Raja's New Albums

Let's see, Bala's film-na means some decent chance of doing well at least.  As for work, I don't care how he gets it.  All I care is that he does, keeps composing more and more and more.    Who cares if IR was 'just' LSub's replacement for Hey Ram?  We got a wonderful soundtrack at the end of the day.  Isaiyil Thodanguthama is a 'challenge' song for ASS contestants, same way Elangathu is still remembered 10 years after the film.  Let gumbal call us hipsters.  At least I, as a prog rock fan, don't really mind that.     Better be hipster than dumbster.   

fring151 wrote:Ergo, flop AnA friendly retirement advice edhirpArkalAm.

Already varudhu https://www.facebook.com/milliblog/posts/10151987412984615?stream_ref=10 ingayum 200 word post. adhula 100 words sly dig advice   idhula Seinfield example is the biggest   

I wonder if these people have any inkling about what it means to be an artist.  There is no such thing as retirement for an artist.  He either gets work or he doesn't, that's all.  An ENTERTAINER may well define his career by public perceptions and perhaps millipede & co have yet to realise what Ilayaraja has made very very clear a number of times - he is not just an entertainer.  If he wants to make music because he enjoys it, let him.  Let producers decide whether or not it is a viable enterprise.  Why rob people with a working pair of ears the opportunity to listen to more of his music.

Drunkenmunk wrote:

fring151 wrote:Ergo, flop AnA friendly retirement advice edhirpArkalAm.

Already varudhu https://www.facebook.com/milliblog/posts/10151987412984615?stream_ref=10 ingayum 200 word post. adhula 100 words sly dig advice   idhula Seinfield example is the biggest   

  

Art'na ennane theriyAdha music reviewer, avanukku oru moonaayiram followers. Adhula oru athi medhavi "Hinting at another person?" ippdinu comment vera. This dude (Milli) is an attention whore if I knew one.

Further, retirement is a personal decision.  Keeravani may decide to quit music to do something else and doing so officially on a certain date attaches some kind of significance to it.  But why should somebody who still enjoys making music retire.

Fring151 wrote: This dude (Milli) is an attention whore if I knew one.

point'a puducheenga. Last week, came out with a 100 word review of the recent Highway album. So every time he does that, he slyly digs at Raaja to win back some ARR fans. And every time he praises an IR album or ARR album to the skies, he praises the other composer to the skies with a pointless post or old video share. adhAdhu "trying to stay neutral eitherways" for maximum blog hits is the aim. koLgai, belief, knowledge ellAm onnyum illa.

crimson king wrote: Further, retirement is a personal decision.

idhukku mEla idhula pEsa onnumE illa.

Pointless even discussing this fellow or his opinions. As DM mentioned here at the time of Megha's release, he openly admitted to his ignorance about technicalities of music, whether Indian or western. Seri, ok, acceptable. At least oru nalla rasiganA irundhA othukalAm. But now it is abundantly clear that not only is he a rasanai ketta jenmam, but also an attention whore. The question of retirement in art is absurd as you said. This fellow is an utterly clueless moron. Let's move on.

I don't even know what's so bizarre about Kalvane chord change.  The joke's on people who actually think he's a worthwhile opinion maker on music.

Precisely. He disagreed on a particular raga, asked why a song was X raga and not Y raga and asked me to not take swaras and explain to him because he wouldn't know. "phone connection vENum, 24 hrs'um pEsaNum, cheap aa irukkaNum. adhukku nee nEral dhAn pOi pEsaNum" level it was. As you say, pointless discussing. Let's move on.

Back to the album, asking out of pure blissful ignorance, anybody knows what this movie is supposed to be about? Is it set in pattanam or pattikattu, thriller a drama a, etc etc.

crimson king wrote:Back to the album, asking out of pure blissful ignorance, anybody knows what this movie is supposed to be about? Is it set in pattanam or pattikattu, thriller a drama a, etc etc.

Karagam title suggests it is rural based, rustic film on the plight of a Karagattakaaran. Bala can come up with a good screenplay. maN vAsanai/nativity endha aLavukku varum'nu therila to be honest but music will take care of the nativity (Hey Bala, enna Himalayan blunder seyya irundha GVP'ya book senju!) But Sasikumar is the hero. Mild beedhi enters there. But I guess Bala has no producers/distributors to back him after the commercial failures of Avan Ivan and Paradesi. And most likely that Sasikumar is the producer here.

As long as the film gets released.  No updates on Megha, hope it gets a release.  Doesn't matter if it doesn't do that well but if it doesn't even get a release, that would be a real pity.

drunkenmunk wrote:point'a puducheenga. Last week, came out with a 100 word review of the recent Highway album. So every time he does that, he slyly digs at Raaja to win back some ARR fans. And every time he praises an IR album or ARR album to the skies, he praises the other composer to the skies with a pointless post or old video share. adhAdhu "trying to stay neutral eitherways" for maximum blog hits is the aim. koLgai, belief, knowledge ellAm onnyum illa.

Kindly direct your attention to the latest update here: 

https://www.facebook.com/milliblog?ref=stream

 

Fring151 wrote: Kindly direct your attention to the latest update here: 

https://www.facebook.com/milliblog?ref=stream
 

You mean the Sombu-GVM film teaser or Bala-IR link? Either ways,   ARR fans'a loop la vecha mAri'yum Achu, Raaja fans'ta "onnum illa mama, summA pEsikittu irundhEn" level la maindain paNNa mAriyum Achu.

Bala update pathi thAn solla vandhen   . Wondering if this all consuming desire to stay neutral is some sort of mental illness...just like pseudo-secularism.

fring151 wrote:Bala update pathi thAn solla vandhen   . Wondering if this all consuming desire to stay neutral is some sort of mental illness...just like pseudo-secularism.

That aside, click on the link from his FB page. He's linked it from 1 minute, after all the music is done   no idea why. But yeah, these look-ma-I-yam-neutral-music-fan-who-appreciates-all-composers-and-be-it-G Ramanathan-or-MSV-or-KVM-or-IR-or-ARR-they-are-all-the-same-different-eras-different-legends-you-need-a-level-of-understanding-to-understand-this level guys find mass acceptance under the umbrella, "music freak/buff/vegetable puff".

drunkenmunk wrote:Either ways,   ARR fans'a loop la vecha mAri'yum Achu, Raaja fans'ta "onnum illa mama, summA pEsikittu irundhEn" level la maindain paNNa mAriyum Achu.

Btw sorry for bringing up milipayya here again, but avaru pathi discussion'ku poruthamAna thread app saab ErkanavE thirandhurukkAru nu ippo thAn gavanikkarEn. Let's not divert music threads. Now onwards milli can continue to be discussed here:

https://ilayaraja.forumms.net/t40p45-tf-humor-both-on-off-screen

Drunkenmunk wrote:

Fring151 wrote: Kindly direct your attention to the latest update here: 

https://www.facebook.com/milliblog?ref=stream
 

You mean the Sombu-GVM film teaser or Bala-IR link? Either ways,   ARR fans'a loop la vecha mAri'yum Achu, Raaja fans'ta "onnum illa mama, summA pEsikittu irundhEn" level la maindain paNNa mAriyum Achu.

I didnt see what you are referring to but I saw this in a Gounder-Senthil blog post he has written that was jhalaked there:

"f you watch more Tamil films, you'll also notice that they also make fun of dark skinned Tamilians...as if the state is extraordinarily fair. But this discussion is beyond the scope of this post.
"

idhula reNdu mukkiaymAna vishayam
* It seems his objection to Gounds making fun of dark skinned tamilians is that...well, a majority of tamilains arent fair! It's a freudian slip - Look at the contempt in "as if the state is extra ordinarily fair". What a daft thing to say!
* He completely missed the point of Gounder making fun of ugly people, while, huh, not being a model of male beauty himself

Such a person is a Social Media Dept head in  a big Indian firm, now that's an insult to the corporate world we work in
(of course, ennaiyellAm employ paNNi irukkAngangaradhum corporate worldku insulot dhAn adhu vERa vishayam)

fring151 wrote:

drunkenmunk wrote:Either ways,   ARR fans'a loop la vecha mAri'yum Achu, Raaja fans'ta "onnum illa mama, summA pEsikittu irundhEn" level la maindain paNNa mAriyum Achu.

Btw sorry for bringing up milipayya here again, but avaru pathi discussion'ku poruthamAna thread app saab ErkanavE thirandhurukkAru nu ippo thAn gavanikkarEn. Let's not divert music threads. Now onwards milli can continue to be discussed here:

https://ilayaraja.forumms.net/t40p45-tf-humor-both-on-off-screen

Sorry idhai appuRamA dhAN pachichEn., will move my post to the other thread

Hope this "continuous 19 hour" is simbly an exaggeration...he should care about his health at this time

Legendary music director Ilayaraja spent a continuous 19 hours recording songs for Director Bala's upcoming film. Earlier Ilayaraja has composed 12 songs in six days for the film and the song recording was done with real folk artists and musicians with no film experience. This new yet untitled film, has actor director sasikumar as producer and the lead and the shooting will commence from march this year. There are also expectations of ilayaraja writing some lyrics as he did for other films of bala.

Another website says the same 19 hour thingy

இன்னொரு கரகாட்டக்காரன் எனும் அளவுக்கு பாடல்கள் சிறப்பாக வந்திருப்பதாக இப்போதே பேச்சு கிளம்பிவிட்டது.

Too tempting to listen to the soundtrack, but hearing when they are going to start shooting from March 1, varra azhuga kooda ninnuthu, hahaa. This one might release in 2016 considering Bala's film. It would be a long wait till we hear the music.

app_engine wrote: Hope this "continuous 19 hour" is simbly an exaggeration...he should care about his health at this time

Legendary music director Ilayaraja spent a continuous 19 hours recording songs for Director Bala's upcoming film. Earlier Ilayaraja has composed 12 songs in six days for the film and the song recording was done with real folk artists and musicians with no film experience. This new yet untitled film, has actor director sasikumar as producer and the lead and the shooting will commence from march this year. There are also expectations of ilayaraja writing some lyrics as he did for other films of bala.

I think this kind of hype/publicity is so done-to-death types. I remember reading a news article that Raaja composed 36 songs in a day for a film named Ajantha. And when the album released, we realized that it was actually a 9 song album in 4 languages. And those 9 songs too had some repeats. 

While I do appreciate the fact that some news keeps trickling in, I feel the media must move from this standard template reporting consisting of buzzwords such as "8 songs composed within 3 hours flat", "all songs recorded live", "Raaja praised the film and took special care in composing BGMs" etc. I'd rather prefer some more informative stuff like the article about the music of Padithurai (that the music is stuck in cans is a different matter and unfortunate). The article gave details about the kind of songs we can expect (and we continue to expect the album).

Update from Suga in FB about a song that Sharath has sang for Raja in the upcoming Bala film. Sharath is a trained kickass singer (MBK student) and my expectation from this album just went sky high...

இளையராஜாவின் ரசிகன் பாடிய பாடல் . . .

‘நீ அடிக்கடி சொல்லுவியே, சரத்? நம்மக்கிட்டெ அவர் பாடின பாட்டு கேக்கணும்னா கெளம்பி வா’.

ராஜா ஸாரிடமிருந்து ஃபோன்....

கிளம்பிச் செல்வதாவது! பறந்து சென்றேன். பிரசாத் ரெக்கார்டிங் தியேட்டரில் நண்பர் பாலா படத்தின் பாடல் பதிவு. வாசலிலேயே நின்ற பாலா , உள்ளே இழுத்துச் சென்று பாடலை ஒலிபரப்பச் செய்தார். இளையராஜாவின் வெறி பிடித்த ரசிகனான சரத், இனி தன் வாழ்நாளெல்லாம் சொல்லிச் சொல்லி பெருமைப்பட்டுக் கொள்ளும்படியான பாடல்.

பாடல் கேட்டு முடிந்தவுடன் ராஜா ஸாரின் அறைக்குச் சென்றேன். எதிர்பார்த்த மாதிரியே, வழக்கமான புன்சிரிப்புடன் தனியே அமர்ந்திருந்தவர், ‘என்ன? பாட்டு கேட்டியா? சுமாரா இருக்கா?’ என்றார்.

வார்த்தைகள் வராமல் கண்ணீரை மட்டும் பதிலாகச் சொன்னேன்.

‘என்னய்யா இது? பாடி முடிச்சதும் சரத் அழுத மாதிரியே நீயும் அழறே!’ என்றார்.

‘அப்புறமா பேசறேன் ஸார்’.

கிளம்பி வந்து விட்டேன். பாலா அதிர்ஷ்டசாலி. பாடிய சரத்தும். சுடச் சுடக் கேட்ட நானும். இன்னும் சில நாட்களில் கேட்கப் போகிற நீங்களும்.

Great news, ravinat sir!

Do you know if this is composer Sharath? (Who also served as an excellent judge on some TV singing competitions)

Or, is this a different Sharath?