2009 1

A R Rahman Hindi songs

By popular demand, here are interludes from 15 Hindi 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 Guru 13 Mar 2009 5:08 am: 8/15, seems to be the lowest so far … Steve 12 Mar 2009 7:26 pm: Got 15/15 :D Ashwin Krish 13 Mar 2009 2:06 am: got 14/15 stumped by 9. I do not listen to remake songs (as matter of principle)… so if this is a tamil song remade in hindi with different mix, I wold not know Swapnil 12 Mar 2009 12:08 pm: Gr8 quiz…got it all right!Bingo!~ Lavanya 12 Mar 2009 10:18 am: can any one tell me no.9….i COMPLETELY forgot the answer!! gowrishankar 12 Mar 2009 3:42 am: bang 15/15 expecting few more… Jay 11 Mar 2009 10:50 pm: aaarrggh…. 9 is driving me nuts… and 12 is stumping me big time…. the rest i guessed it less than 3 seconds flat… Aravind 12 Mar 2009 2:26 am: good quiz!! :D got 15/15… struggled a lot on 12, though!! Rivjot 12 Mar 2009 8:31 am: 15/15 Yayy!!! I love myself :D Jayram 13 Mar 2009 10:19 pm: Stuck in three songs 9,10 and 12. Overall score 12/15.. Good selection… Srinath 12 Mar 2009 1:13 pm: 15/15.. yay!! :) the answer for 9th is saathiya. mera yaar mila de song :) Rams 13 Mar 2009 5:31 pm: Yay… got all 15! good one dude! subbu 13 Mar 2009 3:40 pm: YEAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! 15/15 was stuck at 12 but made about 5 guesses to get it right. so , strictly speaking I don;t deserve that one point cuz I dont even know the song. Fameeb 13 Mar 2009 7:22 pm: Ho!!! WoW! What a feeling !! Got 15/15 !! No.12 was a real tough one. It was troubling that am not getting this song. Obviously one of those albums which we heard a lot in Tamil but not in Hindi. Original is always original.Rest of them were all cool. Great Job by Anand. Really enjoyed this one ! Real Good work buddy. Long Live ARR !! bujji 13 Mar 2009 1:16 pm: hey can anyone tell me 11….except tht i got evrythng Ananth 13 Mar 2009 12:06 pm: 12/12… happy… 9 & 12 were thougheee… @Ashwin - nice principle… but this song is not there in tamil though the movie is there :) Vijai Ananth 14 Mar 2009 3:21 am: Way to go…Got all right too…..RAHMANIA MALAYSIA Dheepak Narsimhan 14 Mar 2009 4:41 am: Good quiz… Really gud job n its challenging.Got 15/15. yahooooooo…. Aditya Pai 14 Mar 2009 8:04 am: Yes…. scored 15/15. Good quiz. Chandra 14 Mar 2009 6:14 pm: I dont know answers for the 9th, 10th, and the 12th songs. I know the 10th by-heart but am not able to get it… its stuck at the “tip of the tongue” as they say..! Niranjan 18 Mar 2009 9:54 am: Am puzzled by 12……:-( not getting in any way… rekha 28 Mar 2009 5:23 pm: got stuck on 1o and 12th…….please post answers smriti 7 Apr 2009 12:14 pm: 14/15…..someone please helpme on 12…arrr!!! its eating me up! pls post the answer. arun 15 Apr 2009 8:05 am: 15/15…yipee..feels great rachna 27 Apr 2009 5:35 pm: got 14/15 Nihal 1 May 2009 7:22 am: wa super! fantastic and elastic and plastic Shrikant, Aditi &Meera 15 May 2009 10:57 am: Struggled quite a bit on 9. All three of us. Separately. ;) I guess it falls into the li’l old-songs category now.. And to think, we work for a Bollywood Radio Station!!:D Cheers! Shrikant sridharan 28 May 2009 9:45 am: 12song was very nice and arrahman was the maestro.jai ho Viju 23 Jun 2009 4:25 am: Awesome one.. I still don’t get the 12 though! :( Renuka 7 Jul 2009 11:56 am: 9/15. Bad! Awesome quizzes :-) Anup 4 Nov 2009 11:09 pm: Hurray, I made it. 15 on 15 mate :) Mohan 29 Nov 2009 5:54 pm: 13/15. unable to figure out 7 & :0( Naveen 5 Mar 2010 9:14 am: Finally !!! 11 took me time !!! finally 15/15!!ufff! tulsi priya 5 Dec 2011 4:17 pm: 12/15.. i really cant guess 3, 11 and 12 chethana jadhav 22 Nov 2011 5:57 am: 12/15… !!! took time to guess 10 th.. :( Akila 12 Dec 2012 10:10 am: 14/15…. couldn’t get 9 right.

2007 2

Classical Ilayaraja 15

This is the 15th 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. Dharmavathi is the 59th melakartha raagam. Sa Ri2 Ga2 Ma2 Pa Da2 Ni3 Sa as arohanam and the converse as avarohanam. It is the prathimadhyamam of Gowrimanohari (23rd melam). About couple of years ago Rahman tuned a superb Dharmavathi song in Vandicholai Chinnarasu. The song is sugam sugam vendum. I think the singer of the song is Vani Jayaram. It is one of the best songs that Rahman has tuned in his short career so far. It is a very sexy song. He starts the tune in the madhyama sthayi like Sa Ga Sa Ga, with a very very prominent chord sequences in the background. While another song from the same movie became a good hit (senthamizh naatu thamizhacheeyE sung by the late Shahul Ameed), this lovely song based on a pure classical raagam did not become a hit. Earlier, Rahman has tuned one more Dharmavathi in the movie Gentleman. The song is ottagathai kattikko, which came as an unbelievable melody in that movie with a fantastic rhythm played in the pukka South Indian instrument “thavil”. ...

Top Tamil songs

Since I like Tamil songs and statistics so much, I did some analysis on the ~1,400 Tamil songs I'd listened to in 2006. The trends are around the length of a typical film song are interesting. For example: Songs have gotten longer over time. On average, a song in the 60s was 4 minutes. A song in the 2000s is 5 minutes. Each decade adds about 14 seconds to the length of a song. ...