Raja was the pioneer in experimenting a lot of things in TFM. In spite of not giving pure carnatic classical numbers he has stuck to one Raga throughout the song without being handicapped of improvising on the swaras. Lot of people who have seen the way he composes are flabbergasted at the speed with which he “Writes his music”. It seems that he writes the music for all the accompaniments of vocal as well and gives all of those to the orchestra and when they all play it the song is born and 90% of work is done. What do you call this? Genius in a understatement…
Most of my favorite numbers of Raja are based on Raga Mayamalavagowlai and the song that am going to take today is one of the best Mayamalavgowlai in TFM.
poonkadhavE thaaL thiRavaai poovaai peN paavaai
pon maalai soodidum poovaai peN paavaai
neerOattam pOlOdum aasaik kanavugaL oorgOlam
aahaahaa aanandham aadum ninaivugaL poovaagum
kaadhal dheivam thaan vaazhththum
kaadhalil ooriya dhaagam..mm.
(poonkadhavE thaaL)
thiruth thEgam enakkaagum thEanil nanaindhadhu enn uLLam
ponnaaram poovaazhai aadum thOranam engengum
maalai soodum mangaiyidam
mangaLa vaazhththoli geetham..mm.
(poonkadhavE thaaL)
Inspite of re-using Mayamalavagowlai innumerable times, Raja can still make each Mayamalavagowlai based song stand out with this brilliance. Deepan chakravarthy and Uma Ramanan have tried their best to render this outstanding number. Uma is seriously lucky to get awesome songs of Raja. In a recent TV show when she was asked about who she considers as a legend she immediately said that Raja and just Raja. Such is the greatness of our man.
This movie Nizhalgal marked the entry of Vairamuthu in to filmdom. A great talent that he is, got a right platform to appear- What better than great tunes of Raja?
The bestest part I would pick in this number are the interludes. They sound like pleading you to get mesmerized and they are indeed successful. An outstanding effort quite typical of Raja!
As brilliant as the song is, even better are the interludes. Wonder why Raja sir choose to give a sad touch to the violin part of the second interlude. Heart tugging stuff.
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