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ARR's 10th Anniversary in TFM - A Decade of Fans

Topic started by A Constellation of ARR Fans (@ 12.234.180.182) on Tue Aug 20 11:40:13 EDT 2002.
All times in EST +10:30 for IST.

It is a known fact that with Baba, ARR has marked his 10th year in TFM in a Big Way.
The beneficiaries of this prodigy's talents, tat’s us the fans, have decided to call for Celebrations in a Big Way.
Hence, a Constellation of ARR Fans from the newtfmpage Forum got together and took a walk down memory lane, through each year of A Decade of Rahmania.

The fruit of our labour saw the creation of a whole new Website, "10 Years of Universal Conquest", in Dedication to ARR.

Rahman - The Indian Music Wizard - A Composer's view - by UV
http://www.armedd.com/arr/rahman.html

1992 - The Dawn of a New Age - by ROTFL
http://www.armedd.com/arr/1992.html

1993 - His Best Year in the Tamil Film World - by Bharath
http://www.armedd.com/arr/1993.html

1994 - En mel Vizhuntha Malai Thuli - by OISG
http://www.armedd.com/arr/1994.html

1995 - His Second National Conquest - by Cosmician
http://www.armedd.com/arr/1995.html

1996 - Western namakku Vilaiyatu - by Cosmician
http://www.armedd.com/arr/1996.html

1997 - Rahman captures Poo Pookum Osai - Joint effort
http://www.armedd.com/arr/1997.html

1998 - Sandhosha Kaneere - by WN
http://www.armedd.com/arr/1998.html

1999 - The Magician's Spell - by CP
http://www.armedd.com/arr/1999.html

2000 - The Magic Continues - by CP
http://www.armedd.com/arr/2000.html

2001 - The Right Recipe for the New Millennium - by Are Yaar
http://www.armedd.com/arr/2001.html

2002 - Inspiration for a New Generation - by Magix
http://www.armedd.com/arr/2002.html

We invite all of you to join us in the celebrations.
We’d also like to thank newtfmpage admin, RR & bb, for their support.

If you wish to add your contribution to any of these pages, you can send them in by email to the website coordinator.

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Responses:

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• From: Lord LabakuDas (@ 12.162.224.6) on: Mon Oct 7 17:28:00 EDT 2002
  
  Nice one UV..Thanks for the review..
  
  
• From: Are Yaar (@ 203.197.141.186) on: Tue Oct 8 04:10:18 EDT 2002
  
  Excellent review UV.
  
  I feel that you could have still elaborated on some songs there.
  
  
• From: ARRisOverrated(atleast by UV) (@ 64.173.8.9) on: Tue Oct 8 11:22:45 EDT 2002
  
  Ennaya..summa ordinaryana albuma aha oho nu pArAttareenga..okay sound engineering supera irukku..aanaa oru pattu tuneavathu gnabagathula nikkutha..Etho 'Asian Mozart' nu koopidarangalEnnu ella pattulaiyum strings..WCM pattu vEnuma..en mana vaanilla ..enna solli pAduvathonnu oru pattu irrukku ..athu WCM pattu..ARR is looking terribly challenged in this album
  
  
• From: curses (@ 203.199.248.164) on: Tue Oct 8 12:11:18 EDT 2002
  
  ithukku verum rende bathil thaan..
  unga manasula nikalaina
  a. memory failure - retry
  b. neenga oru oru paatu-layum ethavathu pazhaiya paatu saayal irukka ninaichunde kaeturukeenga.
  
  but who knows, u mite not have listened to it more than once. pls do. That's the speciality of Rahman. The song grows on u with each hearing. Everytime u hear it, as mentioned earlier, u tend to discover (?) new patterns or sounds. listen to it. I bet u'll appreciate it.
  
  
• From: Thiru (@ 63.169.243.35) on: Tue Oct 8 13:21:43 EDT 2002
  
  curses,
  (b) is a valid point... I agree with you that most of them who listen to ARR's song the first time tries to correlate it with another song rather than actually listening to it...
  
  
• From: UV (@ 134.113.4.168) on: Tue Oct 8 15:41:38 EDT 2002
  
  Thiru
  I recommend you and others to listen to songs using a headphone ,provided you listen to the songs which 128kbs or higher for cd quality
  then you will appreciate whatever I have said in my review. For example in the SPB,Swarnalatha duet if you pay closer attention to the background rthym you will find there interesting things ARR has done with the rthym.
  But as someone said earlier ,If listeners only objective is to find fault then everything goes over the top.
  
  
• From: Thiru (@ 63.169.243.35) on: Tue Oct 8 16:19:33 EDT 2002
  
  UV,
  I listened to KV with my headphones at work.. As u have mentioned , definitely there is a change in the quality... all these days, i've been listening it in my car but definitely headfones gives a new perspective to the song... i could hear the strings in the background only with the headfones...and particularly the humming by swarnalatha in the background.......
  
  
• From: Naaz (@ 24.76.127.63) on: Tue Oct 8 21:55:51 EDT 2002
  
  WN -
  I watched Kannaththil Muththmitaal today at the festival screening.
  
  
• From: magix (@ 203.199.248.7) on: Tue Oct 8 22:43:35 EDT 2002
  
  Naaz! :)
  so how was it?? :)
  
  
• From: magix (@ 203.199.248.7) on: Tue Oct 8 22:48:58 EDT 2002
  
  btw.. now O kadhale is mving up in my list of favs..
  i jus realised that Rahman's used a lotta ethnic stuff in the BG. Right after Cliton's cry comes a kinda aboriginal music. "Maasi re" or something like that. It strikes a very emotional chord, i dont know why! do listen to it. somewhere between 3:48 and 4:00.
  
  and this song's supposed to be an emotional turning point (read climax?) in this movie.. so i guess that's where the coughin bit comes in.
  I was shocked when i heard it the 1st time, made me jump up!
  
  
• From: magix (@ 203.199.248.7) on: Tue Oct 8 22:50:35 EDT 2002
  
  typos(!):
  mving --> moving
  Cliton --> Clinton
  ;)
  
  
• From: C~P (@ 202.9.148.219) on: Wed Oct 9 02:05:39 EDT 2002
  
  very nice review UV.....but 2 doubts
  
  1)Bailamore....yes the lyrix are hard to follow....and sound samples(vocals) have been repeated.....but don u feel this is a new expt by ARR??.....jus givin a chnage to the usual pallavi-charanam-interlude stuff?? ..... do u feel (going by rating 6/10) that this isnt a succesful expt by ARR??
  
  2)O Kadhale....do u still feel the same way?? .... that manos voice is pretty ordinary in this song?? .... my feeling was he had done very well .... esplly b4 that coughin part (i guess) he has sung the song with a tinch of "sogam" .... as for the song i esplly love that "Kadhale Kadhale" part
  
  
• From: WN (@ 203.24.100.132) on: Wed Oct 9 04:57:28 EDT 2002
  
  Naaz:
  u watched the movie...and?
  I'd like to hear wat the movie critic has to say.
  
  Anyone here who has watched Fire and Earth?
  
  I put my weekend to good use. It was quite a cool experience to walk into a nearby Video Ezy store and pick up a couple of movies wit ARR's music. Will write more in detail later.
  But ARR's music really moved.
  
  btw, if anyone is after KM bgms, i have 4 pcs in stock. Let me know if u need it.
  
  
• From: curses (@ 203.199.231.232) on: Wed Oct 9 07:04:44 EDT 2002
  
  wait wait..
  lemme guess.
  Sattena nanainthadhu nenjam Part 1 & 2
  The guitar piece where the kids go to Rameswaram
  And the part where they wanna adopt the girl.
  rite? ;)
  
  
• From: curses (@ 203.199.231.232) on: Wed Oct 9 07:17:11 EDT 2002
  
  I've got those pcs..
  lemme know if u've got something apart from this.
  
  
• From: C~P (@ 202.9.147.202) on: Wed Oct 9 08:17:45 EDT 2002
  
  meme.....i need it!
  
  
• From: Naaz (@ 24.76.127.63) on: Wed Oct 9 10:42:00 EDT 2002
  
  WN-
  
  I had prepared myself for the worst. A viewing of Hey Ram the previous week had sent my knowledge of Indian History to the deep freeze (Hey Hemorrhaging!) and I was in no mood for another such blow. Yet, I had to see this movie, for which I had lined-up three days earlier to get the tickets in advance!
  Trepedition is Good :-)
  And I am happy to report that KM was did not open old wounds, even if it wasn't a balm for them either.
  I am working on a longer piece of an indian journal about this film, so I won't steal my own thunder...so here is an itsy peck on the paper:
  I found the BGM score (and song) in the opening to be distracting. Do we need a song every time there is a wedding on the screen?
  The first person narrative (from Amudha POV) was a clever expository tool, but MR quickly lost that. He has a problem (methinks) that can be called a cinematic ADD (30 second attention span-nnu sollalam.) Anyways -
  We settle into the hurly-burly of the Thiru Indra household (check out BMs Olangal for an interesting counterpoint) and the usually choreographed brats in chennai schools - so cute you are tempted to slap some ordinariness into them :-)
  That's just the first of the MR compositional annoyances. Then it the lift-off to deja-vu: shafts of light pouring in from a single window; chellam, thangam sort of sweet nothings; crane shots on isolated beaches and women in blue sarees whose pallos are longer than the marina itself :-)...But that is just part of MRs cinematic grammar. And it does have a certain exotica. So far, no bleeding :-) The first half, as you had so aptly warned, was the better part. The second half was damp and soggy.
  The title song did not require an encore (it is a good ditty though.) But I guess the logic was - Sri Lanka vandhadhu than vandhom oru paatu andha buddhar silai pakkam paaditu...you know how that goes. I always have find my tolerate doing a fast-fade when serious and complicated political issues are trivialised or decontextualised in the name of "humanist" two-liners for altruist heros.
  The Sri Lanka Insurgency was used a backdrop and MR bombed the meaning out of the struggle (literally) without offering any glimpse of motivation or seriousness. Just guerillas in cammies, and beady-eyed black men do not a resistance movement make. But that is the kind of historic shorthand we get from the MRs pen.
  Nandita Das, who has about 20 mins of screen time, was the best thing about the film. However, the final meeting, meant to push the tear-ducts into overdrive (why the hell does one need wailing solitary voices in the background at such junctures? Wouldn't the emotion be raw and visceral in its starkness without these filmi gimmicks? ) was also the corniest - not for the essence of the scene itself, but for the way MR rounded up the "Kudai" symbolism with the sudden and synchronised shower that ensues the Amudha/Shyama embrace. It's all about shelter, refuge, sanctuary...did you get it....or did you get it? :-)
  There were shades of a flamenco in the srilanka arrival song...ARR doing his worldbeat.
  Overall, it all went by quickly. And I didn't walk out raving, but I didn't rush out raging either.
  That's peace, the way I see it, these days :-)
  
  (I'll post a link to a longer review, when it is out, if you want me to. In about 2 months or so.)
  
  
  
• From: Naaz (@ 24.76.127.63) on: Wed Oct 9 10:43:14 EDT 2002
  
  Sorry for the typos - fresh off the keyboard. Apologies :-) (did not proof-read)
  
  

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