A month ago, I was at the theatre watching Ra.One. The movie was terrible, yet enjoyable. But I’m going to talk about something else – a song I heard that caught my imagination. The song is Phir Se Ud Chala from Rockstar. Around 14 seconds into the video, you’ll hear a guitar start off at the background. That’s what caught my ear first – because I’d heard it before. Listen to this piece below: ...
A tribute to our Academy Award winner, A R Rahman. Here are interludes from 25 Tamil songs of A R Rahman. Can you guess which movie they are from? Don't worry about the spelling. Just spell it like it sounds, and the box will turn green. Comments Steve 12 Mar 2009 7:07 pm: Got 25/25!!! Thanks Anand, enjoyed it very much!!! Vijay Anand 12 Mar 2009 3:11 pm: I got 24/25. not able to recollect the movie name of July Matham song Only May madham came to my mind anantha 2 Mar 2009 6:40 pm: Got 22 without struggling. The last three (5, 17, 25) gave me trouble. Got 5 after some humming along and for 17, somehow was stuck on a dubbed version of a hindi soundtrack till I got it. 25 was purely round robin :) Sriram 2 Mar 2009 7:09 pm: Hi anand, I am one of the big fan of ur site. I scored 21/25. please send me the answers. srini 2 Mar 2009 10:37 am: Hi thanks again for a good one. I scored more in Raja test than this one.. so you know my age group. Please send me the answers. Can’t bang myself anymore… thanks S Anand 2 Mar 2009 3:34 pm: Have sent the answers by e-mail. Akbar 2 Mar 2009 6:23 pm: I scored 20. Really nice one …. thanks. yeshwanth 10 Mar 2009 4:50 pm: I got 25/25…was struggling for 17..but got it in the end….based on your clue that its a rajini film Nivi 2 Mar 2009 9:11 pm: 23/25!! and i pride myself that of the things i got, i got everything within the first 5 seconds :) Hari 6 Mar 2009 4:42 pm: Awesome compilation. I didn’t get 4, 16, 17, 19 and 21. I was kicked when I got 25 :) subbu 11 Mar 2009 1:41 pm: 23/25 - got 23 and 24 woooo hooooooo Barath 7 Mar 2009 7:33 pm: Give me clues for 6 and 25 Arun Ganesh 10 Mar 2009 6:02 pm: 25/25 …. had to refer no clues thankfully… this is good stuff.. keep posting more. thank you Arjun 7 Mar 2009 8:30 pm: Hey, Great man. Thanks for the quiz. We had a lot of fun doing it. By the way, the score is 23! :) What are 17 and 25? I’m totally stumped (but, most probably, I’ve never heard these pieces). S Anand 7 Mar 2009 8:38 pm: Clues: 6 is a Vineeth film 17 is a Rajni film 25 is a Prabhu film Dinesh 11 Mar 2009 2:00 pm: i got a 25/25….. hardcore ARRfan…. thank u thanku…. :) Priya 11 Mar 2009 12:57 pm: I scored 24….But i couldn;t guess which one is the 17th….. subbu 11 Mar 2009 1:34 pm: 21/25 - didn’t get 16, 23,24,25 :) Ganesh.V 10 Mar 2009 6:15 pm: HA ha i got 25\25…….pretty much easy……even 25 and 17 Nice compilation…… Vivek 10 Mar 2009 6:45 pm: 25/25, in one go! I’m proud to be a hardcore ARR fan Rajith Ramnivas 10 Mar 2009 6:51 pm: 25/25 i can answer whatever related to rahman sir. chetan 10 Mar 2009 10:24 pm: 24/25 !! damn missed the #13 ……….. Guys pls help me out … Which Movie is it?? @S Anand- Superb Man quiz is. thanks for it….. sanjay shankar 10 Mar 2009 8:25 pm: 25/25 !!! Like Yeshwanth, # 17 took about a min, but got the others within seconds. Thanks for the nice quiz! AMEER SALEHA 11 Mar 2009 8:04 am: it was quite interesting and as well as it made me to find out some songs of arr which i didnt hear Vinodh 11 Mar 2009 9:20 am: I got 24/25… I couldnt get the 25th song… someone pls help… :( amjath 11 Mar 2009 3:00 am: Score: 25 / 25 i got i done it i made it very very gud choice of songs Ashwin Krish 11 Mar 2009 3:05 am: 25/25! 5 was the toughest for me! Interludes are pretty easy… what is challenging is a BGM quiz. You should post that Krishna 11 Mar 2009 4:00 am: scored 100%. Great quiz Mehrun Shiraz 11 Mar 2009 11:19 am: its damn good..scored 24..but dont know number 17..pls send me the answer. rama krishna 10 Mar 2009 4:36 pm: hi, i score 21/25 musicar 10 Mar 2009 4:43 pm: I GOT 25/25!!! It was an easy test!!! Just the 25th one took a couple of extra seconds! Enjoyed it!!!Thanks for creating it Prakash 10 Mar 2009 4:28 pm: Bingo. I got 25. Needless to say I am a Rahmaniac! :) Anil 10 Mar 2009 4:31 pm: Wow ….got 24 on 25 ….all except 25 (but the clues in your comments) got that one as well .. Good one this. My ARR quotient is pretty high :-) -A Siva 11 Mar 2009 2:07 pm: Got 22/25. Couldn’t find 5, 17, 25. Then found 17 and 25 using the clues. And finally, 5 after many guesses. :( viji 11 Mar 2009 2:25 pm: hey hi.. gr8 work.. superb.. :) gt al 25 rite.. :) keep posting more :) Appu 11 Mar 2009 2:49 pm: woow,16 was tough.i got no.6 listening to the rhythm pattern. did it anyway. 25/25 all the way. Jai ho!!! Appu Anu 11 Mar 2009 3:27 pm: I got 25/25, was thinking hard for 17 but then your clue on Rajni movie helped….very interesting and easy quiz!!!! sriraman vk 11 Mar 2009 3:44 pm: i got 24/25. what is the answer for song 14? Sriram 11 Mar 2009 4:20 pm: Awesome! Can you do the same for AR’s Hindi and also the BGM?! Please man! santhosh 11 Mar 2009 5:36 pm: Hi, really a nice quiz….. Got 25/25 Keep posting :) Madhavan R 11 Mar 2009 6:16 pm: Cool! Got 25 out of 25 in the first go!!! 17 was tricky but after repeated listens for some 5 or 6 times, I found it…Great stuff; thoroughly enjoyed! suriya 12 Mar 2009 11:47 am: super songs anand! 5,13,19,24 known BGM.. any clues? Karthik 12 Mar 2009 7:04 am: Got all right :) Asuthosh 12 Mar 2009 7:08 am: 25/25 - some old Tamil ones were tricky. The trick is to continue the interlude forward in your mind and it will segue into the pallavi/charanam. Great stuff, thanks! Rivjot 12 Mar 2009 8:20 am: Please make such quiz for Hindi interludes of Rahman as well. Enjoyed taking this one :) Amit 11 Mar 2009 8:41 pm: Got 22. (After a lot of hair pulling!). Being a non-tamilian rahmaniac, I am happy. Please send me the answers. (#5, 14 &16) I cannot take these tunes out of my head now… Prashanth Dappula 12 Mar 2009 2:54 am: Coooooooool, thanks for the quiz. 25/25, had a bit trouble for few seconds recognizing 25th :-), but got it. Thank you once again. gowrishankar 11 Mar 2009 11:39 pm: got 25/25, nice work S.Vijai Ananth 12 Mar 2009 12:29 am: Rahmaniac from Malaysian ARR fan club(Rahmania)…..25 definitely……all these interludes sat in the subconscious for too long already…… Rams 13 Mar 2009 5:37 pm: Yippeee…. 25/25 again… for a rahmaniac, it feels good to get them all…. Siddharth 14 Mar 2009 5:53 am: awesome..i’ve got 25/25..thanks anand…great compilation man… Chandra 14 Mar 2009 5:48 pm: Hi… I too got 25/25. The last one was tough (had to listen to it 4 times), the 13th one was a bit tricky, and I was slightly lucky with the 16th (but caught it even as I was typing it)! Great compilation!! Thanks a lot! ANANDA CHETANA 15 Mar 2009 5:56 am: I am submitting my answers and I would like to know my score. Please put this in a file that can be downloaded by us and used for quizzing over here. It is a fantastic compilation. Jai Ho gopal sambasivam 15 Mar 2009 11:32 am: good collections,anand. Niranjan 18 Mar 2009 10:10 am: Hurray!!!! 25/25 awesome It took some time for song 24 and 25!!! but i got it atlast…… Rajeev 18 Mar 2009 11:29 pm: Hey Anand, Nice work. Even though getting a full score is easy, it makes you feel good to feel proud about the fact that u can identify any song of ARR in a jiffy….. Muhthar 24 Mar 2009 7:57 pm: Great compilation. and great selection of songs. rajkumar 4 Apr 2009 5:32 pm: amazing . which song is last one Akshaiy 9 Apr 2009 11:42 am: Can you email the answers? arun 15 Apr 2009 7:35 am: good one…feels proud Muruganandham k 11 May 2009 6:39 am: Me too got 25/25 though 25th is trial & error priya 15 May 2009 10:07 am: ejoyed alot Arun 28 May 2009 1:16 pm: Good work dude Venkata 6 Apr 2009 10:01 pm: Good work. I got an inspiration from this blog and planning to have a game for one of my daughter’s birthday party. Keep up the good work. Can you suggest any tools to cut the interludes from the songs ?Thanks Chinna 31 Aug 2010 5:16 am: nice compositions of our maestro…… got 25/25 hurray…….. :) nirmala 26 Dec 2010 1:22 pm: got all correct:) MICHAEL JACKSON 27 Dec 2010 7:24 am: SCORED JUST 20….:-( ………………….. chirp 1 Jan 2011 1:02 am: Good ones ravindra babu hyderabad 18 Dec 2010 1:35 pm: konchamkastam telugu ayitei nice pa Sudhakar Dhanapal 19 Jan 2011 11:09 am: wowww. got 25/25 ramya 12 Dec 2011 6:57 am: plz mail the answers… i got oly 19 :( priya 31 Dec 2011 12:59 pm: only 23/25 :( … answers for 17th and 25th pls… A R Rahman Songs | Durgeshgowtham's Blog 28 Mar 2011 11:13 am (pingback): […] http://www.s-anand.net/blog/a-r-rahman-songs/ This entry was posted in Cinema. Bookmark the permalink. ← mobile hacking LikeBe the first to like this post. […] janu 16 Jun 2012 1:39 am: Managed to get 25/25! I should coz I’m a crazy ARR fan. Had a tough time on 17 coz honestly I haven’t heard it before. Your clue “Rajini” helped doing the gueswork :-) Ranjani 7 Aug 2011 12:55 pm: Scored 16/25 Suganya 29 May 2012 9:11 am: Hurrayyyyyyyyy… 25 found.. ramya saranya 1 Sep 2012 11:31 am: 16th kizhakku cheemaiyile ,17th baba and 25th is uzhavan…. i got 25/25 :):):) Sai Lakshmi 18 Sep 2012 6:22 am: makes me feel on top of the world to get a 25 on 25… LOVE YOU ARR <3 <3 <3 <3 YOU ARE MY GOD FOREVER <3 GOD OF MUSIC :* Akila 12 Dec 2012 10:35 am: I couldn’t nail down 3 and 4 though they sound very familiar…. answer pls? hbqdb 27 Apr 2013 6:52 am: Hoooooooooooooo!!!! 25/25 awesome
This is the 13th of 15 articles titled Classical Ilayaraja appeared on Usenet in the 90s. I’ve added links to the songs, so you can listen as you read. You could also try my Tamil song search. A.R.Rahman is the number one copier in the world. My friend is very much convinced on this matter. He called A.R.Rahman as a mammoth recycling bin that takes its own previously tuned songs and polishes it and presents it in a different form. How dare he copy the great kousalyaa suprajaa tune and use it as the interlude music in maargazhi poovE (May Maadham). My friend boils with anger. How dare the freshmen music director of the movie Meendum Savithri (Ravi Devendran) copy the interlude of maargazhi poovE (which is itself a copied bit from kousalyaa suprajaa) and present it in his song. A chain of copying! My friend has lost his peace and is now a terribly agitated individual. His head is hot with anger! ...
This is the 8th of 15 articles titled Classical Ilayaraja appeared on Usenet in the 90s. I’ve added links to the songs, so you can listen as you read. You could also try my Tamil song search. South Indian classical music has got an excellent treasure of superb names. Most of the raaga names seem to be Sanskrit derivatives. Even though there are some Thamizh equivalent names for raagas such as Sankarabharanam, nobody uses them. Ki.Veeramani is probably very sad about this. Maybe, Vairamuthu has some plans like translating all the raaga names into Thamizh as he tried translating Thyagaraja’s ’nee dhayaradha’ in Sindhu Bhairavi movie as un dhayavillaiyaa (if only Ki.Veeramani was ready to fund the project, from the 5 lakh rupees that he got for perpetrating the deeds of thandhai Ee.Vae.Ra. Periyar, from Selvi Jayalalitha). Alternatively, Ki.Veeramani may get somewhat sensible and appreciate the high-level idiocy in trying to translate the proper nouns in raaga names. And he may rather to encourage a lower level of idiocy by goading his clan to replace all the Sanskrit sounding sounds like ‘ksha’, ‘jha’ etc in all the raagas to their Thamizh equivalents and then accept the raaga names. Then, Shanmukhapriya would be called as Dhanmukapriya (as Vibhishanan in Valmiki Ramayanam became Vibidanan in Kamba Ramayanam)! ...
The 2000s saw the proliferation of music directors like Vidyasagar, Harris Jayaraj and Yuvan Shankar Raja, while Rahman still continued strong. Here is the background music from some hit songs from the 2000s. Can you guess which movie they are from? Don't worry about the spelling. Just spell it like it sounds, and the box will turn green. Comments Kaps 8 May 2006 7:33 am: Anand, All of them were pretty easy. scored 25/25. Can we have some tough / old ones please? S Anand 8 May 2006 8:33 am: Gosh, I honestly thought no one would get 25/25! Well, 1970s is next, and I’ll making that as tough as I can. RDX 8 May 2006 1:46 pm: when ar u postin e ans??? S Anand 8 May 2006 4:01 pm: No plans to post answers. You can always mail me, though. Anonymous 8 May 2006 7:09 pm: 23/25. isai inban. 17 & 19 :-( clue its there on the tip of the finger not able to type S Anand 8 May 2006 7:29 pm: 17: Madhavan, 19: Ajit riggy 8 May 2006 8:14 pm: aww…i’m pulling my hair out on this!! 12/25….good one anand..do post more of these!! aneetaa 9 May 2006 12:38 am: cudn’t find the last one alone…. gayathri 9 May 2006 12:52 am: any clues on the 15th? I cracked the rest … but no idea on the 15th! kummy 9 May 2006 1:41 am: hurrah i got 25/25 gayathri, its thotti jaya S Anand 9 May 2006 7:21 am: Actor for the last one: SJ Suryah Anonymous 9 May 2006 7:53 am: thanks. looks like i missed a particular md s in this and the previous quiz. I am happy i didnt miss any of gods creations ;-) isai inban zero 9 May 2006 10:20 am: 20/25 :(. I didn’t get 10, 15, 16, 19, 21. and I came dangerously close to getting it right only for 16. Damn this too ;) sudheer 9 May 2006 1:54 pm: Awesome quiz.. cos its awesome fun.. i scored 16/25… need to sharpen my memory more!! Ashwin 9 May 2006 3:10 pm: 15/25(that too cheated by typing some popular trash vijay movies).. I am definitely a 80s tamil hippie :) balaji 11 May 2006 8:50 pm: and i thought i knew tamil songs… sigh got only 15/25 vidhya 12 May 2006 11:29 am: great one! when i started out, i thought i wld nail them.. but then had to be satisfied with 20/25. super fun, it was. thanks shri 17 May 2006 9:24 am: cudnt find out 10,19,25,15 and 16.any clues pl.?wasnt tht bad.its really enjoyable and u feel so bad wen unable to find out the movie name PAPPU 1 Oct 2006 7:11 pm: I TS LITTLE THOUGH.CAN U GIVE ANSWERS FOR UNKNOWN ONE? Ranganathan 25 Oct 2006 11:03 am: Hi Anand… ! Ranga here… Tried this one too… 25/ 25… Great Quiz… ! Thanks… punitha 16 Nov 2006 10:41 am: great….now i know, i am not that bad…..25/25……. suresh 2 Dec 2006 4:56 pm: tried hard but could get only 15/25 …. any way i enjoyed Prin 11 Dec 2006 10:37 am: Got 22 out of 25 - 9, 12, 16 Help with these. Just can’t remember 16 although I can sense it Anonymous 24 Feb 2007 11:07 am: 25/25.15th was tough though Senthilkumar.S 24 Mar 2009 9:10 am: nice quiz… got 21/25. very close to the missed out songs… nazreen 9 Jun 2010 9:39 am: nice all quiz……really enjoyed…… nirmala 16 Dec 2010 10:13 pm: 24 out of 25 coulnt find 19…pls help…gr8 quiz though Sudhakar Dhanapal 19 Jan 2011 12:14 pm: 25 / 25 .. yahhhhhhhhh ohhhhhhh :) ramya 16 Dec 2011 5:41 pm: plz tell the ans for 19 plzzzz :{ Ranjani 7 Aug 2011 2:22 pm: 19/25 B.Manivannan 26 Feb 2017 5:05 pm: nice to listen
In 1992, A R Rahman emerged. Ilayaraja may have scored more tunes until the first 3 years of the decade than Rahman did the whole decade. But the decade belonged to Rahman. Here is the background music from some hit songs from the 1990s. Can you guess which movie they are from? Don't worry about the spelling. Just spell it like it sounds, and the box will turn green. Comments Blogeswari 7 May 2006 5:10 pm: hi , posting all my entries.. prakash 7 May 2006 6:29 pm: 21/25 thennavan 7 May 2006 6:40 pm: 14/25; actually I know two or three more too but it is like at the proverbial tip of the tongue but am unable to spit it out :) lazygeek 7 May 2006 6:50 pm: again 25/25 anantha 7 May 2006 7:12 pm: 24/25 with my roomie blurting out the other even before i could try. Honestly i couldnt have got it, i think! Cipher 7 May 2006 7:38 pm: 22/25 - 1,5,16 theriyalaba :-( S Anand 7 May 2006 8:16 pm: Cipher, these are the actors who sang 1, 5 and 16. Lots of kids, Kamal (sort-of) and Arvind Swamy. Does that help? lazygeek 8 May 2006 2:09 am: cipher, semma easyba !! Bala 8 May 2006 7:00 am: Superb quizes! Thanks. Arun 8 May 2006 10:38 am: only 12/25. But knew 22-23 of the songs. If you had played a bit more, would have done better, methinks :-) Great stuff!! Priya 8 May 2006 4:32 pm: Hey, excellent quiz, I know I got all 25 right in the 1990s quiz and all 10 in the 1980s. But how do I confirm, my box deosnt turn green or anything. Is there any other way to track the score? Ashwin 8 May 2006 4:48 pm: 24/25. I could identify some songs in about .75 seconds. :)Same as priya. Box does not turn green though! Anonymous 8 May 2006 6:01 pm: 24/25. isai inban. i think its no.18 i am stuck on. Music is familiar was racking my brains for some ilayaraja number then thought maybe its arr by some strange chance. But cant figure. clue pls S Anand 8 May 2006 7:23 pm: No. 18 is not Ilayaraja, actually. S Anand 8 May 2006 7:24 pm: Priya, Ashwin: what browser & version are you using? S Anand 8 May 2006 7:28 pm: Clue for No. 18: the actor is Arjun. Aravind 8 May 2006 11:04 pm: 24/25. Couldn’t remember the movie for the 25th. zero 9 May 2006 10:12 am: Anand, The 16th is not playing. Couldn’t get the 6th. Damn! 23/25 :( Priya 9 May 2006 2:28 pm: I got 25/25….this section was quite easy Ashwin 9 May 2006 3:15 pm: Anand, I was stupid. I was typing song names Ashwin 9 May 2006 3:21 pm: one giveaway was that all clips were chronological P 9 May 2006 4:46 pm: Hi, I am stuck on 14….any clue plz Ashwin 9 May 2006 6:48 pm: 14 had Nasser in it zero 10 May 2006 5:07 am: Song no. 16 is still not playing for me. kummy 10 May 2006 8:18 am: got 24/25 any clue for 10th one S Anand 10 May 2006 2:55 pm: 10: Vineeth is the actor Karthik 10 May 2006 5:35 pm: stuck on 25th.. any clues S Anand 10 May 2006 9:19 pm: 25: Sung by Shankar Mahadevan SuperStarFritz 12 May 2006 3:20 pm: Got 23/25. Have no idea about 10. 23 I know the song, but can’t proceed from that tune onwards. Thoughts? S Anand 12 May 2006 9:07 pm: 23: Arjun song. janani 15 May 2006 2:24 pm: hey again, 18/25 on this one. am getting a tad better. shri 16 May 2006 3:00 pm: wow.got 25/25.cool.its so nice to play ths one. Anonymous 26 Jul 2006 2:24 am: couple of songs dont register..especially bombay and kaathalukku mariyaathai Ranganathan 25 Oct 2006 10:53 am: Hi Anand… Ranga here… How are you ? Came to know about this site… Quite Interesting… I am trying some of the quizzes here… This one I got 25 / 25 karthika 10 Dec 2006 3:44 pm: This site quite is interesting Prin 11 Dec 2006 10:19 am: Please help Anand, i have done everything from 1, 10-25. Others I need help considering i’m 14 and am a Londoner. Thanks sorna 31 Dec 2006 5:29 pm: 14 has nasar and revathi Seetha 4 May 2007 5:52 am: Not able to listen to the 19th one..it says not supported by the s/w :) Seetha 4 May 2007 6:21 am: Got 24 except for 19 :-)not able to lsiten to t :) kiran 16 Feb 2009 4:20 am: 25/25. Pretty easy though. (6 was a tricky one, common tune used by Raja in a couple of other movies) suriya 16 Mar 2009 3:25 am: 23/25…. help me with 6 and 10 plz… Senthilkumar.S 24 Mar 2009 7:28 am: got 23/25. couldn’t find 1 and 10. Gopi 27 Feb 2010 6:50 pm: Acheived 25/25 Sujatha 2 Oct 2009 12:17 am: Got 30/30. Selvam S 7 Feb 2010 6:09 pm: Got 24/25… can any one give clue for No. 1…. Archana 1 Mar 2010 5:12 pm: i got 23/25 ilayaraja 17 Jun 2010 2:40 pm: i got 22/25 Vijay 24 Jun 2010 1:07 am: Nice quiz. Got all right, but needed a bit of help on 18. Manoj 28 Sep 2010 6:53 pm: Very nice.. 24/25.. 6 theriyala.. TRG 8 Apr 2011 12:15 pm: GOOD I GOT 25/25 Charan 16 Jan 2011 1:03 am: 25 out of 25 ravindra babu hyderabad 18 Dec 2010 1:50 pm: nice quiz romba naalachi tamil songs kettu really superb quiz Sudhakar Dhanapal 19 Jan 2011 12:03 pm: i got 25/25… yeahhhhhhhhhhhh…. :) Kannan 24 Oct 2011 11:35 am: Yes. Got 25/25. It’s like cake walk for me. Shobhana 17 Oct 2011 12:03 pm: hi.. i got 23/25.. missed on 6th and the 3rd.. the rest were quite easy.. can you please help with 3 and 6? thanks Srikan 11 Mar 2011 10:43 pm: Which name of the song from titel 12? das 17 Aug 2011 5:23 am: nan 22/25 than Ranjani 7 Aug 2011 1:56 pm: 22/25 Shobhana 20 May 2012 5:25 am: Yay!!! I got 25/25… nice quizzes Mr. Anand. It passes time very effectively..