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

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The pallavi lyrics are not great and I was pissed off a bit but the lyrics in the charanams are quite good.

Exactly! Listening to both unnaipatRi sonnAl & un vAzhvE made me think why can't IR do songs like the typical western pop - where prelude is followed by the first stanza / saraNam and only after that the chorus / pallavi plays

Actually IR, being a WCM fanatic, can even do songs without any pallavi at all (there are any number of church choir songs with no chorus aka pallavi part, just stanzas). With IR's extraordinary capability to orchestrate, it would be interesting to see if a director comes to him with a requirement that there should be no pallavi

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the site has listed top 100 all-time bollywood soundracks

As it lists all my favourites (ArAdhanA, bobby, YKB, QSQT, Ashiqui, shOlAy, qurbAni, dil sE etc), it should be a pretty decent list

L-P got to be big, with Bobby! Even in TN VILLAGES, it ruled (hum-tum used to be my "humm-all-time" song at one point of time! So was K-A's qurbAni (lailA O lailA). SDB-RDB popularity is also unquestionable!

I'm not so sure about the Anu Malik / Ram Laxman kind of guys about whom I don't care.

OTOH, QSQT by A-M is among the greatest music I've ever heard!

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http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/movies/review/14149/index.html

padam super hit agumnu thonuthu

After a long time, IR is associated with two "decent -to-very good" movies (commercially and artistically): PR and PAA.

-Gokul.

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(nice audio setup Gokul)

Thanks Kiru. I just need to add a turn table and borrow some of your vinyl disks

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Sanjeevi,

As with all ratings, this one is subjective as well. Probably rated by guys who grew up in the 80s. The second half of the 80s till the mid 90s when Rahman appeared on the scene, was probably the lowest period for Hindi film music and there are many films in this period which appear in this list!!! Anyway, as someone who has been listening to old Hindi film songs a lot, this list is a big joke. When Salil Da appears only once, Kemchand Prakash and Anil Biswas don't appear at all, 'Woh Kaun Thi' languishing near 100, this would appear to be a list prepared by the musically illiterate. Especially when you consider that Aadesh Srivasta, Himesh Reshamaiyya and the like appear but no Anil Biswas!!

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Sanjeevi,

As with all ratings, this one is subjective as well. Probably rated by guys who grew up in the 80s. The second half of the 80s till the mid 90s when Rahman appeared on the scene, was probably the lowest period for Hindi film music and there are many films in this period which appear in this list!!! Anyway, as someone who has been listening to old Hindi film songs a lot, this list is a big joke. When Salil Da appears only once, Kemchand Prakash and Anil Biswas don't appear at all, 'Woh Kaun Thi' languishing near 100, this would appear to be a list prepared by the musically illiterate. Especially when you consider that Aadesh Srivasta, Himesh Reshamaiyya and the like appear but no Anil Biswas!!

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Absolutely Suresh, i agree.Excluding someone like Anil Biswas or infact having only 2 films of Madan Mohan shows their knowledge.I doubt if the author knows that there was one Anil Biswas or Sajjad Hussain or Jaidev.I dont know how such lame people are hired for tasks like that (compiling best soundtracks).

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rediff's review:

http://movies.rediff.com/report/2009...a-for-auro.htm

Reviewer forgot to notice the songs/BGM, I guess

thanks,

Krishnan

[Sanjeevi]

as usual rediff (poonai) tried to hide Raaja (kannai moduduchu)

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Today's Times Of India Bangalore edition carries the film review of "Paa". It gives 3.5 stars , ie good - very good rating. Rgarding music, it says Illaiyaraja's lilting music score is something to watch out for.
IR ushered in 2009 with head turning "Naan kadavuL" and now with "Paa", he winds up with a great aplomb !!!

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PAA - The review

Film is very emotion centric, but do not believe that this is a tearjerker. In fact the only tears shed are at the last five minutes of the film. Otherwise it is a tale woven with humour and relationships.

The film has excellent dialogues which keep the flow in tact and a simple screenplay. Characterization is probably the best as instead of creating a mother character that is waiting for the end of her son's life, he has brought out a independent feminist who has come into terms with life. Same goes with Abishek as his characterization sort of matches Auro's style of thinking who is a politician in this film. Balki has tried to fuse alot of wittiness in this movie just like Cheeni Kum to enhance the film.

Downside is the slightly villainous character who has not much scope in this film and the corruption angle which abishek is trying to omit, both of which are not really needed for the story(i guess director was trying to justify abishek's style of thinking and his vision as a politician but it takes the gloss off the story a little bit).

Amitabh really pulls it off although you can't see alot of expressions due to his make up until the end where you start noticing them. His walking style looks like pithamagan vikram but that is offset from the viewer due to his dialogue delivery. Abishek, Vidya and the rest perform adequately.

PC Sreeram's cinematography is excellent as ever and so is thalaivar's music. For such a film, a minimal background score is the best and thalaivar has performed that admirably. But you will really cry when it comes to the climax as thalaivar slowly builds up the impending tragedy with his score. Despite the predictability of what is going to happen, the music makes you feel the impending sadness and when it happens you just let your tears out(The genius of thalaivar is that he does not his score wail out when the finale happens, letting you feel the impact of the scene). Most of the songs are played fully although there are breaks where the characters will have a small dialogue and then the music continues. It is very effective as then you understand why the interlude and the charanam of the song goes in that manner.

Film is certainly a must watch. It is quite similar to Cheeni Kum with all the wittiness and characterization but you will never feel lost in any scene you see. Certainly a amazing film.