Now, this is the score for the new DTS version.
Scenes to be enjoyed in particular:
1) Piano plays by itself – brilliant one! The same keys are played. New version is more modern sounding (around 1:12).
2) Kuttichathan descending in a basket – The new version sounds mature, reminds of the score he has done for Guru (starting at 3:15). The orchestration and chorus are out of world.
3) Children going around & touching Kuttichathan – the original version is amazing, with carnatic violin score (around 4:45) - what a way to show the innocence of the children! The new version is also equally good.
Even the music for Kathakali dance is different.
In closing, I feel the original has a raw WCM feel, but the revised version is modern and matured in orchestration.
Readers are encouraged to analyze this more in detail and arrive at their favourite version for each cue.
1 comment:
Dear CRV:
While there are lots of same situations across remade movies where Raaja has given completely different songs (like Ae Zingagi (Sadma) and Poongatru (Moondram Pirai) etc etc..), The same extrapolation to BGM is unprecedented. So this is a very very unique post.
If you see the original, its more followable, less experimented (by Raaja's standards) and of the Raaja that we all know.. But if you see the new version, its totally abstract. From the basket descending sequence till the end, its almost like a symphonic movement. (as you noticed, the kathakili dance is also arranged by a 'oboe' type mode in line with the heavy WCM backdrop, as opposed to an pure Indian version on the original);
I guess Raaja experimented a much more WCM arrangement, because by this time he himself has mastered the art of WCM as well as have prepared the South Indian audience to get used to such type of sounds.. Imagining the new track for the 1983 timeframe.. People would have branded him crazy.. So slowly he prepared us to be 'matured' listeners through his songs over the years..
The new version's BGM is inline with , Guru, Raajavin paarvayile, Desiya geetham, Paattu paadava etc.,.. (these songs have same, Western classical abstract arrangements)
Definitely my favorite one is the newer version (At least in the later half of the scenes) Also there could be another analogy I could think off as to, Why Raaja didn't reuse the BGM tracks and rather went for totally new tracks. In the "developed" world, people prefer buying new things instead of repairing the old ones. Because the time and cost involved for repairing is almost same, if not more to that of buying new. So far Raaja, apparently the effort involved in creating new stuff is less taxing than searching his old archives and making his orchestra play them again I guess :-) .. power of creativity.. Shows how "Developed" a composer :-) that Raaja is...
With Love
Vicky
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