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3rd December 2004, 02:10 PM
Heres a new pick of the week
-'aruvi kooda jadhiyillaamal' From 'Gowri, Manohari', A classical duet by KJY and SPB.
http://tfmpage.com/cgi-bin/stream.pl?url=http://tfmpage.com/songs/aruvi.rm (http://tfmpage.com/cgi-bin/stream.pl?url=http://tfmpage.com/songs/aruvi.rm
)
The MD was a new guy(one film wonder?).
I watched this movie on Malaysian TV few years ago. It was actually a very good film with all new faces.All the songs were good. SPB,SJ and KJY were the main singers.
Its story about daughter of a music guru torn between her ex husband and new lover. This song is for the music guru and the lover.
-This is my translation of Mrs Charumathi analysis of the song. My apologies if i messed up with any technical info in my translation.
aruvi kooda jadhiyilaamal is based on 'sudha dhanyaasi' raagam . The raagam has the following aaroganam
and avaragonam
aaroganam: Sa Ga1 Ma1 Pa Ni1 Sa
avaragonam: Sa Ni1 Pa Ma1 Ga1 Sa
Sudha dhanyasi is janya raagam of karaharapriya.
chathurasra jathi, ekathaaLam, thisra nadai(gadhi) are
other features of this song.
The song, that starts with the thampura sruthi and carnatic aalapana, is mixed with brighas that touches 'thaarasthaayi
panjamam'.
Though the interludes has tabla, mridhangam,flute and keyboard, the interlude between pallavi and anupallavi
is devoid of any music but filled with swaras sung by KJY. This is quite unusual for a film song.
The structure of the song is also not in the usual format of a film song. It starts with a pallavi then takes on the
anupallavi/charanam and ends with swaras. This reminds us the style of sangitha mumoorthi Muthusami dikshithar.
The swara saahithyam is set to 'irandaam kaalam' and the music that comes before the starting of swaras is set to 'thisra merkaalam'
The end of swaras changes to '1- am agaaram'. This shows the creativity of the Music director.
To differentiate the swara saahithyam, the MD has used Mridangam along with swaras sung by KJYs and thabla for SPB's .
Though the song is set to chathursara aeka thaaLam, thisra gadhi, strangely the music in between pallavi and anupallavi misses the '1/2 aavarthanam(2 beat korvai).
-Lakshminarayanan Srirangam Ramakrishnan on sudha dhanyasi raagam
Sudha Dhanyasi is another janyam of Thodi ragam. Sa Ga Ma Pa Ni Sa; Sa Ni
Pa Ma Ga Sa. You can also (more appropriately) call it as a janyam of
Nadabhairavi. Illayaraja has been very generous in using this scale. MSV
made an indelible mark in this ragam earlier by presenting "neeyae unaku
enrum nigaraanavan" in balae pandiya. That is really fantastic! He has
wonderfully used the Ga and Ni with gamakam in the song. Illayaraja's first
Sudha Dhanyasi is perhaps siru ponmani in kallukul eeram. Later he gave
ragavanae (illamai kaalangal), pudhiya poovidhu (thendralae ennai thodu)
poojaikaetha poovidhu (?movie), vizhiyil vizhundhu (alaigal oivadhillai),
theem thanana (?enakkul oruvan), manasu mayangum (sippikul muthu), masi
maasam (dharmadurai), nanjai undu punjai (unnal mudiyum thambi), kotti
kidakudhu (theertha karaiyinilae), kadal vanilae (rasayya), unnai edhir
parthaen (vanaja girija). In many of these songs he uses other swaras like
Ri2 etc., and hence cannot be called as pure form. In nanjai undu, he has
not used any foreign notes. Then is it classical ragam? No! K.Balachandar
(a boot licker to Illayaraja at that time, so that he could sell the movie
by publicizing Illayaraja's name), made a big arguement in the movie that
even "nanjai undu punjai" was a pure Sudha Dhanyasi. Dear sir, to call
something as classical, you should present it in a real classical form!
Just going up and down the scale wouldn't make the raga form appear in that
tune! Use the gamakam, use the nuances of the ragam, then even Semmangudi
will call it as Sudha Dhanyasi!
If one changed the kaisiki nishadham (Ni2) of Sudha Dhanyasi to kaakali
nishadham (Ni3), then is there any ragam like that? If so, what is it
called as? Illayaraja has given a couple of songs in this type of scale.
One of them came in the movie poonthotta kavalkaran. Radhika gets pregnant
and then the song goes in the background! I have read in my school biology
class (with lot of curiosity!) that a sperm and an ovum "join" to form a
baby! Look at the way the poet says about this scientific phenomenon in his
poetic language.... Sindhiya vennmani sippiyil muthaachu!! What a nice
euphemistic way of saying a vulgur thing! Gangei Amaran proved himself as a
poet in that song! Illayaraja's tune is so wonderful in that song. It is so
melodious. Vijayakanth specifically said about this song in one of his TV
interviews! Another song that I know in this scale is "o vasantha raja" in
neengal kaetavai. Since Illayaraja changed the Ni2 of Sudha Dhanyasi to Ni3
and made a new ragam out of it, can he proclaim himself as the creator of
this new ragam?
-'aruvi kooda jadhiyillaamal' From 'Gowri, Manohari', A classical duet by KJY and SPB.
http://tfmpage.com/cgi-bin/stream.pl?url=http://tfmpage.com/songs/aruvi.rm (http://tfmpage.com/cgi-bin/stream.pl?url=http://tfmpage.com/songs/aruvi.rm
)
The MD was a new guy(one film wonder?).
I watched this movie on Malaysian TV few years ago. It was actually a very good film with all new faces.All the songs were good. SPB,SJ and KJY were the main singers.
Its story about daughter of a music guru torn between her ex husband and new lover. This song is for the music guru and the lover.
-This is my translation of Mrs Charumathi analysis of the song. My apologies if i messed up with any technical info in my translation.
aruvi kooda jadhiyilaamal is based on 'sudha dhanyaasi' raagam . The raagam has the following aaroganam
and avaragonam
aaroganam: Sa Ga1 Ma1 Pa Ni1 Sa
avaragonam: Sa Ni1 Pa Ma1 Ga1 Sa
Sudha dhanyasi is janya raagam of karaharapriya.
chathurasra jathi, ekathaaLam, thisra nadai(gadhi) are
other features of this song.
The song, that starts with the thampura sruthi and carnatic aalapana, is mixed with brighas that touches 'thaarasthaayi
panjamam'.
Though the interludes has tabla, mridhangam,flute and keyboard, the interlude between pallavi and anupallavi
is devoid of any music but filled with swaras sung by KJY. This is quite unusual for a film song.
The structure of the song is also not in the usual format of a film song. It starts with a pallavi then takes on the
anupallavi/charanam and ends with swaras. This reminds us the style of sangitha mumoorthi Muthusami dikshithar.
The swara saahithyam is set to 'irandaam kaalam' and the music that comes before the starting of swaras is set to 'thisra merkaalam'
The end of swaras changes to '1- am agaaram'. This shows the creativity of the Music director.
To differentiate the swara saahithyam, the MD has used Mridangam along with swaras sung by KJYs and thabla for SPB's .
Though the song is set to chathursara aeka thaaLam, thisra gadhi, strangely the music in between pallavi and anupallavi misses the '1/2 aavarthanam(2 beat korvai).
-Lakshminarayanan Srirangam Ramakrishnan on sudha dhanyasi raagam
Sudha Dhanyasi is another janyam of Thodi ragam. Sa Ga Ma Pa Ni Sa; Sa Ni
Pa Ma Ga Sa. You can also (more appropriately) call it as a janyam of
Nadabhairavi. Illayaraja has been very generous in using this scale. MSV
made an indelible mark in this ragam earlier by presenting "neeyae unaku
enrum nigaraanavan" in balae pandiya. That is really fantastic! He has
wonderfully used the Ga and Ni with gamakam in the song. Illayaraja's first
Sudha Dhanyasi is perhaps siru ponmani in kallukul eeram. Later he gave
ragavanae (illamai kaalangal), pudhiya poovidhu (thendralae ennai thodu)
poojaikaetha poovidhu (?movie), vizhiyil vizhundhu (alaigal oivadhillai),
theem thanana (?enakkul oruvan), manasu mayangum (sippikul muthu), masi
maasam (dharmadurai), nanjai undu punjai (unnal mudiyum thambi), kotti
kidakudhu (theertha karaiyinilae), kadal vanilae (rasayya), unnai edhir
parthaen (vanaja girija). In many of these songs he uses other swaras like
Ri2 etc., and hence cannot be called as pure form. In nanjai undu, he has
not used any foreign notes. Then is it classical ragam? No! K.Balachandar
(a boot licker to Illayaraja at that time, so that he could sell the movie
by publicizing Illayaraja's name), made a big arguement in the movie that
even "nanjai undu punjai" was a pure Sudha Dhanyasi. Dear sir, to call
something as classical, you should present it in a real classical form!
Just going up and down the scale wouldn't make the raga form appear in that
tune! Use the gamakam, use the nuances of the ragam, then even Semmangudi
will call it as Sudha Dhanyasi!
If one changed the kaisiki nishadham (Ni2) of Sudha Dhanyasi to kaakali
nishadham (Ni3), then is there any ragam like that? If so, what is it
called as? Illayaraja has given a couple of songs in this type of scale.
One of them came in the movie poonthotta kavalkaran. Radhika gets pregnant
and then the song goes in the background! I have read in my school biology
class (with lot of curiosity!) that a sperm and an ovum "join" to form a
baby! Look at the way the poet says about this scientific phenomenon in his
poetic language.... Sindhiya vennmani sippiyil muthaachu!! What a nice
euphemistic way of saying a vulgur thing! Gangei Amaran proved himself as a
poet in that song! Illayaraja's tune is so wonderful in that song. It is so
melodious. Vijayakanth specifically said about this song in one of his TV
interviews! Another song that I know in this scale is "o vasantha raja" in
neengal kaetavai. Since Illayaraja changed the Ni2 of Sudha Dhanyasi to Ni3
and made a new ragam out of it, can he proclaim himself as the creator of
this new ragam?