Maestro ilaiyaraaja news & titbits

[rajaramsgi]

It is truly a spectacular show. Raja had a great time, he was at his best. I enjoyed his smile and laugh when Balamurali krishna was singing.

Hariharan did not mess up much as someone else mentioned.
SPB, Chithra, Deepan Chakaravarthy - THE BEST PERFORMER AWARDS GOES TO THESE 3 along with Surumuki.
KJ. Yesudas, Balamuralikrishna & Uma ramanan were singing a bit slower than the original songs, may be due to old age?
Yuvan's drama was unnecessary
Rita screwed up Yedho Mogam song, where as karthik did a good job on it
Glad Bavatharini was not on-board.
Wish Krishnachandar and Mano got a chance for atleast one song.
Surumuki Manasi did not have any star value, but the girl did a good job. This says much about Raja, he don't care for the looks or personality, he cares for what they deliver.
Did you notice Hariharan says something to Raja twice and then Raja goes to play the Piano for the Nee paartha parvaikoru song? Great to see him playing the Piano.

Great to see younger generation tfm'ers such as Devi SriPrasad, Vijay Antony, Vijay Yesudas, Srilekha Parthasarathy, James Vasanthan,
Did some one notice Kanimozhi during the first interlude of Oru Ragam Padalodu song? Jaya TV showed her only for a second.
Gangai Amaran and his boys were missing, but Vasuki Bhaskar was there.

Sithar Ganesh Muthu got lots of chances to play in many songs and he was very spontaneous
Veena Punya Srinivas messed the begining of Kanmaniye Kadhal enbadhu, but later she picked up. She was good overall along with Ganesh Muthu.
Guitar sadha, Flute Nepolean were at their best.
That percussion with Dosa kallu in between Ayiram and Malaragaley and Malarungal was not upto the standard. Original song has that unique sound which is great.
Dosa kallu percussion, Punya Srivas's veenai, Prabhakar's violin,along with the orchestra was a wonderfull treat on Poongadhavey thaalthiravaai.
Koyil mani percussion at the begining of Amma endralaikkadha should have been better..
Did the violin orchestra miss something at the begining of the first interlude of Raja kaya vecha?
Azhagar samiyin kudhirai title score by the hungary team was awesome. I thought the drummer who was called to go along with the hungary team to go to India - is going to be like the Bhagyaraj in Idhu Namma Aalu, called to say swahaa.. but it was exciting to see him playing drums for many songs, he seems to have enjoyed and he knew Raja already it seems.

Symphony and the way Raja explained about merging different pieces together along with Idhayam Poguthey -- Wonderful ya..

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