Raja's Gems - the latest one you heard...Part 3

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HTNI disk this morning while driving to work...

When I reached the parking lot, kept skipping other tracks to play the 'Do anything' and have a special listen (Inside vaNdi in parking lot means pure, loud music in a superb sound system / acoustics and no external noises...BTW, with all the messing up of track names in the cassette, I hope I'm right with the reference. For ease of identification, this is the only track with flute predominant ; all others were violin-dominated )

For some reason, this piece often evokes an imaginary "wedding day" in the mind

Since rAsA music is mostly associated with cine / fantasy situations, though HTNI is a non-filmi album, one cannot help but bring up some movie-fantasy situations in imagination.

The beginning of the piece is like a calm "waking up in the morning" kind, quite removed from all busy activities that are expected to happen to the bride / groom / parents / relatives on that day.

pularum pozhudhu like any day. Such a calming, refreshing flute! The world slowly waking up to the morning sun - no rush and buzz yet.

As the music moves on, one gets a feeling of progressively increasing activities - dressing up, arrival of crowd, maNdapam kaLai kattal, cheerful crowd and beginning of the festivities...

When the shenAi sound arrives, one gets the feel of main "muhoortham" With all eyes in the maNdapam focussed on the couple, symbolization of wedding / crowd cheering etc. (ketti mELam, ketti mELam)!

Immediately after this, like in movies - editing mundane things as sAppAdu, one gets transported to the mudhaliravu room - padukkai with pookkaL, thanimai etc. The portion with the piano heralds the intimate moments between the newly wedded. The phenomenal strings moment that come after symbolizes "uchcham".

Towards the end one gets reminded of the lines of chANdilyan when he wrote a "samooka nAval / thodarkadhai" for the first time in vikatan, i.e. away from his regular sariththira kathaikaL, with ma.se's pictures (the artist signing as 'nAthan'). In one episode -of FN- he wrote 'sambanthaththAl kaLaiththuppOy vitta sathi-pathikaL iruvarum....'

Yes, it sounds like the couple slowly retiring into a delightful slumber...

Movie makers can tell a big story on screen in few minutes with just any one single piece of HTNI running in the background, and with absolutely no words spoken!