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IR's new albums!

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.

Check the IR reviews page

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• From: Kuppaththu Karuppan (@ 198.73.152.100) on: Thu Feb 1 16:18:26 EST 2001
  
  This Kumudam article is by far the most ellaborate one on Raja's speach.
  
  This actually puts all his words in proper context and tone. MOst other articles tended to 'misquote' him in an effort to sensationalize the news?!
  
  Thanks for the link sats.
  
  A good read indeed.
  
  
  
• From: Krishna (@ 139.72.120.22) on: Thu Feb 1 16:35:29 EST 2001
  
  IR's telugu movie with Kodi ramakrishna
  is just clapped.Balakrishna is going to do the main role.It's a fantasy movie.This movie is scheduled to be released for summer vacation.
  According to grapevine,it will have 8 songs,in which 2 songs are already recorded.IR is doing BGM
  in Hungary.
  'Pappa' is MDed by Manisarma,a stanche fan of IR.
  He has given many interviews in past,in every interview he speaks about IR's music and how he got attracted towards IR's music.He worked under Raja as an assistant for couple of years.
  He is ruling the Telugu industry now.But,there is no IR's touch in his music.
  
  
  
• From: NagaS (@ 202.144.10.100) on: Fri Feb 2 01:50:37 EST 2001
  
  Krishna.,
  You are Right about ManiSharma, His music defenitely has IR touch in it, In his latest "Mruga Raju", there is an excellent Hariharan, Sadhana Sargam song, IR paattu ketkiRa maathiriyee irukku, with ARR kind of recording.,
  
  IMO, YSR can become another Mani Sharma if he continues his present style and form !
  
  BTW, Mani Sharma is coming to Tamil, He is doing music for VijayKanth starrer 'Narasimma'
  
  NagaS
  
  
• From: vem (@ 129.186.205.55) on: Fri Feb 2 02:44:15 EST 2001
  
  Yakkow
  I am sorry . I dont know the full lyrics of that song.
  
  Vem
  
  
• From: Rags (@ 162.48.138.249) on: Fri Feb 2 08:55:52 EST 2001
  
  Movie Review for the film "Friends" in Cinema Express....
  
  http://www.cinemaexpress.com/reviews/Friends.asp
  
  Read n Enjoy
  
  
• From: Fliflo (@ 146.186.113.254) on: Fri Feb 2 10:23:04 EST 2001
  
  sats,
  
  neenga sonna article padichchen. Thanks
  
  
• From: kiru (@ 192.138.149.4) on: Fri Feb 2 10:39:52 EST 2001
  
  Manisharma..thats right. He is tremendously influenced by IR and he uses modern beats like ARR. But no his recording is not like ARR's. He just uses the drum machines/synths. His recording is just like IR's or KRs latest Ullam K. Po. Only Shankar Mahadevan, Harris, YSR and Pravin Mani have recording styles similar to ARR (multi-track mix on computers/DAW).
  
  
• From: BPS (@ 38.32.76.188) on: Fri Feb 2 20:39:56 EST 2001
  
  Hi,
  I am the webmaster of the official Sirkali Home Page. This is to inform fans of Drs. Sirkali that the web address has changed from
  
  http://www.icdc.com/~sirkali (or w3)
  
  to
  
  http://www.sirkali.org
  
  Please change your bookmarks to point to this new link.
  
  Thank You very much,
  
  Balaji Pratap Sirkali (grandson of Dr. Sirkali Govindarajan, nephew of Dr. Sirkali Siva Chidambaram)
  http://www.sirkali.org
  balaji_p_sirkali@hotmail.com
  
  
• From: :-( (@ 192.135.244.69) on: Sat Feb 3 04:29:12 EST 2001
  
  BPS,
  i guess we cud note it if u've given it in one thread. please leave these threads...
  
  
• From: prabhu das (@ 207.122.19.252) on: Sat Feb 3 22:50:22 EST 2001
  
  Dear friends,
  I have some good and bad news for those DF'ers who had discussed in a separate thread about Piracy/Internet music (MP3 formats in particurly), I just returned from India after a 4 week trip and in Madurai near old bus stand there are a number of Cassette/CD ,recording/Sales stores who are selling several volumes (IR's and KJY etc.., obviously I was interested in only IR's) of MP3 format recorded CD's with songs ranging anywhere from 155 to 165 songs and from 70's and 80's super hits of Maestro , many of which I am yet to find the original CD versions, the price range is between 130 Rs to 150Rs per CD.The songs are all encoded with minimum 128 bps and hence the quality is equalent to CD quality. I was so happy to find lots of old IR songs. I was just casually asking the shop owners about the response for the MP3 CDs from public, to my surprise the answer I got was that the MP3 CD sales have been there for the past 6 months but in the last 2 months the sales have picked up well especially the IR' collection and with the introduction of MP3 CD compatible players by some big companies like BPL (with CD/VCD/MP3 -6500 Rs) and Phillips (17000 RS. mini audio system), portable player by Phillips is 17500Rs, however the same is available here for 149 $.
  
  One more open piracy which was shocking to me was the availability of all new releases of Tamil films in CD's (regular CD not MP3 coded)which are being recorded by rewritable CD writers and sold at 125 Rs/CD.Every new release by a big company like HMV/5 Star etc... is immediately on shelves in recoded format on CD-R's. One big combo which was selling like hot cake was Dheena and Friends, followed by Thenali with another junk like Thenali. Lots of other big hit combo's like "AP and KK" of ARR etc, all for 125 RS/CD.
  (Apparently the whole gamut of this piracy business is being done under some Benami by none other than the TN CM's son in Madurai), If this was the scenario in Madurai, I was surprised to hear that this business is there in many parts of TN and Chennai the prices are even cheaper 80 Rs to 90Rs. I have discussed about Piracy/internet music in those respective threads earlier and hence do not want to repeat it,however I am still left with these two conclusions
  1.If there were sources for getting the original CD's of the late 70'2 and 80's hits of IR I probably might not have been a patron for buying those rare IR hits MP3 (real rare gems of Mottai).
  2.On the otherhand like any common man I wonder what big difference do the original company CD (HMV or whoever) Vs. these recoded CD-R's have when a common man get these recoded CDS (2 hit combos) at 125 Rs/CD as opposed to 375 Rs/cd (that too with single film or single film with some junk).
  I am really confused....,
  If
  1. this is right by the big giants (Su****s) to sell the CDs at such a price (the contrast here again is almost 100% of the ARR and other MDs albums including the Biggest copy cat's son's album's launch are hyped by manufactures/Marketing and media people and end up spending lot of money inadvertantly on advertising, where as at the same time once in a while these kind of hype(when people like Kamalhasan etc are involved) and marketing is done by albums produced by IR and his Kins (big recent examples BHarathi, Friends, Dheena and Vaanjinaathan (inspite of three big stars(?) associated with the last three films), in other words these latter's album manufacturers did not spend unnecessary money in marketing them yet their prices ranged again from 300 Rs to 400 Rs.
  
  2.Whether it is right on the part of common people to buy those pirated CDs of equal recording quality at a lower price.
  
  3.Whether by doing so we are cheating the original musicians (I am talking exclusively about original composers like Maestro) for their extra ordinary efforts.
  
  I do not have an easy answer in the current economy,
  
  but for those who need more info on cheap and good portable MP3/CD disc players with a Car adapter kit, let me know I have more info.
  
  By the way those MP3 collections of exclusive IR hits are just too ....... Good
  
  Prabhu Das
  
  
• From: sabesan (@ 64.160.53.13) on: Sun Feb 4 10:02:51 EST 2001
  
  Prabhu.... the MP3 business atleast i know is going on for more than an year now - cause i remember when i was in Madurain on Dec 1999, i saw MP3 CD's, but not much on sale..... and yes, those guys sell very good combo for just Rs.125 or Rs.150.....
  
  
• From: Bhagavathar (@ 209.43.61.184) on: Mon Feb 5 16:26:41 EST 2001
  
  IR has scored music for a documentary "The Real Salute"
  
  http://www.vikatan.com/vc/2001/jan/vc0413.htm
  
  
• From: Fliflo (@ 146.186.113.254) on: Mon Feb 5 17:20:11 EST 2001
  
  Raja's music for Kasthuri Raja's "Kadhal Saathi"
  
  http://www.dinakaran.com/weekly/tamil/arangam/2001/Feb/06/bit.html
  
  
• From: G. Kuppusamy (@ 156.153.255.195) on: Mon Feb 5 23:26:41 EST 2001
  
  Mr.Kishmu well back as bhagavathar...
  
  long time no see :-)
  
  btw how was ur performance that u mentioned long back?
  
  -kupps
  
  
• From: NagaS (@ 202.169.129.72) on: Tue Feb 6 00:11:34 EST 2001
  
  IR is the MD for telugu movie "shahbash" starring sumanth, chandhini
  
  NagaS
  
  
• From: Bhagavathar (@ 209.43.57.46) on: Tue Feb 6 09:19:07 EST 2001
  
  Kupps:
  
  
  I am doing ok thanks for asking. I never posted here as Mr. Kishmu. So I am not sure about the performance you are talking about.
  
  
  
  
• From: Jag (@ 35.9.24.131) on: Tue Feb 6 16:24:34 EST 2001
  
  Check this out, This is a treatment based movie and I expect the BGM to be outstanding.
  
  
  
  Maestro Ilayaraja will be scoring for a new Sumanth film that started a few days back. This film is titled as 'Sabhash'. Sumanth is playing the role of cop, who executes his operations smoothly without uttering ferocious dialogues. A new heroine Chandni is making her debut with this film. For a change, Sumanth is wearing a mustache in this film. He seems to have realized that all the Telugu heroes should have mustache to succeed in the modern era (Mehesh Babu is an exception). Jaya Babu who produced films like Manavuri Pandavulu with Bapu in the past is producing this film. The director of this film Hanumantha Reddy worked as assistant director to Ravi Raja Pinisetty. Muhurat of this film happened on 3rd February 2001 in Annapurna studios.
  
  
• From: Venkatesh (@ 206.49.110.156) on: Tue Feb 6 23:22:29 EST 2001
  
  http://www.kumudam.com/lightsmain1.html
  
  Detailed report on IR's speech at Pondy University. Your comments welcome.
  
  
• From: X:-F((.)) (@ 202.9.188.190) on: Thu Feb 8 07:32:10 EST 2001
  
  Hi BPS, I saw your web site. Yo've done a great job as a dedication! Congrats!
  
  Hope you noted the anonymous :-(( asking you not to mention details about Sirkali web site.
  
  Yes, I do agree. It is a misfit for this thread, for it requires "gnanam" to appreciate and use sirkalis.
  
  

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