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Virumandi‘s Music – Quick Look :

Viru Viru Mandi…Virumandi
Viru Viru Mandi…Virumandi, calls the group consisting of top singers of kollywood. The group consists of (g)oldies like M.N Surendar (Mike Mohan’s voice) and Illayaraja to the versatile Kamalhassan and the naive youngsters like Tippu and Karthik. This song called Karbagraham Vitu Samy Veliyerathu is one of the to-be chartbuster. Kamal’s voice is very modulated and is indistinct from the other voices. The tempo very fast and the chorus very energetic. The high pitch of Surendar and Tippu reminds me of the Karuthamma song Kaadu Potta Kaadu sung by Bharathiraaja himself.

The other song Kombulae Poov Suthi rendered by Kamalhassan reminds of Rakku Muthu from Ejamaan. From the lyrics it looks like the Jallikattu song and has an jiving tune. Very infectious number that you will start humming the tune immediately. I can imagine the passion with which Kamal would have picturised song with Illayaraja feeding Kamal’s creativity heavily in this song.

Shreya Ghoshal proves her worth again. The slow numbers Sandiyare Sandiyare and Unna Veda are gripping and she has a fabulous voice. In a very experimental song called Mada Vilakey, Kamal unleashes the villager in him with his very different voice modulation. It is one of the notable songs in the album.

Virumandi, certainly a typical Illayaraja album, has his midas touch and these numbers are very movie oriented. Though many of them may not even make it to the charts, they would be best to see it on-screen.

Sandiyar’s a.k.a Virumandi:

Campa-Cola campus gets ready as Kamalhassan unleashes the suspense of Sandiyar’s new avatar. As many including me (my two cents worth) guessed that Sandiyar would be re-named Virumandi. Named after the character, Virumandi would still be remembered as Sandiyar, ever.

So with a huge crowd of his fans, Kamal today releases the much expected Virumandi’s music scored by Illayaraaja. He plans to sell copies of Virumandi’s music in the venue itself, just to bag the hype surrounding it. But I am sure it will yet another mile-stone for Kamal-Illayaraja duo.

Check out a too-close-up shot of Kamal here which I shot enroute to my office on the GST road. Some are on my photolog too. Take a spin.

Kurangena Udumbena
Pudhichatha Pudi Pudi
Adikadi Varumaa Sandharpam
Announce Panni Varumaa
Label Otti Varumaa
Oru Naal Vandha
SEIZE THE DAY….

Boys celebrate 100th day today. I am sure these boys deserved much more than this. It was an appreciable and honest effort. Hats Off !!

Rahman‘s part in BOYS was the best thing happened to the movie. Especially those beautiful BGMs during the tirupathi marriage scene and ofcourse the revolutionary bit song that elevated the movie to a different class. I hope that Rahman and Shankar continue to work together, despite their recently reported split, to rock the tamil film music.

Here’s an interesting picture that came I across in Vikatan. Kamalhassan applying relaistic makeup to Naser’s cut head(?!!).

Balasubramaniam, an assistant of PC Sreeram, had captured this moment during a pre-shoot of the climax of Devar Mahan. He says that he went crazy after watching PC’s cinematography in Nayagan and he came over to chennai to join PC as his assistant.

Read his small interview here. Also this amazing shot of two jaambhavaans (as told by Ajay) was also shot by him. Check out.

An important info about Balasubramaniam is that he is the cinematographer of Pithamahan.