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

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Excellent review of Sri Rama Rajyam here

http://swarajhari.blogspot.com/2011/...ma-rajyam.html

dEvuLLE mecchindi..(5/5)
Chitra and Shreya rock


Playback- K S Chithra, Shreya Ghoshal
Sweet, sweeter, sweetest! What else do you expect when two of the very best singers we have in the industry sing together?

Same peeling like mine

[rooky]

Its for the second time Guhanath. First was "Mayilu", which is complete, but yet to be released.

thanks,

Krishnan

Technically, Raja had scored music for duet movies produced Anthapuram (tamil version) way back.

[V_S]

Evadunnadu - Top class stuff! Udambellaam silirkirathu!! I think this would be my pick of the soundtrack, having listened to other tracks a few times. Only mridangam, little bit of veena later and finishing with strings. Maestro has created a simple but divine melody. As many of you have observed, Maestro made it appeal to most by doing a right mix of light classical/folk in terms of tunes and using native/modern instruments, marked by his stamp all over.

But this one is totally different. Pure divine stuff, with very less commercial value (just the ambience/sound clarity). Maestro has kept SPB's vocal very much in front and piercing very much into our ears and heart. It's the tune, lyrics and SPB all the way. Even though I didn't understand the lyrics, just by hearing SPB's pronunciation of certain words, I could feel the supreme quality of lyrics with some pure telugu words. The lyrics fits to the tune perfectly. This is the old yet best way of composing, all concentration on the tune, lyrics and singing. period.

And how many mohanams have we heard from Maestro so far. Where is Andalalo, VaLLi VaLLi, Vaan Meghangale and where is Evadunnadu. Every mohanam is unique. Chanceless, Priceless and Timeless!

SPB's heart tearing singing with perfect sruti, bakthi, bhaavam, diction (as it is his mother tongue, I can never doubt, it's a sin) and most of all his signature even after 40000 songs is not a man's feat. Gifted soul! Long live sir with best of health and keep enthralling us with your magical singing for many many more years to come!

When we climb Tirumala hills either during very late night to early morning especially around 3 to 5, with deep silence around, we could hear some feeble devotional telugu songs over a loud speaker from a long distance may be from the top of hills, but it travels all the way down to just touch our ears. But that volume is just enough to pierce into our heart and soul and get to the mode of worship. This is that song! Could not control my tears!!

[irir123]

what happened to Bhavna Talwar's "HAPPI" ?

[krish244]

You are right Rooky. Totally forgot about that. I took into account only movies that are produced by his banner "duet movies"
irir123,

Promos for shahid kapoor's mousam is going on. It seems Pankaj kapoor did not want happi to clash with mousam. So hopefully happi will release in a month or so. Let us see.

thanks,

Krishnan

[Sureshs65]

irir123,

I have this suspicion that 'Happi' will only release if 'Mausam' is an happy outing for Shahid Kapoor. It is said that Pankaj Kapoor has focussed all his energies to make 'Mausam' a hit. So we will have to wait and see if it succeeds and if Pankaj Kapoor releases 'Happi' later. Else it will also join the long list of completed films not released having Raja as the MD. 'Padithurai', 'Mayilu', 'SRK'.

[Plum]

More thoughts on Sri Rama Rajyam. I actually subscribe to what inetk posted - that was how I imagined the reaction would be from middle-aged(and over) Telugu people.
It is not devotional, in the harmless, mediocre way that Annamayya and Ramadasu by MM Keervani were.
As someone said, fat chance of this being played in temples. It is just out of place for that.

OTOH, you compare it to the original Lava-Kusa, and this one lacks the heavy classicism, too.

The way I look at it is this - and I think this is the correct way to look at this album:

Basically, what if Ramayanam weren't a divine epic? What if it was just a timeless classic that you can adapt to your milieu as a writer? Heck, that's what Kamban et al did, right?

What do you think of when you think of Bapu, the telugu director. I dont know about others, and what his popular reputation is, but I tend to think of what we can call "Teluguthanam". I see that also from rare conversations with in-laws(who are for all practical purposes, Telugu, although Tamil by birth and language spoken at home).

Combining the above two, and the feel of the audio of this album, my take is that this is simply Rama's story adapted to a telugu milieu. They might still call the Kingdom Ayodhya in the movie, and nominally talk about locations right now in UP/Uttaranchal. But I feel that we are going to view Rama as a chakkanaina telugu abbaayi in this movie. I take that back because I cant imagine NBK being chakkanaina. Let's just say telugu abbaayi.

We are watching a version where we are going to follow the story of a telugu abbaayi, much loved by people, exiled and returing in triumph. He is not the divine Rama in Hindu epics. He is merely protagonist of this Telugu epic.

The teluguthanam of the protagonist has been placed above His language-agnostic Hindu divineness is my take.

The audio most aptly reflects that, if that was the intention.

[Plum]

Frankly, when you watch the old Lava-Kusa, in tamil or in telugu, you dont feel any nativity. That is still the story of the Uttar Pradesh King told in tamil or telugu.

I have a feeling this one - trusting Bapu here - would have a teluguthanam weaved into it although NBK and Nayanthara smash that hope to smithereens the moment I think of them. NBK, not because he cannot represent Teluguthanam, but because of his limitations and imitations(of his father). Nayanthara - well, she is hardly my idea of a telugu naari. Could have tired someone else. I dont know any young telugu actress who would fit the bill.

If it releases in Chennai, I'd be watching a NBK movie in a cinema hall for the first time.

[Sureshs65]

If it releases in Chennai, I'd be watching a NBK movie in a cinema hall for the first time.

Hmm. You in Chennai now and not in 'Aamchi Mumbai'?

[Plum]

No, Suresh. In Singara Chennai now.
ooroorA pOgum indha udambu...