Comments for The Phoenix Rises http://nandhu.wordpress.com Movies, Mindspace and Me Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:34:20 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on Blue by nandhu http://nandhu.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/blue/#comment-1163 nandhu Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:34:20 +0000 http://nandhu.wordpress.com/?p=394#comment-1163 yuva was a bilingual film and i dont know what RHTDM is. but i think rahman takes his tamil tunes into hindi because it is convenient not to avoid copying by other composers yuva was a bilingual film and i dont know what RHTDM is. but i think rahman takes his tamil tunes into hindi because it is convenient not to avoid copying by other composers

]]> Comment on Blue by ms http://nandhu.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/blue/#comment-1162 ms Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:28:02 +0000 http://nandhu.wordpress.com/?p=394#comment-1162 i remember ThirudaThiruda! it was my first ar rahman offering and i have been a big fan of his pre-bollywood phase. the thing about producers here is that their bad taste tarnishes every creative urge! remember Roja? thankfully the hindi version kept most of the original tunes. i think rahman sir has become canny and launches the hindi versions of his tamil film songs BEFORE the bollywood creatures get "inspired" from his music! ditto RHTDM and Saathiya and Yuva - the original tamil songs made it to audiences up north. there have been a few gems even during this post-bolly phase: jodha akbar's "khwaja mere khwaja" and, i whisper this with embarrassment, "chiggy wiggy"!! i remember ThirudaThiruda! it was my first ar rahman offering and i have been a big fan of his pre-bollywood phase. the thing about producers here is that their bad taste tarnishes every creative urge! remember Roja? thankfully the hindi version kept most of the original tunes. i think rahman sir has become canny and launches the hindi versions of his tamil film songs BEFORE the bollywood creatures get “inspired” from his music! ditto RHTDM and Saathiya and Yuva – the original tamil songs made it to audiences up north. there have been a few gems even during this post-bolly phase: jodha akbar’s “khwaja mere khwaja” and, i whisper this with embarrassment, “chiggy wiggy”!!

]]> Comment on Raghuvaran: A personal tribute by Suresh George http://nandhu.wordpress.com/2008/03/22/raghuvaran-a-personal-tribute/#comment-1161 Suresh George Tue, 29 Sep 2009 05:47:07 +0000 http://nandhu.wordpress.com/?p=334#comment-1161 We ate together. We dreamt together. Sat at Taj and wrote a lot of scraps. He spent a lot of money paying my ISD charges narrating a script to a U.S based film agency. He always wanted me close and so did I. I enjoyed all those moments with him. We spent long long hours together on film-based chat with personal topics in leisure. I loved all what he did and he loved all what i did. I was almost dead when I heard that he was no more that fateful morning. When he cam home last, he told my younger son that the next time he comes home, he would with a remote toy plane. Raghu have you gone to get one? Or have you gone too far that return would be just impossible. Silent hours in my office where we sat and spoke PPO, I sit on the same couch you sat, with tears in my eyes thinking about you, believing that you would be doing the same from somewhere for all those unfulfilled film dreams which we wanted to achieve together and for which we worked very hard. I still have those papers which you dictated at St.George's. it did not mean much then, but means a lot to me now, not just sentimental but in great standards. Raghu, one day when I make regular movies, I have a wish, instead. I want Rishi to act for me and hope you would be so happy. You are still there very close to me in all that is conceived in my small brains except that your departure, slits my heart apart when I think of reality. I love you, Raghu and for all those wonderful and meaningful friendship we had. God bless you wherever you are. Thank you Nandhu for reminding me to write. It is painful for me. I did not go or even watch television, the day of his demise. As far as I'm concerned he is there with us. We ate together. We dreamt together. Sat at Taj and wrote a lot of scraps. He spent a lot of money paying my ISD charges narrating a script to a U.S based film agency. He always wanted me close and so did I. I enjoyed all those moments with him. We spent long long hours together on film-based chat with personal topics in leisure. I loved all what he did and he loved all what i did. I was almost dead when I heard that he was no more that fateful morning. When he cam home last, he told my younger son that the next time he comes home, he would with a remote toy plane. Raghu have you gone to get one? Or have you gone too far that return would be just impossible. Silent hours in my office where we sat and spoke PPO, I sit on the same couch you sat, with tears in my eyes thinking about you, believing that you would be doing the same from somewhere for all those unfulfilled film dreams which we wanted to achieve together and for which we worked very hard. I still have those papers which you dictated at St.George’s. it did not mean much then, but means a lot to me now, not just sentimental but in great standards. Raghu, one day when I make regular movies, I have a wish, instead. I want Rishi to act for me and hope you would be so happy. You are still there very close to me in all that is conceived in my small brains except that your departure, slits my heart apart when I think of reality. I love you, Raghu and for all those wonderful and meaningful friendship we had. God bless you wherever you are.

Thank you Nandhu for reminding me to write. It is painful for me. I did not go or even watch television, the day of his demise. As far as I’m concerned he is there with us.

]]> Comment on Falling in love….with Big City Chennai by ruth http://nandhu.wordpress.com/2006/04/22/falling-in-lovewith-big-city-chennai/#comment-1160 ruth Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:37:18 +0000 http://nandhu.wordpress.com/2006/04/22/falling-in-lovewith-big-city-chennai/#comment-1160 Loved this post, loved MCC, love Madras, love you! Loved this post, loved MCC, love Madras, love you!

]]> Comment on Woh Panch Din by Dilip Muralidaran http://nandhu.wordpress.com/2006/03/27/woh-panch-din/#comment-1158 Dilip Muralidaran Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:06:16 +0000 http://nandhu.wordpress.com/2006/03/27/woh-panch-din/#comment-1158 This is indeed a fantastic story. Lovely prose. This is indeed a fantastic story. Lovely prose.

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