Naan Kadavul Ke Audio Ka Review

Sincere and Regular followers and readers of ishallReview would know that every work reviewed is categorised under only three categories - good, bad and super. But while reviewing Ilayaraja's songs in the album- Naan Kadavul, i wanted to add a category called "not competent enough to review".

I watch Airtel super singer on Vijay TV every night at nine and most of the time my judgement of a performance is diametrically opposite to that of the judges. When i like the way Vijay Narayan sings, Unni Krishnan says that the sangadhi was not right. When i feel Ravi was absolutely tasteless, Srinivas says that the shruti in the pallavi was brilliant. I don't understand what Shruti Haasan and Pallavi Joshi are doing in ravi's song. More than Unni and Srini its Sujatha chechi whose definitions of feel,voice,pitch,gamagam,etc, are my major source of nightmares.

This was just to say that I am the vijay/ajith/mass movie fan equivalent of music. I can appreciate a song only if its catchy/emotional/funny and only if it appeals to me in the first or the next two "hearings" ( what other word would you use? "listening" ?) I can't get into the aesthetics or the real carnatic magic involved in a song. Therefore this music review of Naan Kadavul says the album is as a bad one but also confesses that the review is not written by a person competent enough.

Coming to the actual review of the Naan Kadavul audio. We'll make it short and sweet. There are six songs out of which song(pichai paathiram) is repeated from Ilayarajas album "Ramana Malai" - This one is just OK.

The two songs Madha un kovinil and Amma un pillayil sung by madhumitha and sadhana sargam respectively are completely similar in tune and are melodies ranging from average to good. The former runs only for 42 seconds but makes a mark.

The catch of the album and the only one that is gonna be retained in ishalleview's iPod is "Om Nama Siva" - The divine dholak to begin with and the mystifying sanskrit chanting later- it leaves the listener charged with raw energy.

The rest of the album is unlistenable as far as iReview is concerned.

But, as the world knows, in NO film does Ilayaraja's work end with just the songs. The bigger and the better role is obviously played by his masterful BGM bits. His are probably the best background scores in Tamil cinema history.

With the movie being made by the 'King of tragic endings' - BALA himself and being shot by some one as talented as Arthur A Wilson, there is a lot to expect from it regardless of the music album being a dampener of sorts.