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Thamil Ini Mella Chaagumnu Bharathiyaar sonnathu ivanunga maari aala paarthuthaan. Whats the difference between these people and the people who burn buses. Nothing.
If Karnataka decide to give water to Tamil Nadu, these people will find the "critic" reasons why they decided to give water and will stop the water from flowing.
If Pak stop its support to sponsor terrorism, these people will find reasons why pak decided to stop it and will encourage pak to do it again.
These people will never change. dont read these stupid blogs and end up being one of them.
Learn to appreciate what is good.
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I din't find this 'critical vimarsanam' all that great.
He contradicts everything he said in the first half, with everything he says in the second half.
He first says that people knew little of and was not attracted to Thevara Thiruvasagam.
Then he says that poeple were attracted to the same because of it's natural rythm and Raja spoilt it.
He also has many facts wrong. Where did he hear that Raja is going to release the rest of the Thiruvasagam?
He asks, if Raja only sings 6 or 7 from each pathikam, who will sing the rest? My suggestion to him is he does, since he seems to know so much about it and he believes that it can be sung with one Shruthi petti.
I got a gist of what to come in the early part of his article when he complained that no one related to thevara thiruvasagam were present at the release function. I think he is bitter that he was not invited.
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Guys,
I read the review.. My thoughts..
1. Seems to be sincere and has good thoughts.
2. there are a few contradictions.. shows that in his sincereity he just thought aloud and did not make it very coherent.
3. His logic of who will sing the rest of the thiruvasagam is completely illogical.. So if IR tunes some thirukurrals, will he ask who will tune the remaining 1300 or so .!! does not make any sense.
I recite the compelete sivapuranam peice starting with " Namasivaya Vazgha .." all the way to " Solliya paatin porulunarnthu solluvar ..." everyday morning .. So when i listened to Polla Vinayen , the first thing that stuck me was the sequence change and some missing verses as i had mentioned in my earlier post..
But i did not see any distortion in the meaning..Infact it was very clever the way he weaves the different sections of the verses and it mixes brilliantly with the choir and chorus..and i have no problem with him missing some verses.. Let's look at it this way.. In it's extremely original form it has been in print for many many years..how many people did thiruvasagam reach.. and now due to TIS, how many people have listened to Thiruvasagam..
And also i do not agree with him arguing that the english lyrics should not have been interposed with the tamil ones.. This is one way to make it reach a wider audience.. and it is just a translation and not anything unrelated..
On a lighter note..I guess he has not heard some of kavi persasu's algorithmic "toiletkku tissue paper Azhagu...cell phone'kku CDMA alazghu " kavithuvam's :-))
Cheers
MSK
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MSK,
I would appreciate if you could let me know some more details on thiruvasagam... basically I wanted to know how many songs are there and how many versus each song has...
Thanks
Sai
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Any1 know if the CD is available in bay area, CA?
Also anywhere on the net I can listen to samples?
TIA
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cry sandiego
"Let's look at it this way.. In it's extremely original form it has been in print for many many years..how many people did thiruvasagam reach.. and now due to TIS, how many people have listened to Thiruvasagam.. "
NETHIADI :clap:
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I was fortunate to be with IIR when he explained his concept of Thiruvaasagam to Stephen Schwartz.
'This is not the whole thiruvasagam which contains over 600 verses. I have selected a few verses from it to show its greatness to our younger generation and to the western people who don't know what kind of treasures we have which is not appreciated by these people. Several hundreds of years ago this grreat nman has talked about universal oneness and one GOD for all of us. And, today we are facing lots of conflicts in the name of religion and God and are waging wars. I am presnting a few songs as it is and the for the main piece, I have selected SivapurANam and ONLY there, I have re-arranged the verses to bring out the essence of oneness to MY satisfaction. And, for this, I want your English translation"
So saying, he got up from his chair and went to SS's piano and without any prompting started playing and singing, 'Pollaa vinaiyEn' with notes! ...that was a memorable moment!
let these people talk whatever they want!
The fact is that today every common man is walking in the streets singing 'puRRil vaazhum aravum anjEn' and is stopping where these Odhuvaars sing Thiruvaasagam [which they have been singing so far with no audience] and are looking at them with reverence, more people are getting into buying the whole Thiruvaasagam!
That was made possible by this layman from paNNaipuram!
Yellaam Iraivan aruL!!
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Pl. send the above mail to the gentleman who wrote that review! Thanks.
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You can get the Thiruvasagam CD in the Bay Area in the following locations
1 Raaga Music Store
(408) 616-8864
1016 E El Camino Real
Sunnyvale, CA 94087
Bangla Bazar
(408) 738-3213
924 E Fremont Ave
Sunnyvale, CA 94087
Nilgiris Inc
(408) 746-0808
(408) 746-2822
1187 W El Camino Real
Sunnyvale, CA 94087
Coconut Hill
(510) 656-9671
46121 Warm Springs Blvd
Fremont, CA 94539
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Had a pleasant surprise. Its always gratifiying when you enjoy a particular piece and then later find out that piece of music occupies a special place in the composer's heart too. I had earlier mentioned about the line "gNaanaar en uLLamaar..." from the second stanza of the Pooveru Konum song and how myself and my friend MS were both impressed with how the meaning in those lines being aptly reflected by the tune/rendition/background giving several goosepimple-inducing moments. Surprise, I watch TIS release function yesterday night on SS Music and IR starts off his speech by rendering this very same line. And then in the programme "Talking with Maestro" on the same channel this very same line is again played at the start of the programme just before IR starts talking.
