Yuvan deserves a re-rating?
I listened to ‘Naan Mahaan Alla’ from a website which plays commercials mandatorily and songs optionally (raaga.com) today. I should I say i instantly liked a couple of songs… Blame it on my ‘matamaana rasanai’. Rasanai’ apart, I thought this Yuvan guy needs a relook from the Tamil koorum nallulagam for these reasons:
He is yet to work on any big bang project - read a Kamal, Rajini, Shankar, Mani ratnam film. He invariably works with several first timers, a good percentage of whom are not sustainable material. When the movie sinks so does the music. We are well past the days of his father when one would unhesitatingly spit at a movie like Ninaivellam Nithya, but worship it’s music.
Notwithstanding that disadvantage, I think he still holds his own. A lot of my friends still have that ‘kana varun velai.. Andhi maalai’ song sung by a dentist called Lavanya Prabhu.
Whenever he has worked on half decent directors he has given very decent music - selvaraghavan(7g, pudhupettai), Ameer (paruthi veeran).
About 15 years back, when asked about Rahman, kamal responded like this, ‘ After a big Ilayaraja, there is only Rahman’.
I dare say one can say the same about Yuvan after ARR?
Any difference of opinion?
August 24th, 2010 at 1:02 pm
If you take the “R” out of YSR - he wouldn’t even have got the first-timer movies that fill-up his resume
A fountain of talent he is not ! Creates totally assembly line soundtracks, his singing is Cacofonix-like and his Tamizh diction is beyond awful
KR has scored very few soundtracks and is not really popular. But I will consider him to be the better musician of the two
August 24th, 2010 at 1:10 pm
PV,
Paruthi veteran ‘assembly line’? Sandhegame illai.. Enakku kandippa ‘matamaana rasanai’ dhaan..
I will never defend his singing though…noise pollution…
Ellam ARR introduce panra singers kudutha dhairiyam nu nenaikiren…
August 24th, 2010 at 1:20 pm
prabu
surely ysr is under ‘valued’.
August 25th, 2010 at 3:29 pm
As a music director/composer, he is certainly not bad. Having said that, just like you have mentioned, there are only a few songs of his which are really good. The only ones that pop right up for me, are the ones from 7G.
Aren’t there movies now, which flop out and the music does well? Unlike the IRR/MSV age, we no longer seem to have to wait for the movie to be released to listen to the songs in it. So I’d say, if the songs in a particular movie are really good, it shouldn’t matter if the movie tanks or not. right? or maybe not.. I am not sure, considering I have no idea how the tamil cinema market works back home these days…
And of course, beating the dead horse, HE MUST STOP SINGING, as it is terrible on so many levels.
August 25th, 2010 at 4:16 pm
Arun,
>>Aren’t there movies now, which flop out and the music does well
I think the songs sink with the movie without a trace…only ARR gets the hype and expectations sufficient enough before the movie release, partly because he has earned that expectation, and partly because he works on big ticket projects. But post release, he too suffers the same fate….
FM stations and TV channels play a major role in promoting music…they do not let the audience free..there is always the next ‘new release’ to promote…
For e.g. I do not think not many are listening to ‘raavan’ in chennai nowadays.
I believe it would’ve been different had the movie been a hit.
August 26th, 2010 at 5:05 am
Prabu wat Kamal said is 100% true its only ARR and Ilayaraja give Original music. Other are copy cats
chk out this link http://www.indiancopycats.com/tag/yuvan-shankar-raja/
or u can google or see communities in orkut
Yuvans music is good i agree, but he does replace the with tamil voice… good dubbing for others music
September 3rd, 2010 at 9:13 pm
Santhosh,
No comments…:)
So long as it is not ditto copy, I usually don’t mind.