Bringing ten 2010 decade bollywood songs not often heard on my TL
1. Saibo by shreya ghoshal is very popular from “shor in the city” but “teri justajoo” is an equally good song , amazingly sung by roop kumar rathod
Hamsadwani raga touches ❤️
My respect for
#Mohanlal
went several notches high when i understood that this entire scene was a 1 take !!!!
He literally owns the heavy carnatic swaras ; not only lip synching but stressing the words , emoting all at once !!
I love Sonu Nigam’s emotion in this stretch of the song . He sings from his ❤️ ; hariharans version is technically superior
Which one do you prefer?
#ARRahman
Ideally used for pathos/sad situations
#ARRahman
used “dilruba” ( sounds like sarangi) instrument in a foot tapping urvashi song . That is innovation .. sad it lost out in the bracket !!
R Parthasarthy’s veena is what you will hear in most 80s and 90s iconic movie songs
Here are 4 songs from ARRahman, Vidyasagar and Ilaiyaraaja
He is father of singer sriram parthasarathy known for “elangathu/surrum vizhi “
#Ilayaraja
songs have a BASSLINES having a world of its own ; i tried to extract only the bass /drums of a popular song and you can see why I say this :) . For most you will not be able to identify the song until you reach the giveaway in the last few seconds
1981 ,
#Ilaiyaraaja
, S Janaki , Bhupinder Singh singing a hindi song in a tamil movie Nandu ..
The beat and the guitar strumming pattern I believe is reused by IR for a super hit song in 90s .. I m sure you know which one is it :)
Tu Kya Jaane and Vida Karo are two sides of the same coin ( same melodies in raag khamaj and same key)
#ARRahman
makes one a love song ( melancholic ) and one a sad one !
You can sing one and move to the another , see below clip where i have merged them
#ArijitSingh
#Yashika
#Ilaiyaraaja
turns 80 today and he still produces albums ahead of our times !!
Wishing him good health and hoping to get continued good music from him !
I haven’t still discovered his full discography but here are 3 lullaby type songs from 80s…
I loved the opening credits violin bgm in
#KaathalTheCore
.
Sharing it here for others to enjoy , hope they release it officially on apple music/spotify
A 30 min loop of this melody will make me to 😴
#ArijitSingh
channelizes his inner Mohd Rafi to deliver an “old world “ melody without layers by
#ARRahman
This song will be in our play list for a long 🏃
The chord shift st sab sach kehto hai” reminds me of RDBs kuch to log ,shades of khamaj raag .
Hear with Headphones
John Anthony originall part of
#ARRahman
s band roots played this jazz progression track for vinnaithandi varuvaya
Without the lyrics you can figure out how experimental it is .. scale changes are magical ..
RIP john anthony who passed away in 2019 !
He does something magical here which is not there in the original sung by lata didi
He sustains “tumhein jaa bhi denge “ and sings ahahanha .. glide also in the same breath..
Arijit singh stuff i believe
Listen to this instrumental “tip tip barsa pani” ; just listen to the first 2/3 notes when saxophone starts to play alka yagniks part ; it EXACTLY sounds like ALKA YAGNiK singing !!!
Courtesy: from WA
This 20 second sustain by
#Yesudas
and delivery by
#Mohanlal
is epic
Was kind of a revenge by the MD raveedndran as people started to question yesudas and his ageing voice
#ARRahman
improvised beautifully his original composition from “baba” to this live song in swades. Look at the bass usage only when “mere liye comes” , the rhythm/percussion usage is very innovative in this track ..
This song needs more 💕; alka and udit specifically.
The strings countermelody in this part of
@arrahman
s oru daivam song is out of the world.
Gives a feeling of the ocean waves and then towards the end a feeling of “going down” as the notes also go down
Hear the strings melody only 👇
One of
@arrahman
s underrated songs that i ❤️;
The 🪈 intro and interludes possibly by naveen , expansive 🎻 and hariharan taking the mantle till the end with sujatha !
Sunidhi Chauhan - Barkha | Arijit Singh | Irshad Kamil | Official Video ...
Finally sunidhi gets a melody in lower range and she has solid base.
This melody will grow over time so preserve it .
#ArijitSingh
as a composer should do more !
#ArijitSingh
channelizes his inner Mohd Rafi to deliver an “old world “ melody without layers by
#ARRahman
This song will be in our play list for a long 🏃
The chord shift st sab sach kehto hai” reminds me of RDBs kuch to log ,shades of khamaj raag .
We all know Arijit Singh , Sonu Nigam and Shankar Mahadevan are masters at singing !! they deliver falsetto( false voice ) like cheese cake in these songs ..
Song 1: phir wahi
Song 2: kill dil
Kill dill song also has yodelling ( legacy of kishore kumar )see 👇 for details
Hear with 🎧
The twin 🎸( electric and bass ) play a great rock riff if i may say so which is panned to centre of your head ;
then the electric 🎸 plays diff melody on the left ear while the bass plays along with it on the right ear
This is a track mid 80s from
#ilaiyaraaja
#ARRahman
s Vellaipookal and
#Jailer
#AnirudhRavichander
s rathamarey
Blend at the moment when the flute and guitar strumming comes in and you can easily mix them because they are in the same pitch/scale :)
Not sure whether there is an ode !
Nava Durga Gayatri Mantra Jaap
#ArijitSingh
is giving stiff competition to yesudas and other classical singers on singing insanely low register !!
Dont remember a playback singer singing such low in the recent past!!
Arijit singh doing a “sargam” in miya ki malhar in this bengali song always takes me back to the best ever sargam in film music ( in miya ki malhar ) .. ofc thats imo
When
#ArijitSingh
sings “zindagi” (salilda - nay jiya lage na) he adds additional variation to the original but keeps the same note length , lataji sustains the note more while arijit meanders through the notes more ..
Lovely improvization
I was so happy when shreya ghoshal said “metadata is not right” on credits given to music
Giving credits to everyone no matter whether you created a riff is needed . Apple has introduced detailed credits options and i hope indian MDs /labels adopt it
#ARRahman
s “kannamoochi yenada” is inspired from this papanasa sivam song ..
As per rajeev menon
The path was
Bru coffee ad -> kavalayai theerpathu-> kannamoochi
Potential areas of inspiration to my ears in the clip below:)
Rajiv menons interview
If you hear this classical guitar interpretation of
#ilaiyaraaja
s “nee partha” without knowing the original , you may actually think it is bach / or other western classical composition !!!
Nothing more to add :)
#Periyone
from
#ARRahman
s
#Aadujeevitham
takes me to another rafeeq ahmad song (he wrote periyone)
“Kathirunu “
Which has similar mood , similar elements of rain , same raga initially and also in the same key :)
#ShreyaGhoshal
has sung this beautifully as well
This concert venue is where international artists like harry styles etc perform .. this time arijit singh gets it and its almost FULL …
I dont remember an Indian artist performing in a large venue like this in the recent past
#Ilaiyaraaja
deceived me all these years :)
The prelude I believe is in chalanatai/jog ragam and when the singer starts its subhapantuvarali ( which is what I thought the whole song is based on all these years )
He shifts the “sa” note when the singer starts i think !
#ARRahman
and
#ArijitSingh
give us matargashti 2.0 with “Main Parwana “ but with trumpets and an op nayyar ode and guitar strumming like roobaroo..
Breezy song, arijit singh gets do something different
#WorldMusicDay
we remember singers/MDs /Lyricists for a film song .. not the instrumentalists who contribute to the melody..
Meet tapas roy who plays “many” instruments and behind many common popular melodies ..
I am sure there are many unsung heroes/heroines
This notion that
#Arijit
singhs songs sound the same is not his problem fully
One of the issue imo is MDs are typecasting him with a high pitch genre like they did with lataji and most female singers
Listen to 3 of my fav songs in lower pitch , a range not fully explored
This stretch of “O Bedardaya” has additional pain due to Arijit singh improvising the phrases like crazy …
This and tere pyaar mein from this album has grown on me and onto my playlists
5. Mithoons underrated album, stunning visuals of kashmir and a great melody sung by an unusual combination of singers - chinmayi and kshitij Tarey
Maadno- lamha
Random thoughts on
#ARRahman
as a composer (🧵 )
1. Palakkad Sreeram sang the complex swaras/jathis in the thakshak/ star song . He says ARR gave him a groove ( no melody ) and asked him to sing anything, he sang madhyamavati raga and a few days later this song was recorded..
INDIAN MOVIE SONGS Inspired from classical/folk/bhajans - A 🧵(1/n) Pls do add your bits ; will be adding more songs in the next few weeks
1. Gendha Phool -
#ARRahman
takes a folk song from chatttisgarh and puts a nice groove onto it and makes it accessible .
#ARRahman
s “Hai rama” with an extended 3 min prelude of “payaliya jhankar”
Gokul and Nanda are on 🔥; haven’t seen such a range in the recent past , gokul goes “knee deep” on bass at the end
🫡
Full video here
Gulzar who wrote songs for yuvvraj and also “jai ho” says subash ghai just wanted to be associated with an oscar winning song
and jai ho wasn’t meant for yuvvraj
RGV, in his latest interview, reveals that ARR had a row with Subhash Ghai because he was delaying music for Yuvvraaj. And he asked Sukhwinder to make a tune. ARR apparently said, “You are not paying for my music but for my name”. That tune was later used as Jai Ho. So humble!
#BheeshmaParvam
is
#godfather1
meets
#godfather3
(more godfather 3) meets mahabharata transposed to 1980s style .. a good watch in theatres , background music is out of the world :) liked gandhari with rayban glasses !!
Maand .. a hindustani raga successfully adapted in south movies
3 songs where there is extraordinary humming composed by A R Rahman, K V Mahadevan and raveendran
Sung by chitra , BMK and Yesudas
This opening credit bgm from a movie that
#Ilaiayaraja
has scored music is quite simple and unusual ..
the lone string melody was etched in my mind due to the situation in the movie
Any guesses ?
Dil Gira Dafatan - music only version!!!
This is one of my fav
#ARRahman
hindi song..
Hear carefully The whole 1.5 minute mukhda has this string instrument melody in a “copy paste “ mode
Is it banjo /bouzouki or some other instrument ?
Shreya ghoshal (kochi concert ) elevates the lower octave “ o saathi re” from omkara to a high pitch rock song vibe !
It gives me dilli ( amit trivedi) vibe because of the todi scale but somewhere i also hear jog raag ..
Full video here
This melody on bass guitar can be an independent bgm/ song in itself .
#ilaiyaraaja
creates a bass melody which is in the direction of what the singer is singing yet different…
Sometimes i feel its like an arpeggio played on a 🎹..
Can you guess the song?
When
#pritam
makes tracks like merry christmas, jagga jasoos etc the tracks are not heard enough ..
So we get we want..
Jhumkas and thumkas ..
so don't complain then that he isnt versatile:)
This generation of tamil ( and Malayalam) film directors are fans of
#Ilaiyaraaja
is more than evident .. nowadays i find a Ilaiyaraaja reference in most movies :)
The maestro being celebrated like this being alive is the best thing to happen for him and his fans like us.
This song by
@arrahman
grows on to you over time ; the jazz type bgm with accordion( or melodica?) and lazy singing by ARR.
I didnt like it for years and now is my favourite :)
One of my favourite “hamsadwani” raga rendition of
#Ilaiyaraaja
.
1. The countermelodies in violin strictly following a 3 raga notes in charanam
2. Combination of a disco beat with mridangam
3. The flute playing the avarohanam of the raga every-time the singer finishes
Pure Bageshri. One of the finest semi classical songs in this raag. This song is at the same level as Man Mohana Bade Jhoothe but not so well known for some reason.
Music Directors that i like across languages ( top 5) for the songs that i have listened in this lifetime
1. Salil Chowdhury
2. RD Burman
3. Illaiyaraaja
4. A R Rahman
5. Vidyasagar/Amit Trivedi
Whats yours ?
Cheated on 5 but wanted both :(
SEL and Arijit Singh deliver a breezy “70s rock n roll type sound with brass” in “in raahon mein”
This Archies album is a perfect fit for SEL to shine..
Can the music industry give more songs to nandini srikar please .🙏
3 of my favs
1. She outshines arijit singh imo although its early days of AS.
2. Takes a traditional thumri and brings in an attitude
3. Provides yuvan with one of his finest melodies imo
In my next life i need that voice , still honey dripped and sweetness overloaded delivering tu mile/telusa.. with that piano backing you will know when she goes out of pitch , i waited :)
listen to malargale and the improv by ks harishankar/shweta
#ShreyaGhoshal
s repertoire across languages can be easily demostrated by me picking 3 songs across hindi , tamil and malayalam in raga pilu/kaapi .
And i cant recollect another singer in the current generation having this …
#HappyBirthdayShreyaGhoshal
I believe nowadays music directors give the melody to guitarists and ask them to provide strumming /melodies as an improv/jamming so technically the instrument players are also part composers..
#ArijitSingh
goes further in crediting them (for lamha song) also as composers
🫡
#ArijitSingh
delivers initial sound that takes me to radiohead of 90s….
Whattay way to continuously let his MDs know that he is also a master of low pitch songs …
Arijit should compose more and more !
The arrangement then reminds of coldplay
@ilaiyaraaja
stunned me yesterday when he said machane paathengala came from spanish romance..
Its also in the same key
So enjoy “machane “ /spanish romance mix !!!
#Ilaiyaraaja
Shreyas puranik is someone i would be keenly looking for , the arrangement is so rooted and different
the alaap at the start by
#ArijitSingh
sounds like from a SLB movie .. probably Shreyas’s association with SLB’!
Hariharan in the music podcast says “sadhna sargam “ deserved more …
A R Rahman , SEL gave her opportunities and thank god she got good songs in south languages
This song was given to her by karthik raja in hindi , wonderfully delivered ..
Movie : dec 16
Song: dil mera
Trumpet 🎺 based solos in indian songs 🧵
The recent
#Pippa
arijit song with trumpets made me revisit some of my favourite trumpet solos in indian songs across languages ..
Noting a few here , please add your favorites as well
1. Starting with the Sholay title theme :)
Raja Hasan suddently has 2 great songs last month !
one with
#ARRahman
and the other with
#SanjayLeelaBhansali
Its the arrival of spring for him :) like the meaning of sakal ban