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Tale of South Indian Music !!

Topic started by Indrajith (@ 203.145.157.94) on Wed Aug 4 07:51:46 EDT 2004.
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Tale of music in South Indian Cinemas!!

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Music has been part of rather the way of life of Indians particularly south indians.
We have been indulged much into music where we found solace for all the sorrow
and for all it gave us the happiness we needed. Our culture and music were interlinked
so much that we dont do anything under the sky without music, from ploughing to
parades , love to war and life to death.

I trust nowdays we have moved much towards the westernization of our life and
music. Could not make it a point that, The westenized living led to westernized music
or vice versa. Now people who give and listen to "this" sort of music claim that
change is the only thing that can never change and the music has evolved and
no one can stop doing this.

Indian Music is always related to god, war and love. The True Music should invoke the
GOD inside you not the ANIMAL. Not many will accept that the music these days is
more for the ANIMAL side than GOD.

This is the point of time where we stand and decide to look back of what has happened
all these years and eras. How the music evolved form the life of people to the entertainment
cadre. Music has not been treated as an entertainment tool in the first place. It was
part and parcel of life. Then slowly moved over to the entertainment section.

This is an effort to cover how music has been through ages and how the transformation
from Dramas and Kutcheries to the place where we stand today.

You can also put in your thoughts regarding the song structures, musical inclination of people,
music instruments used , Various forms of music and how it made it big in the movies.

Hope many will accept that we have been made consumers of "What the boss gives!!".
Music directors over the ages have been short of the Magic and started borrowing from
western music and even Black music and started pounding it on us and now
we have to search of words and melody ( ofcourse some can say that there are many, I claim
there are not as many as we would have liked it to be )

This is a journey through the path of music from few centuries ago and to this **** century. From "Vayal Varappugal" to Silver screen and Discs and Pocket jams.
We shall start from the "Sanga Kalam " or even before that to the day ..
Here we are trying to look down the path we/our music have/has travelled all the way through.

You are welcome to put in your views...
This is not an arena for any fight outs or show downs.

Please make this thread a place for healthy debate and information sharing.

Please put in your views regardging Music, Lifestyle & Music, Any South indian Language /music shall be discussed.

Looking forward for your responses.

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Responses:

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• From: August (@ 202.54.153.21) on: Thu Aug 12 06:06:14 EDT 2004
  
  well said zz
  well said zz
  well said zz
  
  
• From: pANdiyan (@ 136.1.1.33) on: Thu Aug 12 10:41:26 EDT 2004
  
  zz, where is the connection to `God' in your posting? You're just explaining what's happening in physical world...however, where is God coming into picture?
  
  August, nallA jAlrA adikkareenga:-) Can you explain the connection with 'God'?
  
  
• From: hehehewalrus (@ 130.127.104.24) on: Thu Aug 12 13:10:29 EDT 2004
  
  zz, unga last sentence semma dialogue pa :-)
  
  
• From: zz (@ 203.145.174.4) on: Mon Aug 16 05:51:21 EDT 2004
  
  Thanks August and hehehewalrus
  
  Pandiyan:
  
  God is there in every statement of mine...
  
  See God is like a formula...he is not the final solution...You use the formula to get a solution.
  
  He is a catalyst, not the reaction itself...if you recognise it get the catalyst and make the reaction or else wait for the STP....God cannot jump in front of you and say that he is God...God won't also explicitly show that he is there and its all because of him...(If he does so then he is not a God but a politician)...he makes things happen...not for us but inspite of us. When you believe in God you slowly try to understand him and his moves...You internally develop a mentality to cope up with him and his moves....
  Pandiyan...its a big phillosophy...men have spend 1000s and 1000s of years to unravell it...They wouldn't be continueing the quest had they not found any thing that suggest that there is indeed some thing there.
  Now you want me and that too in this small newtfmpage to expalin you about God and if you aren't convinced then you make your mind that God isn't there..
  
  Let me ask you one thing....Have you ever sincerely tried to find out whether there is God or not. Read Swami Vivekananda and Ramana biographys man.....If you really want to explore...or if it is just a Thi.Kaa. like argument then...aala vudu...naankumbudu pottu jagaa vangikkaren.
  
  
• From: pANdiyan (@ 136.1.1.33) on: Mon Aug 16 14:03:31 EDT 2004
  
  zz,
  I'm not a DK-wala and neither am an atheist. Infact, I'm the opposite and a firm believer of God!
  
  I'm against blasphemy, that's all...k tried to generalize / make God responsible for all bad things that men do...when I tried to reason that bad things done by men shouldn't be called expressions of God, citing crimes in the name of religion, you came into discussion, once again making God responsible for atrocities of men...
  
  Please judge for yourselves, are you standing for the cause of God by attributing the horrendous crimes that men do in His name to Him? Like killings / ethnic cleansing etc., trying to explain them out in a Darwinian way? That way, even though you're quoting names of big gurus, you're inadvertantly standing in the side of atheists...
  
  Pls stop blaming God for all the atrocious music created by our present film musicians:-(
  
  
• From: pANdiyan (@ 136.1.1.33) on: Mon Aug 16 15:05:40 EDT 2004
  
  zz,
  Your statement:
  "Always in this world only the fittest live...Be fit...or else your photo will be fitted on to your room's wall."
  can only support the cause of atheists:-(
  
  The fact is otherwise, especially w.r.t. humans! The basic feeling of `justice' embedded within human conscience and the mighty taking up the cause of weaker ones is diagonally opposite to the theory of `survival of the fittest'!
  
  
• From: purv (@ 205.231.148.196) on: Mon Aug 16 20:13:10 EDT 2004
  
  Excellent! A hearty discussion on God consciousness! So heartening to know that there are people reading the works of Swami Vivekananda and other great saintly people. 8-))) Keep it coming!
  
  

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