical speakers - i still remember that'. I was really stunned to hear this kind of soul stirring song inside the temple. Some kind of lightning went down my spine. But what i could grasp was....just simple...a devotional album by Illayaraja......will you people believe, without knowing the name of the Album...i went shop to shop in Super Bazaar for almost a week and finally lady lucked smiled on me...and still i have that cassette.


SO WHAT I WISH TO SAY IS THAT....PALAPALATHUKKU....VILAMBARAM THEVAI ILLAI.....HOPE THE CONCERNED PEOPLE UNDERSTANDS THIS.

I dare to say, i myself can sell you quite a number of albums...plz price it at Rs.200/- per CD. I shall easily sell a minimum of 100 CD's among my friends.....So calculate the entire Raaja fans....

Ithukku mela ennatha solrathu.....enna sonalum....vilalukku iraitha neer than....

A creative artiste has also must grow into a good businessman. Many a geniuses have lost inspiration and felt cheated in the long-term because some selfish company exploited the artistes simple state of mind. In those days in India, especially film stars, Music Directors got a pittance for the limitless, priceless and timeless accomplishments. Today, who is reaping the benefits? the pathetic likes of Saregama, HMV and other caricatures of marketing entities.

You take any MD in India, they are basically living in abject conditions (I don't want to give examples, I have personally seen it.)

Today' generation of audience and producers are paying tons of money for loads of s_it turned out by mediocre artistes, simply because the market is wide and marginal returns are guaranteed even for mediocrity. Not like the old days, where only geniuses had a chance to be appreciated and barriers of entry was very high.

The future of music is in India, and especially Indian film music will find appreciation forever, once the world awakens to the general depth that is missing thus far in Western creativity. Yes, they have reached heights, but a skyscraper without a foundation cannot weather the winds that long.

If an artiste can also have business acumen, he can help preserve the creative legacies for all peoples of the world far into the future without having commercial giants waste away the gifts of creativity.

I strongly feel if the creator is not ready yet to release it, then the audience know less about the creator and the maestro knows about the audience. (Tsunami brought people' focus on basic human values and minds were not tuned to joy or pleasure at that time. However, many an artistes have foolishly exploited (of course, at the behest of greedy executives of marketing companies) the feelings to sell concerts in aid of Tsunami not just abroad but also in north India!!! What do you say about this heartless behavior?! Do you think the likes of Raaja would capitalize on this?!

Let us all be patient. Timing and preparation is very important for such historical works, one must not throw it away because others are restless. We can wait, some may miss out, but we have a time and day to look forward to....

However, it is all a balance between not postponing a good even too much and timing the event giving all involved due consideration.

Let us pray for success for Raaja and Tamil Maiyyam in their efforts!

well said natha