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

[jaiganes]

Bought the album from itunes.

I love Bhavani Varugira.. Excellent stuff. Only IR can swing this way!
Malar vilililE - I keep thinking it is done by Karthik Raaja! (Why!) Kannai PadiththEn sounds like vidyasaagar to me

Kannaip padithEn is a mix of Vidyasagar and Joshua sridhar. Good thing is it resembles their "best "
On the overall - this is "put in an infinite loop" kinda album.

[skr]

Seems like Ponnar Shankar has hit the screens and even a review has been out surprisingly praising the movie..
Read the last line 'If you are ready to forget some loopholes (which you will hardly find), Ponnar Shankar is a great film to watch (especially on big screen)!
http://tamil.galatta.com/entertainme...20Shankar.html

[skr]

Returned after a one week net hiatus since i was away and read all the postings and hearing the songs parallelly..
Very nice reviews by VS,Jai,Raagas and others..
Im totally hooked on to Kannai Padithen..on 1st hear Malar Vilile is also very nice to hear..
Regarding the Raga of Malar Vilile,this was the thoughts of my friend who is an expert at Raagas..
'Malar Vilile starts in Suddha Dhanyasi, gives a feel of Mohanam and changes to Brindavana Saranga so effortlessly..

Btw should apologise for the wrong info regarding the songs and the singers..it must have given gr8 disappointment to all Hubbers(incl me)..
The news of the songs were posted by a user on Wikipedia after the audio release..so thought the info was authentic but it turned out to be April Fools Day Prank ..

[San_K]

onlynikil Nikil Murugan tweet:

Amazing responses from the Press and Media for Ponnar Shankar..Congrats Prasanth..

[San_K]

Kannai PadiththEn sounds like vidyasaagar to me

Kannaip padithEn is a mix of Vidyasagar and Joshua sridhar. Good thing is it resembles their "best "
On the overall - this is "put in an infinite loop" kinda album.

yeppa mudiyala

[raj_musing]

I was trying to imagine a few other playback singers who could have fit better into some of these songs:-

SPB singing that introduction song. Perhaps there would be more fans for this song then
Chitra singing "Kannai Padithen" instead of Shreya. Not that Shreya is bad,but since this is a kind of duet,where chitra could have brought more Alankaram to this song. Chitra is not seen much in any of Raja songs in tamil.She has still not lost her 'golden touch' and is highly missed in some songs.

Iam not a Shriram Parthasarathy fan,and would have been more happy to get someone else sing this with an "open" voice.

With the decline of all those veterans,its a tough job, to fit people in some of raja's melodies.

[Shankar.P]

http://www.tamilcinema.com/CINENEWS/...nnarsankar.asp

இசைஞானி இளையராஜாவின் எல்லையற்ற சுதந்திரம், நம் காதுகளை மயங்க வைத்த மந்திரம்! பின்னணி இசையோ காட்சிக்கு காட்சி பேசுகிறது. 'கண்ணை படித்தேன்...' பாடலில் பழனி பாரதியின் வரிகளும், ஸ்ரீராம் பார்த்த சாரதி ஷ்ரேயா கோஷலின் குரல்களும், ராஜாவின் பிரசன்ட்டேஷனும் கலந்து சொர்க்கத்தின் கதவுகளை விரிய திறக்கிறது.

[MumbaiRamki]

Nikhil murugan - he is a pRO guy , what do you expect . My bulleted review !

1) What is prasanth thinking about this character ? This is not a cow boy role ! Pathetic performance from him. Ponnar shankar are being worshipped as gods in a community . Sadly missing .

2) Screenplay is just butchered - there is no focus on characters nor on plot. very poor adaptation of the book . Scenes dont follow a logical sequence - they neither explain a character nor create a twist . They are just loosely stiched , as if kalaignar decided to tear the ponnar shankar book and the director picked up random pages.

3) There are just too many names - you need to be slow here . At end of the movi e, i could barely remember anything.

4) Yes - the interval fight sequence is fairly good and is expected , but why this rope-drop from the fort , resulting in a high-five between the leads !

5) Sneha should really choose good movies - for an actor who can emote well, bowing to the pressure of ruling party sponsored films wont do any good. You dont need a sneha to fit into a role whose best chance of acting comes in the songs !!! Shocking sneha !!

6) Title score , interlaced with pop-ish drums and orchestra -sorry raja , cannot digest this !


7) Ponnar shankar - heck , two characters , but are they same ? What is their mental make up ? Why are they so passionate about the promise ? WHat do they respect more ? You can never find any clue


8) The lead heroines are best doing what they did before the film - Ads . navels , clevages wont do any good ! Sorry , better luck next time .

9) Only gud thing was the BGM,songs - not that it was fantastic , but it offered me a chance to forget the film , close ur eyes and listen to it - but considering the damage being doen visually, raaja culd not do much here .

10)Yes- this is the best of the new genre - "kalignar scripted ", but far from being good . Very very average .,


Finally , if you bump into a senior film buf who advises /voices his opinion about the film even without seeing it , listen to it . I did not and incurred 200 bucks including the stupid pop corn !

[K]

http://adrasaka.blogspot.com/2011/04/blog-post_09.html

இசை இளையராஜா.. சொல்லவே வேணாம்.. சரித்திரப்பின்னணி என்றதுமே அவரது திறமை எப்படி இருக்கும் என.. பாடல் காட்சிகளில், பின்னணி இசையில், போர்க்காட்சிகளில் என மனிதர் கலக்கி விட்டார்...

[raj_musing]

Mumbai Ramki,

Are you sure you watched Ponnar shankar itself

Surprisingly all the reviews including the public opinion.below, is very positive.