Recently I read about Yours Musically's Journey with Illayaraja.. Then it occurred to me that there are so many of us out there who all have our own "Raaja Secrets" which our friends and well wishers may not know about but no harm if you let them know.. A way of paying a small collective tribute to our beloved Raaja..
So why don't we play the Blog-Tag game, A concept which is by now age old in the blogosphere. If you are new to tagging, this is nothing but a cheeky game of making a blog post of 5 things about a topic (in this case Raaja) that others may not necessarily know about you and then tag 5 other bloggers to it. So these 5 will share their experience and tag another 5 each and so (Of course on a absolute voluntary basis).. Think of MMM except that you don't have to buy or sell anything :-PP
Ready ..?
Here I start:
The 5 things of me and Raaja that You May Not Know About
(Please be as spontaneous as possible.. don't think too much..!! :-)
1.) The moment that introduced you to Raaja.. (I know it could be difficult to pin point a moment.. So treat this question as the Very first Raaja Experience in your Life that you are able to recall... For Example: The very first song of Raaja that you remember.. The very first movie that introduced you to Raaja and so on..)
There are a bunch of about 4 - 5 songs or so from various movies that I still remember watching in the theater with my parents as a very small kid (as a UKG to 2nd std or so). These songs got implanted in mind for some reason and I can't remember which one of them is the first one. Pani Vizhum Malarvanam, Ilaya Nila Pozhigiradhu, Naanaga Naan illai Thaaye, Raaja Magal .. I wasn't humming these songs as a child.. But the visuals and the Audio of these song are as if its tattooed in my mind, that whenever I see/ hear this songs in retrospect I feel a vague sense of Dejavu... I recollect my 1st std.. my school .. the house that I lived at that time.. etc., So the association is deep enough to bring back those very nascent memories as a 6 year old that I had.. Thats the first impact of Raaja's music on me.
2.) Name one occassion where Raaja's music directly/ indirectly influenced your life.
As a 7th std boy, I heard the track "Mozart I Love you" from NBW for the first time. Then I walked up to my mom and said, "Amma.. I want to learn Violin"
3.) Lets take Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada and Hindi into account. Assuming that one of this is either your mother tongue or native language, name a favorite song in each of the other 4 languages that immediately comes to your mind
My native language is Tamil. So here I name 4 songs that immediately comes to my mind from the rest 4.
Telugu - Edalo Laya (Anveshana)
Malayalam - Kulir Aadunnu (Olangal)
Kannada - Keli Sade (Gulabi)
Hindi - Dilwale (Mahadev)
4.) One song of Ilaiyaraaja that you consider rare and think a song that many people should have known but don't
Ponnumthingal (Anuraaga Kottaram)
5.) Lets keep the last one simple.. Raaja's number that you are hearing right now/ most recently heard..?
Manasa Sirasa (Mantrigari Viyankudu)
I am tagging CSR, Suresh, Kamal Aakrash, Ramesh and Kamalnath
Of course, this is also an open invitation for one and all who would like to log their experiences with Raaja. Please feel free to take these questions and add to your own blog. If you do not have a blog, you are very welcome to log your experiences in the comments section below..
So lets set the ball rolling...
With Love
Vicky
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ReplyDeleteI did too..in my music blog. Good post!
ReplyDeleteI posted now:
ReplyDeletehttp://maestromagic.blogspot.com/2008/10/my-thanks-to-vicky-for-giving-me-chance.html
1.) The moment that introduced you to Raaja..
ReplyDeleteI have listened to Raaja's music since my early childhood. Of course, I had never realized that they were by Illayaraja or that they were mind blowing tunes. To me those songs were good to hum.
But what made me sit up and take notice, when I still in primary school, was the song 'Ilaya Nila...' in Payanagal Mudivathillai. I heard the song when I went to see the movie. I was so impressed, I forced my father to get me the cassette of this movie (that was the first film music cassette that we bought).
2.) Name one occassion where Raaja's music directly/ indirectly influenced your life.
By this time I was a hardcore Raja fan. But when my daughter, all of 6 months old, was being cranky due to lack of sleep, and all our attempts to make her sleep failed, in desperation I played the pacha mala poovu song followed by the thenae thenpandi meenae. She was soon sleeping like what she was, a baby. :) even today, with my daughter being 7-8 years old, she insists that I sing these two songs for her on many nights.
3.) Lets take Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada and Hindi into account. Assuming that one of this is either your mother tongue or native language, name a favorite song in each of the other 4 languages that immediately comes to your mind
ReplyDeleteMalayalam - Thumbi Vaa
Telugu - Geetanjali songs - actually I dont listen to the tamil version Idayathai thirudathey.
Hindi - I have not heard any of his songs in Hindi.
4.) One song of Ilaiyaraaja that you consider rare and think a song that many people should have known but don't
Two songs actually both sung by Raja although the popular version is by KJY and Hariharan respectively.
a) naanaga naan illai thaayae - the Raja version is quite rare and not many people may have heard that, but that is an awesome rendition of the same song by KJY. I liked this better.
b) ennai thaalatta varuvarala - I like the Raja version better than the Hariharan version simply because of the feelings that Raja's singing invokes in you.
5.) Lets keep the last one simple.. Raaja's number that you are hearing right now/ most recently heard..?
Mayanginen solla thyanginen....