haven't quite got what I meant in the headline tag????...i am duty bound to put that term into proper explanation....:-))...
I remember seeing the "Making of the Song - Pori"......aired on TV, a special programme for Diwali...what stuck chord in the program and made me yearn for this song was the supreme novellness of the lyrics....
the theme of the song is to list out all small moments of joy-abound that one gets like...
a) getting a Window seat in a bus,
b) A hot tea on a rainy afternoon,
and the lyricist YugaBharathi goes on...and lists around 20+ such niceties et petite titbits...and compiled a song out of it...
The novelty doesn't end there...the song was composed on the fly with the director of the film, the music director Dhina and the lyricist YugaBharathi...in one sitting!!!...on TV...:-)
The song had a good soul-searching tune...and was quite hummable the instant you heard it...and to top it...the song-recording of it was also picturised for the 30 minute TV show....which generated quite an interest for the song...atleast in me....and I waited for the film PORI (a Jeeva Starrer) to get released...ever since I saw this 3 months back..
And..now when I see the song on screen in TV...I was filled with nothing but a pathetic feel....simply pathetic to say the least....what a good theme-lyric...had defintely demanded a innovative picturisation....the song was picturised as a run-of-the-mill duet...which it wasn't atleast by the merit of the lyrics that went behind it.....
I wonder where these people...that is directors..who completely screw up such good songs....learn their trade from...Sorry...this is listless a show....which I bet, even I had pictured a much better way in my mind as soon as I saw the show on TV.....
and lemme tell you..this is not the first song that I get this paranoia feel...there have been numerous songs where I have felt the video to be a major let down for the actual merit of the audio....A prominent example being....
PUSHING IT HARD from the film Kanda Naal Mudhal.....wow...what a song it was to listen in the album...and my jaws dropped onto the floor when I actually saw the video in the movie....simply shameless picturisation....
atleast the Music Directors...would definetely have a feel of how a song should be ...be it Yuvan who was the loser in the later example...and Dhina the loser in the former example....they should be able to suggest the director before hand about how he picturised the song, while composing.....that would give a good measure of the life in the song for the director....
thats where directors like Shankar score double hundreds..who work the other way...by clearly spitting out what they want out of the song, from both the lyricist..and the music composer...so you atleast dont have the imbalance of who screwed things...its invariably the director if at all it screws big time...which hasn't been the case with Shankar till date...
need to meet shankar one day and discuss such things all day!!!!...will wait for the day!!!!..
But Sorry, Pori-Folks....I am disappointed to say the least..please put a blog on HOWTO-SCREW-A-SONG-WITH-JUST-1-MINDLESS-DIRECTOR....
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