New age IR's Raga Choices

[vel]

KV / Vel,

To me, 'O Prema Devathe' has the feel of SumanesaRanjani (aka Varunapriya). Similar to 'jal jal jal salangai', the Jeyachandran / Swarnalatha(?) song. Ofcourse I too see the deviations but the pallavi and especially towards the end of pallavi the Varunapriya feel is very strong.

As usual, with Raja you can never tell. As Vel says, he has probably used a scale in a way he wants and which is logically consistent. It is just that we are unable to comprehend the logic.

Suresh, Samudhrapriya / Sumenesaranjani is | S R2 G2 M2 P N2 S | S N2 P M2 G2 R2 S - this is quite close to S R2 G2 M2 P D3 N3 S of Neethimathi. So the feel may be quite similar....(unless the D3/N3 is prominently used it may be tough to differentiate)