Neethane En Ponvasantham | Yeto Vellipoyindhi Manasu | Assi Nabbe Poorey Sau

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Question Sureshji, does this ammaNi know Thamizh?

suththamA theriyAdhunnA I'll be -ed!

She has added a lot of value to this number...whether linguistically correct or not, I simply love those extra stresses (e.g. villllAsam for vilAsam)!

[sakaLAKALAKAlaa Vallavar]

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[callmeshyam]

There are many places in this album where the mind automatically goes aha...

The interludes in Saindhu Saindhu - especially the second, Begining of first charanam in Ennodu va va, Starting of Mudhan Murai, the sax parts in Katrai, the whole of Vanam Mella, the prelude to Pudikkale maamu, etc etc.. and I can go on.

There were places which took me back in time. e.g. first charanam ennodu va va (bg score of appu introduction scene in Apoorva Sagotharargal), Katril Konjam (Kaadhal song in Kaadhal Kavithai), and Namma veedu pathathe (Kambu Saathiram theriyum - Thevar Magan).

Yet to hear Pengral endral, especially after the introductory posts. Will try to get my ears around this seeing some specific reviews.

[sakaLAKALAKAlaa Vallavar]

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Bitty Ruminations 69

Thoughts on "Sattru munbu" from Ilayaraja's "Neethane En Ponvasantham" soundtrack

[Gregorysab]

Its difficult to rate these songs on a scale to assess which is the best (for me). The best barometer I can use is which are the songs I am going to, very frequently and somewhat less frequently. So the best I can do is divide the album into two tiers:

Tier 1: Kaatre Konjum, Satru Munbu, Mudhal murai, Ennodu Vaa, Pengal Endraal, Yedhi Yedhi (telugu version of Saindhu)
Tier 2: Pudhikele Mamu (1st half deserves to be in Tier-1 though), Vaanam Mella (I expect some outrage over this. Not that this song is bad. Its a breezy melody, but i find it a tad predictable, compared to all other songs above).

A winner of an album!

[Sureshs65]

Suresh
You captured the meandering ways of the tune accurately IMO, coming to think of it. Looking forward to your review of all the songs, but particularly eager about Kaatrai Konjam

Thanks. Thinking of 'Saindhu Saindhu' today and 'Kaatrai Konjam' tomorrow

[Sureshs65]

Question Sureshji, does this ammaNi know Thamizh?

suththamA theriyAdhunnA I'll be -ed!

She has added a lot of value to this number...whether linguistically correct or not, I simply love those extra stresses (e.g. villllAsam for vilAsam)!

I think she doesn't know Tamizh but ammaNi seems to have worked on the diction. Even in a Telugu song 'chinna polike' ("Om Shanthi') she was quite good in her diction compared to the male singer, Kunal Ganjawala. Infact Aakarsh rejects this song just for Ganjawala

[Bala (Karthik)]

The 2nd half is good-nga. It is clearly Raaja-lite (misses the signature-Raaja heavy percussion, burst of arrangements and so on), but in its little duration, it does whip the ass of 'Eththi Eththi' (which I really love!) type songs in their own game. I mean, look at the lovely closure with that guitar! The first half seems indifferently done (I dare say Raaja does just about a Harris Jeyaraj) despite some neat guitar work.

Listened one more time today. It is good indeed. The tune itself hasn't caught on yet but the music is definitely interesting. Wish the post-lude went on for a little longer

[Bala (Karthik)]

Bela Shinde doesn't sound good in "Vaanam Mella". One gets the impression she's struggles throughout. (with Swamigal, it's only the higher octaves )

If only the charan tune was better....

[Bala (Karthik)]

Pudikkala maame - The song really takes off after the veedhi pathaadhe (as KV posted, the words remind me of the 'Hawa hawa' song). The jamming is a mini-riot