"Apparently, just being a musical genius is not enough." is one of the lines from S.Anand's write up on Ilayaraja and his recent thiruvasagam in symphony music effort that has featured in the Outlook Magazine.
Tandav Tenor is the title of the article and as usual S.Anand tries to rake up a controversy by delving into the origins of Ilayaraja and questioning the motive behind this effort!
Going by the previous articles from S.Anand,I am pretty sure he is going to be torched again by the readers of this article,in the same way he had been lynched for his anti-Kamal/Rajni article.
But for some reason,it does seem to make sense!If only the hysteric masses shed their over-zealous,baseless adulation and think a little rationally,these articles from S.Anand might seem interesting and are worth pondering!
Kaps has an interesting analysis on the sales of CDs/Cassettes of 'TIS'!It again goes back to Navin's point about the hype that was created about 'Breaking Even' and prominent personalities trying to paint a picture as if the whole crew behind this effort were in dire straits,having invested a whole lot of money and expecting just to break even from the sales!It seems to be a neat,nice prank played on the name of religion!
I don't mean to say that the songs need to be available for illegal download or pirated versions need to start creeping in asap,but the only gripe is the way it was portrayed and projected by the advertisers of the musical!The bottomline is..."This is yet another commercially motivated venture,ably masked by wonderful music and passionate speeches from the participants in the musical effort and the successful campaigns"
I would be glad if it goes to the improvement of Tamil and other efforts of charity and development that some of the comments in my earlier blogs spoke about at length!
What I found most stupid and ridiculous was some of the online music download websites like Mohankumars.com and many others portraying a 'good boy' image and banning members from downloading/sharing the music.That didn't make sense at all!
I feel this is a practice of double standards in the name of God!Nobody questions about downloading A.R.Rahman's music or any other new movie music release.Does that mean to say they don't deserve the same respect that Ilayaraja gets for TIS?
On an unrelated note,I was surprised to find that none of Ilayaraja's diehard fans had taken time to update about his "thiruvasagam in symphony" effort in the wikipedia page on Ilayaraja.
-Raapi
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