Just to add to my mail below: As far as I know, Mani gives Rahman the story and then they work towards each song by taking the situation first rather than working the other way. Frankly for me, this is why the ARR-Mani combo is the top of the pick because for Mani to extract a gem of a song like Vellai Pookal from Rahman for that given situation is simply genius!
----- Original Message ---- From: Indmov Buff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 12:09:54 AM Subject: Re: [arr] Re: Vellai Pookal - did Mani do justice ? He did ! I think Sampath, that has to do with maniratnam's style of film making. Two versions of Kannathil muthamittal enhanced the soul of the story.It was vital that we , the audience understood Amutha's bond with her parents. The songs underline this girl's affection for her mother and her father even after the disappointment of finding out that she isn't theirs. It is to show the emotional bond between the child and her parents and that is a key to the movie and is directly relevant to the title of the movie too. I am glad he made an effort to show this bond separately. The scenes that lead to both versions of the song say so much about it. The movie was about Amutha, who happens to be a result of the vicious war in Sri Lanka . I can't think of how you can use vellai pookal in Kannathil Muthamittal otherwise. Any thoughts on that? I don't think you can have a dance sequence or a sequence of other scenes relating to peace and harmony for vellai pookal in KM. The movie required it to be like that. I personally don’t think it would fit in otherwise. ----- Original Message ---- From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 11:36:29 AM Subject: RE: [arr] Re: Vellai Pookal - did Mani do justice ? He did ! The problem is reach of the song, that's what I want to highlight... Instead of keeping two versions of "kannathil muthamittal" song He could have picturised "vellai pookkal", From: arrahmanfans@ yahoogroups. com [mailto:arrahmanfan [EMAIL PROTECTED] com] On Behalf Of Dinesh Vaidya Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 4:00 PM To: arrahmanfans@ yahoogroups. com Subject: [arr] Re: Vellai Pookal - did Mani do justice ? He did ! In my opinion, Mani did good justice to this song. However, subject of this movie was so serious, the movie probably did not do too well as a ManiRatnam movie should do. I have seen this movie many times on my VCD, but I find many of my Chennai friends are totally at loss when I name this movie. If I can read Mani Ratnam's mind, the idea of using the song at the begining of this movie probably was to show the "calm status of life" before the "cyclone of war". I have a ringtone of this song and use this as alarm sound. Getting up in the morning to this sound is pure bliss........ .. Dinesh Vaidya Pune --- In arrahmanfans@ yahoogroups. com, <dinakaran.sampath@ ...> wrote: > > > Hi Guys, > > I just want to share my recent experience with "vellai pookkal" song > from KM, > > Recently I have set "Vellai pookkal" song as my caller tune, from that > moment onwards so many people are started asking me that which song it > is? which movie?, etc, etc... What I realized was so many people don't > know that this song is from KM, some people are not believing me when I > told the same... > Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ
