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Hidden masterpieces

That we have a built-in system in our mind that effectively overlooks good music from passable or horrendous movies is known. But we do not realize the extent until we listen to some unknown masterpieces and this whole feeling hits home powerfully.

I am listening to Kangalaal Kaidhu Sei since yesterday night and I am totally in love with that album. The percussions in ‘Anarkali’, Hariharan’s voice in ‘Azhagiya Cindrella’, and the tune per se in ‘Theekurivi’ are just mindblowing. The tragedy is most of the world might not even know that a movie of such a name had ever been released, leave alone Rahman had composed music. I knew about the movie but did not realize that songs were this good till yesterday.

I immediately searched for blogs discussing about this movie and found that only one hardcore Rahmaniac had ever mentioned about this film among a huge list of unknown masterpieces.

I have always thought it was only Ilayaraja who has wasted amazing songs for listless films during the eighties. Apparently, he is not alone.

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6 Responses to “Hidden masterpieces”

  1. prabukarthik Says:
    May 14th, 2008 at 1:32 pm

    arun,

    That movie got the name of ‘varalaaru’ :) and did see the theatres…
    I think it did average business. some ajit fans even called it a hit..:)

  2. prabukarthik Says:
    May 14th, 2008 at 1:33 pm

    ramya,

    you are missing something :) jk

  3. Deepak Says:
    May 15th, 2008 at 4:53 pm

    I liked the KKS songs very much. I heard them somewhere ages ago, but after reading your post, went back and took me a while to download them. But ‘Anarkali’ is very good, did not like ‘Theekurvil’, but the others were simply mindblowing.

  4. prabukarthik Says:
    May 15th, 2008 at 9:33 pm

    Deepak

    Theekuriviyil enakku pudichudhu.. especially that beginning humming(or growl or shout).. sema contrast to harini’s voice.

    Anarkali la vara andha tabla piece super..

    Azhagiya cindrella padinadhuku Hariharan ukku oru national award a kudukalaam :)

    Enna prayojanam, people dont care if the movie flops.

    Repeated listening contributes to the success of the song more than song quality…

  5. Praveen Says:
    May 18th, 2008 at 4:51 am

    Hi prabhu,
    nice to see u linking to one of my old blog post…Its nice to know that people are listening to unknown masterpieces of the maestro…I guess u r a hardcore rahmaniac like me

  6. prabukarthik Says:
    May 21st, 2008 at 12:42 am

    Praveen,

    Welcome to my blog. Thanks.
    I enjoy good music no mattter who does the music :)
    Not really a rahmaniac yet :)

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