Friday, September 02, 2005
Some Of This Season's Best
This season, there are a lot of fresh and pleasant songs on offer, from various composers in the Tamil music scene. To start off, Rehman is back after almost a one-year hiatus. The song Mayilirage (from Anbey Aruyire) is soothing, pleasant and is ARR at his melodious best. Disappointingly none of the other songs in this soundtrack live up to the dizzying expectations, which this song raises. But this soundtrack is worth a buy just for Mayilirage, which is a song in the style of Kanaalane and Snehidane.
But the real treats of the season are from Harris Jeyraj and Yuvan Shankar Raja. Harris’s best song is Suttum Vizhi(Ghajini),which I hear is a Baradiyar song. Sriram Parthasarathy and Bombay Jayashree have done a great job with this song, which has the feel of songs from the MSV era. Oru Maalai from the same film is a nice, almost pop songish typical Harris number, which is very humable. With Uyire, En Uyire and Yaridamum (Thoti Jaya) and a few more good numbers Harris’s music this season is sure to win him a lot of fans .
Yuvan Shankar Raja’s music in Kanda Naal Mudhal is an Isai Malzai. Pani Thuli and Merke Merke are cool, pleasant ballads, which are bound to become huge hits. Vibrant, sensitive, and rich in flavor they are bound to mesmerize the listeners. Of his songs in the just released Oru Kaluriyin Kadai my favorites are Kadhal Yenbadhu and Dalapa Kathuda(the 2nd will appeal to esp fan’s of his father).The nice thing about Yuvan is that slowly he has been rising as a notable composer with an identity of his own,which is not easy considering he is the son of the greatest exponent of music in this country.
Ps-The above songs are just my favorites from the wide variety of music on offer this season. Some other songs like Rahatulla(Gajini) or the title song of Kanda Naal.. may appeal more to others.I have also consciously excluded the works of Raaja Sir on offer, as I think we are all agreed that he is on a league of his own. Regards my opinion on his music this season,it is the same as what I think of his music from any season-Kana Muditu Poi Vangenge!!
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There is a song by Hariharan and Chitra in Ah Aah, thats an awesome song, as is the one by SPB and Shreya... Also Naresh (newcomer) has done really well in the Mayilirage song...
I can't remember the names sorry... Ghajini and Kandha Naal Mudhal songs are good, but nothing great... The Shreya Goshal and Kay Kay song was awesome in KNM and also the Karthik, Maha & Harish song is good... The dialogues by Karthik are hilarious...
The songs from Oru Naal Oru Kanavu are nice as well, Music: Illayaraja, Singers: Sonu, Hariharan, Shreya, Illayaraja, Bhavatharini, Tippu, Manjasri and a couple of others perhaps... The group song (classical sounding one) is really nice and so are most of the Sonu Nigam ones... However I'm not a fan of his voice for Southy songs.. The song has a different beat... Check it out...
Mayilarage is more in the lines of Anbe anbe - jeans and an old Ilayaraja song Kavithai arangerum neram from Antha 7 naatkal.
Also Rehman is used the same interlude he used for Mudhalvan title song in a slow pace in mayilarage.
Have been too much behind the times as far as tamil film music is concerned.. will listen to the ones you mentioned.
preethi,yes the song u refer 2 from oru naal(katril varum gedame,the classical one) is awesome.actually sonu nigam has sung konjam tira and the other songs quite ok.he also did a great job of pupotade in mumbai express.
lxsn,thanks for the trivia on mayilirage!!
ttg,yes some of the songs this year are really worth checking out.
The PS: of yours is very valid. It reminds me, when Rehman was going full bang in 94-95, i bought the cassettes of Ellame En Rasathan, and Avatharam by Raja. I loved both the collections.
So much so, that yuvan said in an interview, that, if he can compose one song like 'thendral vandhu' from avatharam, he wud consider his career as a success.
I listened to all the albums you had mentioned.
Pardon me, but ARR IMHO has lost his charm looks like.! I didn't like any of the songs in AAH.
The only song with I like from all the recent movies is Yaridamum, by Ramesh Vinayagam ( Harris Jeyaraj - I think its a telugu remake , sung by Srinivas - Original is better).
Is Ravi Shankar a Tamil??
all the songs were nice picks..
I liked few other songs as well in 'Ah aah' and not much in 'kanda naal mudhal' other than the title song....
^tj,loved ur heartfelt comment on my previous article.yes tendral vandu,ponamma and other songs in avataram are awesome.like 99% of isaigyani sir's music!!
^narayanan sir,very nice 2 cu back after a while!
^no paul,ravi shankar is not a tamil.but he is an indian,which is what matters!!
^ram,yes the title song of aah is nice 2.saw the video yesterday.mgr pattu madri iruku!!btw c oru kaluriyin kadai if u can.nice film.
Great music touches the soul of the listener no matter where the music comes from .
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