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

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AM, I too felt she wasn't the right choice. But this girl's definitely better than Bela Shinde!

V_S, nice, detailed review! Somehow this album didn’t work much for me.
Sikkichu - pleasant song. Synth work sits pretty decently and isn't jarring. The resemblance of the starting lines to Deva’s Annamalai Annamali is a bit too blaring, no?
Oram po - classic case of digital-killed-the-folk-star.
Kaathiruppen, En usuru - passable melodies. Call me biased, but a certain Shreya Ghoshal could've made these two far more interesting.
Thiruvizha songs - scores on rawness but I dont know if IR has much of a contribution here.

Overall, its the back-of-the-hand tuning & instrumentation (yeah, I do realize this is applies to works like Thiruvasagam and HTNI also), that makes this album a very middling affair for me. Back to Ponnar Shankar!