Venkat's Blog

I don’t know who did this, but this spoof is mighty hilarious. Ukkandhu yosipangalo!!!

Dunno how any1 can keep a straight face when the original starts showing up on Sun TV 

No idea what MARG managed to acheive by creating a Swarnaboomi at World’s end. This place is nowhere near anything. You really must be crazy to drive out 70 KM out of Chennai to reach ur home. Well, coming back to the concert, it sucked big time.

1. The venue was waaaaaaaaaaaay out of civilization – some 70 (SEVENTY!!!) KM outside Chennai and roads clogged like Cooum.
2. The crowd was, well truly Chennai – can’t blame – its part of the city culture. Only problem was you couldn’t see beyond 6 ft, whichever angle you tilted your head – forget seeing ARR.
3. Concert was mostly indeee songs. Vera enna solla.

Damn!!!

Sakkarakatti – 2008 – A R Rahman

Taxi Taxi

Singers: Benny Dayal, Blaaze, Viviane Chaix, Javed Ali

Lyrics: Blaaze, Na.Muthukumar, Viviane Chaix

Marudaani

Singers: Madhushree, A.R. Rahman, Hentry

Lyrics: Vaali

I Miss You Da

Singers: Chinmayi, Indai Haza

Lyrics: Na. Muthukumar

Chinnamma

Singers: Benny Dayal, Chinmayi

Lyrics: Pa. Vijay

Elay

Singers: Krish, Naresh Iyer

Lyrics: Na. Muthukumar

Naan Epodhu

Singers: Reena Bharadwaj

Lyrics: Pa. Vijai

Its quite easy to pick the best song right away – a rarity in Rahman’s albums – Chinnamma of Meenaxi fame stands out as the best even after repeatedly listening to this album for the past two days. May be the tunes were familiar, may be I’m hearing a Chinmayi song after a long time, may be Benny Dayal just rocks or simply because the lyrics are so good. But the other songs do not stick on as much – ok, Taxi Taxi is an exemption with refreshing beats and complementary lyrics.

Madhushree disappoints with Marudhaani. Pathetic pronunciation and frankly it sounds like some weepy mega-serial’s title song. Sigh, so much for the much awaited dream combo.

Muthukumar’s lyrics in Elay is all crap. For Chrissake, Charlie Chaplin acted in silent movies – why should he learn Tamil now. And the “Masa masanu valandhu vittom” line is … eh… well, ever heared of imagination, Muthu?

Chinmayi impresses again with I Miss You Da. Such variations in modulation!!! Can’t imagine its her voice actually – quite a performance.

But the bottom line is – we’ve had better Rahman hits.

Looks like Google throws up this link when people search for Balram Naidu’s Ringtone. Unga saabam enakku vendam  – I’m providing the Cooltoad link here. Hope this is what you are looking for.