Maestro ilaiyaraaja news & titbits

[skr]

Ayyo , you should have just told me around a couple of hours ago , i could have helped .
I am back home now.
Anyhow will try asking if anybody got any extra pass .

[skr]

Do PM me your no.
If i have any news regarding passes , will let you know.

However if you know anyone who stays near Nungambakkam , you can ask them to get for you.
All they require is the name and mobile no.

[MumbaiRamki]

Skr , got it . went to their office . It was over . Contacted one guy there and he guided me to another guy and went .

DHONI - HIGHLIGHTS

1) Raaja was sharp at 5 30 PM almost but the function started only at 6 45 PM - a movie for children should broadcast a correct message

2) Parthipan - excellent intro of raaja and prakash raj with his usual style of verbal volleys ( இசை ஞானியை அறிந்ததால் நான் மாகா ஞானி )

3) The music they played when they opened the orchestra was from the movie itself - splendid !!

4) KB , Mahendran , Balu mahendar, RV udhayakumar, KS Ravikumar, Radha mohan , naasar were other dignatries

5) When Raaja spoke , he told this ... They were composing for the ' naan oru sindhu , kavadi sindhu' - Raaja started giving lyrics for the song . On hearing this KB , started getting excited and told ' அனந்து , இங்க வா சீக்கிரம் வா , அந்த டைரி இங்க கொண்டு வா .. என்ன அச்சர்யம் பாரு, நான் எழுதின வரியும் அதே தான் .. இது எப்படி முடியும் ?' .. Raaja now comments 'ஒரு டைரக்டருக்கு என்ன வேணும்ன்னு தானா கொடுக்கற்து தான் இசையமைப்பாளர்..நீங்க கேட்டீங்கன்னா அது சரவண பவன் ' - there was a big roar after this !

6) Too much praise for raaja , after some point i bbecame bored on those things

7) Nasaar was too interesting . He explained how the 'Thendra;l vandhu ' song came . Initially when illayaraaja sang the tune , he didnt understand and so raaja asked him to come in the evening - when he listened to teh full piece , he asked for forgiveness to raaja ( he told this excellently with humor , due to laziness im not quoting all that )

8) They played all 4 songs ... out of 4 , i loved the last song that raaja sang - just fantastic interludes and the tune itself . Other three songs were also good and had vintage raaja elements very similar to Mayilu style and probably more vintage. 'Sambandhan illa' was passable , ' odam ' song was good and the other one was similar to kadhuluku Mariyadhai hoem song ( aandha kuyilin paatu )

9) They showed 2 video songs - both were good . One was prabhu deva lip syncing to ' sambandham lla' song and other was the daughter reaching puberty .

[skr]

Nice to know Mumbai Ramki that you made it to the show

I was highly impressed by the songs , esp the one sung by Surmukhi and the solo by Raaja himself.
Nassar's speech was just amazing , my respect to the man for his respect towards Maestro. You guys have to see this , he was just superb.
Raaja was at his usual witty and philosophical best . Nice to see him explaining and even singing bits from Sindhu Bhairavi.
That Re-recording was Raaja territory and i expected it to be mindblowing and he didnt disappoint.

Only disappointment for me overall was that there were only 4 songs , i expected atleast 6.

[V_S]

Great reviews MR and skr. Thanks. I thoroughly miss all these.

ஒரு டைரக்டருக்கு என்ன வேணும்ன்னு தானா கொடுக்கற்து தான் இசையமைப்பாளர்..நீங்க கேட்டீங்கன்னா அது சரவண பவன்

how true!

[rajaramsgi]

Thank you Ramki for dhoni's audio launch report. Dhoni looks promising for Raja's 2012, hopefully the movie makes a commercial hit which is very important for medium budget movie makers to turn back to Raja. He is still productive and willing to give so, there is nothing wrong in extracting as much music as we can.

Mayilu recording was a re-telecast on kalaignar TV. they showed this program 2 years ago. But still nice to refresh, thanks for this as well.

[skr]

V_S ,

The orchestration was mindblowing , i was immersed in the songs .
There were some beautiful counterpoints and a fugue in one of the numbers.

Many of us had tears in our eyes when they played the video of the sad song.
The impact of the songs are still reverbrating and i just cant wait to grab a copy of the cd.

[rooky]

If u thought Dhoni or Prasad to be IRs' first 2012 movie release, wrong.
As per today's newspaper ad, "Sengkaathu boomiyilae" is releasing on Feb3rd.

[skr]

There were lot more incidents which happened during the event which is difficult to recall.
However one of his fans has written a bit of what conspired last evening.
Hope they telecast the event on Vijay soon.

Pasting some of it
When I saw the clip with and without music, I realized that Raaja has changed his approach to rerecording. Just I reminded me the words of IlaiyaRaaja spoken during Azhgarsamiyin Kuthirai movie launch. Raaja said I had to change my approach due mixing problem later on.

This clip was greater than any Hollywood film in terms of visuals. So what will be the contribution of IlaiyaRaaja you can imagine! As told by Prakash Raj, the visuals only communicated 20% and the remaining 80% by IlaiyaRaaja's Rerecording!

Usually I speak only of IlaiyaRaaja and I will not speak of any other music director. But I have say this and no other way for me! "If anyone else (even Hollywood composers) have done the rerecording for the same clip, they could have ended up only with music expressing emotions in the visuals. But Raaja has made the audience to experience the emotions (on their own) in the situation. That means, Raaja's rerecording only takes you inside the movie whereas others rerecording only expresses the emotions. Raaja already told that music only can take into the movie and it only creates the relationship with the movie and the audience!

During the speech, important anecdote quoted by Raaja. During the composing songs for Sindhu Bhairavi, Director KB said the situation for the Naan Oru Sindhu song; IlaiyaRaaja came with spontaneous tune with words and started singing "Naan Oru Sindhu, Kavadi Sindhu". Director KB was shocked and started shivering. KB asked Ananthu to bring the dairy. With shivering hands, KB flipped pages and shown a page to Raaja. In that page KB has already written that for this situation lyrics can be written as 'Naan Oru Sindhu Kavadi Sindhu". Raaja simply replied that when you come to me I have to give exactly what you need, so it has come like th

Also Raaja felt that he was blessed by Thiagarajar Swamigal. That is when he composed the tune for the song Mari Mari Ninne, Raaja was thinking of bringing a Telugu Lyricist to write the lyrics since he has only notes or swaras written. KB also agreed to bring one such person. But suddenly Raaja thought whether he could check ThiagaRajar Swamigal's keerthanas. So he took three books of Thiagarajar's Keerthana and found that this "Mari Mari Ninne matched well with the Rhythm pattern and also matched the requirement of half-note delay start! (Technical people can correct me here)! Raaja said it was the blessings of Thiagarajar Swamigal that Thiagarajar swamigal has already written lyrics for his tune!

Nasser shared the experience during Avatharam Composing! He has already said this during Music Messiah Release. In front of Raaja he has to edit two things! Missed things by Nasser: When Raaja played the tune in Harmonium, Nasser was shocked and felt Raaja was giving him "Eena Swaram". Imagine the Thendral Vandu tune in Harmonium. The tone color of the Harmonium and Raaja's voice dynamics sound very bad to Nasser. Nasser was to ask for another tune but could do that due to fear. Just Nasser able to say, please increase the tempo of the song. Raaja smiled and asked Nasser to come back by evening. Nasser came back in the evening. Raaja played the song for him. The song started with chorus, "Thana thantham Thana Thanthum". Nasser was happy and was thinking that since myself (the Director of film) did not like the tune Raaja changed it. In few seconds, Nasser heard the earlier tune but this time with words and orchestra. Nasser was taken aback and realized that he insulted the Genius called Raaja and Raaja's tolerance of his insult by asking to increase the tempo. Nasser simply fell on the feet of Raaja and started weeping like a kid!

Mahendran said No Raaja's rerecording No Mahendran's movies! If people talk about Mahendran film it is only due to IlaiyaRaaja!

[skr]

Nasser also shared another very interesting incident.
Seems he was going by Car from Chennai to Chidambaram and he had to pass a lot of villages on the way.
While going on the way , in temples , tea kadais and other places , lots of songs were being played.
It seems he then decided to consciously count the no. of tracks till the destination.

These were the results which he found
28 songs of IR , 7 of MSV and 3 from ARR.
He then remarked . "the people in villages still live only on IR's music" .