A new Blog and a discussion about Imann

All Right. I know i've been here before. And i have no doubt that i will be here again..I announce proudly to the rest of the world that i'm starting a blog and i have a couple of good posts in quick succession, but then i get caught up in the machinations of graduate life and forget all about this.

So here I am again with another blog. No specific title, no specific target audience..as the name suggests.. just my two cents on everything from Comics to Crap !

To kick things off i thought i'd reproduce a few bits from a recent facebook discussion we had about D.Imann, a popular music composer for tamil films. I was listening to the new soundtrack of selvaraghavan's Aayirathil Oruvan and i remembered that Imann had attempted a remix of the classic "Adho andha paravai pola" from the original Blockbuster Ayirathil Oruvan which had MGR in the lead. A couple of G-Searches later i was listening to Imann's remix of this song from the 'Action King' Arjun starrer, 'Madarasi'. For the record, the song was pretty good. Had some nice musical arrangements and a couple of neatly sung verses by Imann himself.



This was my opening statement that kicked things off on Facebook: Raghav Prashant Sundar wonders why D.Imman hasn't risen up the ranks of Tamil Music even though he's almost on par with some of the other well known composers in terms of talent. ....anyone?

Here were some interesting responses and my comments on them:

Varun, one of my facebook friends pointed out that Imann hasnt composed for one single so called big-banner production. Coming to think of it.. yes..i went through his filmography and most of his movies have been small-medium budget films.

Shammeer, one of my friends from my alma mater, Anna University echoed the same sentiment, quoting from his comment, "He is cool. He knows more as well. thing is he didnt get good directors, sundar C ruined him :) when he could make good ones for no story, he is capable of making great ones given mani rathnam or any new cool directors. he didnt get one so [f]ar. all masala music.!"

A couple of others said the same thing.. the whole sundar c - arjun - imann combination has been around for quite a while now and the movies were nothing to write home about. Interestingly some of imann's better songs have always been in movies which didnt have arjun in the lead (thiruvilayadal aarambam, thamizhan etc..)

Also, preethy (also from Anna University) was quick to point out that imann's music was either folksy or funky..and didnt have a mix of genres.. Again... in movies where arjun and sundar c werent around imann doesnt seem to have a problem dabbling with different genres.

That said, there was a little bit of talk about Imann's singing. While some said that imann was better off leaving the crooning to others... varun said that he would rate imann's singing better than the oscar winning A.R.Rahman (not sure what to say to that one...)... but i did ask shammmeer what he thought of imann in comparison to yuvan shankar raja, who is also known to croon for several of his songs..albeit in his own non-musical style.

Shammeer, always a die hard fan of yuvan refused to even consider a comparison ! :)

Well, that said.. i sincerely hope that imann finds his way in the industry and lands himself some big projects !!!

Also, if you think we should have some other discussions on topics of interest.. leave me a comment !