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Vote 'Adi Rakkamma' for World's Top Ten for BBC! Click here!

Topic started by Vijay Venkatram J (@ 203.145.160.235) on Mon Nov 11 11:08:23 EST 2002.
All times in EST +10:30 for IST.

Dear Friends,

Let us vote for 'Adi Rakkamma' from THALAPATHI as our choice for the World's Top Ten Songs poll conducted by BBC!

I am suggesting this song because if in case the BBC people listen to the nominated songs, they will feel knocked out on hearing our Maestro's 150 Vioins' Strings Ensemble!

Let us all do it at:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/us/features/topten/

Yours Always Musically,
Vijay.

Maestro Ilaiyaraaja Fans Club at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ilaiyaraaja

RaajaNGAHM at http://www.raajangahm.com/members.html

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• From: ! (@ 152.163.189.230) on: Fri Nov 29 21:28:50 EST 2002
  
  http://www.besonic.com/Cream/0,3310,g193r3l0t0o0i0,FF.html
  
  A site featuring IR music for greeting card, plus has some recommended world music samples
  
  paticularly want to check this one out:
  
  World Traditions
  Pedro Aledo - La mere (feat Hakim Hamadouche) (7:30)
  Beautifully recorded the instrumentation and vocals blend together fantastically. This is one of the best pieces of World Music I've heard online.
  (Reviewed by: Secret Archives of the Vatican)
  
  
• From: WN (@ 203.24.100.131) on: Fri Nov 29 21:46:15 EST 2002
  
  "yaaro,
  Your might be seeing a chached page. Please hold ctrl + Shift and then refresh the screen!"
  
  Thanks for the tip Venki.
  Haha! This is funny! Look at the size of no 2 and compare it wit no1.
  
  Now more than half the world thinks RKT is the best song in the world.
  
  
• From: WN (@ 203.24.100.131) on: Fri Nov 29 21:50:57 EST 2002
  
  btw, a tip for HCIRFs here.
  
  It says Beatles has the most no of songs nominated (just 32). How about nominating all the songs IR has ever sung. Tat was IR will be the one with the most no of songs nominated and this time, his name will appear (rather than SPB or someone else). This way, u can make IR even more popular among the westerners.
  
  
• From: WN (@ 203.24.100.131) on: Fri Nov 29 21:53:40 EST 2002
  
  typo.."Tat way IR will be the one with the most no of songs nominated"
  
  
• From: sabesan (@ 64.129.181.69) on: Fri Nov 29 22:23:56 EST 2002
  
  looks like someone's stomach (may be the whole body) is burning too much :-)..... yabba.... as usual "vazhga jaaanna nayaagaaaaam" :-)
  
  
• From: WN (@ 203.24.100.131) on: Fri Nov 29 22:24:13 EST 2002
  
  "Asian Mozart from Madras" is a quote from Daily Mail. This is how it goes:
  
  "Once you enter the spirit, the show, cannily produced by Andrew Lloyd Webber, is a delight. And it brings to a mainstream audience the astounding musical talent of AR Rahman, the 36-year-old "Asian Mozart" from Madras who has sold more records than Madonna and Britney Spears combined."
  
  Sorry for the digression.
  
  
• From: WN (@ 203.24.100.131) on: Fri Nov 29 22:31:01 EST 2002
  
  sabesan, of course I am jealous. My stomach is on fire. How can one not be when one looks at the pie chart? Sheesh. It makes Indians look so good, I am jus embarrased ARR's song is not taking half the pie. God save me from the disgrace!
  
  
• From: ! (@ 152.163.189.230) on: Fri Nov 29 22:42:44 EST 2002
  
  Kum_laden, thanks. But, venki, the song list changed back to the original one again, while the pie chart is new. how did that happen? because a few hours bakc Led Zepellin was of the charts and Mariah Carey' Hero was no.2
  
  Rahman will become Mozart himslef if the Media says, tht is the power of marketing.
  
  
• From: vandemataram (@ 210.214.242.174) on: Fri Nov 29 23:03:42 EST 2002
  
  yeah the list seems to have suddenly changed back to the initial one. when the changed list appeared overnight yesterday,it had hero at 2, queen at 3,vandemataram at 4 and chaiyya at 5.
  
  
• From: vandemataram (@ 210.214.242.174) on: Fri Nov 29 23:04:41 EST 2002
  
  one general comment from BBC website:
  
  General comment:
  I personally dislike this sort of poll since the original question ("best song in the world") is meaningless. And the results are odd. The three first ones so far give an idea of what I mean. If those are the three best songs in the world, then I might consider emigrating to a different galaxy.
  
  However, there is another way of looking at it - and that is : as a game. As a bit of harmless fun. Steve Wright's choice of the Birdy Song seems to indicate that this is the case. But some people seem to be taking this quite seriously.
  Xavier, UK
  
  
• From: ! (@ 152.163.189.230) on: Fri Nov 29 23:07:32 EST 2002
  
  I saw that one, pretty much one conceited Xavier. who cares, hope he can emigrate, since that will be some good for himself
  
  
• From: fyi (@ 68.97.168.128) on: Fri Nov 29 23:55:27 EST 2002
  
  "After he had given the notes to the orchestra and the first rehearsal was over, they all got up and started clapping for the beautiful composition Ilayaraja has made, recounts Balasubramaniam.
  
  http://autofeed.msn.co.in/clippath2/innerHTMLs/{9D69A20E-5860-434F-A32D-45F7D80DD395}.asp
  
  
• From: yaaro (@ 195.93.34.7) on: Sat Nov 30 03:53:41 EST 2002
  
  VANDE MATARAM-may be you can send this xavier chap the above link.The westerners are so used to their music,they simply cannot look at anything else as a music.
  This song is a culmination of Ir's exposure to WCM type orchestration,our own dappanguthu and traditional hard core tamil music (abirami andhadhi).There has never been a song where all the three have been so seamlessly woven together.(and all this was written on to a paper straight from his mind-Raja,I bow to you!)what does this xavier know before making a comment like this and when ,as a indian and tamilian must have known better must have known even better than quoting a western chap.
  
  
• From: Aalavandhan (@ 203.106.162.223) on: Sat Nov 30 04:38:25 EST 2002
  
  Nice to see all the HCIRFs crawling out of their holes. :))
  
  Ithukke neenga ellaam ippadi thambattam adichaa, Bombay Dreams pola oru vaaippu kidaithatharkku eppadi ARR fans magizhnthiruppaanga?
  Ippothaavathu konjam nilamaiyai purinju sernthu santhosha padunggalen.
  
  
• From: Indian (@ 210.214.242.36) on: Sat Nov 30 06:35:04 EST 2002
  
  3 Indian songs in top ten
  
  1) Rakkamma
  4) Vandemataram
  5) Chaiyya Chaiyya
  
  
• From: Indian (@ 210.214.242.36) on: Sat Nov 30 06:35:11 EST 2002
  
  3 Indian songs in top five
  
  1) Rakkamma
  4) Vandemataram
  5) Chaiyya Chaiyya
  
  
• From: Vel (@ 202.88.152.159) on: Sat Nov 30 07:12:09 EST 2002
  
  "WCM type orchestration,dappanguthu and traditional tamil music, all the three seamlessly woven together...."
  
  Yaaro, very true. Thats a stunning capability that no other Indian music director would ever be able to match. Well said :-). Sheer brilliance!!...
  
  And to think that "rakkamma" is just a drop of the ocean, well what have you...the staggering thing is, IR has not finished his chapter yet..PHEW !!!!
  
  
• From: sridhar (@ 61.11.31.237) on: Sat Nov 30 07:14:43 EST 2002
  
  I thought ARR fans were not all perturbed at HCIRF's abuses.HCIRF's fans not so long ago created a ROTFL.The ARR fans suck a lot in this thread.Please leave this thred and go to the ARR fans thread.Please i am IR fan and we don't want you here.Vayiru eriya koodathappa....
  
  
• From: sridhar (@ 61.11.31.237) on: Sat Nov 30 07:16:27 EST 2002
  
  HCARRF are no different from HAIRF.This thread is the proof.As for the poll,I am proud to see RKT is topping.CONGRATS IR and TFM world.
  
  
• From: yaaro (@ 195.93.34.7) on: Sat Nov 30 07:51:36 EST 2002
  
  //Bombay Dreams pola oru vaaippu kidaithatharkku eppadi ARR fans magizhnthiruppaanga//
  AALAVANDHAN-change this to
  symphony pola oru vaaippu kidaithatharkku eppadi IR fans magizhnthiruppaanga.
  just go back to whatever symphony threads there are and read ARR fans rubbishing IR.
  moral:you get back what you give out.
  P.S:what is this hole thing?I have always beeen above surface:-)
  
  
• From: Aalavandhan (@ 210.186.60.232) on: Sat Nov 30 10:50:18 EST 2002
  
  Yaaro :))
  
  As for Symphony, the difference is that it never came out. Anyway, I really don't want to get into this game (Intha vilaiyaattukku naa varale) :)
  However, I firmly believe that ARR fans would be happy to give IR his dues if only the HCIRFs are not so condescending.
  After all it is not as if IR discovered music. :)
  (Sabesan is hating every word I am saying - sorry buddy.) :)
  
  Having said all that, I must admit that I was one of the first few to answer Vijay's call to vote for Raakkama kaiya thattu. Speaking of which, our TV showed this song after the interview with Shobana (which came after Mitr My friend movie.)
  Since I am already in the digression mode, let me go on a little further. IN this movie MIF, although it is widely known that Bhava scored the music, the last song when the credits roll, which is an English song, is scored by Karthik Raja!
  And belive me, it was damn good. Just goes to show that our people are very good and of international standard.
  And here we are bickering over some lousy trivial stuff.
  
  End Digression. :)
  
  
• From: sabesan (@ 64.129.181.69) on: Sat Nov 30 11:56:45 EST 2002
  
  SORRY FOR THE DIGRESSION (adhu serrri, endha threadlaaa aadhaai thaviaraa vera enna irukku)
  
  "However, I firmly believe that ARR fans would be happy to give IR his dues if only the HCIRFs are not so condescending."
  
  reminds of the song "Kanavu kaaanum vaazhkaaai yaaaavuum" :-) somehow our friend never sees the "ugly"ness of ARR fans, but seems to be living no bricks turned when the same comes from an IR fan.... hmm funny.....
  
  and Aalavandaan - SYMPHONY got released or not - is not of any botheration..... HE DID IT - that is what matters.....
  
  
  
  
• From: sabesan (@ 64.129.181.69) on: Sat Nov 30 11:57:24 EST 2002
  
  ooops - spelling mistake "living" should be "leaving"
  
  
• From: selva (@ 172.179.90.64) on: Sat Nov 30 12:40:23 EST 2002
  
  'and Aalavandaan - SYMPHONY got released or not - is not of any botheration..... HE DID IT - that is what matters.....'
  
  If 'HE DID IT', how does it matter to you? He wrote down his creation on paper and had it performed by the orchestra of his choice. He heard it and he has had his fill. Going by the rumours, it was well appreciated by the performers. Critics have hurt a sensitive creator.... and some who appreciated his cinematic works can only guess the greatness of his symphony in their 'imagination' (I am sure a lot of his fans believe that the symphony is a colossal work of art even without hearing it).
  
  What intrigues me is.... how can a creator not publish his work? Don't most creators depend on other people's acceptance for their own sense of achievment? only few have done art for its own sake.
  
  He might probably release his symphony some day or it might just be available for public with or without his consent. But here is a man who has resisted the temptation of external validity for WHATEVER reasons. Is that a mark of greatness or insecurity?
  
  
• From: sabesan (@ 64.129.181.69) on: Sat Nov 30 13:59:37 EST 2002
  
  selva - sorry, i was not clear..... what i meant by HE DID IT was - here was a man, who got the OPPORTUNITY to perform at some place - a recognition of what he is..... i never said - HIS SYMPHONY was GREAT or something like that.....
  
  

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