The music for the drama is kind of, well, hard to define. If I know what exactly I should be playing then I can practise it and master it. But then this one is kind of new to me, so I am trying to figure out what all I should be playing. Mostly, it will be chords and drum rolls here and there. But then it sounds kind of incomplete and unimportant. What am I going to do between the scenes? I have only two or three songs for that. There is only one more week to go. What will I do? I wanted to give a good performance and all that, but then, there is not much time. I spent way too much time for the tamil light music show - that was only five songs. The hindi show went much better and now there is this one. People are working pretty hard for this drama. There is not much expectations from them as to what I'll perform, but still I like to keep up my reputation. The rest are all some older generation people who are not too much into Rahman or Rajni. The movie trivia questions that I've prepared contain mostly Rajni related questions and music related questions that pertain to the 90's. Don't know how the audience will take it.
Anyways, I've been watching this "Veerapandiya Kattabomman" movie almost every night - well, not the whole movie, but parts of it that I really like. I have discovered that it is entirely possible to fully articulate your thoughts in Tamil, with just a few sentences. You know tamil is one of the 7 classic languages in the whole world. And it is still being spoken you know! How great is that - I definitely feel proud about it. Somehow people like me, I mean people who are from TamilNadu - they are very keen on safeguarding the language - any small threat to their language, they get all very offended and become defensive. Can you blame them? :)
This movie is probably one of the best examples. During the climax, Sivaji summarizes the British rule, their arrogance, the pride of Indians and their rich country blah blah in just ten sentences or so. Ten very effective sentences I should say! Sample dialogues:
English: Andha sooriyanum engalai kettuthaan ezhum, vizhum. appadi irukka unakku yen indha veen pidivaadham?
VK: Andha kathayai inge vidathe appane. Sorriyane vendam endru oru aanpillai enna, oru penne ninaithu virattiya kathaigal ingu yeralamaga undu. Veru engeyavathu poi sol indha kathaiayai.
I can keep going on with the dialogues. Just amazing buddy - you got to watch this movie. Also, the song 'inbam pongum vennila' is quite amazing also :)
Anyways, I've been watching this "Veerapandiya Kattabomman" movie almost every night - well, not the whole movie, but parts of it that I really like. I have discovered that it is entirely possible to fully articulate your thoughts in Tamil, with just a few sentences. You know tamil is one of the 7 classic languages in the whole world. And it is still being spoken you know! How great is that - I definitely feel proud about it. Somehow people like me, I mean people who are from TamilNadu - they are very keen on safeguarding the language - any small threat to their language, they get all very offended and become defensive. Can you blame them? :)
This movie is probably one of the best examples. During the climax, Sivaji summarizes the British rule, their arrogance, the pride of Indians and their rich country blah blah in just ten sentences or so. Ten very effective sentences I should say! Sample dialogues:
English: Andha sooriyanum engalai kettuthaan ezhum, vizhum. appadi irukka unakku yen indha veen pidivaadham?
VK: Andha kathayai inge vidathe appane. Sorriyane vendam endru oru aanpillai enna, oru penne ninaithu virattiya kathaigal ingu yeralamaga undu. Veru engeyavathu poi sol indha kathaiayai.
I can keep going on with the dialogues. Just amazing buddy - you got to watch this movie. Also, the song 'inbam pongum vennila' is quite amazing also :)
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