40 minutes of pure divine music…
DISCLAIMER: You are not about to read a review. You are about to read an article praising the music of “Sillunu Oru Kadhal” and praising its creator Mr. A R Rahman. If you want an objective review, this aint the place for it. Thanks. You may continue reading now.
“Kummi Adi”
“Ammi mithichaachi…” begins the song with a deep, husky and rustic voice. This generally announces the waking up of the great Aditya to the residents of his colony [pun unintended]. As I go about brushing my teeth to the wonderful orchestra of these sounds. The instruments aren’t exactly giving a village-kind-of-feel, but they make for wonderful listening.
“Munbe Va”
A beautiful prelude has been composed to a divine song. Shreya Ghosal’s voice is something that you would want to record and play into your ears every minute of your existence. Pristine and clear. Innocent and sensuous. Melodious to the last note. Naresh Iyer anchors the song down to earth. Otherwise I am just flying around with my Mach3!
“Mazaa Mazaa”
Sensuous, tantalising, exciting and leaves you with those feelings. Shreya Ghosal yet again! I will say nothing else. She reigns supreme. SPB Charan is growing up to sound like his father. Looks like we have another wonderful singer with the blessing of A R Rahman. I am generally inside the bathroom when this one is playing.
“Machakari”
“Minnal padi, thendral padi..” [Lightning half, soft and sweet breeze half in tamil!] in Vasundhara Das’ voice starts the song but drags it into such a beautiful tune and then Shankar Mahadevan catches on with “La la la, la la la…” and the song literally bursts out! A chartbuster. The energy in the song [is definitely more than the combined mass of singers and square of the speed of light!] will make you want to sing around with an imaginary mic bending your back backwards! Ahem.. you know where I am now, don’t you?!
“New York nagaram”
The humming that begins the song intertwined with the guitar is out-of-this-world! As soon as that plays, I am in “pause” mode. Only my ears and imagination are working. Having seen “KANK” recently, I know how NY nagaram looks. The soulful voice of the master just engulfs me into the song. I am lost in NY. The pick of the album.
“Maricham”
Carolissa, Mohammed Aslam and Krishna (?) take us through a journey of high pitches with various twists and turns. This song somewhat gives me the time to get ready and have a bite. Maybe I will catch on to this one over some more time. Like “Varugirai” from “Anbe Aaruyire”.
“Jillendru Oru Kadhal”
The title song of the movie with the earlier title – JoK [They changed it to "sillunu oru kadhal" for tax exemption from TN govt!]. Rock and Roll and Jazz all make me wear my shoes and polish them till the leather comes off! I am also singing along with the Tanvi, so I rarely hear her voice. I try hard not to notice my wife’s threatening looks since we would get late to office. But I can’t break away from this brilliant song.
Take a bow A R Rahman. You brighten my every morning. So what if I am late to office on some days?! That’s fine with me!
Click here to listen and download the songs for a paltry $0.99 (if you are in US) or Rs. 12 (India) per song.
This is the official website of the movie slated to release sometime this month!
I have written this review almost a month after it has released because of one reason. A R Rahman’s music grows on you. We need to give it time to get into our comfort zone. And once it’s there it becomes a part of our lives. Atleast I am in affected by this syndrome, and am happy to be afflicted with this disease! Hail Rahmania!
The movie name is Jillunu oru Kadhal.. I guess it’s just a typo :)
Just asking .. can you understand tamizh well?
shark:
Illa kane. Sillunu oru kadhal is the new name. Jillendru oru kadhal is the old name. You are mixing up both now!
I can understand conversational tamizh very well. All this poetic and classical and divine tamizh takes some time to understand. I first convert it to the tamizh I can understand and then it sinks in!
Listening to A R Rahman’s songs for over 15 years. Tamizh is a part of me now!
Shark:
Oh, but yeah, Ja and Sa are sometimes used interchangeably in tamizh. So, maybe you are talking about that. Right?!
excuse my saas-like behaviour:
Listening to A R Rahman’s songs for over 15 years..
14 years :) Roja: ’92
~Fellow Rahmaniac
[shark] were you refering to this: “ka”, “kha”, “ga”, “gha” have the same alphabet.. or is it as in ‘ch’enthil/’s'enthil? konj(ch)um insight kudunga :)
pavan kumar fellow rahmaniac
You are right. Maths konjam weak! ;)
hii..
gr88 review yaar…its an awesome creation by rahman
great write up.. after long time rahman is into his terms with JOK..
rahmaniac:
Thanks for your comment! Totally agree with you!
garcia kafka:
Long time? I thought RDB was outstanding. And before it could fade away, comes another masterpiece called “SOK”.
There are times when we have waited for longer times for an A R Rahman release. This is much better that way! :)
I don’t understand Tamil, but I’m a big fan of Rahman, so I guess I will just trust you on this… :D
Viky:
You will be rewarded with beautiful music for showing this trust in me! :)
Any idea whether this movie is getting dubbed in Telugu…
sudhakar:
It has been dubbed into telugu already. “Nuvvu nenu prema” is the name of the telugu version. I saw the “New York Nagaram” song on “Adithya Music” the other day starring Surya, Jyotika and Bhoomika. Check it out!
Thanks for your comment! :)
i was swimming in the Jillunu Oru Kadhal songs every day, i think that’s the reason for my cold:))
I love Shreya Ghosal’s voice, very soothing, and i imagine the video of the song Vennilava Velli velli nilava…form VV, when i listen to New Your Nagaram.
jeevan:
LOL! Good one! :)
Shreya Ghosal’s voice is what one would call “enchanting”! And that’s very true, I saw that song from V.V today only. And totally agree with what you have to say! I would minus the taxi out of the picture though! ;)
Is it “Nuvvu nenu prema”? Then you can expect my comments here after 30 days..
sudhakar:
Yes. Please let me know how much you liked it! ;)
Whats the issue with the names? Here in Pune, the movie is referred to as “It’s ok” (S-OK) :-O
viky:
LOL!
It was named as “Jillendru Oru Kadhal”, when it started. It was JOK then.
Then the TN govt told the producers that they will exempt some tax if they rename the movie to sound more tamizh like for eg. “Sillunu Oru Kadhal”. Hence SoK or it’s-ok as they say in Pune! :)