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Greatness of AMRajah

Topic started by Arun Prakash (@ 2cust46.tnt2.det1.da.uu.net) on Wed Jul 1 22:25:26 EDT 1998.
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As we all know AM Rajah, the man who had a melliflous voice,who won the admiration of millions of fans was a versatile composer by himself. His compositions in films like Then Nilavu,Kalyanaparisu,Aadiperukku are just great.

He gave a lot of light music programs all over India with his wife jikki and the Great Maestro Illayaraaja was a guitarist in his troupe for a period of time.

Thanks.

Arun Prakash

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• From: mahabs (@ 203.197.138.163) on: Tue Jun 5 03:36:00 EDT 2001
  
  A.M.Rajah is the best romantic singer. missiamma is fantastic. ultimater songs.
  
  anbudan
  mahabs
  
  
• From: Vishvesh (@ 63.65.68.246) on: Mon Jun 11 13:00:42 EDT 2001
  
  Is A.M.Raja the composer of Parthiban Kanavu ? The song sequence for Idhayavaanin is so romantic by the rich tune and the flowing voice of Raja. Some songs forever stay in your memory, and this was one of those.
  
  
• From: Udhaya (@ 63.89.188.171) on: Mon Jun 11 15:34:17 EDT 2001
  
  Vishvesh,
  I learned that "Paarthiban Kanavu" is an original effort by Vedha (andha kaalathu Deva). At least 4 great songs are in it including A.M.Raja's duet, "Kannaalae naan kanda kanavu".
  
  
• From: A.A. (@ hse-toronto-ppp268207.sympatico.ca) on: Sat Jul 21 00:29:40 EDT 2001
  
  Besides the great songs mentioned above, A.M.Rajah's beautiful voice has delivered many other fantastic songs which I am longing to hear.Some of them are:
  Ithuvey Raththa paasam (Raththa Paasam)
  Alzhiyatha Kathal Valvin (Kumari)
  Onnum Puriyavillai Thambi (Anbu)
  Aiya Muthalali Vaanga (Anbu)
  Anathai Polavey Aaneney (Genova)
  Naamey Jeevasugam (Genova with P.Leela)
  Oviyanin Ullam Thannai (Aasai with T.V.Rathnam)
  Chinna Chinna Veedu Katti (Marumagal with Periyanayagi)
  Kanavilum Ninaivilum (Marumagal with Periyanayagi)
  Singara Paingiliye Pesu (Manohara with Ratha Jeyalatchumi)
  Kanniyarin Vellai Manam Pol (Thirumbipaar with Swarnalatha)
  Kada Kada Loda Loda Vandi (Samsaram with Jikki)
  Maanilathin Vithiyai Venra & Samsaram Sahala Tharma Saaram (Samsaram)
  Oh Pattali (Nalla Pillai)
  Aambillai Nee (Nalla Pillai with P.Leela)
  A solo(?) with same tune as `Mere Kahaye' from the film Deedar (Ulagham)
  
  
• From: Sriram Lakshman (@ a060-0309.snfc.splitrock.net) on: Sat Jul 21 04:20:48 EDT 2001
  
  Interesting to read Mani's postings. Would be more interesting to analyse Sridhar's habit changing MDs. Started with AMR, T.Chalapathi Rao, MSV-TKR, MSV, IR and I recently heard that he was planning on awarding his next film to ARR. His music sense is quite well known and worthy of a separate thread.
  
  Mani, thanks for reminding me of 'rAsi nalla rAsi',great song. What a start to the stanza, 'nee pariththa poovil nalla kaLLirunthathu...'. It pains to know that TFM never truly utilised his talents as a composer.
  
  Some AMR songs that immediately come to mind
  arugil vanthAL urugi nindrAL
  Samsaram sakala tharma
  kaN moodum vELayilum kalai enna kalaiyE
  kalayE en vAzhkayin thisai mAtrinAi.
  
  'malarE malarE theriyAthO' sung by PS for AMR, what a melody!!!
  
  
  
  
  
  
• From: Sriram Lakshman (@ a060-0309.snfc.splitrock.net) on: Sat Jul 21 04:24:29 EDT 2001
  
  Please help me compile a list of movies MD'ed by AMR.
  
  kalyAna parisu,
  vidiveLLi,
  thEn nilavu,
  veettu mAppiLLai.....please go on.
  
  
• From: A.A. (@ hse-toronto-ppp259634.sympatico.ca) on: Sun Jul 22 02:08:00 EDT 2001
  
  Sriram Lakshman,
  Movies MD'ed by AMR:
  Kalyana Parisu
  Anbukor Anni
  Vidivelli
  Aadiperukku
  Then Nilavu
  Veetu Mappillai
  May be one or two movies after that.. That's all!
  What a loss?
  
  
• From: Saravanan (@ ppp-185-220.bng.vsnl.net.in) on: Fri Aug 3 04:26:52 EDT 2001
  
  I want to download Illayaraaja's mp3 and also normal hit songs pls tell me the site to download.
  
  regrds
  saravanan
  
  
• From: a.a. (@ pm32103.globalcon.com) on: Wed Aug 8 13:07:03 EDT 2001
  
  SARAVANAN,
  I think you have come to wrong thread by mistake.This is A.M.Rajah's thread, not Ilayaraja's.
  
  
• From: Balaji (@ webproxy03qfe0.sbi.com) on: Wed Aug 8 18:14:55 EDT 2001
  
  SL:
  
  <>>>>>Mani, which movie was the song 'chinna kaNNanE nAn thanthai ena nee piLLai ena oru bantham vanthathu...' in ? It was picturised on AVM Rajan
  
  I think the film is 'Thaikku Oru Pillai' and Music is by SG..
  
  It's a good song picturized on AVM and Savithri!
  
  Balaji
  
  
  
• From: Anand (@ dhcp221-bodine.bridgeport.edu) on: Wed Aug 8 22:47:12 EDT 2001
  
  AMR died in a train accident? I did not know this. Is this news true? Can anyone shed further light on the matter? And I was also wondering when he passed away (my guess is mid 80s).
  
  Thanks.
  
  
• From: a.a. (@ hse-toronto-ppp260029.sympatico.ca) on: Mon Aug 13 23:36:44 EDT 2001
  
  There are two beautiful sinhalese songs by AMR with Jamuna Rani in the following link. I think they were released in late 50's or early 60's.
  The MD was Dhakhinamurthy.
  http://www.infolanka.net/miyuru_gee/art/amrajah.html
  You could also listen to some songs by Jamuna Rani, Lata Mankeshkar and K.Rani at
  http://www.infolanka.net/miyuru_gee
  then pick by Artists. All artist's names are listed alphebetically. Then pick Jamuna Rani, K.Rani etc.
  
  
• From: Vishvesh Obla (@ ) on: Tue Sep 4 15:35:54 EDT 2001
  
  Udhaya,
  
  I was doing a google search today on a different subject, and I was led to this pleasant discussion ! A few weeks back, I made a song request (without expecting that it would be responded to) for this song from Parthiban Kanavu at www.thendral.com, an internet tamil radio station run at Albany, NY, and to my surprise they had the song and were pleased to broadcast it immediately ! Seems to me that any music lover would invariably love A.M.Raja. It was so nice to hear the rich flowing voice of A.M.Raja in that song, though the recording was so bad.
  
  Thanks for your info that the songs were composed by Veda and that they were original too ! Well, I have a kind of reverence to the music directors of that era, and even in Veda I have found traces of a fine music sensibility, in spite of him being a copy cat. The 7 / 8 time this particular song is set to, is one of the beats which is seldom used till today in tamil cine music. That adds so much of charm to the song and hats off to Veda (he was certainly imaginative in using a rare beat which adds to the romantic feeling of the song enlivened by Raja's voice). Also listen to the fine prelude of Orayiram Parvayilae by TMS. It is not there in the original hindi song. (By the bye, Ullathin Kadhavugal kankaladaa was also his original composition, if I am right). He also exhibited a taste, I must say, in choosing the songs to copy !
  
  
• From: vijay (@ 129.252.25.96) on: Tue Sep 4 16:10:58 EDT 2001
  
  I guess AMR was like Hemant kumar in Hindi..always a second tier singer but with under-rated composiing abilities?? Thenilavu songs are an absolute pleasure to hear..
  
  
• From: KavipPiriyan (@ 192.128.167.68) on: Wed Sep 5 06:19:23 EDT 2001
  
  I think vEda had a great vibe for melody which prompted him to flick some awesome tunes from hindi , refine the phrases much to appeal the listener and presented them well in Tamil. For example the tamil version of " dil pukAre Aare.." (nAnaththAle kaNNam miNNa miNNa..) appeals better with better BGM and rendering.
  
  I wish he should have done music for "sivagAmiyin selvan " where he could have refined and presented the wonderful melodies like "kOrA kAgaj thA yeah man mEra.." , "guNgunA ra hai mOr .." by using SPB and PS with lyrics by kannadasan.
  
  
• From: a.a. (@ 64.230.61.38) on: Sun Sep 9 13:54:18 EDT 2001
  
  Good news for AMR fans. One of his old songs from the movie `Naam' is posted in the following link, thanks to S.K.: http://www.angelfire.com/pa3/ppp/rareppp.htm
  
  
• From: Sriram Lakshman (@ 63.253.6.172) on: Sun Sep 9 16:52:46 EDT 2001
  
  Vishwes Obla, 'uLLaththin kathavugaL...' was composed by T.R.Papa, another composer who 'tastefully' lifted from Hindi on several occassions but could come up with aces on a few. I was listening to the songs of Devadas the other day and noticed great similarities between 'uthaya vAnin ithaya nilavE' and a Ghantasala-Rani duet in the movie, with the same 7 beat pattern.
  
  
• From: SARAVANAN A.M. (@ ) on: Mon Mar 4 11:48:14 EST 2002
  
  World is going somewere else, but you people wasting time like spending unnecessarily doing like this. Think for a while it is necessary? So many scientists are created many things and they have spend theri whole time for the use of ourself. So dont waste the time and try to do something for our country and to the people
  
  WITH ALL GOOD WISHES AND WITH LOVE
  A.M. SAAVANAN
  
  
  
• From: Udhaya (@ 63.89.188.144) on: Mon Mar 4 12:28:42 EST 2002
  
  A.M.Saravanan,
  Self-righteous preaching is one of the worst sins in humans; misspelling is one of the worst sins in a public forum. You're guilty as a human and a forum contributor. Please go preach where there are people waiting to be converted and leave us the hell alone.
  
  
• From: satsona (@ 203.199.192.162) on: Tue Mar 5 01:22:07 EST 2002
  
  KavipPiriyan (@ 192.128.167.68)
  
  "I think vEda had a great vibe for melody which prompted him to flick some awesome tunes from hindi , refine the phrases much to appeal the listener and presented them well in Tamil. For example the tamil version of " dil pukAre Aare.." (nAnaththAle kaNNam miNNa miNNa..) appeals better with better BGM and rendering.
  
  I wish he should have done music for "sivagAmiyin selvan " where he could have refined and presented the wonderful melodies like "kOrA kAgaj thA yeah man mEra.." , "guNgunA ra hai mOr .." by using SPB and PS with lyrics by kannadasan."
  
  I AM COMPLETELY AMUSED BY YOUR STMTS ABOUT THE "GREAT" VEDA. HE MIGHT HAVE HAD A GOOD SENSE OF MUSIC, BUT HE CAN NEVER BE GLORIFIED FOR COPYING DIRECTLY AND COMPLETELY AND PRESENTING SOME OF THE SUPERB SONGS OF HINDI FILMS.
  
  WHAT U DONT SEE HERE IS THAT THE CREDIT DUE TO THE ORIGINAL MDs OF THESE SONGS HAS BEEN TAKEN AWAY.
  THIS CAN BE STATED AS AN OFFENCE IN THE FIELD OF MUSIC.
  PLS OBSERVE THAT GETTING AN INSPIRATION FROM A SONG IS COMPLETELY DIFFERENT FROM DIRECTLY & FULLY COPYING IT, AND MY DEAR FRIEND, VEDA IS OF THE LATTER CATEGORY.
  
  IF THAT IS THE CASE OF PRESENTING A SONG BETTER, HE SHOULD HAVE PUT THE ORIGINAL MD's NAME IN THE FILM TITLES AND PUT HIMSELF AS AN ARRANGER. IN NO WAY CAN HE BE THE MUSIC DIRECTOR.
  
  I HOPE U APPRECIATE THIS AND START GIVING CREDIT TO THE ORIGINAL MD, INSTEAD OF THIS DIRTY COPYCAT.
  
  satsona
  
  
  
  
• From: Raghu (@ 212.2.14.241) on: Tue Mar 5 08:52:28 EST 2002
  
  A.M.Rajah is one great singer, man!
  
  

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