Maestro ilaiyaraaja news & titbits

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Good joke.. Rajini & Shankar didnt play a part in Enthiran and you are comparing that with Chandramuki (P Vasu) after Baba debacle..and a guest appearance in Kuselan...
Would be intersting to see how Raavan and others sold in the same period...
I really dont think atleast in tamilnadu there wouldnt be any drastic difference between the pull from ARR, Haris or Yuvan
It is only the nature of the project that makes the difference when it comes to sales...Which again NEP has proved..
That is just about sales...

puriyara madhiri oru murai sonneengana nallaarukkum...

[musiukunit]

puriyara madhiri oru murai sonneengana nallaarukkum...

Just telling that CD sales is not determined by MD alone and more so by the project these days.
Comparing Endhiran sales with chandramuki or Kuselan is a complete joke as endhiran was a combo of Rajini, shankar, arr and the massive effort from sun group
That is why its the whole nature of project that decideds the sales of CDs...That is why Yuvan, Harris have given huge sales hits like ARR
and now IR has done it..with NEPV

Anyway why to discuss petty sales in IR thread...we have been there and done it (still doing it...)...
Will never forget an incident where a old guy in my village came to a CD shop asking for Mudal Mariyadai ..That for me is true sale

[SoftSword]

Just telling that CD sales is not determined by MD alone and more so by the project these days.
Comparing Endhiran sales with chandramuki or Kuselan is a complete joke as endhiran was a combo of Rajini, shankar, arr and the massive effort from sun group
That is why its the whole nature of project that decideds the sales of CDs...That is why Yuvan, Harris have given huge sales hits like ARR
and now IR has done it..with NEPV

ok fair point with endhiran/sivaji....
big banner and big combo...
what about sakkarakkatti.. newbie actor, newbie director... and three recycled songs... then how do u think it made such a big record?

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http://www.behindwoods.com/tamil-mov...-21-09-12.html

Kannukkul Nilavu, Kadhalukku Mariyadhai and Friends were the superhits from the combination of Vijay and Isaignani Ilayaraja. Now we hear that Ameer, who is likely to direct Kannabiran with Vijay in the lead, is keen to rope in the ace composer to do the music for the film.

In a recent function Ameer publicly asked Ilayaraja if he would do the music for Kannabiran, for which the composer mocked at the director saying his hands have sword and blood stains and that Yuvan would suit him better than himself. However, Ameer is in no mindset to give up. He is likely to approach him again

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Only difference I see in the sales now and then is, people don't buy the music until they listen to it, those days. This was true even with ILaiyaraaja. Only after it has been aired on either TVs or Radios or after watching the movie, and they like it, they buy it. The living style also comes into picture, they cannot not afford to buy many times. Now, people just go for the brand without even listening to it, assuming it will be good. We hear nowadays that CDs are sold out within 24 hours/48 hours after its release. Definitely they would not have listened to it before buying. Just saying, even with huge sales nowadays, we cannot say the music is best and vice versa. Those days it was true.

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SS,
sakkarakkatti ellAm sari...kadasiyA eppO ARR-Oda ThamizhppAttu vandhuchchu?

enna, oru reNdu varusham munnAdiyA?

TFM avarukku avvaLavu eLakkAramap pOchchO?

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[SoftSword]

http://www.behindwoods.com/tamil-mov...-21-09-12.html

thats some news.. another interesting combo...
pakkalaam endha alavu unmainu...

[SoftSword]

dig

SS,
sakkarakkatti ellAm sari...kadasiyA eppO ARR-Oda ThamizhppAttu vandhuchchu?

enna, oru reNdu varusham munnAdiyA?

TFM avarukku avvaLavu eLakkAramap pOchchO?

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nyaayamaana kevli... aana elakkaram ellaam onnum illa... becos of veliyoor assignements , he is forced to pick his projects...
endhiran was his last... 2 yrs back...
munnave choose pannidhaan seivaar... idhula world tour'nu solli yegappatta concerts... apram neraya veliyoor assignments(collaboration'nu solli adhula paadhi assignments thevayillaadha aani dhaan)
but we can tolerate this break becos he doesn leave us starving... rockstar was a big feast for us...

anyway, 4 big albums slated to release in the next one year...
gearing up for kochadayan, kadal, mariyaan & I... looks like yohan with GVM is dropped...
before NEP was announced GVM was working on Chennaiyil Oru Mazhaikkaalam which was announced with ARR as MD... check the first page of the NEP thread in TF section... it was reported that they composed a couple of songs too... apram enna aachunu theriyala... adhudhaan NEP'nu kooda sonnanga modhal'la... orae conpees...

[musiukunit]

ok fair point with endhiran/sivaji....
big banner and big combo...
what about sakkarakkatti.. newbie actor, newbie director... and three recycled songs... then how do u think it made such a big record?

We are talking about chartbusters...i really doubt sakkarakatti is one..
It could have been a hit..even james vasanthan had a hit with new team etc...

See I am not denying that Rahman is commercially the best (today)..but not by much in Tamil ..and what decides chart busters these days is the nature of projects as the heavy marketing and repeated playing by FM/TV impacts sales ...Rahman has always had the benefit of that..and that is what NEP proves..

And of course having huge sales doesnt have anything to with quality.Quite the opposite
We are seeing the typical growth of western music industry here...
Big production houses, Big noise, Pop catchy music...
There will be a time soon that for quality avant grade music we need to look beyond the main stream music

That is why raja romba simplea thirupi thirupi solraru... hit mukkiyamilla..tune than mukkiyam..dheerka dharisi

[SoftSword]

sakkarakatti was a chartbuster and thats the only reason it was brought into the discussion here...
and we are speaking only about the cd sales ... and u have switched the goal post to quality of music... thats a different topic altogether and this is not the moment and place for that...