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http://indiaspecial.net/entertainment/what-prevails-illayarajayam-or-rahmania/
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--- On Tue, 17/2/09, prakash krishnan praka_h...@yahoo.co.in wrote:
From: prakash krishnan praka_h...@yahoo.co.in
Subject: Re: [arr] Illayaraja Vs A.R.Rahman
To: arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, 17 February, 2009, 6:53 PM
you are exactly right there is no point in arguing on raja
sir and arr sirthey are both living legends
they both compose music and do it from their souls!!!
From: Prakash Balaramkrishna prakysn...@yahoo. com
To: arrahmanfans@ yahoogroups. com
Sent: Monday, 16 February, 2009 11:18:11
PM
Subject: [arr] Illayaraja Vs A.R.Rahman
http://ursmusically .blogspot. com/2009/ 02/illayaraja-
vs-arrahman. html
I was reading this beautiful piece written by Vignesh on Illayaraja’s ‘Maarugo
Maarugo’ song from Vetri Vizha and I headed to comment section and this is what
I read as one of the comments,
Dear Vicky,
Long time ago, I used to play the flute in light music troupes in chennai,
though I have been fully focussed on practising carnatic music
lately.
I wanted to listen to the music of the movie Slumdog Millionaire today to see
why it's being talked about so much. I searched and listened to it online.
It left me with a bad aftertaste. I just felt like cleansing my ears, body and
soul by listening to some Raaja music and landed in your blog.
Thanks for the wonderful analysis, sound clips. You (and Raaja) made my day..
with love,
srikanth.
I really haven’t taken such comments that have no constructive purpose
seriously and till this date I have never read or been in a single constructive
argument or debate when it comes to Raaja vs. Rahman. I don’t understand the
mind of some people, who call them to be an Illayaraja fan and who talk more
about A.R.Rahman and how bad his music is than about how great Illayaraja’s
music is. I don’t understand what is their real problem with Rahman, is it the
music itself, or its
popularity.
Irrespective of who is the composer, Music has one single purpose. Is it so
difficult to understand the oneness of music? And who can better teach you the
oneness of music than Illayaraja, who has covered every possible genre of music
in his repertoire and yet makes us feel that it is all music, just Raaja’s
music? I guess if you are a fan of Illayaraja, and if you have really
understood his music and its purpose, it is so simple to accept and appreciate
anybody else’s music. If not, then you fail Illayaraja, his music hasn’t
educated you enough. (In this particular case I am so devastated that he who
commented about the music doesn’t know what background score in a movie is
meant for, and he calls himself Raaja fan)
I get as exhilarated by that worldly interlude in ‘Dil Gira Daftan’ from
Rahman’s Delhi-6 as I get in the thundering coda of ‘Om Shivo hum’ from Raaja’s
‘Naan Kadavul’. The kind
of music
in the songs that I compare here has nothing in common in its sound and yet
the purpose is the same. Illayaraja is a way and A.R.Rahman is another way to
attain a musical Nirvana. Everybody has the right to choose his own way but the
one who foul talk about the other ways is no different from those extremists
who in the name of religion, do things which their religion itself doesn’t
preach.
I don’t believe in religion but I believe in a God and in the same way I
believe in music and I take the best of both to pave my own way to reach its
purpose. I am both a devotee of Illayaraja and a Rahmaniac and I find it
perfectly normal and rational to be so. And some call it incomprehensible and
eccentric?
I don’t know how to answer them because they never really explained to me why
they feel so.
When A.R.Rahman wave was spreading all over India, everyone told that
A.R.Rahman’s popularity is not because he is a genius or he has any talent but
because he borrows heavily from western music but it is the westerners who now
say that they have never heard a music score like that of ‘Slumdog Millionaire’
before. And so where did Rahman borrow all this long? Nobody seems to be
talking about this.
And what is this cry about Illayaraja deserving many International Awards and
not A.R.Rahman? These are utterly ridiculous arguments. Oscar or Golden Globe
is not given to greatest music composed by the greatest music composer of all
time from a country. Why can’t we be practical and realistic about these
awards? Raaja is contended in whatever he does in Indian films and if he gets a
chance he will definitely do it right in an
international
movie too, I believe in it more than any other so called Raaja fan. And do you
mean you want Illayaraja to win an Oscar for his background score in ‘Naan
Kadavul’ to prove that he is the best background score composer
