[Drugmachine]

chellamy is 1 of biggest musical hit 2004?????????????
i can't beliaf it!!(NAMBAVE MUDIYILE)
it's normal average album from hj.not a super duper hits!!

[S.T.D.]

Yes anand ... I also rate Chellamae as average, But it was a big musical hit

Somehow, I feel HJ is yet to produce a real melody,. Vidyasagar has done it more than once in the last couple of years and Yuvan is fast picking-up ... But surprisingly, HJ gets all high profile projects

(I know the first response I am going to get for this post., Let me answer in advance ... No, I can't accept "vaseegara" as a soulful melody, It had a good pallavi and very bad charaNams, which were nothing but urainadai !)

NagaS

[Paul Bunyan]

NagaS..
seems there's a classical number in Anniyan.

kaetu paarkalaam.

[Drugmachine]

magix, no problem, I can wait

But looking at HJ's trend, this time he will try to copy 'maargazhith thingaL allavaa' or some other ARR classical number )

NagaS

[NeroASERCH]

PoovE vAi pEsum pOdhu seems like a nice melody from HJ. I believe, however, that it's inspired from an IR Nayagan number and also has traces of an ARR Thenali number. Some of the remarks on HJ here seem to be a tad uncharitable, though. His songs azhagiya theeyE, vaseegara, uyirin uyirE, ennai konjam, etc are all superb. Chellamae songs are good too.

[Paul Bunyan]

Music4Ever,
Poovae Vaai Pesumbothu is perhaps his MOST inspired song!

It was a cocktail of Netru Illadha Maatram (Pudhiya Mugam) and Swaasame (Thenali)..

[9mm_fan]

povee vai peesumm pothu copied from...

heal the world michael jackson

heheheh

[brraverishhh]

My favorite HJ melodies: vaseegara,venmathiye,mudhar kanave,pinju thendrale (mainly for sandhya). 'poove vaa pesum podhu' is bordering on 'urainadai' (to borrow NagaS terminology), IMO. 'pinju thendrale' is sort of too

(well, tell me when the digression has gone enough. I'll move it to a HJ topic.)

[radikal]

Mudhar kanave mudhar kanave - when it first came out - was said to be a carbon copy of Narumugaiye narumugaiye.
What made it worse was that the singers of both songs were the same - Bombay Jaysree and Unnikrishnan!

venmathi was of course accused of resembling chellakkiligalaam palliyile.

[Paul Bunyan]

Magix, it is indeed surprising that Poove vAi pEsum podhu is inspired from nEtru illadha mAtram. I will have to listen to both closely I agree about the SwAsamE part. I also believe Poove vAi pesum podhu is a major inspiration from Nee oru kAdhal sangeetham.

Nov, your observations are interesting, but whoever made the accusations are probably HCARRUF (Hard core arr uncharitable fans)

[Lt_Apple]

NOV: First line resembles somewhat, but this is quite different lah. UnniK illai. Harish ragavendra & OS Arun.

[Drugmachine]

I liked HJ's aagaaya sooriyanai song from Samurai (it has another nice melody 'moongil kaadugaLae'), "Ennaik konjam maatRi" was a novel attempt too ...

But as I said earlier, I feel HJ is yet to give one song, which we will remember and discuss after say, 20 years from now ...

NagaS

[Fegasderty]

Nothing personal against you NagaS
I however feel that HJ has given stunning numbers already, signature tunes like
1) Azhagiya theeyE
2) Vaseegara
3) Uyirin uyire
4) Ondra renda aasaigaL
5) Ennai konjam

Does anyone feel moongil kaadugalae reminds one of the uyarndhavargaL song Iraivan irendu bommaigal seidhan thaan vilayada (the part where the latter song goes veyyil enna minnal enna ..)?

[9mm_fan]

theo nly album i like from hj is Laysa Laysa & 12b,others r not rememberable...trust me... vaseegara is not listenable even now...its turns so boring now...seriously...but laysa2 is good,also 12b,but he has looooooooooots of copy from ARR,thats the minus points!!! he aint creative to create his own style or tune! just go tru my site www.arrahman.iscool.net under copy kat section!

[HedgeYourBets]

vaseegarA, 'style' inspired by Careless Whispers, has a similar long life...I can hear this song any number of times...

[Paul Bunyan]

thanks to dinesh2002 for talking abt Laysa Laysa, Let me add one more in my list of HJ fav - "Laysa Laysa" by anu sriram

Ithukkumaela naan paesinaa mumbai ramki kochchuppaar, DSP Prem Kumar(yaarppa athu ?)kitta poiduvaar )

NagaS

[Slonopotam845]

HJ must have some talent because he is being sought by many now. Maybe he mimicks ARR but how many MD's can do that and still be at the top? The reason for HJ's success, IMO, apart from his use of trendy ARR-type of music, is that some of his songs are very soothing to hear. The music is not loud, an opinion expressed by more than one person that I know. His tunes also do not seem to fall into a predictable pattern. Can' t wait to hear Anniyan.

[Lillie_Steins]

http://sify.com/movies/imagegallery_...1&gord=A&view=

On the sets of 'Anniyan'

[Paul Bunyan]

AvaL ulaga azhagiye - tune and orchestration was pleasing. But both YSR and HJ (chief mimics of ARR) in an attempt to make the melodies extremely catchy sacrifice the soul of the song more often than not.
VS, on the other hand, whose forte is melody and not fast numbers(although a couple of his dappanguthus have become big hits) has given quite a few delectable tunes in the last 2 years.

Mouname paarvayaai, Poovasam (Anbe Sivam)
Aalanguyil (Parthiban Kanavu) - now here is a song that can be discussed even after a few years. The closest thing to a "semi-classical" in TFM in the last 5 years
Poi solla koodadhu - Run
Neeya pesiyadhu - Thirumalai
Azhagooril pirandhavaLe (SPB freaks out when he is given a melody like this)- Thirumalai

and a few more..

[Lt_Apple]

NagaS