Vettaiyaadu Velaiyaadu audio - They have done it again!!
Before writing reviews of the movie I watched during the trip, I wondered "How can I not write about one of the most eagerly looked forward to albums of this year", after it finally got released couple of days back. And even after a first few hearings, one can sense that the combo has stuck gold again. Both the previous HJ-GM combo albums were chartbusters and when you throw Kamal in, you expect to hear some great music, which is what exactly the VV album delivers. All 5 songs are equally good and it also contains the right mix of all types of music, right from a slow beautiful melody in Uyirile to a rap number in Karka karka.
Vennilave.. velli velli nilaave is easily the pick of the album. The way the song starts after the Vennilave velli velli nilaave lines, is just beautiful. It is bound to make you an addict the very first time you listen to it. The sax piece in the first interlude is just amazing. The fact that the "endrendrum punnagai" rhythm is there right throughout the song should not take away any credit from Harris.
Bombay Jeyashree works wonders again in the number Paartha mudhal and she has Unni Menon for company. Being a big fan of Bombay Jeyashree's voice, no need to say how much I love this song. The next Suttrum vizhi chudare. Look out for the sweet mouth organ piece at the start & in the interludes. Just too good.
The Neruppae number is the Thoodhu varumaa of this album but is actually better than that. Foot tapping music and instantly likeable with interesting Arabic chants. The beats used in this one reminds of the May maadham song from Jay Jay, though. But I am not sure how Gautham would have fit in this Kamal starrer
The rap number, Karka Karka which we got to hear in the trailer, is actually my second favorite of the album. Very catchy and I am sure it would be the next craze for the youth folks. Looks like the rap portion of the song was recorded here in NY and it shows in the way they pronounce the name Raghavan, Kamal’s character’s name in the movie. I particularly liked the female voice used in the song.
Uyirile is kind of too slow, to start with and though the pace does not pick up in the charanams, the tune in the charanams makes you want to listen to them more. Though there is no heavy orchestration in this song, the interludes are great in this number.
We have to appreciate what Harris Jeyaraj has been doing. He does not do more than 4 movies a year and he makes sure that all the songs in an album are worth listening & thus makes it worth the buy. Though Yuvan had so many good albums last year, there were some of them (like Oru kallooriyin kadhai & Daas) where not all the songs were good but in HJ's case, even the mediocre numbers (say, X-Machi in Ghajni) in all his albums have been listenable. Even in an album like Thotti Jeya, I thought all the numbers were good. All his 4 albums last year - Anniyan, Ullam Kaettkume, Ghajini & Thotti Jeya - were big hits. So, kudos to Harris Jeyaraj for delivering it again.
In my opinion, definitely ‘three in a row’ for the Harris - Gautham combo. Harris has thrown a very good challenge in ARR's way. We will have to wait to see how he responds to that and comes up with Thalaivar's Shivaji.
Vennilave.. velli velli nilaave is easily the pick of the album. The way the song starts after the Vennilave velli velli nilaave lines, is just beautiful. It is bound to make you an addict the very first time you listen to it. The sax piece in the first interlude is just amazing. The fact that the "endrendrum punnagai" rhythm is there right throughout the song should not take away any credit from Harris.
Bombay Jeyashree works wonders again in the number Paartha mudhal and she has Unni Menon for company. Being a big fan of Bombay Jeyashree's voice, no need to say how much I love this song. The next Suttrum vizhi chudare. Look out for the sweet mouth organ piece at the start & in the interludes. Just too good.
The Neruppae number is the Thoodhu varumaa of this album but is actually better than that. Foot tapping music and instantly likeable with interesting Arabic chants. The beats used in this one reminds of the May maadham song from Jay Jay, though. But I am not sure how Gautham would have fit in this Kamal starrer
The rap number, Karka Karka which we got to hear in the trailer, is actually my second favorite of the album. Very catchy and I am sure it would be the next craze for the youth folks. Looks like the rap portion of the song was recorded here in NY and it shows in the way they pronounce the name Raghavan, Kamal’s character’s name in the movie. I particularly liked the female voice used in the song.
Uyirile is kind of too slow, to start with and though the pace does not pick up in the charanams, the tune in the charanams makes you want to listen to them more. Though there is no heavy orchestration in this song, the interludes are great in this number.
We have to appreciate what Harris Jeyaraj has been doing. He does not do more than 4 movies a year and he makes sure that all the songs in an album are worth listening & thus makes it worth the buy. Though Yuvan had so many good albums last year, there were some of them (like Oru kallooriyin kadhai & Daas) where not all the songs were good but in HJ's case, even the mediocre numbers (say, X-Machi in Ghajni) in all his albums have been listenable. Even in an album like Thotti Jeya, I thought all the numbers were good. All his 4 albums last year - Anniyan, Ullam Kaettkume, Ghajini & Thotti Jeya - were big hits. So, kudos to Harris Jeyaraj for delivering it again.
In my opinion, definitely ‘three in a row’ for the Harris - Gautham combo. Harris has thrown a very good challenge in ARR's way. We will have to wait to see how he responds to that and comes up with Thalaivar's Shivaji.
posted by Filbert at 8:52 AM
4 Comments:
There is a reasoning behind the spelling. Though the official name is Sivaji, I am pretty much sure that Thalaivar will pronounce that as Shivaji, in the movie. (Recall Sharavanan as opposed to Saravanan in Chandramukhi). Got it?
But it seems VV's musiks are not catchy when compared to Kakka Kakka and Minnale....
Karthik,
May not be as catchy as Minnale but I am sure VV songs can measure upto KK. I guess all the songs in KK became superhits only after the movie was released, thanks to Surya and Jyothika. So, lets wait till the film gets released.
Sanjeevi Kumar,
I was talking about the songs of TJ. Both the 'Uyire..En uyire' and the 'Yaaridamum' songs would have easily found a place in the best songs of 2005. And going by what I saw in TV back in India, even the kuthu songs (Thotta power-da, for example) looked to be hits. And as long as we have no proper system to track sales of Tamil film albums, we can never say if an album was a hit or not. Thats why, going by popular opinion (from what I have read in blogs & taalked to friends), I said TJ songs were a hit. Got it?
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