Ilaiyaraja's New Albums 2016-18, News and Titbits

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Absolutely.
Who else can even know what is RR or BGS.

P Vasu rightly pointed out one of the traits in the recent felicitation ceremony.
He cited Chinna Thambi example and one of the crucial moments in the screenplay and how IR just stuck to his belief and let the audience fulfill the connection .
Wow, how much he has understood the medium of story telling, screenplay , narratives.
Same with Myshkins Nandhalala climax 30 mins. He carried the characters and the whole movie on his shoulders.
Prathap pothens first directorial " Meendum oru kadhal kadhai" . If we remove the soundtrack and RR that movie will look very Odd in places, Immature characters moving on the screen for 2.5 hours?
Metti- what a sound track . He outplays in few places and under plays where the daughters are on the screen emoting and living their characters (natural acting)
Aboorva sagotharargal - masterpiece RR start to finish
Geethanjali/ Idhyathai thirudathe- another master piece
How can we miss Nayakan/ Devar Magan/ Hey Ram- outstanding contribution and taking the screenplay to greater heights.
DM should have been his 4Th National award but for Blau mahendra who casted his vote the other way to encourage new talent!

For someone to just watch a silent movie , feel every frwme and encrypt that into his brain cells and within minutes start notations and by end of the day complete about 40% of the RR the same day? Who else can do it.

Except very few movies that took several days 99% of the times he has done it in 3 to 4 days and with live orchestra, no cut and paste or loops or stealing from music banks.

Hollywood musicians take months to complete one project. The greatest ones who win oscars travel with the movie from pre/ production and post production stages and take part in every aspect to know the movie , watch them in different phases of its production and keep improvising on their RR by adding or deleting the appropriate ones. For them it is only one project in that year and will spend the whole year chiseling every frame after watching it N number of times.
Our man watches once , 3rd day the movie is ready to go for prints. No corrections after that. My goodness.

It is very evident now , nobody can even come close to his achievements in this universe.

Others if they can cross 300 movies in their lifetime then that is greatly deserving on their part for having been in the field.