MAESTRO ILAIYARAAJA NEWS & TITBITS VER.2010-2011

[V_S]

Thanks a lot skr for the link. Stunning! Amazingly played by Kannan and Ganesh! Tears automatically creep without me knowing it whenever I hear this piece of music. Only Raja can do such a magic. And how humble Kannan was. After playing this theme to perfection, he was saying he was happy that atleast he could play 30% of what V S Narasimhan had played.

[skr]

Next audio release of Maestro is Shri Rama Rajyam..Music coming out in July ..

[krish244]

Skr,

Thanks for the raagamalika link. Pretty good reproduction of the theme music I should say. Enjoyed it. I also kinda liked all the songs performed in the program. Most of the new singers performed well. Saindhavi and Haricharan did their part well too.

Dont know why IR does not use singers like Saindhavi, Chinmayi and Harini. Has Saindhavi sung any song for IR?

Orchestra was pretty decent. I especially liked the flute part. Pretty neatly executed. Check out from 10:30 in the video. And also in first interlude of "Poo malarndhida" song. Base guitar (or is it synthesized) also becomes more prominent starting from the middle of first charanam of this song and extends till srivardhini singers the humming part in second interlude. Eager to listen to the original song.

thanks,

Krishnan

[fan_ir]

Thandavakone Trailer is up.
http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/t...ler/11366.html

[V_S]

Two contrasting films coming up. Thanks skr and fan_ir for the links. Waiting to hear SPB back in IR's music, how good it feels when he sings 'Jagadananda kaaraka' and amazing he is still same old SPB with his voice intact. The trailer BGM of Thandavakone is another masterpiece and how the ambience and theme changes when Ilaiyaraaja name is on the title, too good!

[krish244]

IR's first movie in Marathi language. Uttam Singh is arranger.

http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/repor...arathi_1559187

Movie name is "Hello Jaihind". Curious to know how the theme is handled in the movie and how IR has approached for the music/BGM.

Recently read in an article that Kailash Kher has also sung for IR. Was wondering when did he sing for IR. Looks like it is this movie.

The movie is slated to release on November 25th. The year is not mentioned though .

From the article, it is seen the crew has great respect for IR.

thanks,

Krishnan

[MumbaiRamki]

Thandavakone Trailer is up.
http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/t...ler/11366.html

Very impressive visuals - if they can avoid that mandatory plug of romance, it would be good . ( heroine same as padithurai ?) .
BTW, padithurai doesnt seem to release anytime soon ..Suga AV la nondhu solli irukaar .

[Sureshs65]

IR's first movie in Marathi language. Uttam Singh is arranger.

The movie is slated to release on November 25th. The year is not mentioned though .

The current headwriting of many IR movies !! Lets hope this movie releases.

The trailer of 'Thandavakone' looks impressive. The BGM is good, as always. Let's see if it releases. This year!!

[krish244]

The current headwriting of many IR movies !! Lets hope this movie releases.

That is why I put that sentence

thanks,

Krishnan

[Sureshs65]

Two nice blog posts by Raj. In one he discusses a film which has been recently discussed by app and V_S 'pagalil oru nilavu'

http://ragamanjari.blogspot.com/

http://rajamanjari.blogspot.com/2011...-musician.html