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Topic started by RAJAN (@ proxy-122.iap.bryant.webtv.net) on Thu Jan 22 22:20:06 EST 1998.
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A new Ilayaraja album is a cause for celebration with many among us. Let everyone share in the revelry. Review, discuss or comment on new IR albums.

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• From: Prabhu (@ 203.94.239.134) on: Wed Oct 23 11:07:51 EDT 2002
  
  An IR thread sala sala sala-nu poikittu irukku...Where is Fliflo!! :)
  
  
• From: Karthik (@ 141.217.221.99) on: Wed Oct 23 12:20:39 EDT 2002
  
  Hi ppl!!
  I am a die hard IR fan and some how I can't get to listen to the complete songs of SMK and RAMANA,it's killing me!!
  
  If some one can please send it to me in zip or any damn format!!!I have been listening to the song samples,I don't know how many times a day for the past week.Help me out guys!!
  
  
• From: kiru (@ 192.138.150.249) on: Wed Oct 23 13:16:10 EDT 2002
  
  Cheithi..looks like you are having fun :) I was really curious about the rhythm of jakkamma..Thanks for sharing that information. Please ask the Maestro when can we expect something like kaliyoonjal or kochu kochu santhoshangal..Why do these malayalam albums get very imaginative percussion work unlike tamil ? (The rhythm changes between western drums and mridhangam for every line in one song).Also convey the fan following for jakkamma, kuthu kuthu (you are my friend musicologist :)) and another song like that in kAthal jAthi !!. Still there not so cool and not hip people, who still like to speak/sing in tamil without an anglicised accent, even in other parts of the world :) :) :)
  
  
• From: kiru (@ 192.138.150.249) on: Wed Oct 23 13:18:54 EDT 2002
  
  Also, I will give you my arm..if you can ask the Maestro to retire pazhani bhArathy and get pulamaipiththan to work more !!!
  
  
• From: Peter Pan (@ 170.140.250.16) on: Wed Oct 23 14:47:33 EDT 2002
  
  Talking of Pulamaipithan, he is one lyricist who always comes up with excellent lyrics. But strangely enough, the TFM industry (and the govt.) has never appreciated his efforts. Is it because he prefers to keep a low-profile and is not media-savvy or PR-expert like Vairamuthu?
  
  His 'Edhilum Ingu iruppAn avan yArO' is a classic and so are many of the songs he wrote for IR. I was expecting the National Award for that number. Like you said, I hope IR brings him more recognition by encouraging him to be more prolific in film music.
  
  
• From: truth (@ 128.194.171.34) on: Wed Oct 23 22:45:37 EDT 2002
  
  hmm
  finally raaja has delivereddddddddddd!!!!!!!!
  well EMV and SMK are true Gems!!!!!!!!!!
  i cant say the same about ramana though...
  while my mind is still lost in SMK.. guyz can i take a quite digression...
  for the whole of last week the song from siraichali is killing me.. i am still searching for a remedy to insatiate this feeling.. please helpppp... please listen to the song suttum chudar vili parvayile". my god.. is he human!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  
  
• From: truth (@ 128.194.171.34) on: Wed Oct 23 22:46:09 EDT 2002
  
  hmm
  finally raaja has delivereddddddddddd!!!!!!!!
  well EMV and SMK are true Gems!!!!!!!!!!
  i cant say the same about ramana though...
  while my mind is still lost in SMK.. guyz can i take a quite digression...
  for the whole of last week the song from siraichali is killing me.. i am still searching for a remedy to insatiate this feeling.. please helpppp... please listen to the song suttum chudar vili parvayile". my god.. is he human!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  
  http://www.megacinema.com/app/handler?link=1.67484.89420.89421&page=14
  
  
• From: prabhudas (@ 24.193.50.30) on: Wed Oct 23 22:48:08 EDT 2002
  
  Hi friends,
  Any source for the Cds of SMK yet in US? I couldn't find them in stores here in Queens, NY.
  Eagerly waiting to listen to the full versions
  
  
  
  
• From: S.P MAHENDRAN (@ 161.139.38.232) on: Thu Oct 24 04:46:33 EDT 2002
  
  
  http://www.dailythanthi.com
  
  Go to cinema seythikal pakkam.
  
  
• From: Raja (@ 128.107.253.40) on: Thu Oct 24 06:54:05 EDT 2002
  
  where can we listen to songs of kaliyoonjal and kochu kochu santhoshangal ?
  
  
• From: selva (@ 172.180.100.94) on: Thu Oct 24 07:19:53 EDT 2002
  
  
  Raja
  
  www.musicindiaonline.com
  
  
• From: selva (@ 172.180.100.94) on: Thu Oct 24 07:37:07 EDT 2002
  
  Raja,
  
  the link for Kaliyoonjal is http://www.musicindiaonline.com/music/l/VV000A09
  
  the link for Kochu Kochu Santhoshangal is http://www.musicindiaonline.com/music/l/VV000A0A
  
  the quality of recording is poor unfortunately.
  
  Kiru, this has been told repeatedly. Wasn't IR offered interesting subjects and freedom to experiment in Malayalam in movies such as Guru, Kaalapani, Yathramozhi, Kaliyoonjal, kochu kochu etc etc
  
  I was very impressed with Yathramozhi and Kaliyoonjal for their story. Kaliyoonjal was a particularly disturbing movie.......Shalini did her role to near perfection.
  
  
• From: Saketh@Atlanta (@ 130.207.32.174) on: Thu Oct 24 07:59:56 EDT 2002
  
  Thanks for letting me know about the Malayalam movies of IR, Kiru. Could you list the 90s Malayalam movies of IR? Hoping to get them when I go to India. Thanks.
  
  
• From: selva (@ 172.180.100.94) on: Thu Oct 24 08:05:49 EDT 2002
  
  sorry, i feel the compulsion to continue.....
  
  A story like kaliyoonjal is like a red flag waved in front of a Bull. The director then is like the Bull fighter who is willing to take the risk. IR, the Bull, comes charging.... and we as spectators feel ecstatic!!! and watch the show with intense rapture..
  
  This bullfighting show is fine, but my only request is that IR should more and more try to wave his own red flag and charge rather than wait for a bullfighter to do it for him......... Just a Jest!
  
  
• From: Raja (@ 128.107.253.40) on: Thu Oct 24 08:11:15 EDT 2002
  
  Thanks selva.
  I had seen the "koda manjil" song few times in Asianet and was much admired by the tune.
  But I thought MD was vidyasagar as he composes in IR style in malayalam. Now I know that its our MD.
  
  
• From: MSK (@ 12.34.93.254) on: Thu Oct 24 12:54:01 EDT 2002
  
  
  
  I post in this forum very rarely lately .. But Kiru et al have peaked my interest by bringing in Kaliyoonjal and KKS. Infact I got lured into IR's mallu compositions only after listening to "Varna Vrindahavanam " in Kaliyoonjal.. Just one listening to this song and u'll be lost in a strange world wondering how one can come up with such a brilliant composition/orchestration and melody..the lines ".. Kaathodu kaathorum.. kanoodu " in the IR version will haunt you forever..there is a Chitra version as well which is even better - sweet and melodious..
  
  I have lost myself many many a times listening to this haunting melody.
  
  As for KKS, all the songs are wonderful. Especially " Koda Mannjin".. this song takes off right from the beginning with a beautiful chorus melody that just soothingly blends into the pallavi...and the voice - Chitra again.. ( Hmmm.. that's what makes me wonder why Sadhana Sargam for the Vana Ville song in Ramana which has a similar hum at the beginning..).
  
  In the same album, the "Ghana Shyama" and "Shiva Karuda" songs have carnatic and western woven so well togther..and the songs are a real treat.
  
  But anyway, if you have'nt listened to these, pls do so and u'll never forget to listen to it again.
  
  I guess somebody said, SMK is the real treat ( Full meals ) as against the Appalam and Urugai that IR referred to sometime back in an interview..
  
  In my view , he has always been serving full meals to the Mallu fans and somehow I feel we get the left over ..maybe if the tamil movie recording session is on the same day ..probably we would get IR to serve full meals here as well..
  
  not sure what it is..and have been trying to figure this one out for a long time.. something makes IR produce neat songs in Mal.
  
  For those who have'nt tried IR's mallu songs, pls add " YathraMozhi " and Kaalapani to your list as well..
  
  Happy listening
  MSK
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• From: Cheithi (@ 203.199.241.2) on: Thu Oct 24 13:07:25 EDT 2002
  
  MSK
  Good to see you back in the forum. :))
  
  Kiru,
  Check ur email.
  
  
• From: bb (@ 206.154.118.2) on: Thu Oct 24 13:15:58 EDT 2002
  
  One of the best works by IR in mallu is for Moonaam pakkam, a padmarajan movie. The film, a very poignant one, has perhaps the best theme music by IR. uNarumE gaanam was a great number from the movie.
  
  
• From: suresh (@ 202.88.155.34) on: Thu Oct 24 14:29:19 EDT 2002
  
  Interesting.... I would rate Bhadran's 'Poomukhappadiyil ninneyum kaathu' and Balu Mahendra's 'Olangal' as IR's best works in Malayalam for their uninhibited freshness besides great guitar work (speaking of which, I always wonder that the guitar is the one instrument that seems to have fallen out of IRs favour these days). I'm listening to 'Kuliradunnu Maanathu (Olangal)' as I type, this is music that's decades ahead of its time
  
  The reason I think that Malayalam movies have extracted that bit more from IR is the fact that they don't give a fait accompli like - oru duet, appuram oru dappanguthu/folk song, hero soga paattu,..- template situations that can tire the heck out of anyone even 50 films old. Sadly these occasions will get rarer with Malayalam aping the Tamil and Telugu industry with a vengeance, the days of directors like Bharathan and Padmarajan seem to have long gone save an odd flicker.
  
  It's also my theory that Mal films please the aesthete in IR more than Tamil films, with a certain refined sensibility by way of directing, scripting, acting, art direction, etc. I feel with the fading away of Mahendran and Balu Mahendra, IR lost two very important aesthetes who worked within the commercial cinema format. Bala and Thangar Bachan seem to be some way towards filling this void, though their milieu could mostly be non-urban. If Vasanth had stuck with IR, I bet he would've gotten some remarkable scores out of him. I sense that SMK is a rural subject that has excited IR after a long gap (maybe after Kaadhal Saathi), if only he could only choose his films with some care...
  
  
• From: S.P MAHENDRAN (@ 161.139.38.51) on: Thu Oct 24 20:11:09 EDT 2002
  
  http://www.dinakaran.com/weekly/tamil/velli/2002/Oct/25/kathai.html
  
  
• From: MSK (@ 12.34.93.68) on: Thu Oct 24 20:53:13 EDT 2002
  
  Suresh,
  
  There is a groovy bass guitar peice in "Shiva malli poove" in Friends ( mal )
  
  MSK
  
  

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