Posted on February 17, 2023
‘Pattukaran’ is a podcast by Sudhir Viyas D. He called me to share some thoughts on Raja in the first episode of Season 2.
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rsylviana
February 17, 2023
Oh man, this is like now the issue/discussion has been slapped on the face, had a knife twisted in itself and then this podcast has come in now to rub salt on the wound and then put all of it inside the frying pan while more fuel was being added to the fire before ultimately throwing whatever is left of the “discussion” into the fire!
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hari prasad
February 17, 2023
What ” fire ” , what ” salt ” , whose ” knife ” got twisted?
Care to explain please?
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brangan
February 18, 2023
rsylviana: What? This is a harmless “Raja memories” podcast. What fuel/fire and all?
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brangan
February 18, 2023
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muttadosai
February 18, 2023
What is BR and the regulars’ view on the two Raja songs that released recently? One from Viduthalai and the other from Rangamarthanda? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wG_wCQFjY4
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rsylviana
February 18, 2023
@BR – Oh BR! I know it was harmless at your end , but I just meant the issue would again be discussed in this thread too apart from the previous one.
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Madan
February 19, 2023
Seems like there’s a problem with the link?
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brangan
February 19, 2023
I am able to listen to it, Madan!
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Madan
February 19, 2023
Maybe there’s a geo blocker for this one. There shouldn’t be because I have been able to listen to your podcasts.
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hari prasad
February 25, 2023
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hari prasad
April 23, 2023
Sudhir said in this podcast that Megam Kottatum was the only Kamal song that had a SPB and a Kamal version or something like that.
I don’t think so.
There exists a SPB version of the Raja Kaiya Vecha song from Aboorva Sagodharargal
Here it is:
Well , here’s th
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Madan
April 23, 2023
Speaking of Kamal, he must be one of the few if not only Tamil actors (excluding singer actors like SPB) who has done playback for ANOTHER actor. He sang Ponmaanai Theduthe for Mike Mohan. This sort of thing never happened in Hindi as far as I know, unless Raj Kapoor did playback for other major stars of his time.
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hari prasad
April 23, 2023
Vijay sang that Dhum Adikura Style song for Suriya in Periyanna which was directed by SAC ,
An 18 year old Simbu sang that Dil Dil Italy Kattil song for Ajith in Red ,
Siddharth sang Adada for Jayam Ravi in Santhosh Subramaniam ,
Dhanush sang a song for Puneeth Rajkumar in Kannada for the movie Vajrakaya.
There are some examples like this.
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hari prasad
April 23, 2023
I think after Kamal , Vijay is the only hero to have sang for almost all the major music directors that he worked with starting from Raja , Rahman , Deva , SA Rajkumar , Sirpy , Vidyasagar , Yuvan , Harris , DSP to Imman , GV Prakash , S Thaman , Anirudh and Santhosh Narayanan.
Mani Sharma is the only one under whose composition Vijay is yet to sing.
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Madan
April 23, 2023
Dhanush is another. Yuvan, HJ, Deva, GVP, Ghibran, Anirudh and IR himself most recently. I didn’t check if Dhanush has sung for Rahman too.
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hari prasad
April 23, 2023
Nope , he didn’t!
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Severus Snape
April 24, 2023
Dhanush sang Little Little for Rahman in Atrangi Re
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hari prasad
May 11, 2023
At 01:23
Finally a modern Raja track without any pomposity or heavy orchestrations , just a guitar and his vocals.
Reminded me a bit of Vandhale Allipoo…
Maybe Kumararaja might have pushed Raja harder without blindly receiving what he delivers.
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Satya
May 11, 2023
rsylvania: How naive I was. I was thinking about the new outrage after IR’s condolences to Manobala (RIP btw).
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Madan
May 11, 2023
hariprasad: Track sounds nice albeit rather like the modern muzak (apt for ‘modern love’?) you hear esp in Bolly soundtracks and without the psychedelia of Vanthale Allipoo at least from what I could make out in the snatch. I wish he hadn’t sung it though. As a singer, he’s way overstayed his welcome. Still think this isn’t a patch on Nannu Nannuga. Which also doesn’t have any heavy orchestration – it’s pretty much a standard rock set up.
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hari prasad
May 14, 2023
Probably Raja’s best overall album after Neethane En Ponvasantham..
That Kaala Visai song might be the closest I’ve heard Raja do a country waltz sorta song and there’s a sense of Raja composing a 50s / 60s musical all over the album.
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Madan
May 15, 2023
I am still partial to Abbayitho Ammayi; on some days I like it more than NEPV! But within Tamil, this is a splendid showcase after a long time for Raja in a very urban/urbane and ostensibly youth centric context. IF the series does well with the public, it could do more for him than NEPV (which was a flop).
That said, my pick of all the tracks on the album was Sean Roldan’s Uravu. Such a beautiful fusing of rustic tinged melody with an alt/indie sound.
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hari prasad
May 15, 2023
For me , this album was a great reunion for the Bharathiraja – Ilaiyaraja combo after Pudhu Nellu Pudhu Naathu and ironically they reunited in an urban millieu subject after Tik Tik Tik , which came 4 damn decades ago.
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