shivaji-music review

People talk of the pressure of expectations on Sachin Tendulkar whenever he steps out to bat in Indian colours. But spare a thought for A R Rahman too. The Mozart of Madras is in no less unenviable position. Every time a film’s audio for which he has scored music is out, the whole world sits up to listen. And for Sivaji, the pressure is three-fold, as he has to satisfy his own fans, that of Rajinikanth and Shankar too. In such a situation, when you have constituencies to live up to, the music inevitably is populist.

HAS ARR DELIVERD TO THE EXPECTATIONS????
WILL SHIVAAJI ROCK????
MY REVIEW ON THE MUSIC...COMING SOON.....:)

Music: 'Isai Puyal' A.R. Rahman
Lyricist: Vaali, Vairamuthu, Na. Muthukumar, Pa. Vijay & Traditional Lyrics of Thiruppaavai
Musicians' Coordinators: Samidurai, Ganesh (Toronto)
Recorded & Mixed at: Panchathan Record Inn, A.M Studios (Chennai), Phase One Studios (Toronto)
Nathaswaram: Natarajan
Guitar: Ivan
Strings Orchestrated & Conducted by: Srinivasmurthy
Music ***: Satish Chakravathy & Krishna Chetan
Recording Engineers: S. Sivakumar, Karthik, V. Mohammed Saifiullah
Mixing Engineers: H. Sridhar & K.J. Singh
Mastering Engineers: H. Sridhar & S. Sivakumar

MY REVIEW:

Song 1: Balleilakka
SINGERS: S.P Balasubramaniam, Raihanah, Benny & Chorus

“Annan vantha TamilNadum America”-Typical Rajini introduction song in his unique "istyle",a folk kinda track,a foot tapping track,more of situational song,has lots of intensity as it progresses, amazingly sung by SPB and Raihanah (ARR'S SISTER) making a debut has done well.Dont forget SPB is 60+ yet his passion,style of singing,voice modulation is tremondous infact no words to describe him.
Other than the lyrics and SPB'S voice the music really takes back seat.Rahman had created a magic with songs like "ORAVAN ORAVAN" (FILM:MUTHU) still this song will reach out to the masses because of "RAJINI" factor!!!

Song 2:Vaaji Vaaji
SINGERS:Hariharan, Madhushree & Chorus

Since the release of this song in the net before Officaial release,many started to say that this song will be anthem song of the movie,infact the states anthem!!!
starting the song with some mystic sounds resembling Buddhist musical notes and chorous going with "Ambal Ambal...Mavual Mavual" with Hariharan & Madhushree u cant expect better.Song has bit of qawaali,punjaabi, Mediterranean touch as well,thats what ARR is all about.AR RAHMAN has impressed Rajini fans with this number

Song 3:Athiradee
SINGERS:A.R Rahman, Sayanora

Last week i was walking in the busiest roads of Bangalore,SP road,to my surprise i heard t o ARR'S voice and sounded bit different just like HUMMA HUMMA,KHALBALI,later i learnt it was "ATHIRADEE" .Few years back when RAJINI was signed by K.S RAVI KUMAR for the movie "JAGGU BHAI"(which was shelved off later) RAJINI wanted a song from ARR which sounded very different from the other typical "RAJINI" songs, immidieatly ARR came out with "ARAYAR KODI" song which was later used in S.J.SURYA'S movie (AH..AHA..).So ARR has tried to compose the tune on the same lines.On the musical grounds song is WOKAY category,yet "A high-octane song" takes time to grow on u, dashing lyrics by Vaali.

Song 4:Sahana Pooval
SINGERS:Udit Narayanan, Chinmayee

OH!!!typical ARR composition, best track of the album,again ARR showing his talent in arranging the Orchestra.Song goes very much like the song "KUMAARI"(ANNIYAN)more or less SHANKAR has tried to do the same as he did with ANNIYAN.Again chinmayee has done amazingly well infact, she has great future ahead.But dissappointed with Udith narayan.ARR could have picked SHANKAR MAHADEVAN or HIMSELF for the song.But...

"The last few seconds of ending in 'Sahana' was completely Rahman anna's idea.. It took me a few takes to get in to the raga 'Sahana' and out of the song 'Sahana'.

I got several plaudits for this one too and there were people telling me that the end is one of the best portions in the song, and also asked me on how that short bit came into being.

Like ever, I guess Rahman anna conjured it out from where, God knows. He said, end it in Sahana, he sang the bit and all that I had to do is repeat :)" Singer CHINMAYEE said.

Song 5:Style
SINGERS: Rags,Tanvi,Suresh Peters,Blaaze

STARO STARO,NEE SUPER STARO... entire song glorifies RAJINI'S style,sung by RAGS of "PRETTY WOMEN"(KAL HO NA HO) fame along with suresh Petres & Tanvi,Blaaze.Song very much sounds like "WHO LET THE DOGS OUT" initially.Lots of computer music is been done.wait for this song till the movie releases.

Song 6:The Boss
SINGERS:Blaaze, Naresh Iyer, Raqueeb Alam

A rap by BLAAZE which is very much expected in ARR-SHANKAR movie.It is a BGM more than a song.Naresh Iyer dulcet voice manages to leave a mark even in this small piece.

Song 7:Sahara
SINGERS: Vijay Yesudas, Gomathi Sree & Chorus

Well last time SHANKAR used "JAGADANANDAKARAKA" and this time "THIRUPPAVAI" beautifully sung by Gomathi Sree.Vijay making his debut in the tamil film music is nice to hear definitely has his fathers influence on his singing.Vijay and a tiny flute join forces, you could almost feel heaven A fitting finale to a rocking album.

Finally,listening to all the songs repeateadly for more than 10 days,SIVAAJI is a mixed bag. "Athiredee" & "Sahara" will top the charts.Though the rest of the songs will make an impact once the movie hits the BIG SCREEN.As a ARR fan it is bit dissapointing.WISH THE MOVIE DOES WELL because MILLIONS of RAJINI fans are eagerly waiting to watch him on the big screen after a long time,so as SHANKARS fans.
NEWS IS THAT ARR IS FININSHING THE BGMS FROM LONDON AND THE MOVIE WILL HIT THE THEATERS ON MAY 17TH.