Kunnakudi Vaidhyanathan

Maharajapuram Santhanam

We grew up listening to your krithis, songs.

We are ignorant.  We hope to understand music in this lifetime.  🙏 

We hope to listening to good songs from Bollywood.  Jai Hind!!

Chhoti Si Kahani Se Barishon Ke Pani Se | Asha Bhosle | Ijaazat 1987 Son...

Google is today (23/05/2024) celebrating the Accordion.

I remembered RDBurman musician Suraj Sathe.

He accompanied RDB in many musical ventures by playing the accordion. The above song "Chhoti si kahaani se" from the movie "Ijaazat" has very obvious use of accordion. Possibly played by Suraj Sathe.

Have a good day music lovers!! 

Ilayaraja

I lived most of my life in north India. But we had relatives in south. And we would go to south during summer. So south India was never alien to me.

Also I did my education in Coimbatore. I spent four years there.

Initially during engineering, I secretly loved only RDBurman, Laxmikant Pyarelal, Kalyanji Anandji, Ravindra Jain and others. 

But gradually I started to love Ilayaraja songs. Probably he is the only music director who was able to blend folk type of songs for cinema so well. Anyway, that is what I liked about Ilayaraja. His folk type of songs. He was a genius and had a great variety. He was experimental too.

Ten favorite songs of Ilayaraja are

1. Poonkathave

2, En iniya pon nilave

3. Ithu oru pon malai

4. Madhura marikozhunthu

5. Rasaathi unnai kaanatha

6. Aracha santhanam

7. Mandram vantha

8. Kaadhal kavithaigal

9. Oru nallum unnai 

10 En jeevan paduthu

Many of my blog friends down south may not know that I love his songs so much. And also the fact that I am able to recall them.

Good wishes to Ilayaraja sir. His music is way too far ahead when compared to the person Ilayaraja. And that is what I feel. And it is meant to be a compliment.

R D Burman

R D Burman is known all over India for his music in Mumbai film industry. This is a write-up on the human RDB.

RDB is the son of S D Burman. When he got born and started crying, Ashok Kumar said that he is crying in the note Pa. And called him Pancham. Meaning five. Because Pa is the fifth note in sargam. So the pressure on RDB started right from his birth.

SDB probably wanted his son to be away from music and lead a normal life of concentrating on studies. SDB therefore sent RDB to Kolkata so that the young child stays away from the big bad world of movie industry.

Thereafter, it is not known why SDB insisted that RDB start music composition. He was given a target for 5 melodies per day.

RDB did enter film music industry. He after some time showed a lot of popularity. Then there is the famous incident of father-son duo walks. Earlier people would say SDB and the son of SDB are having a walk. Later people said RDB and the father of RDB are having a walk. 

RDB gained huge popularity.

He got support of some of the best musicians India had. Hari Prasad Chaurasia, Shiv Kumar Sharma, Kersi Lord, Tony Vaz, Manohari Singh, Suraaj Sathe, Bhanu Gupta, Franco Vaz, Homi Mulla to name a few.

Subhash Ghai took Laxmikant Pyarelal for Karz and not RDB as promised to him earlier. This hurt RDB a lot and was under acute depression for many days.

He managed to give hits and 1942 A love story was his last movie. 

I wrote in my blog comment earlier that 1942 songs were not good. I was passing an honest opinion of mine; but I failed to realize at that particular time how much I loved RDB songs. How imaginative he was. How much rhythmic. Even today I feel sorry for that particular comment.

RDB was a great musician and many times I feel sad when I listen to 100 greatest hits of RDB in my Bose 500. Why did I ever write that songs of 1942 were not good.

Las Palmas wins Grammy award

The Las Palmas music piece from the below album has won a Grammy award this year.

Here is a snapshot of the album.

Congratulations. You have done us proud.

Thanks ARREHMAN