Maestro ilaiyaraaja news & titbits

[skr]

Guys ,
The link posted by Krish is the edited version of the interview ..

Please read the full interview of Baradwaj Rangan here ..
GVM has mentioned a lot about Raaja and the music of NEPV

I call it the Raaja Genre
http://baradwajrangan.wordpress.com/...he-raja-genre/

[Gregorysab]

what an interview. One of the best ever!

The fan in Bharadwaj Rangam comes to the fore. Brilliant questions ("What is this new sound you are talking about?"). He did not let the director away with surface level and abstract answers. He really probed every step. Bharadwaj should be commended for this indepth peek. Amazing! This interview is for keeps.

Coming to what GVM has done, its amazing. I dont know how the music will be... but the whole interaction between GVM-Raaja seems to be different from the interactions between other directors & raaja. Not that I heard those interactions... but somewhere, there is a sense of being 'specific' ("first male voice, then I want the guitars to creep in"). I dont know if any director earlier had so much leeway in telling him when and which instrument should come. And what is important is that Raaja has given him that space (signs of *Raaja's flexibility*?). And I like it that GVM said "Stop", after 3 songs. Yes, Raaja could have delivered all 8 songs. But GVM slowed it down with a "take it easy dude.. lets savour this first"

More thoughts later!

[rajaramsgi]

Guys ,
http://www.thehindu.com/arts/cinema/article3536499.ece

Good one from Gautham Menon, now we are getting to know more and more of Raja sir's style of working. All of our expectations are running high on NEPV. Can't wait to hear it, I want to get few CDs and distribute to my friends.

Super lines yaa.. nalla karpanai from bharadwaj

KJY: Yerikkarai poongaathe…
(Flute: Yeah, you talkin’ to me?)
KJY: Nee pora vazhi thenkizhakko…
(Flute: Perhaps. Why do you ask?)
KJY: Thenkizhakku vaasamalli…
(Flute: What about it?)
KJY: Yenna thedi vara thoodhu sollu…
(Flute: Hmm… lemme think about it…)

[app_engine]

Contrary to many thinking that BR is "well-exposed" to IR, I think he has sampled him too less (even from 70's / 80's)... too much stereo typing of IR like this flute thingy

Also, his questions are not that extraordinary IMSO! Any average hubber from this forum would have done the same job, easily (I mean even me)!

adhukku oru NA winning critic thEvaiyE illai :mad again:

[app_engine]

With this interview piece, BR is proving that he has "lost it".

Very mediocre!

[app_engine]

This 'rAjA genre' thingy is a hub-copyright! If anyone, rajasaranam is entitled to it

Appreciate Gautam for being in sync with the hub

(BRangan using it as the heading for his blog is quite unimaginative)

[app_engine]

Hubbers, please don't praise sky-high such mediocre blog posts! Simply because this BRangan had been in the limelight doesn't entitle him to write vAikku vandhadhu about rAsA!

There had / have been much better discussions / analysis of IR music in tfmpage!

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IR was playing benefit match for MSV prior to agni* (mellaththiRandhadhu kadhavu).

How on earth would have MR approached MSV?

Absolute trashy writing with simply no reverence to history or the phenomenon that is IR :more mad:

idhukku appuRamum he can't claim the "IR fan" tag!

Also where is Bharathiraja in TF market? (or any market?) Should he be even a point of discussion when talking about IR?

Also, MR left him for sheer political reasons (not like Sridhar leaving MSV or KB leaving MSV. They ran to IR to add commercial value! OTOH, MR was part of the industry conspiracy to kill a rare talent like IR when he was at his peak. thaLapathi is still considered a momentous album! Was MSV in such a position when people feverishly signed up IR? oLaRal...also, at the time of agni*, MSV was not in any reckoning anywhere. Now, while IR is not a force in TFM, he is still considered valuable in other markets! ).

Trashy blog post!

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ivanga (MR-BR-vaigayaRA) Odipponadhukku appuRamum, Kamal was with IR. Fazil stuck to him. Balu Mahendra continued with him.

There was this Bala who did a few (award-winning) movies with IR and Sethu was a commercial biggie as well. Thangar Bachan made azhagi and opened his directorial account gloriously.

BRangan is like 'kaNNai moodikkoNda poonai' - correct illustration by V_Sji in another thread

[app_engine]

Just for the sake of record, another "new age" director also worked with IR, after proving himself successful with another MD for two big hits (Mysskin).

Though he is not in the same league as Gautam (struggled to release nandalAlA), for argument's sake, he "preceded" Gautam!