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IR's Hey Ram music in Kumudam.com by Raghavan

Topic started by lav (@ 213.122.129.198) on Thu Aug 8 07:23:05 EDT 2002.
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Nice comments by Raghavan.
http://www.kumudam.com/therinthadu/t-matum-thisweek.html

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• From: Fliflo (@ 130.203.161.243) on: Thu Aug 8 07:26:36 EDT 2002
  
  lav:
  
  Thanks for that! That is one nice piece of narration.
  
  
• From: Kannan (@ 194.201.128.4) on: Thu Aug 8 08:05:34 EDT 2002
  
  U may want to discuss it here : http://www.newtfmpage.com/forum/21924.22:20:06.html
  
  it's already been talked about
  
  :)
  
  
• From: Kupps (@ 156.153.255.134) on: Thu Aug 8 08:58:26 EDT 2002
  
  A Personal opinion about the writer i.e. IMHO:
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  The article is written by 'Chrompet' Pa Raaghavan. A noted thamizh writer. He is a person who doesn't like much of "crime-investigation" kind of novels. But at the same time he is not the person who patronages "uncomprehensible" "self-proclaimed-genius" writtings also. He is somewhere-in-between writer. This I infer from this article series. I have not read his other works. I guess he writes comic short stories also. One such was published in Kumudam (or) Aanandha-Vikatan (both are leading thamizh weekly)
  
  Intro about the article Therindhadhu Mattum ("(about) Known only"):
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  This article is written in thursdays. Its a kind of just-like-that type of comments in each article, serious-cum-good comments but not in any particular order. The article might talk about his experience on a new book he read, a news item he read or watched in TV, about his experience in a field, about films also. Sometimes one episode(article) will talk about more than one incident.
  
  About This episode:
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  In this article the author describes about three incidences. One is the mega thamizh film stars festival held in malaysia recently, the third is about a thamizh translation of a book about se guvara (pardon me for the spelling), a latin american "revolutionists". The second piece is about the book "Hey! Ram". Im giving the translation of that below.
  
  Translation:
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  It is known to many that Kamalahaasan's Hey! Ram screenplay was released as a book. I had an oppurtunity to read it only recently.
  
  It was easy to read as I had already seen the movie. Also, reading such screenplay books long after the movie gone out of theatres, gives ample neutrality to the mind to judge about the quality of it. Might be this is typical exhibition of my merit or demerit. But I want to say that I was able to identify the place that needed changes to make this film a hit.
  
  I just want to remind that it was mocked at when it was released with a tag called "Multi-lingual movie". But now what comes to mind is that, for this film there was no need for language at all. It is even astonishing why kamal filled the gap with dialogues. That too after iLLayaraaja fitted dialogues in the name of BackGround Music(BGM). This is to be mentioned(specially). While flipping through the pages of the screenplay book I could hear the relevant scence's music from the film. I guess this is very rare. It means that for that story there is nothing called as alternate music. Especially during the scenes like sanyaasa deeksha; the scenes of seeing girl, vasundara, for marriage(a convention or ritual); the scene in which the uncle comes out of coma for a split of the moment and dies etc, the words from the book disappeared and raaja's notes appeared, which I could experience ecstatically.
  
  I don't remember anybody saying that ILLayaraaja moved from the plane called TFM MD to a different plane, during the Hey! Ram release time. Even if, I wish to tell that now, here.
  
  Having heard all sorts of predictions about the release of his symphony like its being released now etc etc, I lost the hope that it would ever get released.
  
  Even if it would not get released, somebody can try to release the BGM of Hey! Ram like himalayan performances of ILLayaraaja (The list of such performance can grow to atleast half a dozen in numbers like in azhagi, devadhai etc). The trend of releasing the BGM as a seperate album is not here but I have heard that in west its a thriving business. Just rememeber that the titanic album was heard even in bus stand side fast food center in a deep village of thamizhnadu (like maamandur).
  
  Lets see who will come to bell the cat (ie. who is going to start the BGM album releasing business in TFM).
  
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  I tried my level best to translate the article. Please bear with me any mistakes are found.
  
  
• From: NagaS (@ 203.199.119.253) on: Thu Aug 8 09:00:43 EDT 2002
  
  thanks for the update Kupps,
  
  Pa. Raghavan is the editor in charge of 'Kumudam Junction', Has released two short story collections and two novels, A good friend of mine ...
  
  Humorousaa serious vishayangaL ezuthakkudiya silaril ivar mukkiyamaanavar !!!!
  
  NagaS
  
  
• From: Kupps (@ 156.153.255.134) on: Thu Aug 8 09:09:21 EDT 2002
  
  oh! NagaS unga friend-a avaru..very nice. also thanks for the info about him.
  
  i like his humourous way of putting this, esp. the cell phone menace in I class compartment of suburban trains of chennai. As a person who travelled in the suburban train i could enjoy every iota of it.
  
  
• From: Kupps (@ 156.153.255.134) on: Thu Aug 8 09:10:07 EDT 2002
  
  oh! NagaS unga friend-a avaru..very nice. also thanks for the info about him.
  
  i like his humourous way of putting things, esp. "the cell phone menace in I class compartment of suburban trains of chennai" in the "therindhadhu mattum" series. As a person who once travelled daily in the suburban train i could enjoy every iota of it.
  
  
• From: NagaS (@ 203.199.119.253) on: Thu Aug 8 09:54:13 EDT 2002
  
  Kupps,
  
  Avaroda serious writings padichchup paarunga - asanthu poiduveenga :-)
  
  NagaS
  
  
• From: GB (@ 161.142.100.86) on: Thu Aug 8 10:06:26 EDT 2002
  
  thanx alot kupps
  
  
• From: a (@ 156.153.254.42) on: Fri Aug 9 03:06:52 EDT 2002
  
  lav
  Good one thanks
  Has any one seen the latest article on Kumudam on IR.
  
  
• From: lav (@ 213.122.32.239) on: Fri Aug 9 05:34:35 EDT 2002
  
  Is he from chromepet? I lived in chromepet, say nearly for 15 years and I come to chromepet(to visit friends n relatives) on my every India trip. And where do i get his story collections? Can I get them online?
  
  
• From: NagaS (@ 203.199.119.253) on: Fri Aug 9 06:02:02 EDT 2002
  
  lav,
  
  He is from Chrompet ...
  
  His story collections are available in all tamil book stores in chennai ... If you want to get them online, you can try http://www.tamilnool.com
  
  NagaS
  
  
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• From: curses (@ 219.65.109.181) on: Tue Dec 10 10:48:02 EST 2002
  
  excuse me?
  
  

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