Hello folks, if you are bored by movies with punch dialogues, kuthu songs, and violent fights get ready to watch ‘Satham podathey’. Director Vasanth who usually gives us romance movies this time coupled romance with thriller and did his job neatly. Let me come to story, Banu (Padmapriya) marries Rathnavelu (‘Nithin Sathya’ Chennai 28 fame) but after 3 months she came to know that Rathnavelu is impotent then decided to adopt a child. She was shocked by the news that his husband is impotent drunker which he already knows well before their marriage. They decided to go for divorce.
Banu falls in love with Ravichandran(Prithiviraj)and latter performance is really excellent but reminds few scenes of ‘Mozhi’. They finally ended in wedding knot but soon after wedding their life is interfered by rathnavelu as he turns psychopath and rest you can guess. You can appreciate vasanth in many scenes for his directorial touch.All the actors did their job well but splendid performance by Padmapriya and Nithin Sathya.
The heart of the movie is Yuvan’s music, he again proved him as best composer. His BGM speaks in many scenes but at few instances reminds ‘Kadhal kondean’ BGM. Anyway hats off to Yuvan for his brilliant songs, of all songs ‘Pesugirean’ is superb melody penned by Na. Muthu kumar and this song is brilliantly placed two times in the movie at exact situation. Debut camera man Dinesh kumar scores in many scenes especially in first song ‘Alagu kutti chellam’. We should the praise the director’s guts for not placing even a single fight scene in a thriller movie.
Bottom line – ‘Satham podathey’ Musically sound movie.
Sunday, September 16, 2007
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Masterpiece BGM’s of Music Maestro
Background Music (BGM) acts as a marrow to any successful movie. To compose BGM’s to a film the composer have to clearly understand the situation and have to select particular raga and instruments which could express the exact temper of the situation. Composing BGM’s to a movie is exigent work to any composer than to compose songs. An average composer can give very good songs but only highly skilled composer could able to give excellent BGM’s. Since Maestro ilaiyaraja have mastered music theory it is not a surprise that he gives masterpiece BGM’s.
I am going to thrash out two pieces of BGM’s from two different movies. The first one is my all-time favorite movie ‘Aan pavam’ staring Pandiarajan and of course it is his second directorial venture. The movie is based on village love story with first-rate comedy scenes. The second movie is ‘Guna’, splendid recital from universal hero Kamalhassan. Both the movies were taken to greater summit by Maestro through his magical music.
Let’s see a scene from ‘Aan pavam’ movie first. Pandian (hero of the movie) goes to seetha’s (Heroin of the movie) home (In tamil this sequence is called as ‘Ponu paakarathu’). This scene exactly reveals the tamil culture and hence I love this particular scene very much. Since bride and bridegroom are going to meet first time in this scene, the composer have to express their feelings i.e. Expectation, happiness, Shy (This is a beautiful element of typical tamil girl, in tamil it is called as ‘Vetkam’) through his music. Maestro uses Flute, violin, Veenai, drums to express these feelings, flute piece in the entire scene is really mind boggling. As the alliance confirms there exists sense of happiness with everyone and it is clearly expressed by Maestro by veenai followed by nathaswaram and Miruthangam (Traditional instrument used in south Indian marriages).
If you want view the scene in video Click here
The next movie is ‘Guna’, it is a very different assay in tamil cinema. Usually tamil cinema shows beautiful hero who will have couple of duet songs with heroin, some sentiment scenes and at last do some bizarre things to kill the enemy. But this movie is very different, the hero is mentally disturbed who thinks himself as god and plans to marry Abirami on full moon day. Totally it is a tough script and the Maestro’s music is mind boggling through the entire movie. I am going to discuss a piece of music in the film to reveal Maestro’s brilliant work. Let me explain the situation, the hero kidnaps heroin in to a forest to marry her. One day the heroin wants to take bath, so hero takes her to a stream, violin orchestra takes over the guitar when she sees the stream (Maestro used Sudhha Dhanyasi raga in western style, @courtesy: Mr.Rajendra) which exactly express the feel as one saw a huge stream of water with surprise. When she puts her feet in to the water the western flute sings with joy. I am sure when you closely hear the music you will have sense of joy as one could have while bathing in big stream.
Click the play button below to hear the music,
If you want view the scene in video Click here
I hope everyone enjoyed both the music and I am sure will write more on Maestro’s musical magic in the near future.
I am going to thrash out two pieces of BGM’s from two different movies. The first one is my all-time favorite movie ‘Aan pavam’ staring Pandiarajan and of course it is his second directorial venture. The movie is based on village love story with first-rate comedy scenes. The second movie is ‘Guna’, splendid recital from universal hero Kamalhassan. Both the movies were taken to greater summit by Maestro through his magical music.
Let’s see a scene from ‘Aan pavam’ movie first. Pandian (hero of the movie) goes to seetha’s (Heroin of the movie) home (In tamil this sequence is called as ‘Ponu paakarathu’). This scene exactly reveals the tamil culture and hence I love this particular scene very much. Since bride and bridegroom are going to meet first time in this scene, the composer have to express their feelings i.e. Expectation, happiness, Shy (This is a beautiful element of typical tamil girl, in tamil it is called as ‘Vetkam’) through his music. Maestro uses Flute, violin, Veenai, drums to express these feelings, flute piece in the entire scene is really mind boggling. As the alliance confirms there exists sense of happiness with everyone and it is clearly expressed by Maestro by veenai followed by nathaswaram and Miruthangam (Traditional instrument used in south Indian marriages).
If you want view the scene in video Click here
The next movie is ‘Guna’, it is a very different assay in tamil cinema. Usually tamil cinema shows beautiful hero who will have couple of duet songs with heroin, some sentiment scenes and at last do some bizarre things to kill the enemy. But this movie is very different, the hero is mentally disturbed who thinks himself as god and plans to marry Abirami on full moon day. Totally it is a tough script and the Maestro’s music is mind boggling through the entire movie. I am going to discuss a piece of music in the film to reveal Maestro’s brilliant work. Let me explain the situation, the hero kidnaps heroin in to a forest to marry her. One day the heroin wants to take bath, so hero takes her to a stream, violin orchestra takes over the guitar when she sees the stream (Maestro used Sudhha Dhanyasi raga in western style, @courtesy: Mr.Rajendra) which exactly express the feel as one saw a huge stream of water with surprise. When she puts her feet in to the water the western flute sings with joy. I am sure when you closely hear the music you will have sense of joy as one could have while bathing in big stream.
Click the play button below to hear the music,
If you want view the scene in video Click here
I hope everyone enjoyed both the music and I am sure will write more on Maestro’s musical magic in the near future.
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