Syrupy Sunday (or shamelessly deifying Ilayaraaja)

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Feb 132005
 

I lis­tened to Uravu­gal Tho­dark­athai again today. Who could have known? That a mere song could move you, hard-nosed and all that, so much. Every chord emo­tional, every riff tug­ging at heart strings. That mal­leable music existed, music that could blend in with what­ever you were feel­ing. A fren­zied friend by your side, drag­ging your mind through an emo­tional kaleidoscope.

Strangely, all that remains at the end is con­tent­ment; joy. And the urge to rewind, replay. A lit­tle over­whelmed: At this rate, I am never going to go through the hun­dred other songs that do sim­i­lar things to my brain. And as always, shock: That one man could com­pose all of this in one lifetime.

Now, this attempt at ren­der­ing the Thiru­vasakam - an epic Saivite poem — as “Thiru­vasakam in sym­phony”. Sixty year old man, at the twi­light of his career, reduced to des­per­ately seek­ing recog­ni­tion that he so richly deserves. I just wish I could go up to him and tell him that after one Uravu­gal Tho­dark­athai, the rest is all fluff.

PS : Real­me­dia ver­sion of the song thanks to dhool.com. Also check out http://thiruvasakaminsymphony.com.

 Posted by Karthik at 11:59 am

  6 Responses to “Syrupy Sunday (or shamelessly deifying Ilayaraaja)”

  1. Raj says:
    Apr, 29 2005 at 11:09 am

    Just a fab­u­lous song.….. I had a chance to see this on TV when i ws in india last month.… if i remem­ber right, it was sri priya in the lead role. The song has been in my head ever since.. I need to watch the movie now!!

  2. Karthik says:
    Apr, 30 2005 at 5:41 pm

    Sripriya? Ugghh. Was the song pic­tur­ized well?

  3. Gp says:
    Sep, 23 2005 at 7:46 am

    Hi, may I blog this post in my blog? I’m addicted to the song too…at least I could put a link link­ing your post to my post. I think some peo­ple would down­load the song. Does it cre­ate any problem??

    Ill wait till you reply.

  4. Karthik says:
    Sep, 23 2005 at 10:02 am

    Gp, No problems.

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    Dec, 21 2005 at 2:03 am

    […] ‘Tis the sea­son for the com­ing out of recluses : First Illa­yaraja, famously idio­syn­cratic genius, per­forms his first live con­cert in decades, and even man­ages to enjoy it. Then, an actual, sub­stan­tive Philip Roth inter­view appears in the Guardian. And now, Annie Proulx — who equates celebrity to being dis­played on a meat rack — reluc­tantly talks to a few pub­li­ca­tions before the release of Broke­back Moun­tain, the movie based on her New Yorker short story from the late nineties. […]

  6. ammani says:
    Apr, 12 2006 at 9:21 am

    >That one man could com­pose all of this in one lifetime.

    They call him God for a very good reason.

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