Anniyan's audio was released last week and i must've listened to every song in the movie atleast 20 times- "kaadhal yaanai" and "iyengaaru veettu" being exceptions- must've listened to those two atleast 50 times each! I think the songs are very good- far better than anything i've heard in tamil films in the last 2-3 years.
From Gentleman(1993) to Anniyan(2005), Shankar's has been a success story throughout(assuming Anniyan's a hit), but for the Boys(2003) fiasco. Needless to mention, all 7 movies of his have been hits audio-sales wise. What struck me as odd was the nature of the songs in all these movies. One common thing amongst the songs was that there was not a single moody song in all of his 7 movies. The only one coming close to being called as a moody song was "Punnagayil Thee Mootti" from Jeans(1998). Interestingly, that song wasn't included in the audio cassette until after the movie was released and running 50 plus days!
What makes the whole scheme of things interesting is that most of Shankar's movies are serious ones giving him atleast one chance to include a moody or atleast a thought-provoking song...but interestingly, Shankar seems to know what he's doing very well. Most times, a moody song upsets the speed of the movie and i presume that is the reason why Shankar doesn't include such songs in his movies. Anniyan, sure looks to be a serious movie...but u will think it's a romantic comedy if u go by just the songs in the movie!
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Ram how about the "Cheeni pottu nee thinga, chellamai pirandhavale" from Kadhalan.
Ya, Shankar seems to know what his audience exactly expects. AFAIK Boys was also a pretty big hit, just that it got bad reviews.
k7- "kollayilae" is a melody, not a melancholy, really, and yes, Boys was indeed a hit- my bad.
dei..rom comm -a? :o
not from the BG track and the poster,the one with the sickel at least!
though i have to accept songs are kinda addictive(?)...u have to say its not lot of originality/variety in thre...dont tell me u cant hear shades of KakKha Kakkha...the BG track starting part and all...anyways...total time pass..
yeah the theme music thingy suggests it's a pretty serious movie...and sickel n all cannot be seen(heard?) in the songs da :P...i was just talking about the music of the film and yeah, the songs seem to have shades of previous HJ compositions....irundhaalum they are hummable...ippodhaan konjam subside aairukku repeat mode la kaekkardhu!
Hmm..good point. NEver thought of it till I read your post.
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