Maestro Ilaiyaraja New Albums 2011 - Hello Jaihind / Sri Rama Rajyam

[Sureshs65]

raagas,

I was telling the truth as well as pulling your leg !!! I know you didn't intend me

Anyway, here is my take on Raja with respects to the two set of music directors you had described. When Raja speaks nowadays he belongs to the first set. But when he does music, he belongs to the second set I know it is confusing but then that is Raja!!! What I mean here is that he is very convinced that the current trend has not enriched our music. At the same time he knows he has lot of material left in him and if he has to continue he has to adapt to the trend. Which he is trying to do with the loops / synth and all. Even in this he is hell bent on creating his own idiom and not following the others. That is why I ask people to cut him some synth slack. Because he is trying, because he is still innovative, because he still experiments, because no one can think of the very symphonic way the whole synth plays in the interludes of 'kudhikira kudhikira', because no one can imaginatively weave a melody like 'andala lokam', no one can infuse such a seemingly unrelated beat and yet create "aaro paadunnu doori". The contradictions are there in his sayings but they are understandable because he is a man who has not given up, he is a man who is still fighting the battle. Whether he is winning or losing depends on the point of view, but none of us who follow his music can say that he has given up. Not when "malarvillile
comes up, not when "bhavani varugiraa" comes up.