Avatharam

The involve­ment of IR started like this. First, Nasser had shot the entire talkie por­tion of the film and showed it to IR [ Sur­ren­der ]. IR was impressed, agreed to fill up songs and do BGM.He sang all the songs [ எல்லா பாட்டும் நீங்க‌ளாவே ஸார்.. செய்ங்க‌ :) ]  The sit­u­a­tion explained for ‘Then­dral vandhu’ was — A blind girl [ yaaru.. Revathy girl..mela ] falls in love with his friend and get to know about the col­ors and their attrib­utes. IR didn’t say any­thing. The song was writ­ten, com­posed and recorded. You know .. the final prod­uct was shown to Naaser.

Tech­ni­cal part

The inter­viewer bet­ter not reveal his sub­ject knowl­edge explic­itly. Know­ing car­natic music doesn’t mean they get the idea of film music entirely. Unfor­tu­nately, it doesn’t hap­pen always.. IR gen­er­ally answers in a spir­i­tual fash­ion [ mel­erndhu vizhund­hudu.. thaana varudhu ]. Sam­path asked IR about the tech­ni­cal part — Which raaga do you use mostly, why did u play with Sruthi bed­ham, maya­malava gowla, shan­mu­gapriya etc.,

IR started explain­ing it — Saameee… It was not Sruthi bed­ham but it was Graha bed­ham. He started singing the notes of ‘Sangeethame en dheivame’ and started explain­ing about sad­ja­mam, rishabam, nishaabam, mad­hya­mam, mela­garthaa raagam, diatonic/chromatic mod­u­la­tions, pivot chords, notes and other high level music the­o­ries. Mus­in­jindhu.. Sam­path abruptly jumped into the next question :). [ ம‌ர‌பு தெரிஞ்சு புதுக்க‌விதை எழுத‌ற‌வ‌ங்க‌ அவ‌ங்க‌ ].

In another inter­view with Sreeku­mar in Malay­alam, he asked Sreeku­mar to com­pose few tones and gave an illu­sion that any­one can com­pose. No.. it was not. It was their self defense to keep them­selves humble.

Ajoy Chakraborty

Isaiyil Tho­dan­gud­hamma was clas­si­cally sung by Pan­dit Ajoy Chakraborty [ Bade Ben­gali mas­ter ivaru ] in Hey Ram. I thought that Pan­dit got a friend­ship with IR dur­ing Hey Ram.. Not exactly. Even 10 years before hey Ram, Pan­dit and IR were friends. Pan­dit took IR to Cal­cutta Music acad­emy. Peo­ple were writ­ing exams and Doyens of Car­natic music were doing the viva part. IR was impressed by the key ques­tion asked in the viva..What did you do in this song?

Music com­pen­sates the lyrics ! [ இழுக்குடைய‌ பாட்டிற்கு இசைய‌ழ‌கு ]

Though I don’t agree with his idea, let me share what he said. He said music enhances the lines and gives life to it. He explained it with exam­ple — Take Sun­dari Kan­naal oru sedhi and read the lyrics.. it’s very nor­mal but he added that his music gave the life to the song. I can under­stand the clash between IR and VR now. It’s unfor­tu­nate that IR com­posed his music for mean­ing­less lines and VR wasted his energy with Chan­dra­bose dur­ing those days. IR allowed lyri­cists who can adjust the lines accord­ing to his notes. Of course, it’s his opinion.

Above all, the mag­i­cal won­ders he has done was more than enough for an entire gen­er­a­tion. As I said, instead of look­ing at the cre­ator, let’s enjoy the cre­ation he did.

In a tel­ugu inter­view he said this.. ” Adhi­gaa osthundhi.. nEn En chesedhi ??!! ” [ Com­ing by its own.. What do I do ].

:)
Toto.

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