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).

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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.

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I hope everyone enjoyed both the music and I am sure will write more on Maestro’s musical magic in the near future.

Music Maestro Ilaiyaraja

Tamil film industry had seen very many music composers in the past several decades. M.S. Viswanathan, K.V. Mahadevan, Maestro Ilaiyaraja, Vidya sagar, A.R. Rehman, Yuvan sankar raja are to name a few notable composers who made their music prints strongly not only in people’s ears but also in their hearts. Of all these composers Ilaiyaraja is very special composer and his composition can withstand the test of time. Ilayaraja occupies a special page in the book of music. He is a prolific composer with sound basic knowledge in music. Over the span of 30 years he did more than 900 films in different Indian languages with an average of 30 films per year which is a nightmare for any other composer in the industry and he also done so many experimentations in music which are quite interesting. His orchestration to any song is such perfect that stands as example to present day composers. He is master in expressing feelings through music and all of his Background music (BGMs) stands as proof for that. He took so many films to greater height through his BGM, Ann pavam, Nooravadhu Naal, Kadhaluku Mariyadhai, Pithamagan, Guna, Thalapathi, Tik Tik Tik, Unnal Mudiyum Thambi, Sindhu bhairavi, Agni natchathiram, Aboorava sagotharargal, Heyram, Mouna ragam, Siraichalai, Virumandi, the list is endless. This is a very small introduction about Maestro and I am going to write his musical wonders now and then.