Raagas - regarding 'Hey Ram', I always had this confusion - what do they mean when they declare Raja composed for songs that were already shot.
On Raja's recent birthday, an FM channel here was paying tribute and was asking various personalities from TFM to talk about him. A R Murugadas, who worked with Raja in 'Ramana' mentioned about the same. He started by saying (not verbatim), 'I know people create music, but Raja sir creates magic. 'Hey Ram' composing sessions were happening in parallel at the time of 'Ramana' re-recording and when I went to meet him one day, he was composing using a piano and watching a scene from 'Hey Ram' screen. I asked him about what he was doing and he explained the whole thing of 'composing for a song that was already shot'. That particular song had Kamal playing the notes on piano and I asked him how he can create a different music in this case as Kamal was distinctly shown using specific keys in piano and he laughed and said that it's possible and played the piece he composed and it sounded totally differentI was totally stunned that day'
I hope he means [url = http://ilayarajarerecordings.blogspo...e-to-nee.html] this scene[/url]
It only adds more confusion as I still don't understand how this can be done
Another note, a similar incident happened with Yuvan and G V Prakash Kumar. A song was already shot and the director broke up with Yuvan and asked GVP to compose for it. Yuvan went to use the same song for a different film. (Raja has sung it). In one of his interviews, GVP kept on saying that only Raja and himself had done stuff like this.
You can listen to them here - Yuvan's song that was composed first (which was later used for another film) - They sound all the same to me. GVP's song went on to be a chartbuster and pity, both the composers were equally bashed for copying each other by uninitiated people!
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