Done with the quizzes!!

This weekend was painful, with 2 quizzes on Saturday and one today!! Finished all 3 and here I am to blog-o-sphere! Based on last years papers, we expected the all 3 quizzes to be very very tough! Last year, the first quiz was meant to psyche out everyone!! But. all of us got a pleasant surprise when we saw the questions. Pretty simple actually! But, there is this factor of RG (Relative Grading). It is not your performance alone that matters, but others performances matter too!!!

Whateva, finished with it... will have a peaceful sunday!!
By Aravind on Sunday, July 24, 2005 at 10:08 AM
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"Ah Aah" -- aahaa

Have been listening to the songs of Ah Aah for the past 3 days. Have been totally hooked on to it.

The website for Ah Aah is also up! In fact, there are two websites for the movie. And, both of them claim to be the "official" website for the movie.
www.ah-aahthefilm.com
http://www.ah-aah.com/
By Aravind on Friday, July 22, 2005 at 11:24 PM
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"Ah Aah" to be released today!!!!

As I had mentioned, it is indeed going to be a double treat from the master! Anxiously waiting for ARR's Thamizh movie after a year!!!
By Aravind on Wednesday, July 20, 2005 at 7:15 AM
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Busy! Busy! Busy!

One of my toughest weeks at IIMB... With 2 submissions and 3 tests coming up this weekend and impending surprize quizzes over the week, there is hardly any time for anything else - let alone blogging!
Still manage to find some time to catch up with "Rising" songs at least once a day !!!

Hopefully, will update my blog over the weekend!
By Aravind on Tuesday, July 19, 2005 at 11:19 PM
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Anniyan + Ganguly !!!

Ganguly jokes were quite popular few months back... now, Ganguly jokes are back - with the latest sensation - Anniyan. Read this converstion, which has been circulated over the net! Quite hilarious...


Ambi: Mr Ganguly y r u shouting at the umpire, after u have been declared out ??? athu sattappadi thappu

Ganguly:dey kudumi, naa yaar theriyuma bengal tiger appidithan kathuven.

Ambi:kenya,bangaldesh kooda century adikirale australia,pakistan na 1 bathroom poralae...y?

Ganguly:naan dhadha da , thevayana apo matum than aaduven.

Ambi: mr ganguly captains like ponting, inzy, smith ellarum century adichu team jeyika vaikara ,aana neengo aadave maatiringale?

Ganguly:dey kudumi,athan sachin, dravid, sehwag ellam century adikiraanungala apuram naan yethuku adikanum

Ambi: alatchiyama pesathingo Mr ganguly, aduthava talentla fame gain pandrathu thapu!!

Ganguly:poda kudumi, yenake advice pandriya @#%@^#$%^@$%^$%^$%^


(Oh saka shasiya.. maa shisa anniya plays in the bacground)

Ganguly:yaaruga neenga gillespi maathiri hair style vachurikinga???

Anniyan : naan avan ila da yema , yenda run adika ve maatingara,

Ganguly: batting form appo appo vanthutu pogum, cricketla ithellam sagajam thanunga.....

Anniyan : ippidi soli thapichidalaamnu paakiriya.....

Anniyan: 5 run edutha thapa?????????

Ganguly:onum thapu ilinga......

Anniyan: 5 matchla 5 run edutha thapa?????????

Ganguly:thapu maari thanga theriyuthu..........

Anniyan: 5 varushama 5 5 matcha 5 run edutha thapa?????????

Ganguly: periya thapu thaanga...........

Anniyan: kamunati athathanda oruoru matchalayum nee panikitu iruka

Anniyan: unakellam ballbojanam thanda, nee than stump akthar,sami,lee,mcgrath ellarum una vachuthan bowling practice panaporaanga!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
By Aravind on Sunday, July 17, 2005 at 11:35 PM
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Singer Chinmayi's Blog!

Came across this blog of singer Chinmayi... If the name does not ring any bell to you, then think of "Oru theivam thandha poove" from Kannathil Muthamittal! The blog contains some well written posts about music!

Click here to access her blog.
By Aravind on Saturday, July 16, 2005 at 10:29 PM
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"Rising" Audio Released!!!


Finally, the audio of Rising has released. Listened the album 3 times today. Dont want to comment on it now as it takes lots of time and repeated hearing to digest all the new experimentations ARR has done!

But one song that stands out in the album (on first hearing) is "Mai Vari Vari". Simply mind-blowing!!! Wonderful classical piece. This song surprised me a lot, because this is one of the very few songs which I started lovvvving right from the first hearing!!!

About the other songs... later!!!
By Aravind on Friday, July 15, 2005 at 11:01 PM
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Thamizh Lyrics - on a rapid decline phase?

It was really funny to listen to some of the songs of Anniyan. What makes it funny are the lyrics. For example, lets take "Kannum Kannum Nokia". Such inane lyrics.

Kannun Kannum Nokia ('eyes and eyes are Nokia'..what the hell does this mean?)
Nee Kollai kollum Mafia. (wow.. what a word to describe a girl!!!)
Capuccino coffee-yaa?
Sophiaaaa (Sophia?!! Who the hell is Sophia? Where does she come in?)

aiwa aiwa aiwa azhagey Vaa vaa ("Aiwa" beauty?????????)


Here are more such irrelevant words used in the song:

Cyanide, Apple Laptop, Octopus Viralgal, Atom-Bomb, America Varaipadam (Map of America!!!)

Pretty disgusting lyrics. One of the worst lyrics I have come across, for a long time - and what shocks me more is that, these were written by none other than Vairamuthu.
There are people like Thamarai - who writes "prose" for lyrics (more on this later). Snehan, Vivegan etc., who degrade tamil lyrics. Vairamuthu was the only hope - but what is happening now? Excuses such as "director wanted the lyrics that way" do not hold water. He is the best in the industry and he can dictate. And of course, if he is forced to write such lyrics, he can simply walk off! If Vairamuthu himself wields to the pressure, then what can we expect from the lesser-known so-called poets?
By Aravind on Thursday, July 14, 2005 at 10:23 PM
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Thiruvasagam in Symphony

Finally, got to hear the much-hyped "Thiruvasagam in Symphony(Tis)". And, as it usually happens for most of the media-hypes, TiS is a big disappointment. Nothing new in tunes. All the tunes remind of some of the earlier tamil movie songs of Illayraja. And the "aaah" chorus in most of the songs, irritate.

Here is a review that appeard on Indian Express: 
Any music becomes significant based on melody or
harmony or both.While melody is intrinsic and
spontanious, harmony is invariably introduced. That is
the reason why many of our folk songs and carnatic
music rely heavily on melody than on hormony. Western
music is known more  for its harmony. There is
absolutely no bakthi in it. They concentrated more on
their technical wizardry and intellectual creativity.
Fusions are always odious and many times atricious.
The most grotesque fusion of recent times is the much
hyped Isai Gnani Ilayaraja's "Thiruvasakam in
Symphonic Oratorio".
How can purely South Indian Tamil devotional verses
fit into a totally alien orchestral extravaganza,
however chaste and perfect it might be? The tunes of
Ilayaraja for the Thiruvasakam carry vague
resemblancesto his film songs with weak notes of
Kalyani, Shanmugapriya and Sudha dhanyasi. Listeners
are assaulted by a chorus in English at the most
inappropriate junctures. The cover of the album says
that this is a cultural crossover, I feel it is
anothing but cultural aggression. As an ardent Raja
fan, I have only one word to say about the album:
Sorry.
By Aravind on Wednesday, July 13, 2005 at 10:08 PM
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Why only to Rahman?

I often wonder, why this happens to ARR everytime. I am talking about the delay in release of albums and movies of ARR. Rising did not release yesterday, as was stated.
Total disappointment :-(

ARR has been in a terrible luck, of late. Some of his masterpieces over the past one and half years, have gone unnoticed - Tehzeeb (listen to the 3 awesommme melodies by Sujatha Bhattacharya aka Madhu Shree! Wow!! Wowwww!!!), Bose (one of the best by ARR), Lakeer. The main reasons being delays and lack of publicity. Bose came in after a very longggg wait, but not enough publicity was done. The case with Tehzeeb and Lakeer was much different. People hardly knew that such an album was ever released - such is the plight of an album of India's best composer.

The media also played a biggggg role in this. It was the media which wrote off Swades as a bad movie and poor music - they only support stupid skin flicks.

Looking at all this, I often wonder, if the north-south bias has come in to play - we have seen that happen all the time - SPB, Kamal Hassan, Illayaraaja, Director Shankar.....
All were rejected. Only the actresses from south could survive in Bollywood. Sincerely hoping this is not the case with ARR - otherwise, even God can not save Hindi Film music from the stupid Anu Maliks, Nadeems and Shravans!

Waiting for Rising to break all this and create history!

By Aravind on Tuesday, July 12, 2005 at 11:46 PM
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Double Treat ?

Lots of rumours have floating around about the release dates of 2 of A.R. Rahman's albums:
   The Rising - Ballad of Mangal Pandey
   Ah Aah (Tamil)
Finally, got a news from a fellow Rahmaniac, that audio of Rising will be available tomorrow
(12th July) and Ah Aah on 20th July. Its been quite a long time since 2 of ARR's albums have released within such a short span of time (Taj Mahal and Mudhalvan were released at around the same time, if I am not wrong). Anxiously waiting for the 2 albums.

The music on the site of "Rising" truely rocks, and increases the expectations. And of course, lots of expectations on Ah Aah too, as it is ARR's thamizh (I always prefer to spell it this way !!) album after more than 1 year, the previous one being New. Hope there is no further delay and both albums release on time.

Hoping for another great treat by the master!
By Aravind on Monday, July 11, 2005 at 9:44 PM
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My first attempt at blogging!

Was planning to start blogging for a long time now.. Finally, started today :)
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