Few grams from the gold mine — part II.
Part I is available here.. http://www.pixmonk.com/2009/05/10/few-grams-from-the-gold-mine/
Disclaimer : Do you have the in-depth knowledge of raaga, scales, kamagam, sangathi, melakartha raagam, misra chapu thaalam [ appdinnaa ?! — 7 beat rhythm cycle] ? If you don’t have, don’t worry.. we are on the same boat :) – IRs music requires just 2 ears and a slight interest in songs.
* 2 more songs on counterpoint technique are “poonthaliraada” from panneer pushpangall and “Edho Moham” from kozhi koovuthu [ the first interlude has the notes from Santoor ]. This song needs a separate post.
* A song transforms from carnatic music and then suddenly changes to western music without any change in the tune or voices. The song is ‘Oh Vasantha raja‘ from Neengall kettavai.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etx1Hasr88k
* There’s a reverse song which changes from western to a folk/percussion based, from the middle to the end without any disruption and of course we can hear 2 different songs within one. “Raajathi Rajaa un thandirangall” from Mannan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRyUD276YcU
* Ever tried looking at ‘Raja Rajanintha raja‘ from Agni Natchathiram –it’s fully based on percussion [ drums n chorus mostly ] and without the usual flutes/violins/any other regular instruments.
There’s no rule that after gathering 10 intersting points I should post a blog [ 10 points kedaikalainnu sollu ha..ha.. ]. How’s the photo of IR given above ?
* Thanks to KZSU Stanford 90.1 FM radio show !
:)
Toto
Time to blow the speakers..Baby !!
Paatondru Ketten
From Mao to Mozart - Musical journey
Freshly few
Inglorious euphonies
Pesum Minsaaram.. Fantastic four
Rare in air - SPB SJ
Para para kili - New songs
Few grams from the gold mine IV
Songs of 2010
Vairamuthu neram
Ippaatu Indre Kadaisi
Maestros in celluloid - Themes.
To emulate a singing bird
Thirai Gaanam - 2008
Thamarai - Kavi Samurai
Unsung but outstanding
Tranquil tunes..
Few grams from the gold mine III
you could have written some more, looks like you have stopped abruptly.
Photo is looking great.
Thanks Krishna for the comments. I thought better not to dump too many points in a single blog. [ also because of the increased price of gold ;) ].
Rangaraj/R.Sundar Rajan/Bharathi Raja/Balu Mahendra/Sridar/Balachander/Mani Ratnam/Mahendran/Mani vannan/Rajshekar and a few directors were lucky to get the best music created by IR.
any info /trivia on ‘Anandhak kummi’ and a few other films which failed miserably despite some of the best music he had created ever.
I liked IR’s music in Sridhar’s films-apart from ‘Thendrale ennai thodu’ which was a super duper hit,the one in which Gemini’s daughter GG debuted with karthik(?), the songs were superb.was the film directed by Sridar Rajan, his assistant? “tholin mele baram ille, kelvi ketka yaarum ille”…
Idhayakovil wan another film full of superb songs but the film did not do too well.
Kadhal oviyam was a miserable failure, but must rank as one of IR’s best ever effort. Nizhalgal too was not a commercial hit but some songs were probably in his top 50 all time greatest hits!dont remember much about “Kallukkul Eeram”.
i recall ‘Karpoora mullai ’ featuring Amala was a top song which did ok business.have you listened to the song? did u like it?
Not only directors..the entire industry — Check all Panju Arunachalam movies.
* Akummi trivia — The film was produced by IR. I doubt that the director Balakrishnan turned as Balki in Cheeni kum, later.
* NNithya — Directed by Sridhar himself. 3 golden songs are there. Jiji [ Dr.Jaya Sridhar got introduced ]. My first dream girl on screen.:). Vairamuthu was considered unlucky since he wrote all the songs in NNithya, Amma and Pudhukavithai. Industry isolated Vairamuthu after that.
* K.Oviyam was BR’s damage — they predicted it well before the release itself.
* KMullai was a failure — oru song ok. Poongaviyam.
sss.. Abbbaaa.. :)
Why should we bother about box office, in the first place as long as we enjoy the songs ?.
–Toto.
I was surprised to see the site morphing in to this attractive Pixmonk display, after the first few minutes.
thanks for the details…
U may be correct about Balki /balakrishnan. he had mentioned in an interview that he grew up with IR songs and has also mentioned that he has used IR’s old songs for his hindi movie(cheeni kum?). he is making another movie now!
I love Naresh Iyer’s voice. can u drop a few lines about his songs , after hearing again.. and again… hee, hee…
Post by post and review by review you are raising your standards in writing and also in narration. Pretty professional too. Kudos. Keep up the great work (at least to my level). I am amused at looking the references you make in between the blog. Too much for me !!!!!
To put it simple, WELL DONE so far. I am sure you will do better in the future blogs too.
Great picture like his songs. As krishna pointed need more writings about IR padaipugal.
Much impressed with the “disclaimer” :) and I do accept that. Still wondering about his genius in music. Thanks for sharing these interesting information to die hard fans (like me:)) of Raja sir. keep up the good work.