How to Name it Concert

The How to Name it Concert. I am slightly disappointed. I felt there were many deviations from the original in Ambi Subramaniam’s performance. Pieces with many layers of melodies (Counterpoint and Trio) sounded messy. In some parts, Ambi was brilliant, especially in the sections where he has to play brisk. Tempo was a problem throughout. The Orchestra conductor Prabhakar kept insisting Ambi and the other violinist Aditya Ganesh to maintain the tempo and play with more power. Volume of the lead Violin was either too low or too high. String section volume was also inconsistent throughout the concert. Performance Ilaiyaraaja’s orchestra was astounding as always. The performances of the pieces that have no solo Violin in the lead were transcendental. But, even here, the audience spoiled the experience for me. Already the sound was off the balance, and on top of it, audience cheered in every key moment of the piece during the performance and degraded the experience further.

I have never heard Bhavatharini sing in pitch in a live concert, and it wasn’t different in How to Name it Concert either. Sriram Parthasathy’s thunderous rendition of “Om Shivo hum” and that gem “Agandhayil Aaduvadhaa” from Uliyin Osai shook the auditorium. Anil Srinivasan as the host made the show livelier and he enlightened the audience with the musical concepts behind each and every piece. I enjoyed the non-musical sections of the concert - especially Ilaiyaraaja's speech. He. Spoke. A. Lot. That itself was worth the price of the ticket. I heard that the concert will soon happen in other major Cities in India. I will attend the concert again, if and when it happens in Bangalore, but Bhavatharini, please to correct the aforementioned errors if they make sense.

Laptop - Mayookh Bhaumik

The instrumental pieces streaming below are the cues from the background score of the Bengali film Laptop that got Mayookh Bhaumik the best composer National Award in Background Score Category. The main theme is adequately haunting to hold a movie through; the melody does't lose its inherent emotional heft when reprising on varied solo instruments throughout the score. Music sounds good, but to know whether it is the best background score, we have to watch the film. Going by the choices so far (excluding Ilaiyaraaja) in the best background score category, jury seems to prefer minimalism.

Laptop Theme

Love Theme

Mountain Theme

Dum Dum Dum Background Score

For the first time, I have ripped Voiceless background score cues from the DVD of a film - Dum Dum Dum. Karthik Raja's score for Dum Dum Dum is one of my all time favourites. I already wrote about the love theme here

1. Opening Credits

2. Ganga Pass

3. Marriage Proposal

4. Bachelor Boy (Song)

5. Mother is ill

6. First Meeting

7. Plan One

8. Aadhi's Sister

9. Plan One Execution

10. Plan One Fails

11. What is the next Plan?

12. Plan Two - Pattamma

13. Plan Two Fails

14. Abduction

15. I want to go home

16. Doctor

17. Love Theme (Version 1)

18. Love Theme (Version 2)

19. Chennai

20. Second First Meeting

21. Love Theme (Version 3)

22. Un Perai Sonnaalae Instrumental (Version 1)

23. Phone Call

24. Misconception

25. Un Perai Sonnaalae Instrumental (Version 2)

26. Vivek Theme

27. Love Theme (Version 4)

28. Enemity

29. Athiri Pathiri Instrumental

30. Insult

31. Love Theme (Version 5)

32. Back in Village

33. Issues Resolved

34. I love her

35. Ganga in Confusion

36. Love Theme (Version 6)

37. Love Theme Suite (What I feel should have been the End Credits Music)

Another Experiment

A sequel to Ilaiyaraaja Vs A.R.Rahman

A.R.Rahman's Kaadhalukku Mariyaadhai

In this video, I have replaced Ilaiyaraaja's Original score with A.R.Rahman's score for the same scene in the Hindi version of the film Doli Saja Ke Rakhna



Ilaiyaraaja's Doli Saja Ke Rakhna

n this video, I have replaced A.R.Rahman's Original score with Ilaiyaraaja's score for the same scene in the Tamil version of the film Kaadhalukku Mariyaadhai