SOTD #652: Adhineedani from Swaraabishekam (Telugu)

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Song of the Day: Adhineedani from Swaraabishekam (Telugu).

http://www.dhool.com/sotd2/652.html



- The National Awards for 2004 were announced today. Apart from the awards given from the what-on-earth-are-they-smokin department (Best Actor Award to Saif Ali Khan), the best singer awards went to Udit Narayan (Swades) and Chitra (Autograph). The best lyricist award went to Paa.Vijay for Autograph. Vidyasagar bagged the best music director award for this album, Swaraabishekam in Telugu. This was his first. The SOTD is from that album. I've not listened to all the songs from this album, but I would have thought that A.R.Rahman (Bose and Swades) would have been a serious contender to bag the award.

- RajaG writes:

These are the specs for the song:
MD- Vidyasagar
Singers - SPB and Chitra
Lyrics - Veturi Sundararama Murthy
Scale & Pitch: F Major - use of both Ma so the chords used are F, C, A#, D min, G min, and G Maj

The sog is picturised on (telugu) Srikanth (not the Parthiban Kanavu guy) and the beautiful Laya who were both here for the TANA conference held in Detroit in July 2005. The situation is the first night for the newly married Laya and Srikanth. Srikanth and his elder brother (played by K. Vishwanath) play the roles of music directors known for churning out wonderful melodies. Incidentally this particular song, composed romantically by Laya and Srikanth, starts the sequence of events leading to jealousy and break-up between the brothers. Eventhough Srikanth composes the song, when the song wins the Nandi Award (AP state award), the credit for the composition is acknowldged by the elder brother - leading to an expected jealous reaction from Laya.

Onde of the worst movies by K.Vishwanath with very bad directorial touch and acting by him. The intro to the movie (and the brothers) is based on an alaap by Rajan+Sajan Mishra and K.Vishwanath's expression is pathetic.

Vidhyasagar has composed other beautiful songs in this movie - notably Kudikannu adhirEnE (SPB and Sunitha - yes! the same Sunitha who was on tour in the US recently accompanied by rajaG and Viswamohan), and anjudai lakshmanadu (KJY+SPB). KJY's singing is very apt for the old man role played by K.Vishwanath :-)

[Sriram Lakshman]

ahhha aahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa adhineethani Vidyasagar....dei Balu konnoottiyEdA. eppadi dA appadi pAdarE........Feel feel feel man......Balu accesses a portal available to none other. VS' phrasing at 'paravasham' is indeed that paravasamAna anubavam. Very savoury.....allowed it to get recursive in my heart. Great work!!! Balu's 'chromatic' improv at the end of the song......THE eternal romanticist Balu. avarukku additional-A melody blood corpuscles irukku !!!! Wish him the very best of happiness and bliss.

[Guest]

SL,

indha maadhiri kanda mEnikku emotion a kottaradhunaala thaan Udit kku National award kuduththaangaLaam - yE thaaraa vOthaaraa har thaaraa ngara nursery rhyme ku :-)

rajaG

[Guest]

Honestly G....Lata deserves the Award of all national awards because she had the consistent ability to grasp the tuneless wonders of L-P in the 80s. The Swades song is yet another malady in the name of melody.

[kAdhalrasigan]

This is the first time I have listened to a Telugu song, and I kind of clicked on it with a doubting mind.

Quite a brilliant song -- music wise and singing wise. It is clear that SPB in Telugu is able to bring out emotions much better than in Tamil (after all, Telugu is his mother-tongue). I was able to appreciate the song even knowing zilch telugu.

Perhaps I can appreciate the song even better if I understood the lyrics.

So.... it would be really nice to listen to this song with telugu lyrics in hand, along with tamil translation. Can/will someone oblige!

[rajaG]

kAdhalrasigan,

verumanE translation kEttirundhaa kandippaa pOttiruppEn. aanaa thamizhai vida thelungil expression better aa kuduththirukkiraar SPB nnu oru left handed compliment kuduththadhunaala, konja naaL wait paNNaNum neenga. :-) :-)

[guest]

I don't speak telugu so can only comment on the tune & singing. KSCs singing sounds like she got some bronchital attack, and SPB is very artificial IMO. I like the tune, it is soft and nice. 35 for singing and 45 for tune out of 100.
Sriram's comment is hyper IMO.

[Guest]

Is this belivable? YSR missed the award?

Who could be that Singer? Any guess?

http://www.telugucinema.com/c/movies/yu ... ly1805.php

Bala

[Murali Venkatraman]

Tune is very beautiful. I have to agree with somebody's comments on Chitra and SPB. Both sound strained. IF MDs need SPB like voice with the same vivacity they must opt for Rajesh Krishnan. Chitra's tonal quality seems to have taken a beating. hmmm....

[Sriram Lakshman]

VS' work is far superior to YSR's insipid compositions in 7G. Quite unfortunate that composers with very little intrinsic music sense are even being nominated for National awards. Except for a few violin/other passages in general, YSR's music is a reenactment of the 'I have a keyboard and therefore I am a composer' saga in TFM. Except for his pedigree and this posting of mine, there is nothing much to be written about. His melody line especially can be easily bettered by some of the fellow 'Dhool'ers themselves.

[Guest]

I am glad that YSR missed it too. Sheer hype and patronage can get you somewhere in the industry - YSR and Vijay are examples in the music and acting departments resply. Even the violin passages you are talking about-maybe KR helped him with the arrangement. I read about this somewhere.

I dont know if Swarabishegam is award worthy, but VS definitely deserves some recognition atleast for some of his earlier wasted efforts in TFM. One of the very few MDs with a good melody sense in current day TFM. His recent "kaalai arumbi" from Kanaa Kanden is another worthy addition.

[Guest]

YSR may not deserve it for 7G but there is nothing to rejoice in VS getting it for Swarabhishekam. As BB noted, only the fact of it being kind of semi-classical might have influenced the jury. Or atleast that section of the jury which is interested in the music section of the awards. Sudhir Mishra must have been so focussed on getting award for Chopra gang in the main categories so I guess he didnt bother about lobbying for Jatin Lalit.

In general, we have this weakness of anything close to ICM in film music being awarded - a more classic example of this would be Annamaiya(MM Keeravani) scoring over Guru(Ilaiyaraja).

This year itself, there was Anand(Telugu), any day better than swarabhishekam.

To say that VS deserves to get this award this year for his past good work is like saying VVS deserves to be in the One-day team for his 281 4 years ago :-)

[Guest]

that was me
rajsrini

[Guest]

On Swarabhishekam, it is a shame that SPB didnt get a NA for his Okka Kshanam ahead of Udit's Yeh Tara.
BTW, anyone with any information on who was the singer who was against YSR in the jury?