Pudhuppaadal Pesalaam, Discuss any new songs worth hearing Options

[visuja]

Ellorukkum Vanakkam.

I propose to discuss any new song that one finds to be 'listenable'. Since most of us at HF are crazy about old songs, many wont be too familair or in touch with the new melodious numbers. I would like to invite all to use this thread to recommend any new song that one finds hummable / 'listenable'. And would also be great if one could write a few points on why he / she likes that particular new song.

Firstly, thanks to HF which gives me a platform to start such a thread. Any other regular Tamil music forum would have massacred me for asking for recommendations for new 'listenable' songs !

To begin with, let me define a 'new' song by including all songs that cannot be uplaoded at HF. Discussion on any post '87 song is welcome.

Let me start by recommending ---
Song: avaL ulagha azhagiyE
Film : Laysa Laysa (2002)
Singer : Karthik Raja
MD : Harris Jeyraj
Lyrics : Vaali
Picturised on : Shyam and Trisha

I like the continuous use of beats in the background... keeps my foot tapping throughout. Very nice use of violins all thru the song. Decent lyrics too ! Thats quite a rarity, na ? There are some pauses in the song which are well used. I always like songs where the MD uses pauses to good effect. Of course, very few songs have pauses nowadays !

Vivek

[visuja]

Sorry for the detour!

I thought I'd rather trace Rehman's career chronologically from Wikipedia.... so the Gentleman's gotta wait!

Rahman of course entered the Tamil and Hindi (and a slew of other regional languages') scene with Roja in 1993. This also fostered a musical partnership of Mani Ratnam - Rahman - Vairamuthu that has been immensely successful, both commercially and musically, to date...

Its hard to pick one single track from Roja ... and its just too easily available to be uploaded here!

The next film is Ashokan which I unfortunately dont find any trace of either at MIO or at Raaga !

His next Tamil film was Uzhavan starring Prabhu and Bhanu Priya. You can listen to the songs here at MIO: Uzhavan
I shall upload the first song: Raakkozhi Rendu from the film sometime later.

Next film was Thiruda Thiruda (Hindi: Chor Chor) which personally I didnt find to be very musically appealing. In fact, for a long time I regarded Roja to be his best commercial score and thought he would never match up to it (including his films with Shankar). But then, other Mani Ratnam films happened! Besides, it wasnt until early 2000's that I discovered some Rehman gems hidden is less successful commercial movies

Moving on, next was Pudhiya Mugham (1993), which I'll upload one song at Lakshmi-ji's Tamil thread (being a Tandem tune !).

Finally, Gentleman ! ARR's first film with director Shankar. Remade in Hindi as Gentleman, almost all the tunes were re-used. Chikku Bukku Raile became the anthem of the nation and disco clubs, never mind that the lyrics hardly made any sense even to Tamilians !

Rahman has always managed to include at least one classical based song in all his films... albeit most were rehashed versions of traditional krithis or bhajans. Nevertheless, in the cacophony that was in the post-Ilaiyaraja Tamil music scene, even rehashed carnatic tunes were melodious. And when top calibre singers like Hariharan, SPB and Unnikrishnan lent voice to these compositions, it was a breath of fresh air

A sample from Gentleman ..... Enn Veettu Thottatthil. Based on the traditional aarti bhajan -- by Arunagirinaathar Thiruppugazh -- in Senjurutti Raagam -- Naadha Vindhu Kalaadhi Namo Nama, it was a direct lift !! Nevertheless, to the disgust of my dad (a carnatic purist ), I just loved the adaptation, especially with SPB's voice in it !

Film: Gentleman (1993)
Song: Enn veettu thOttatthil (Linked to Raaga)
Singers: SPB, Sujatha
Lyrics: Vairamuthu
Duration: 4:05
Quality: 160 kbps, 44 kHz
Source: Coolgoose

Other songs from Gentleman (and their Hindi counterparts):
Usilampatti Penkutty -- (Aashiqui Mein Hadd Se)
Chikku Bukku Raile -- (which remake / inspiration ?? )
Ottagatthai Kattikko -- (Roop Suhaana Lagta Hai)
Paarkaathe Paarkaathe -- ??

Soon, Rehman was to realise that the only way of preventing Bollywood from lifting his tunes left, right and centre was to release the Hindi dubbed version simultaneously (as in many cases, the music was more popular than the films themselves!).