The Writer's Blog

Reflections Umm...I always knew if there was anyone who could get even close to Rahman....in Indian film music...it has to be YUVAN SHANKAR RAJA! I mean...what an awesome song....fell in love with it...the moment I read its name on the raaga.com website! Haricharan (hehe..its HARIHARAN with a C!...:P....) and Tanvi Shah have rendered their voices for this romantic number...that is as foot tapping...as its soulful!......WOW! makes u feel like falling in love.....And Karthi looks dashing in this song.....I think he has all potentials to overtake his Bro....Suriya....(although I havent seen any of his movies...so don't know about his acting!)...though he looks handsome!.... Its very much like...MAZHAYE MAZHAYE from EERAM.....but still sounds fresh....like a teenager falling in love for the first time!....FRESH!... love that part...where he says------ azhagai manadhai parithu vittaley ( With great beauty..she flew away...with my Heart) thuli thuli thuli mazhaiyaai vanthaaley

"First of all a HAPPY REPUBLIC DAY to all of  my INDIAN brothers and sisters" Once there was a video, that would embroil my heart and soul towards the television...........this was ...I don't know.....15 years ago....back in that small village in Kerala...where I was unaware about computers or cable television.....All I knew was that.....I would sing along that mesmerizing track....MILEY SUR MERA TUMHARA.....with the most glorious faces of the nation- a young Amitabh (err...in his 40s)...Kamal...Suhasini....Ravi Shankar ji...and the lost goes on,,,,and on....and on.... (whom I couldn't even recognize then...:P). And now, on the occassion of India's 60th Republic day celebrations, THE TIMES group has unwounded a present................PHIR MILE SUR...................A recompilation of that same track.....the same words..............but in a new package.......a new AVATAR.... Yes.....an effort on the part of India's leading Media Group...............a rather.