Tamil film music has got as much 40 [ approx ] new music direc­tors in the last 1 year, it seems and of course, it’s healthy to have them [ as long as they do good ].  Shar­ing the recent songs I came across..

1. Maalai neram.. mazhai thoo­rum kaalam.

Film : Ayi­rathil oru­van
Singer : Andrea Jere­miah, GV  Prakash Kumar
MD : GV Prakash kumar
Lyrics : Selvaraghavan

   The gui­tar begin­ning may resem­ble the “Naane naane” old song and then the mag­i­cal voice of Andrea makes us to for­get every­thing. It was sung by Andrea Jere­miah — yes the wet , white shirt ‘pachaik­ili muthucharam’ girl [ Adadaa :) ]. The song has less instru­ments ; a sim­ple beat, gui­tar and a lot of space for Andrea to play. She has done a per­fect job with chang­ing her voice in between [ some­times resem­bling Bom­bay Jayashree ]. The hum­ming was done by GVPrakash.. Watch the voice in Oru kaalaiyil neey­il­lai. Sim­ply superb. If you think Selva has writ­ten his expe­ri­ence in this song, I may agree to that !

என் தேடல்கள் நீ இல்லை
உன் கனவுகள் நான் இல்லை !

ஒரு காலையில் நீ இல்லை
தேடவும் மனம் வரவில்லை
பிரிந்ததும் புரிந்தது
நான் என்னை  இழந்தேன் என

  
2. On mela aasa thaan

Film : Ayi­rathil oru­van
Singer : Dhanush, Aish­warya Dhanush and Andrea Jere­miah
MD : GV Prakash kumar
Lyrics : Selvaraghavan

  It’s a fancy song and a mix of a folk type song with west­ern back­drop. Dhanush has played it safe and knows his range. the pure Tamil part is done by Andrea “theind­hozhindhu, uzhan­dru”. I was attracted to this song after hear­ing it mul­ti­ple times. The flute piece is sooth­ing in the song. The other good music got in this album was ‘Cel­e­bra­tion of life’ — mys­te­ri­ous flute music. Look­ing for­ward to see this on big screen. Don’t worry much about Selva writ­ing the lyrics.. Remember, his father’s  him­sai in IR’s music.
 
 
3. Pesum Minsaram

Film : Yathu­maagi
Singer : Benny Dayal
MD : James Vas­an­than.
Lyrics : Mohanrajan

  Beau­ti­ful n sooth­ing num­ber from James Vas­an­than. One more inter­est­ing singer — Benny Dayal [ Kan­gall Iran­daal singer ].. It starts with Aaand­henna Avad­henna.. Look for sparkling gui­tar and music arrange­ment, which car­ries the the song [ choir music may come in between — it’s fine ].  I like the way he sang this song — “kaad­hal idhuvo” in a high range.  Landmark/Funtainhead — I remem­ber hear­ing these kinds of Eng­lish songs when we glance throught the books. They can replace their songs with these good num­bers now !

 
4. Azha­gaai pookudhe.

Film : Ninaithaale Inikum
Singer : Prasanna, Janaki Iyer
MD : Vijay Anthony
Lyrics : Kalaikumar

 Piano magic ..The lyrics was penned by Kalaiku­mar and it’s just fab­u­lous. Vijay Antony is the MD in demand now for his hit songs mainly based on fast beats. How­ever, he has done good job in melody area too.
 
 Another warn­ing I have is about the ‘Paa’ songs. Dis­ap­point­ing — that’s what I felt :(  It doesn’t have Shreya Goshal this time [ Krishna.. Note the point ! ] and the tunes are just ok. Only one song ‘Mudi Mudi’ [ Shilpa Rao’s ver­sion ] is good and the theme song made me to hear ‘Kaatu vazhi’ from ‘Adhu oru kanaa kaalam’ because the PAA theme music [ good except IR’s voice ] has the same inter­lude. [ the inter­lude was fabulous, of course ]. 

Lis­ten to the ‘Thumbi Vaa’ ver­sion in Hindi ‘Gum Sum’ sung by Bha­vatha­rani [ KadavullE ! ] and you’ll under­stand, why I felt so. Halke se bole made me lis­ten ‘Puthum pudhu kaalai’ once more — that’s the antedote.

Ende Raja Pazhassi Raja aayi :( .. Let’s see, what will Balki do for the next time ??!!

 Happy lis­ten­ing.
 
 :)
 
 Toto.

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