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Aug 28

A Trace of Titanic theme in a 1980’s song

  • I’ve listened to the soundtrack “Niniavo Oru Paravai” composed by Ilaiyaraaja for the movie “Sigappu Rojakkal” umpteen times.
  • But just today I noticed that there is a tinge of Titanic theme in this number.
  • This may be an illusion. But as a layman(Knows nothing about music notes and all), the similarity is somewhat interesting and new to me.
  • Listen to the second interlude from “Ninaivo Oru Paravai” here.(at 00:20 – 00:29)
  • You can hear the original “Titanic Theme” composed by James Horner somewhere in the Internet.
  • Another soundtrack that comes to my mind with a feel of Titanic Theme is “Oh Unnale” composed by Ilayaraja for the movie “En Arugil Nee Irundhaal”(the prelude flute music)
  • Release Years
    Sigappu Rojakkal              – 1978
    En Arugil Nee Irundhaal    – 1991
    Titanic                          – 1997
    The similarity lasts only for a few seconds (at least for me).Do you feel the same way as me? Comment on this post if possible and please tell me your opinions.
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Aug 27

An Interesting music similarity

  • I’m just listening to “Hathiri adoo maadhiri” from the movie “Surya IPS” by Ilaiyaraaja.
  • I have noticed that the prelude in the song reminds me of the humming in “Kaadhalikkum pennin kaigal” from the movie Kaadhalan by AR Rahman.
  • Note: I don’t know about Raga, major scale or minor scale. I’m just a layman. Experts should say whether it is a coincidence or inspired thing or just an illusion.
  • For your information, Surya IPS released in 1991 and Kaadhalan released in 1994.
  • Listen “Hathiri Adoo Maadhiri” Song here (at 00:12 – 00:27)
  • Listen “Kaadhalikkum Pennin” Song here
  • The similarity lasts only for a few seconds.The point here is not about inspired or not.I just want to express the similarity i felt between these two songs.Please Comment on it if possible.
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Aug 26

Features of Music Quencher

  • You can download almost all Tamil and Hindi songs in Music Quencher(a total of 6000 albums have been auto indexed by our search engine so far)
  • Make use of the Search Term suggestion we offer. Our Suggestion mechanism only supports keywords of movie names. We will be updating the song suggestion feature in near future.
  • Please be patient while entering the search term. Select the suggestion term we offer in order to get the correct results.
  • For Instance, some people spell “Nayagan” and some spell “Nayakan”.Our search engine supports only “Nayagan” to retrieve the correct results. That’s why we offer the suggestion term. Make use of that.
  • We offer play list feature to our registered users only. Sign up and create your own play list for free. It’s very easy to create an account. It takes only 2 minutes. No e-mail verification and all. Just enter your username, password and an e-mail id (Valid id if possible to get the updates from us).Only one play list for a user. So, create many accounts and play lists.
  • Dedicate a song to your friend’s birthday through Orkut Scrap book.(also my space, face book and all).Just click embed option of the particular song in the search results page. Copy the code and paste it in your friend’s scrap book.
  • If you want to say “Happy Birthday” or any other thing in your own voice, just record it with the use of Microphone and mail us.We will give you the code to be embedded in your friend’s scrap book in a few hours.
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Aug 25

Multiple Versions of a Single Tune

  • It is possible for a song or tune to have so many versions (may be in same language or in different languages).
  • One such master piece which has multiple versions (all of them are great) is our Maestro Ilaiyaraaja’s tune.
  • First Version got released in the year 1982 for the Malayalam movie “Olangal” directed by the legendary director Balu Mahendra. Music by Ilaiyaraaja.The song is “Thumbi Vaa”.
  • Second Version came out the same year for the Telugu Movie “Nireekshana” directed by Balu Mahendra. Music by Ilaiyaraaja and the song is “Aakasham enatidho”.
  • Third Version came out one year later (1983) for the Tamil movie “Auto Raja” which has actor Vijayakanth in the lead role.
  • Actually the movie “Auto Raja” has music composed by none other than Shankar Ganesh. The producer of the movie was impressed by the song “Thumbi Vaa” from Olangal.So he requested our Maestro Ilaiyaraaja to compose the same tune in Tamil and the final product is “ Sangathil Paadatha Kavidhai
  • And here comes the fourth versionNeer Veezhchi thee mootudhae” from the movie “Kanne Kalaimaane” which got released in the year 1988.Music by Ilaiyaraaja.
  • And here is the final version “Monday Tho” from the movie “Aur Ek Prem Kahani” released in 1995.The movie is a remake of Kannada movie “Kokila” directed by Balu Mahendra. Music by Ilaiyaraaja …
  • What about the Instrumental versions? You may ask… There are two available as far as I know.
  • First one from Ilaiyaraaja sir’s Jaya TV concert “Andrum Indrum Endrum”.
  • Second one from Ilaiyaraaja’s “music Journey -Live in Italy 2005” concert.
  • Note : The tune came as a background track in the movie “Moondram Pirai” directed by Balu Mahendra with Raaja sir’s Humming.I think this must be Balu Mahendra Sir’s favourite tune.He has used it in four of his movies so far.
  • See Sujatha and Swetha Mohan singing “Thumbi Vaa” from Olangal here and note Balu Mahendra sir’s reaction in the video.
  • Download Lyrics for the songs “Sangathil Paadatha Kavithai” and “Neer Veezhchi Thee Mootudhae” here(available as JPG)…

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  • Update : As you guys all know,Thumbi Vaa tune is back to the track.Yes Balki made it.Thanks to him.So,Here comes the final version “Gumsum Gum” from Paa..
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Aug 25

Happy Birthday Dr.Nithyashree Mahadevan

  • Our Hearty birthday wishes to the great Carnatic Musician and the popular playback singer , Dr.Nithyashree Mahadevan.
  • We dedicate this playlist to the great singer.
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