Raja's Gems - the latest one you heard...Part 3

[tvsankar]

Thanks for "Ther kondu vandhavan"

Nice song..

[app_engine]

Ofcourse, as Jai observed, the interludes are phenomenal in thOgai while the melody / SPB / poem are equally terrific. ('காற்றோடு கல்யாணம் செய்கின்றதோ' for electromagnetic waves is such a beautiful line and R Sundarrajan made use of the opportunity to show TN people the sennaiththolaikkAtchi kOpuram).

The percussions are so varied and brilliant for a movie song as well. While the accompaniments to SPB are mostly tablA, towards the end of the saraNam, where jadhi-like portions come up, IR switches to mridhangam - நம்மையறியாமல் தாளம் போட வைக்கும் விதத்தில்!

And he keeps the orchestra on toes during the interludes, the first one has the jazz drums supporting lead guitar while the second one is a mridhangam delight!

Like most songs of PM, thOgai too has a very brief but effective flute / veeNai / guitar prelude (only sAlaiyOram has a long trumpet prelude; iLayanilA / rAgadeepam / vaigaraiyil have no preludes, maNi Osai has a very short one and AththA, after the grand guitar notes, switches to the song's tune itself on shenoy).

IIRC, there's a moment of surprise on the face of heroine when the hero starts singing for DD (possibly he ignores the original poem written for the program but starts singing about his sweetheart momentarily).

GA has his children with him in one shot (Venkat Prabhu / Premji?)

[priya32]

priya,
Shobana - Dance in IR songs - iruka

enna songs.. you tube irukuma?

want to see.........

Ushaji,

I don't think Shobana was used as a classical dancer in tamil movies as much as Amala and Banu Priya!

[Shank]

@Suresh, yeah Kaise Kahoon is a gem...were you listening to it only now? I thought we had spoken about that song many times in the past too...maybe you just went back to it after that Twitter episode.

@Priya, Thalapathi might be a small example where Shobana got to dance as a classical dancer...even there, it's not much.

[Sureshs65]

Shank,

Yup. We have spoken about this earlier. I think you had posted about this here. I was listening to this again after the twitter episode.

[tvsankar]

Shobana's Dance - All are sweeeeet.......

some nos from my list

Manu peyum raavil

[tvsankar]

Olathumathinil

[app_engine]

சாலையோரம் சோலையொன்று ஆடும், சங்கீதம் பாடும் (எஸ் பி பி / ஜானகி / வைரமுத்து / பயணங்கள் முடிவதில்லை)

Sweet song with some nice wind instrument sounds and remarkable bass guitar work which is typical of IR's songs during his peak It goes like a counter melody in the pallavi to the voice part, the sweetest part being when the word ' இப்போது' is sung

[Sureshs65]

Listening to 'kai veesi' from 'Nandalala'. Why 'Nandala' has become a 'Nondalala' is a mystery. Hope they release the movie soon.

I am not sure if the song will appear in the movie but can any director do justice to this melody? I have my own doubts. Ravi Natrajan had written in detail about this song and its orchestration in his latest blog post and I know that Raj had also written about this song earlier, when dealing with Raja's rhythmic complexity. What free flowing song. The words support the song to give us a very idyllic world.

[raajarasigan]

Meen kodi theril - Karumbu Vil

Orchestration sounds like a tribal sound... similar to Raaman aandalum... in this song, Pallavi / Charanam are somewhat different... in the sense, after hearing the charanam, you can't easily say that this is how the pallavi will be...