Maestro Ilaiyaraja New Albums 2011 - Hello Jaihind / Sri Rama Rajyam

Another +ve review and an interesting observation

http://worldmusic.suite101.com/artic...sic_review_paa

Swanand Kirkire’s lyrics and Ilayaraja’s music complement each other beautifully in the soundtrack of the new Bollywood movie Paa. It does strike the listener as slightly odd that a movie with a male centric story should have a soundtrack dominated with female voices, but that is beside the point.

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Originally Posted by Sureshs65

It is quite as to how almost all the web based reviews want to try and anticipate what the people want and accordingly review the music ;) Very funny. If you are a critic, you must either let people know whether you liked it or not, or you can point out some nuances about the song and tell why it is good or not good. Instead, what we get is, 'The young crowd will like it'. 'the so and so crowd may not like it' and so and so forth. It is almost like everyone wants a 'fast food' review!! I am just not talking about 'Paa' review but most reviews in general.

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I guess sometimes you need to bow to the market dynamics and which is what these reviewers are trying to do. I am happy that most of the reviewers are acknowledging the beauty of these songs rather than just pushing them as being south indian.

Lot of discussions here.Sometimes, not knowing a language helps :)

I dont think Aadhiushassu is a pedestrian tune.Its not a great tune either(the pallavi part),but it captures a certain mood in the pallavi that i think gelled well with the picturisation, even though i didnt understand the language. and the beauty of the song evolves in the charanams. And overall, its a beautiful composition.If we listen to only pallavi,it might be that appealing.And the song is more about the whole aura it carries.The brass section,the percussions etc.

Regarding his comments,IR has proved lot of times,that he cannot articulate his thoughts exactly sometimes.May be this is one of them.I dont see what would IR gain by degrading a lyricist, as the media claim.Its nonsense.Just that he had a point of view and he probably couldnt put it across in a right way.. Thats my guess, not even an interpretation.

Strange are the ways of Genuises.

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Originally Posted by thumburu

"adhiushas" stands tall mainly due to ONV's outstanding lyrics which even outshines Raja's pedestrian tune . Looks like Raja is clearly not comfortable in setting tunes to pre written lyrics which is a good challenge for music composers. May be he could still learn a lesson or two from MSV in this regard . No wonder he is still stuck with "salippu" nursery rhymes like sandhams .

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May be you should stop Listening to Raaja's Music altogether till you come out of the 'bourgeois' (=Mettukudi) mindset you have, ...or if possible stop posting your opinions with narrow mindset.
We will not be at loss if the likes of you don't post here.

Thumburu, when you get time, please listen to the following pre-written lyrics albums:
1. Bharathi
2. Parts of Ramana Maalai
Above all
3. Thiruvasagam

:-)

RS,

I wouldn't go to that extent. I don't mind people having a fixed mindset. I think everyone has a right to opinion. My major crib are these hand waving dismissals. If you want to clearly state why you felt a tune was not good and why you felt the lyrics were good, that is acceptable. We may disagree. But if it is just a hand waving opinion, there will not be much of constructive debate which happens. For example, raagas is analyzing the song and saying the pallavi may not be very impactful but the charanams are great and the song is a whole unit along with the orchestration. That is an acceptable argument. You can argue whether the pallavi is great or not but atleast there is certain logic in the argument.

We have all been arguing with the basic premise that there are no holy cows. I fully agree to it but before dismissing an artists work we better give our reasons clearly.

thumburu,

Please watch the video of exactly what IR said. Newspapers have twisted the whole thing as much they could. IR's concerns were valid. Especially, when he stated that when PR leaves the land, no lines in the lyrics to represent the fact. Do you have an argument against this??

In all this controversy, I feel the MT-HH combo will now not try to push the NA committee for music NA :-(

சரி, போனால் போகட்டும் போடா :-)

I agree with Fliflo about the Media twisting the whole speech in order to create some controversy. When i listened to it, i felt that IR is merely stating that his basic understanding of the situation and the feel the song was supposed to provide, differed from the lyricist. While ONV went for a more upbeat revolutionary kind of feel, IR felt that the pain of the king forced to move out of his land and hide also needed to be brought out. So he tried to put his idea as well into the feel of the song and in the end i think he acheived both the objectives. The basic tune conveys a hint of sadness while the backing percussion and rythms provide the the more upbeat war like feel as well. What do you guys think? I think its basically the composer and lyricist having a totally different point of view of the situation which was explained for the song. Maybe if they had been face to face they could have come to an understanding on the feel of the song? It must have been a challenging task explaining this kind of situation for a song and i think IR is also pointing out the difficulties that are encountered while composing.