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Monday, March 13, 2006

Monday morning rambling:

When people complained about Monday mornings, I always thought they were complaining because they loved to complain. But, guess not. This is real ! At first, I thought this was a one time thing. But 6-7 weeks later, I know this is a trend, that’s going to stick to me for a while. Mondays are when have you have the most work to do, and the least enthusiasm to do it with. All the good feelings you had about your “team” on friday is now all gone, and you feel like a loner, not wanting to talk to anybody. The same song you were singing loud with on Friday evening plays itself out unnoticed! It’s so ironical, it’s almost funny. But you don’t see the humor in it. It’s Monday!

Just want to write a little note on 2 songs that I listened to recently.

“Enga area kitta varaadhe” from Pudhupettai – In spite of this being a lift from “who let the dogs out”, I liked the song. Captures the “housing board” mood of madras, to perfection. The hip-hop mix, is a thing that I am starting to enjoy. Yuvan’s ability to adapt it to Thamizh movies, is admirable. Dhanush’s voice fits like a Tee !

“Kaattile” from Pattiyal – A great mix of “Nethu oruthara oruthar paathom” and “aadaludan paadalai serthu”. Raja’s voice was youthful and refreshing. Good hip-hop feel to the song.

14 Comments:

  • u know what, Dinesh. Monday mornings sometimes are my freshest mornings...:)

    By Blogger The Doodler, at 5:33 PM  

  • A Few quick points..If I may !

    " Enga Area Ulla Varaadhe " - is the song....Great song w r t the situation in the movie..very well captures.I would give kudos to both Selvaraghavan and Yuvan here !..Remember they record these songs..before they shoot 'em..Pretty impressive planning & execution huh ?..(Also the feel for this song is Techno)

    " Namma Kaatille " song from Pattiyal..is a classic ! Ilayaraja sounds like "Nila Adhuvanathu Melae" Raja..Pretty impressive remix of "Aadaludan Paadali Kaettu" and an old hindi classic( i dont know which song..but one of my sait friends told me that its a old hindi classic)

    The true Hip-Hop style song in Pattial are.."Kannai Vittu-Remix"
    and "Poga Poga"..and Yeah "Kannai Vittu" ..the first line is a motivation of Kevin Lyttle - "Turn Me on"

    Overall..Pudhupettai and Pattial Rock..

    PS- Listen to the lyrics for this song - "Neruppu vayil" - Pudhupettai - captures a the life of a don pretty well !

    By Blogger Sayee, at 6:37 AM  

  • Puthupettai songs rock serious-aa...
    and I was wanting to write about pattiyal song in my blog - ilayaraja's voice rocks in that song - especially towards the end where he sings the syllables twice like rettai kilavi!

    By Blogger Prabhu, at 7:55 AM  

  • Dinesh, as always thanks for the song tips, inda madiri paatu ketta thaan undu illana am out of touch!

    k says I start complaining about the coming Monday as early as Fri evenings :)

    By Blogger RS, at 4:28 PM  

  • Dinesh- I hate monday mornings! Additionally I detest sunday evenings, because of the thought- "ayyyo, naalaiku office ~groan~".
    I just love saturday evenings, when we still have a day to boot. Office pathina nenappe varadhu... :)

    By Blogger Viji, at 8:09 PM  

  • I had a lot of respect for Yuvan... but seeing how he blatantly lifts his tunes...i just lost interest. And i don't understand why we only target Deva for lifting.. This guy goes scot free and worse he gets lot of credit for his 'work'. I was looking at google videos one day and was playing a canadian rock/pop video..exactly one of the songs from Pudhupettai ( Pul pesum..music appidiye..very different sounda irukennu kekkum bodhe bayangarama praise vera pannen) ..my god could not believe it. Andha videova appidiye vittuten thiruppi pidika mudiyala...

    -vv

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 6:11 AM  

  • first grrr.. nee masam oru post kooda podaradhu illa. 2 calendar months ku 1 post...:(

    pudhupettai la i liked the great kamal's "neruppu..." the most..i love kamal's voice. And overall i think its an unusual effort in tamil.

    regarding yuvan's "inspirations" yeah he does believe in reusable components way too much for his own good.

    ippo nu illai, right from kadhal konden, he has lifted a lot...

    By Blogger expertdabbler, at 8:31 AM  

  • Subha - Lucky you !

    Sayee - Will listen to neruppu vayil. I was going to say myself that this reminded me of "nila adhu vaanathin mela". In fact, I wrote it down and removed it later !

    Prabhu- kalakkariye da, music ellam detailed a varnikkaraye da. NC poi thideernu music sense vandhuduthaa onakku ? :)

    By Blogger dinesh, at 12:02 PM  

  • RS - Kamal says right ! I;ve seenyou do that myself. When we're doing a show together "cha, idhu mudinjudhuna apparam enna panradhu ? bore adikkum" etc, didn't go unheard :)

    Viji - Yeah, I hear you ! The anticipation for the inevitable irritation is more irritating than the irritation itself ! :)

    By Blogger dinesh, at 12:05 PM  

  • PK and Vijay,

    I agree with your opinions. Before I go off and defend yuvan, here's what I think. I think he uses too much hip-hop too. And I think he lifts too much for his own good !

    Given those parameters, I think he does an excellent job. Let's not compare deva to this. Let me tell you why. Deva's attitude was "Thambi, edhavadhu nalla english paattu irundhaa sollu pa, namma padathukku use pannikkalaam". But yuvan can clearly relate to the music and feel it in his veins. That shows ! For eg, Thee pidikka had a heave hip-hop feel to it. And it was probably lifted. But the transitions were so smooth. And combining it with the old songs, seemed like a natural thing to do. It added flavor and taste to the song. In that sense, yuvan was copying only the "feel" of the song. Not the song itself. Yes, it's not as good as creation itself. Nayagan had a lot of scenes lifted from God father. But it was still manirathnam's feel. Adapted brilliantly, the lifting only takes a little away from the movie. Similarly, if you have a passion for certain things, it shows. This guy clearly has a big time taste for hip-hop and adapts it wonderfully to tamil music. I love that !

    By Blogger dinesh, at 12:25 PM  

  • dinesh.. i disagreee.. some of yuvan's lift are just that.

    http://itwofs.com/tamil-yuvan.html

    i will find the pudhupettai original and post it here. The rate of lift is too much for yuvan at this stage ... he has to do more originals to be considered serious.

    ur argument about deva's intentions is totally misleading and u dont have anything to back it up with. Adhan solren yuvan gets too much credit for copying.

    idhuve academics sidela panni irundha expel panniduvanga.. without citing the original.

    -vv

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 6:05 AM  

  • Ha Ha Ha,

    Ashok la ! Pinnitte da ! :)

    By Blogger dinesh, at 10:22 AM  

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