Ok, so by now everyone, and their uncle, knows that Ilaiyaraja didn’t compose a single original tune in Cheeni Kum. Wikipedia clearly gives you the original songs which Ilaiyaraja used.
Personally, I have no problem with this whatsoever. Inspite of purists’ yells that oldies should remain goldies, I find Ghoshal’s renditions quite listenable, and for those [...]
“The mind’s eye.”
This mythical retina of our imagination is all you can employ when you are immersed in the world of books. You use this eye to create the setting, to imagine what the characters look like and to visualize the action in moving pictures even as the story unfolds as words on a page. [...]
Watching a “Rajni Movie” on the big screen.
There’s really nothing much you can say about that experience to someone who hasn’t been there and done that. I mean, in this day and age, if you are still going to a Rajni movie with your head firmly screwed onto your shoulders, then, well, there must still [...]
Just your average morning commute. I had found my “Best of Deep Purple” CD hiding in the closet that morning so I plonked it into my player. The ethereal “Hush” (Naa Na Na Naa) and a couple of fast tracks like “Highway Star” later, came “Strange Kind Of Woman”.
There once was a woman
A strange kind [...]
“Athindhom!”
As the sonorous voice rang out inside the crowded auditorium, a collective cheer erupted from the eager throng. The king of playback had begun what would turn out to be a memorable evening for a packed audience at the Newington High School in Connecticut on Sunday, 8th October 2006. With wonderful accompaniment from his orchestra, [...]