I wrote a review of Rahman's music album "GODFATHER" aka "VARALAARU" in my blog more than one and half years back. The problem with me is that I like the songs only if the lead singer's voices sound impressive to me. It takes time to get used to new voices and today, when I read the review, I feel that I have not done justice in reviewing the album as a Rahman fan. Having got used to the new style of Rahman's music in these 18+ months, a re-review here...
Godfather(Tamil): An album tagged with big names like K.S.Ravikumar, Ultimate Star Ajith Kumar, Kaviperarasu Vairamuthu and of course Isai Puyal A.R.Rahman. Expectations were sky high for such a combination and the result was also good. The album had announced that "King is Back".
"Ilamai" was a peppy number repeated once again as Remix version. It was sure a catchy number and was a hit like Maramkothiye(Anbe Aaruyire). A rocking song that had hit top slots in music countdowns and to got repeated all day long in Listener's choices. A very very youthful number in the album, and the duck mix was sure rocking.
"Innisai Alabedaye" was a classical melody with touches of Kuthu in the middle. Some good Tamil lyrics penned by Vairamuthu here but in the orchestration and rendition of the song by the singers, you miss out the beauty in the words. Naresh and Mahathi sounded too good in this classical song, and the chorus was simply outstanding.
"Kaatril Oru Vaarthai" by SPB and Sadhana Sargam was a wonderful melody again with Hindustani touches. The song moves in a emotional pace and the "hey hey Saahiba" chorus sounded very peppy. SPB and Sadhana's voices took you through a pleasant journey of love and emotions with this song.
"Kamma Karayile" had some poor lyrics but a great folk orchestra and chorus. And as I listened to again and again, this song surely grew over me and I started loving it. Naresh and Sowmiya were good, but a better choice of voices would have taken the song to great places. You miss out the "Kuthu" effect in the voices but the wonderful orchestration of Rahman made up for all that. :-)
"Theeyil Vizhundha" by AR Rahman had a pathos mood with Rahman's voice bringing out the painful emotions beautifully. I normally don't like pathos songs so not very impressed anyhow. One average song in the album is "Dhinam Dhinam Deepavali" mainly beacuse of its Northie kinda singers(almost half a dozen of them) with their unusual accents, making it sound like an alien song. It reminded me of Rahman's music from Uzhavan and Kizhkku Cheemayile genre and it surely sounds good in a cheerful mood.
Overall, an album more enjoyable every listening and surely impressed me very much on the whole. For die hard fans of Rahman and those who had grown up listening to him like me, this album was a big solace after listening to lot of SJ Suryah film stuff and it was an announcement for Rahman's comeback to Tamil Cinema.
2 comments:
I felt Godfather was very mediocre effort from Rehman. Situations were uninteresting and picturisation was so lousy. Rehman should refrain from signing KS Ravikumar movie again. He is refined masala director. Thats it.
nice idea to re-review :-)
i too have this thing about lead singers, hence don't like many songs where even the orchestration could be great!
none of the varalaaru songs impressed me though.. even on repeated listening..
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