Raja - Live in Concerts - Madurai Concert Telecast/Videos

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Nerd,

That was because everyone was sure 'oliyile therivadhu' would be played since Prakash Raj had spoken about the new generation and Karthik had come on stage. So it was decided by all of us that 'oliyile' will be the song which will be played and we were waiting for that song's prelude. The prelude which came up was different and we were confused. Hence that 10 or 15 secs delay before the applause rent the air. I still remember my friend sitting next to me, identifying it first and shouting,"dei, edho mogam da idhu".

Thanks Suresh, makes sense now

Couple of points I missed to register about yesterday's telecast:
1. KanamaniyE kaadhal enbadhu - bad choice for a live show. The *breath breaks* killed the pallavi. SPB was Okish but the girl was gasping for breath literally.
2. MV's tribute could have been better than reducing him to a 'SPB replacement'.

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Thanks Nerd, Aravind, KV, thumburu for all your appreciation.
KV, that was a great take on singers. Could not agree more. Technical wizardry does not help the singers here, all they have to do is to strictly keep with the mood of the song. It is a pity these new and young singers do not realize that. I heard many young singers just sing word by word as they read. May be (that too may be) they sing correctly only when they sing for movies, which is not the correct approach. As Nerd expressed, I can take those Hariyudan Naan 4 singers better than these so-called professional singers, atleast for the stage performance. Atleast they were sincere enough in the task given and delivered.

Plum, fantastic quote. What I write and intended to write in pages (not this one, generally saying), you said it in one-liner. Neenga neenga dhaan, naan naan dhaan.

Familiarity breeds contempt, unfamiliarity holds respect-ngaRadhu idhu dhaan

Nerd, That was a wonderful observation on MV sir. I too felt the same that after reading your post. May be in the excitment, missed this one. I believe Raja is always like that, even we heard SJ had concern about not appreciating her after receiving National award for best singer in his music. He does not care, but definitely Maestro should have highlighted more on some of his best singing or atleast organizers could have shown some clips of his songs. Swarnalatha should also have been included.

thumburu, Beautiful summary about the whole show. I don't know if SPB's performance was affected by his personal issues (I don't know about all this), if true, will pray he should come out of all this, as still he got many more years to bless us with his inimitable voice and singing. I could not stand him struggle and I am not going to believe that.

Thanks Suresh ji for highlighting the portions where audience were thrilled on Dr BMK rendition. Legend by all means! All 20's and 30's should learn from this Master in 80's, pure gold.

Thanks narayanan for clarifying my doubt on Maestro's 'See the kai', that was amusing!

AthukuLLa youtube'a pottaingla! Very fast. Have set timer on my TV, will have to watch it in the evening. Thanks Kamesh, rajaramsgi for sharing the links.

Again orchestra has been phenomenal in this concert. As p mentioned, Napolean took the whole orchestra single-handedly, deserves a big round of applause.

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2. MV's tribute could have been better than reducing him to a 'SPB replacement'.

+1

There were some unmistakable digs (ofcourse, IMO) on certain individuals (BR, VM)...so, 'at least oppukkAchchum MV-yai ninaivu paduththinAngaLE'nnu thirupthi pattukka vENdiyadhu dhAn

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Napolean, the man of the match!





Close to perfection!

Single handedly salvaging many "ngE" moments of the orchestra, IMO!

(BTW, yet to see the third set of videos, my comments are based on first two sets).

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I post my contempt for the male singers after the KJY-SPB-MV era in the IR forum every now and then.

And most of them supported me by their dismal show on stage

Ofcourse, all the aged masters struggled on stage as well (with the exception of BMK ) but we have enough proof that they were great when younger (both on and off stage).

YSR getting dad to keep his hand on head ("Raja kaiya vechchA") was a pullarips moment. Such things make stage shows remarkable! (Actually I am enjoying mostly only such moments as I, for one, can never like music in light music shows as they are mostly pale imitations of the originals - unlike in the west where both singers and orchestra perform to perfection even on stage )

Chithra :awesome:

Woman of the match!

Flawless Proves why she is the greatest among those currently in film music!

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Two songs that should never again be included on stage shows (even when IR is around on stage):

madai thiRandhu
EdhO mOgam

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Vacha paravai, Ninavo oru paravai were not even aired in jaya tv. It was there in the concert

I dont know why they chose 2 songs from many films

Alaigal Oyvathillai: Pudum Pudu Kalai and Ayiram thamarai

Dalapathy: Sundari Kannal and Kattu Kuyilu

Nizhalgal: Madai thiranthu and Poogathave

Sriram parthasarthy tried improvising and IR just smiled and let him off.

[KV]

Please dont search for the VACHA Parvai song.....It was there in the concert but they did not play in the telecast ...sad state of affairs

This is one of my favorite kuththu songs of Raaja. It was such a pleasant surprise seeing this in the concert. Sad that it has gone under the axe in the TV telecast.
The song has a very nice prelude starting with a sax lead backed by rhythm guitars, followed by flutes and thabla. There was some technical fault with the microphone when they started playing and the sax was not audible at all. Thankfully, Raaja, Mr. Perfect that he is, asked them to stop and start again and then it worked perfectly the second time! KJY performed the with good energy, no complaints.
There must be some audience recorded version of this song. Don't miss this one folks.

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BTW, if they could have 'Ayiram thAmarai mottukkaLE' on stage, why not iLaya nilA?

(Well, great to see that VM song )

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Two major sodhappals IMO that I didn't expect when the whole IR-team was on stage...

1. First interlude of madai thiRandhu (On top of SPB struggling & poor chorus)
2. drum / percussion work for EdhO mOgam got replaced by some weak tablA sounds

Ofcourse, these kind of things show how phenomenal the original compositions are and the difficulty in doing such compositions on stage!