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Raja has said on many occasions that a good product does not need great marketing/promotion. Unfortunately, those days are over.

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uthirippookkaL had just one great song (azhagiya kaNNE) and even that had elements which weren't "music album" type (the third interlude, for e.g.). However, people talk about the music of that movie until this day. None of us worry about the kalyANam pAru / pOdA pOdA pokka / the Aswini sister ICM song etc.

Can someone afford to be the top-MD by composing only such stuff today (however great the movies are, even with BO successes).

Right from MR days (even the IR ones Anjali / Thalabathi), the concept of "music album" (though part of movie) had been established and the MD who does such music will be the one ruling the chart, getting max paycheck etc!

The concept of "I'll be doing according to what the movie strictly needs only" etc will be appreciated only by a few (or old HCFs)...

rAsA needs some shiny stuff!

So, Gautham vAzhga!