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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: Neels (@ 203.199.87.3) on: Mon Jan 15 02:20:29 EST 2001
  
  funky,
  Two things:
  1. I do not understand what you are trying to say: people running away because of the BGM?
  2. Why be a spoilsport and tell us the end of a new film that we haven't seen yet?
  
  
• From: Jawahar (@ 212.138.47.12) on: Mon Jan 15 05:18:54 EST 2001
  
  Can anybody tell how is Friends, a much awaited movie
  
  
• From: fan (@ 205.188.198.181) on: Mon Jan 15 09:29:51 EST 2001
  
  Friends is a fantastic way ahead of it's time. Normal people may not be able to appreciate the movie but the climax is awesome(By the way Funky, why did you give it away?) It is a edge of the seat thriller with an outstanding musical score
  
  
• From: Venki (@ 12.72.88.23) on: Mon Jan 15 10:42:07 EST 2001
  
  Hi funky
  What are you saying? How is the movie doing?
  Venki
  
  
• From: TellMeTheTruth (@ 209.187.151.146) on: Mon Jan 15 11:38:29 EST 2001
  
  I talked to couple of people in India yesterday, it seems like "Friends" songs are really good in the movie unlike on the CD. Is it true, fan? Though I like couple of songs on the CD, it's a big letdown for me. After listened to songs from "Bharathy", I was expecting more from IR.
  
  
• From: Truth (@ 146.186.113.254) on: Mon Jan 15 11:50:13 EST 2001
  
  TellMeTheTruth
  `seems like "Friends" songs are really good in the movie unlike on the CD...`
  
  CD and cassettes are doing very well. Just read some earlier reviews
  
  
• From: kk (@ 198.4.92.5) on: Mon Jan 15 11:56:12 EST 2001
  
  its a comedy or thriller?
  
  
• From: eden (@ 210.214.5.200) on: Tue Jan 16 04:47:26 EST 2001
  
  It could possibly be a good movie for a couple of reasons:
  
  a) An all-time-big-hit through out Kerala being remade into Tamizh, by the same director (I didn't see though)
  b) A couple of my colleagues (one of whom is related to a movie distributor) rated it (MY version) very high
  
  
• From: Krishnan (@ 192.148.14.228) on: Tue Jan 16 13:37:48 EST 2001
  
  Not sure if this was posted earlier...here is a review of Pandavas on Chennaionline.
  
  http://msn.co.in/entertainment.asp
  
  or
  
  http://chennaionline.com/moviereviews/engmov40.asp
  
  "....Ilaiyaraja's musical score reiterated the genius in him. It was used perfectly to highlight the emotions in the film..."
  
  Krishnan
  
  
• From: Rags (@ 162.48.138.249) on: Wed Jan 17 12:06:13 EST 2001
  
  i heard from one of my friend in India that "FRIENDS" is very good and is gonna b a real big hit at the box office.
  
  
• From: Venkatesh (@ 206.49.110.156) on: Wed Jan 17 23:37:58 EST 2001
  
  Anybody who has seen Pandavas:
  
  a) Can write about the songs in the film (I heard there are 4 songs) - are they in WCM or ICM?
  
  b) How is the BGM?
  
  
  
• From: Sudhakar G (@ 208.220.241.222) on: Thu Jan 18 01:04:06 EST 2001
  
  Kumudam's vimarsanam on Friends says -
  
  Illaiyarajavin isai 50-50
  
  
• From: Bhagavathar (@ 209.43.57.7) on: Thu Jan 18 17:28:33 EST 2001
  
  Here is a interesting review on "Friends" music.
  
  reviewer has the same realism we all have, when he writes "Let us hope that he is able to again occupy the centre stage in Kollywood and give us some tunes to escape the mediocrity of the existing composers."
  
  http://www.chennaionline.com/musicreviews/friends.asp
  
  
  
  
  
• From: Bhagavathar (@ 209.43.57.31) on: Fri Jan 19 08:18:31 EST 2001
  
  Here is the movie review for Friends:
  
  http://www.tamilcinema.com/cinenews.asp?fname=friends.htm
  
  
• From: UV (@ 134.113.203.137) on: Fri Jan 19 09:47:41 EST 2001
  
  Bhagavathar thanks for the article
  Good to hear that people want IR and his melodies back,finally the tide is turning if favour of the old mastero. I get a feeling that IR has better rapport with Malayalam Directors than our tamil directors,I think they are very focused in getting what they want and IR also responds equally well to them. I also read somewhere that for Friends the producers were in favour of other MDs but Dir.Siddik insist that its only IR he wants or he is not interested in the project.
  And his faith and trust in IR has not gone waste. IR has also done a good job going by the public response to the cassette sales. Hope the film also does very well so we may get more from Malayalam directors and also from our very own IR making a great comeback.
  Had too much of mediocrity music these days.
  
  
• From: IR FAN (@ 203.106.135.175) on: Fri Jan 19 11:07:13 EST 2001
  
  ar rahman is a cheater ,scoring music with keyboard
  ILLAIYARAJA IS A PURE MUSICIAN
  
  
• From: UV (@ 134.113.203.137) on: Fri Jan 19 12:15:50 EST 2001
  
  Hey MR IR FAN when passing comments or criticising someone make some sense what a stupid statment "makes music with keyboard",then how to make music using same old harmonium,why do you post here using latest email technology why not send a old post card to this tfm address.
  Grow up be a fan of music and not a fanatic
  Chill down boy
  
  
• From: Disappointed (@ 157.182.40.203) on: Fri Jan 19 14:14:00 EST 2001
  
  Friends Music-Total Disappointment!!
  
  
• From: UV (@ 134.113.203.137) on: Fri Jan 19 15:10:07 EST 2001
  
  Hello Disappointed
  You forget to add these words in your comments
  Friends Music-Total Disappointment As far as Myself is concerned!! Always what is good for you may not be the same for others and vice versa so dont generalise as this music bad or worst or good
  just say that according to your opinion and taste
  ok!!
  
  
• From: seruppadi (@ 209.9.244.106) on: Fri Jan 19 18:04:08 EST 2001
  
  Disappointed,
  
  Yes. All ARR fans like you will defintely get disappointed.
  
  
• From: reporter (@ 207.134.200.30) on: Fri Jan 19 18:25:29 EST 2001
  
  Gotta read this:
  
  http://www.gmagazine.com/rock.htm
  
  
• From: PRASAD (@ 24.189.124.91) on: Fri Jan 19 18:44:15 EST 2001
  
  Mr. IR FAN,
  
  Let we confine this forum for appreciating IR or news about IR. Whether it is IR column or ARR column, I am always seeing one bashing the other. This is unwarranted and you know both IR and ARR can coexist.
  
  IR is a great genius! That does not mean that ARR has not done any thing. He is also doing good in his own way.
  
  If we start taking sides, then whatever IR gives we will start appreciating, which is not good for music.
  
  Cooldown!
  
  
  
• From: UV (@ 4.54.38.172) on: Fri Jan 19 20:39:44 EST 2001
  
  Well Said Prasad,its high time people show some courtsey and respect of others work also.
  Just for starting some one pointed discussions is meaningless. We have wonderful forum members who can give excellend inputs on so many topics.
  So its high time we stop this bashing.
  Hope people like IRFAN understands MDs may come and go but what lives forever is their work and based on that we can judge something
  
  
  
• From: Neels (@ 203.199.87.3) on: Fri Jan 19 23:15:42 EST 2001
  
  Guys,
  In the Pandavas web site, there is a section on IR. In their effort to praise IR, they have in fact committed blasphemy by saying:
  
  "his Hindi hit Sadma which was a remake of his Tamil and Telugu hit composed by ANAND-MILIND".
  
  What kind of Crap is this?
  For a movie touted as India's answer to Hollywood(!!!), the use of English in the website is pathetic, with countless typo and grammatical errors. I wish they (Pentamedia) employed better copy-writers (and graphic and UI designers, for its user-non-friendly scrolls and the worst-quality photographs of IR & other musicians, arguably scanned from Ananda Vikatan)
  
  Go to: http://www.pentafour.com/pandavas/flash/mainflash.htm and select 'music' to find out.
  
  
• From: karthi (@ 63.21.182.244) on: Sat Jan 20 00:19:24 EST 2001
  
  Neels, can you see what very poor pay masters like Pentafour can produce!
  
  
• From: cosmician (@ 194.170.127.53) on: Sat Jan 20 02:20:58 EST 2001
  
  Gotta read this:
  http://www.gmagazine.com/rock.htm
  Reporter, this guy/gal who wrote the article in that link is a confused nitwit and a biased @#@$@%#!! (sorry).
  There is no mention of Ilaiyaraj's contribution...though I consider myself an ex-IR fan...there is no way I can overlook his mammoth contribution to Indian film music which will be recognised only after his demise as we Indians always recognise our geniuses when they are no longer there...He sounds like the part of a Mumbai Media that is trying to underplay and kill the giant southern influence in Indian films.
  
  
• From: Vettudayarkali (@ 203.197.137.226) on: Sat Jan 20 04:02:24 EST 2001
  
  Truth is always bitter and so are the true comments about the crap music in Friends. We pray Almighty to save Dir. Siddiq &co for a better luck next time, as he has paid already for IR obsession. Seruppadi needs it back and will get it if he is going to blindly promote. Any composer be it the Greatest Maestro MSV, the father of film light music or IR, his follower who seconded melodies with electronic instrumentation initiated during his period or ARR who is totally computerised - Let them compose anything. We should have our ears and mind open and post facts true to our conscience. Flattery from IR obsessed will boost his ego and ultimately push him to ashrams.(I believe he has asked for a site from Kanchi mutt). Let us call a spade, a spade!
  
  
• From: dignity (@ 203.197.137.226) on: Sat Jan 20 04:20:47 EST 2001
  
  Fiflo, yaro and naan yaar,
  
  Are you in the world of reality or in a dream sequece BGM scored by IR. Let us pull the Harp melody which disturbs the dream sequence and try to think and appreciate sensibly. Include this proverb also, for directors who still jalra IR in a similar sycopancy: 'Aalai illa oorukku, iluppai poo sakkarai'. It is definite that IR needs rest. Let KR and YSR take it up with their productions.
  
  Friends is as per kumudam50-50, ie .,so so.
  
  
• From: cram (@ 206.103.12.102) on: Sat Jan 20 04:38:03 EST 2001
  
  cosmician
  
  rfead the next page of the same story. ilayaraja is referred to as the "original maestro who groomed rahman".
  
  

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