Wednesday, March 04, 2009

And the coveted Oscar award goes to....

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1. Mr. A R Rahman for Best Original Song Jai Ho "Slumdog Millionaire"

2. Mr. A R Rahman for Best Original Score Jai Ho "Slumdog Millionaire"

Congratulations MR. A R Rahman! clap clap. Congratulations for also winning GG & BAFTA. You certainly made all INDIANS particularly all tamilans proud! I really want to dedicate a very long appreciation post for all your extraordinary contribution to the Musical World but regret to inform you that I was totally distracted have to scrap the whole post "even your love over hate speech was twisted and bad-mouthed" and I am forced to believe that its impractical for any of your fans to embrace loveism over hate & all those school of thoughts. Please read the following article (better not I wish you remain the same lovable person ever for what others admire more than your music) This article is just a sample by a renowned writer completely discarded you and your entire discography as a "packaged marketing of catchy jingles" to and the demesne of bandwidth-bashing happening on the online world is highly disgustful and intolerable from what I know/followed all your works personally. But I tried to equate my actual intent in this post

"Jingle-Jangle Morning" by Sadanand Menon

Mr. Sadanand Menon, On behalf of all million/billion AR fans I would like to award you as a certified crackpot for the factual errors, copy-pasting wiki contents in your disdained article "Jingle-Jangle Morning" (btw, what does it mean?) published haphazardly by Outlook India. Wait! I am not insisting anyone on a throttled warning to waste an outlook id and spifflicate all of his other restricted pennings . He went on to extortionate ahead of all raja's extremist and decreed "Attack ..... bcoz Rahman got Oscars".

1. The story starts like this
Comparisons are odious. But in south India—and in Chennai at least you can’t duck the over 15-year-long debate on the comparative ‘genius’ of A.R. Rahman and his musical senior by twenty-three years, Ilaiyaraaja.
@#@#$&! IR made his debut in Annakili (1976) & ARR Roja in (1992) thats clearly copy-pasted. Its 16years you old diarist. Are you that poor in calculating the years itself. 23 years? on what count! 8 years scooped up.
2.For almost 10 years, Rahman continued to perform for Ilaiyaraaja, before Mani Ratnam handed him the baton for Roja (1992). And the rest, as they say, is history


Just curious! who is your history teacher or does "they" ever exist? From where did you embroil this piece of information and I would also like to know from which Rajas history book you find "he absorbed the barely 15-year-old Rahman as a keyboard player in his orchestra"
You mean to say that ARR was in IR's troupe for 10 left over year behind bushes. It was Rajiv Menon who referred ARR to MR thru his ad jingles and not by any of IR' compositions or by a group photo. MR handed the baton for Roja :rotfl:


Now the most odious comparison ever:

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Both have graduated from the Trinity College of Music- London, though Ilaiyaraaja bagged a gold medal there
Sourgrapes! Oru madham pudicha yaanaiya sothula maraikka mudiyumanna mudiyumnu nirubichirukkaangha. I will explain this story


Mr. Ramalinga Raju after establishing himself in the IT corporate world banged on to enroll CSC@gooduvaancheri branch vijayadasami scholarship offer for what just to affix a "GUI" certificate to his portfolio and its not RR actually an ardent devotee named rajaroll shamefully went on to publicize this monthly topper award in his website raajangam.com for open-ended years. Notably, others who have learned their craft and appeared for examination are renowned musicians like L Shankar, L Subramaniyam, etc… And another 1 in a 10000 student Mr. Harris Jeyaraj presented prestigious Trinity College of Music - LONDON 2007 awards MSV award - Ilayaraja award to all those students and teachers . Then you can imagine the authenicity of this Mountroad shop and how chicaned this honour was.


What certainly crimsoned Menon's mind or any other vavutherical parties are that there was also an another average/drop out student from the same branch egressed like a whiz kid, ramped up his own studio/platform, composed 200+ jingles reconstructed the movie songs & strategy and revolutionized the whole musical world with a debut album named Roja (1992). That was just a beginning.. What so awe-inspiring about this ne'er die phoenix is that he winged up to prove the whole macrocosm (person by person…territory by territory..)that he is the incontestable world-beater of global Music. Now you know what both IT & Hollywood global giants Apple, Warner Bros are queued up in front of his Panchatham Studio @ Chennai to get a nod from ARR. Chennai Cheers!

What do you call this Mr. Menon - qualification/cheap publicity/sheer talent,expertise or adeptness.

4. Where he makes a departure is in the polyphonic interludes. A typical example would be his amazing foot-tapper, ‘Rakkamma, Kaiyye Thattu...’ (Thalapathi, 1991), in which he moves with panache from a swiftly orchestrated popular folk tune to a serene, quiet solo classical with a deft, magical interlude of hummed bars.
evvalavu periya kandupudippu paarthiya. If someone who haven’t listened to any of ARR songs other than jingles nor bothered to check any of his album technicality/credit details or instead an online review what am I supposed to say! With the wide range of genres AR have composed every ARR song will shine out of such inane comparisons. rukkumani…thee thee, Kannalane, vande mataram till Rehna Tu.. Have you ever heard Bombay Theme - Is that also a "packaged marketing of catchy jingles"

8 comments:

KARL MARX. J said...
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KARL MARX. J said...

Scale!!!!!! Excellent reply...I am too planning to update my blog on this article..

1) First of all, I cannot understand why some people bring down the accomplishments of ARR to uplift a genius like IR???? Even IR will not like it...

2) the author of that article has completely got his facts wrong....But i feel he must have mentioned the age difference between the two....IR is nearly 23 years older than ARR....Manichi vittudunga......

3) The entire web sources say that ARR joined IR troupe as a 11 year old....But this 15 year old thing is a news to me...ARR worked only a few movies with IR..He worked with MSV,Shankar Ganesh,Deva,SA Rajkumar,Maragadhamani, Bappi Lahiri,Ousechappan,Ramesh Vinayagam,Madan Bob and with many leading Telugu and Malayalam MD...

4)He was doing mostly international collaborations at his young age...

5)I have also got my degree from Trinity College...So pratically I know wat is that all about...Lakhs of students attend that examinations every year at St.Johns Mat School,Mandaveli organised by Musee Musicals...
But ARR got a scholarship which is indeed great....

6) Regarding that WCM usage, I have always maintained that IR is a master but now ARR is also an expert...Tat author should listen to WOHE,Elizabeth,Lagaan,Bose and RDB.But people around depict a pic as if IR is the only expert around...ARR has shown his mastery in more areas than any other MD has ever imagined...

7) To convey an emotion 100 violins in the background are not required jus a simple flute and piano is enough..Tats wat ARR does..

8) ARR songs are like jingles??? Ha Ha....Pure ignorance....Probably the reviewer has some hearing prob. Jus if we hear a low grade album like Pavithra..Even it has got the greatest melodies that may choke anyone emotionally...

Scale said...

Good follow-up post Karl. Thanks!! That speaks volumes. Just to add Zakhir Hussain & Kunnakudi vaidyanathan tours that ARR accompanied. He was more into collabration than a mere keyboard player.

//It has to be said that serious musical work belongs to Ilaiyaraaja. Rahman’s forte is packaged marketing of catchy jingles. Of course, one hums along//

savukkadi (7) & (8)

KARL MARX. J said...

Scale!!!!!!! Are u in orkut??? I would like to add you in my friends list....

Scale said...

Karl, No I dont. I still have that id but hardly visited. pm me thru mayyam if so any.

Anonymous said...

//3) The entire web sources say that ARR joined IR troupe as a 11 year old....But this 15 year old thing is a news to me...//

ARR is 66 born and he worked first for Raaja in 'Moodupani' a 1980 release. So this 15 years is more closer to the age than 11 years thats spread in the internet.

Anonymous said...

//3) The entire web sources say that ARR joined IR troupe as a 11 year old....But this 15 year old thing is a news to me...//

ARR is 66 born and he worked first for Raaja in 'Moodupani' a 1980 release. So this 15 years is more closer to the age than 11 years thats spread in the internet.

Yoganathan.N said...

//ARR songs are like jingles??? Ha Ha....Pure ignorance....Probably the reviewer has some hearing prob. Jus if we hear a low grade album like Pavithra..Even it has got the greatest melodies that may choke anyone emotionally...//

Gap-la PavithrA-va low grade album-nu sonnathu thAn enakku varuththamA irukku... :(