Vijay Awards

Last year I wondered about the absence of an award category in Vijay TV’s Vijay Awards inspite of Madan (movie critic) being one of the jury members. But it seems this year; there will be a category for background score. Last Sunday, in one of the shows leading to the finale, the jury members discussed about the best background scores (they call it RR) in the Tamil movies released in 2008. Madan rightly pointed out two of my favourite background scores in 2008 – James Vasanthan’s score in Subramaniyapuram and Sundar C.Babu’s Anjaathey as note worthy scores in 2008.

Answer for Background Score - 38

This piece is from Anjathey. Background Score composed by Sundar C.Babu. I was so impressed by the intriguing background score by Sundar C.Babu for Anjathey but listen this

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Anjathey - Sundar C.Babu

Sundar C.Babu is one composer to look out for. I fairly understood his potential in his debut soundtrack ‘Sithiram Pesudhadi’ where he included background score pieces from the movie in the CD and most of them are good instrumental pieces. Though I haven’t seen Sithiram Pesudhadi, I still remember the Henchmen theme.

One has to listen to the background score of ‘Anjathey’ to realize what Sundar C.Babu is truly capable of. Sundar C.Babu’s background score in ‘Anjathey’ is original throughout with some fresh scoring techniques put to brilliant usage to uplift the mood of the scenes. Ofcourse, there are some clichéd scoring like that of flute piece which appears when that old lady sprinkles some flowers over the blood strains on the road, which adds a melodramatic touch to an otherwise naturally shot scene. And the Good Vs Evil theme appears too many times to an extent that, the moment the next episode starts you expect the theme to appear and sure it does. But for the most part, the cello pieces, the heavy bass, string sections and percussions are put to some brilliant usage to enhance the thrills in the proceedings. Sundar C.Babu, Take a bow.