Maestro Ilaiyaraja New Albums 2011 - Hello Jaihind / Sri Rama Rajyam

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V_S - lovely posts. Actually, among the biggie songs of the movie, these 3 are the most difficult ones to compose AND even *appreciate*. I personally find functional songs like this very difficult to appreciate. As might be understood by old-timers like suresh65, I tend to like songs that encapsulate a single moment/emotion/event and linger over it slowly and deliberately.

To take that template, and give 3 songs like this that tell the story, linger over emotions, ever too briefly, but still manage to attract a listener like me, now that's the Maestro's talent.

A couple of weeks back, I was randomly browsing thiraipaadal, and consquently, early mornings used to start with riffs of songs like "jaganamaganajam" and "atha atha atha" from aval appadi thaan(more about it later) in my head. Interesting songs, those, but not what you want reverberating in your head early in the morning and through the day. Sri Rama Rajyam has been a strong anti-dote to that tendency, and over the last few days, mornings tend to start with some or other phrase from these 3 songs. Nice.

Today's phrase:
kodhaNdaPaniy-A dhaNdakAruNya-muna
kolu-vuNdE bhArya-thO niNdu-gA....

Even if you are an atheist, try avoiding a picture of a Rama-Sita darsanam amid the dhandakaranyam jungle while listening to that. And come back to me if you dont find tears rolling down the eyes.
(Rajasaranam, I am looking at you )