Hey, good points Swaps. Naushad and SD both came to mind for me when I heard
this song........pure classic stuff from ARR!!
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> Ranjha ranjha is surely Bhairavi..no where close 2 Peelu...Bhairavi is a
> complete Raga...the composer has the liberty of using all 12 swaras in this
> raga..so sumwer u may feel glimpses of another raga...but the base is
> Bhairavi...Thok de killi also is based on Bhairavi..apart frm the 1st Shehnai
> interlude...it resembles a lot 2 interlude of 'Rang hai' frm Meenaxi wer ARR
> hs quite intellegently transposed the scale..makin it sound completely diff
> frm Bhairavi...in Thok de..also he's used a major scale 1st & then returning
> bk 2 Bhairavi (minor scale)....the fusion is awesum..Agree with ur 'Spirit of
> Rangeela'Â similarity..m completely hookd on 2 this albumKhilli re is vivid
> in its raga-appeal...lots of glimpses of Pahadi,Kalavati,Patdeep,Yaman...the
> interlude is a cracker...vintage stuff here! The antara sounds a lot like a
> Naushad or S.D.Burman song specially in the lines' Saari raat mehki hai...sej
> suhani kar jaa'...he's used a Komal Dhaivat...sounds a
> lot like S.D's Bandini or Sujata..or Naushad's Baiju Bawra or
> Mughal-e-aazam...
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> --- On Mon, 4/26/10, Aakarsh <aakarsh...@...> wrote:
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> From: Aakarsh <aakarsh...@...>
> Subject: Re: [arr] Lots of raaga Bhairavi in Raavan?
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Monday, April 26, 2010, 6:50 PM
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> Thok De Killi and Behne De have the bhairavi flavour for sure. Infact, I felt
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> reminiscent of "Spirit of Rangeela". Not exactly same, but somewhat similar,
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> But can you please confirm if Raanjha Raanjha is Bhairavi? I am not
> completely sure? Somewhere i sense Raag Peelu as well.
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> And one of my expectations was that there could be a Veena based song in this
> album. It was just my expectation, because legend says that Raavana invented
> the instrument - Rudra Veena and that he was a great musician. I am surprised
> that there isnt any Veena based song. I know it is too far fetched to expect,
> but then Mani-ARR did display some lateral-thinking master strokes in the
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> --- On Mon, 4/26/10, ~ s...@ps ~ <swaps15...@yahoo. com> wrote:
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> From: ~ s...@ps ~ <swaps15...@yahoo. com>
> Subject: Re: [arr] Lots of raaga Bhairavi in Raavan?
> To: arrahmanfans@ yahoogroups. com
> Date: Monday, April 26, 2010, 5:40 PM
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> Bhairavi....While Ranjha cud be categorized as pure Bhairavi form..the latter
> ones r loosely based on it...m abs hookd on 2 this album...jai ho!swaps
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> --- On Mon, 4/26/10, AJ <purev...@yahoo. com> wrote:
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> From: AJ <purev...@yahoo. com>
> Subject: [arr] Lots of raaga Bhairavi in Raavan?
> To: arrahmanfans@ yahoogroups. com
> Date: Monday, April 26, 2010, 4:38 PM
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