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Artists behind the Music Directors

Topic started by Isai_Rasigan (@ 68.82.138.135) on Thu Mar 7 17:23:59 EST 2002.
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Can we discuss about the talented artists used by the MDs and the songs where they exposed their talents?

Recently I happened to see the DVD of ARR in USA concert. I was totally fascinated by 'Drums Sivamani'. His performance was so good.

Also I heared that A.R.R was the keyboard player for the 'breath-taking' theme number in Punnagai Mannan. Is that right?

I guess, ARR used 'Kadhri Gopalnath' for SAX in 'Duet'. By the way, who played the drums for the 'Raja' song in Agni Natchathirum and who played Guitar for the Ilayanila song in 'Payanangal Mudivathillai?

Pour your comments, folks..!

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Responses:

• From: sarath (@ 131.238.34.103) on: Thu Mar 7 18:14:25 EST 2002
  
  IR himself played guitar in ilaya nila pozhigirathu-Payangal mudivathillai. yes ARR synthesised for punnagai mannan. he also worked in that film. otherwise, viji samuel is the lead player for IR.
  Kadri played a vital role in success of Duet. ARR himself admired him playing.
  Harriss jayaraj played keys for ARR from Ratchagan to Kandukonden for four years.
  ARR's fav guitar artists are kabuli(bass), prassana(lead), keith peters(bass). and ofcourse percussions for sivamani...
  sivamani played drums for many raaja songs..onme of my fav is..poopotta thavani- kaaki chattai, and pani vizhum iravil- mouna raagam.
  
  
• From: arun prakash (@ 64.229.133.144) on: Thu Mar 7 20:08:26 EST 2002
  
  sivamani did'nt play much for raaja. purushothaman was the one who was known for his aesthetic style of playing and he was an real asset to raaja on the percussion side.his manuel playing of drums was a feast to watch.the way he played in raaja's live shows were unforgotable.listen to ''kannan vanthu padugiran'' from irattai vaal kuruvi.viji manuel the key board player,sadhanandam[son of old music director r. sudharsanam]who plays the lead guitar,sashi who plays bass guitar,arun mozhi who plays the flute are the people behind raaja to give life to his orchestration.needless to mention v.s.narasimhan's solo violin pieces in raaja's master pieces.
  
  
• From: magix (@ 203.199.231.249) on: Thu Mar 7 21:28:50 EST 2002
  
  how can we forget Naveen(flute) for ARR??
  
  
• From: Guru (@ 210.186.103.30) on: Fri Mar 8 01:00:10 EST 2002
  
  Naveen Also Worked with Raja In Thavani kanuvugal ..
  
  
• From: Guru (@ 210.186.103.30) on: Fri Mar 8 01:01:57 EST 2002
  
  Those Poeple who have worked with Raja in early times ...Bharani,T.S Muralidharan,Sabesh Murali and Vidhasagar..
  
  
• From: Kupps (@ 156.153.255.134) on: Fri Mar 8 01:43:29 EST 2002
  
  Needless to say about govardhanam for KVM, Joseph Krishna for MSV...
  
  btw one person was named to be the master behind orchestration and other major role for T.Rajender especially for the films like Oruthalai raagam, uyiruLLavarai usha etc., couldn't remember his name.
  
  
• From: jagan (@ 61.11.73.84) on: Fri Mar 8 03:10:00 EST 2002
  
  Kupps
  
  It is AA RAJ
  
  
• From: Shankar (@ 128.107.253.44) on: Fri Mar 8 03:24:29 EST 2002
  
  AA Raj was probably one, but Joseph Krishna was the man behind TR...they had a anumalik-Ranjit barto type relation...and u know who contributes more and who takes the credit :-)
  
  AA Raj himself is a composer....He gave a beautiful number "poovE...nee yAr solli, yArukkAga malarginrAi...ivaL paruva thOttathil oru malar" sung by MV...Brilliant number...but he too was a one movie (one song ?) wonder.
  
  
• From: S (@ 128.107.253.44) on: Fri Mar 8 03:25:17 EST 2002
  
  i meant ranjit barot.
  
  
• From: Isai_Rasigan (@ 68.82.138.135) on: Fri Mar 8 07:51:44 EST 2002
  
  Long time back, I remember reading that a drummer of IR's team sang 'Anne Anne' song in the film 'Kozhi Koovudhu'. Was it Purushothaman?
  
  Chorus singer (some times a part of the lead) Ganga is also doing good in ARR's group.
  
  Is Guitar Prasanna, a full time with ARR?
  
  
• From: twilight_zone (@ 202.88.152.159) on: Fri Mar 8 08:45:05 EST 2002
  
  why, for that matter, even Arunmozhi was basically a flute player, who was identified and used as singer by IR. [In fact, Arunmozhi sang the "track" for "mannil indha kaadhal" in "keladi kanmani", and received personal compliments from SPB for that.]
  
  
• From: sarat (@ 128.192.5.157) on: Fri Mar 8 09:14:39 EST 2002
  
  guitar prasanna is an established jazz-carnatic musician in his own right. I do not think it is fair to him to use words like 'full time' with regards to his appearance in ARR songs.
  
  sarat
  
  
• From: s0 (@ 128.119.85.50) on: Fri Mar 8 09:56:30 EST 2002
  
  great thread. good to give credit to the guys in the background.
  arunmozhi was an exceptional flautist. I think he was self-learnt. during a recording with hariprasad chaurasia, arunmozhi played the flute bit. Raaja, without looking up, thought that it was HC and said something in hindi. HC later complimented Arunmozhi and said that his style was similar to HC's style.
  
  
• From: Assistants (@ 212.72.11.66) on: Sat Mar 9 01:00:14 EST 2002
  
  I read in an interview (of ARR) that he had also assisted T.Rajendar and SA Rajkumar during his early days.
  
  IR has also played for R.Sekar (ARR's father) during his earlier days.
  
  
• From: S (@ 128.107.253.44) on: Mon Mar 11 03:53:50 EST 2002
  
  Raja never played for R Sekhar, for sekhar was never in the TF arena..Correct me if i'm worng.
  
  Raja was with GKV most of the time (another one from GKV school is L vaidyanathan)
  
  
• From: Assistant (@ 212.72.11.66) on: Mon Mar 11 08:25:52 EST 2002
  
  S,
  
  Raja has played as a freelancer (couple of times) for Sekhar (who was getting famous in Malayalam then).
  
  
• From: Isai_rasigan (@ 68.82.138.135) on: Thu Mar 14 23:48:58 EST 2002
  
  Last year when I was composing and recording my songs in AVM studio, I heared some one tell that Drums Sivamani doesn't use any kind of electronic instruments.
  
  Is that true?
  
  
• From: Murali (@ 12.245.70.63) on: Thu Mar 21 21:59:12 EST 2002
  
  IR had an excellent violinist Narasimhan. He is a genious.
  
  
• From: Murali (@ 12.245.70.63) on: Thu Mar 21 22:01:15 EST 2002
  
  I have heard that Sivamani uses acoustic as well
  as electronic percussion instruments. He trained himself in variety of percussion instruments of the world. Example: African drums.
  
  
• From: yaaro (@ 213.121.212.122) on: Fri Mar 22 09:19:47 EST 2002
  
  anne anne was sung by a doctor-he was in ?leprosy/skin dept in madras medical college.
  
  
• From: O_IS_G (@ 213.150.174.152) on: Sun Mar 24 05:04:08 EST 2002
  
  He is Dr.Samuel.He heads the Madras WCM forum.He also makes brief appearance in Hey!Ram! in the song "Ramar Analum".
  
  I thought L.Vaidyanathan was behind TRajendar during Mythili Ennai Kathali days.Songs like
  "Vaigai Karai katre nillu","Moongilele" and "Azhkadlil"(Ragam thedum pallavi) will have LV s Ezahavathu Manithan style.
  
  Instrument Arrangement of Vaigai Karai and Kakkai chiraginele look very similar(NOT THE TUNE)
  
  
  
• From: O_IS_G (@ 213.150.174.152) on: Sun Mar 24 05:05:53 EST 2002
  
  Second thoughts!
  hmm ...Maneul or Samuel..
  
  
• From: yaaro (@ 213.121.212.121) on: Sun Mar 24 06:06:54 EST 2002
  
  his name is Dr.Grubb(samuel grubb)
  
  
• From: OISG (@ 213.150.174.248) on: Sun Mar 24 06:15:57 EST 2002
  
  I understand that Dharapuram Sundarrajan was also with IR.He was the man who sang "Enkkagava Naan unakkagava".He was a composer too but i could not recollect the movie.
  
  
• From: Vidya (@ 130.39.182.218) on: Tue Mar 26 17:08:38 EST 2002
  
  Hi,
  After a long time I have seen some interesting topic which gives an insight to great people behind the screen
  Well done
  
  
• From: x (@ ) on: Thu Aug 12 11:09:04 EDT 2004
  
  ilayaraja did play for ilaya nila but that version was never released. it was chandrasekar who played lead for that song. other than ilaya nila and a few mores songs, mr. sadhanandhan (son of old music director sudarsanam) has played lead guitar for ilayaraja
  
  
• From: e (@ 136.1.1.33) on: Thu Aug 12 11:41:38 EDT 2004
  
  I saw Sivamani's name on the HTNI CD (along with Viji Manuel, VSN and others).
  
  Probably he worked with Purushothaman for some IR projects...
  
  
• From: dinesh (@ 210.186.42.20) on: Fri Aug 13 09:15:37 EDT 2004
  
  Harris only played for Rahman for onl 2 years,1998 & 1999,after that,he went away...not untill KK,
  
  
• From: C.R. Madhusudhan (@ 202.54.137.87) on: Fri Aug 20 04:33:31 EDT 2004
  
  apart from arunmozhi who plays flute for IR? i know Naveen was introduced by IR in My Dear Kutti Chaataan. Guess Naveen has also played for IR.
  
  
• From: curses (@ 203.101.32.78) on: Fri Aug 20 07:48:49 EDT 2004
  
  lookin at the thread's topic from another perspective..
  the "artist" "behind" Rahman on the Vande Mataram cassette cover was Thotta Tharani.
  
  naan urupadiya post panniye pala vaaram aaiduchu.. appappo indha maathiri asingama ullaruvaen.. kanduka pdaathu.
  
  
• From: MADDY (@ 202.159.224.247) on: Fri Aug 20 08:11:07 EDT 2004
  
  i heard that HJ also helped ARR with bombay dreams....is it true???someone confirm.....
  
  
• From: dinesh (@ 210.186.42.142) on: Fri Aug 20 09:15:14 EDT 2004
  
  Hj helped for BD??hahahah,joke man!he did 'stole' Bombay Awakes's tune for Vaseeagara ;P!
  
  

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