Maestro ilaiyaraaja news & titbits

[kiru]

Maybe I should not have used the word "seriously". I really did not mean it to be damaging to IR's character (thats probably where SoftSword comes from). But I have to say this - IR is committed to music first and the movie next. I will not be fully successful in explaining this. It is just my opinion he is just trying to "learn" music by exploring it. The movies are just an outlet for him to express his ideas/theories on music.
Re: his paycheck making a difference - I dont think IR is after money directly. It is just that in this society money is equated to your skill/abilities so many of us make sure we get a good salary/title etc. Only when an artiste feels good about himself he can be creative. There are lots of examples in our literature when great poets were conferred big boons by the kings and went on to create epics.
(I like the word - seeraattinaal by San_K .. the moment you say I am willing to spend the big bucks for an orchestra recording here or in Hungary etc.. IR is probably super-thrilled . We should all have this childlike enthusiasm for anything new (technology, process, mgmt/scientific/literary theories) even in our own jobs. The major take away for me from IR is - his hardwork and hands-on/ever learning attitude)

[SoftSword]

seeraattal edhirpaakkuraar ellaam ok.
but the seeraattal he gets seduced by is not in the form of money/compensation... the seeraattal which inspires him is when he is shown the respect for his music/skill/caliber.

[app_engine]

the seeraattal which inspires him is when he is shown the respect for his music/skill/caliber.

IMO, it's the other way around

When IR can respect some director (for musical sensibility or creative ability or past history or whatever), he'll produce extraordinary scores

Sometimes, even "friendship" could ensure a better reward, if one goes by the consistency with he delivered "special" stuff with some, whose movies were otherwise kuppais

[sakaLAKALAKAlaa Vallavar]

Oh come on! this predicting thing has still not stopped?!? Ok let me add one more. Raja 'feels' something superficial about selecting persons. For example, Rajkiran and Ramarajan(or some distributors) what great they had in themself? Whycome Raja gave such a music to them??! It is being said, Rajkiran distributed some of the Paavalar Creations, Raja's home production, on regular basis. Means, he will, without fail distribute Raja's home productions. Now that is too small a help to consider but raja took that as a great help and inturn almost gave life to Rajkiran by giving ultimate village hits. Same is said about Agilan of Agi music. He himself says Raja selected him randomly for distributing his music and some of my tweet friends said he is an unfit guy and is not doing justice to Raja's albums. In that way, just think of what Raja did for the likes of Mike mohan and Ramarajan. nothing great wrt them.

Sometimes, he 'feels' so and so is a right person for a specific task and this is beyond our logical reasoning.

[Devaraagam]

V_s. U r echoing my observation on IR, he is doing music as what comes to his mind and delivering it. He do not look as it will get hit etc., we are trying to fit him with in our expectation and which cannot be possible.

[K]

How agi music got Rights of raja's songs-
http://meedpu.blogspot.in/2010/02/blog-post_03.html

[Gregorysab]

V_s. U r echoing my observation on IR, he is doing music as what comes to his mind and delivering it. He do not look as it will get hit etc., we are trying to fit him with in our expectation and which cannot be possible.

I have since long, held the belief that - great musical ideas comes to raaja in very arbitrary fashion. It is a random event. Which is why he could give marvels to some of the pathetic films ever. But that said, he never betrayed a good/sensible film. A good/sensible/interesting film will inevitably have good/great music. A bad/stupid/horrible film might have good/bad/great/boring/phenomenal song(s) and it can be one of these or all, depending upon the luck of that producer/director. It is such random event.

I am looking forward to NEPV.

[Sureshs65]

pongappa. poyi pullaingala padiika vaiyunga!!! adha vittuttu raja ippidi pannuvaara appadi panuuvaaranuttu.

So everyone post the latest Raja song you heard in the 'Recently Heard Songs' thread. That way you can tell us what type of song you like and we can come out of this GVM thing

[sakaLAKALAKAlaa Vallavar]

Suresh, few days back, i became veruthu poyified after reading about how and what shud be the GVM album of. SO i had 2 options, either skip this thread till the album comes out, or go beserk and keep posting various things and veri kondu aadify! indirect anger on thos disscussers! I am doing the 2nd one!

If the discussion continues, i still have something to post

[San_K]

It seems nobody talked about IR latest offer "Mudhalvar Mahatma". Intha vaaraththula rendu, moonu vaatti daily paperil advt vanthathu. Nammale avaroda albungalla partiality paarkkirom. Avaru appadi irukka koodathaa

Don't take serious, just joking.

BTW, I think Gandhi is the next (or somewhere) best person after Ramana Maharishi for IR. Raaja already has given superb music to Gandhi's bhajan. So can we expect something best?