26 Sep, 2008
Music review: Vaaranam Aayiram (Tamil – Harris Jeyaraj)
Posted by: Karthik In: Tamil OST
Sudha Raghunathan replaces steady favorite, Bombay Jayashree in Anal mele – a soft, heavenly track who’s tune and focused vocals create a fabulously ambient concoction. The mild backgrounds reminiscent of old Telugu numbers, is incredible. The George Michael-Faith inspired Mundhinam and Nenjukkul are breezy – brings that spring in our feet as we sing along, engrossed in the tunes. Oh Shanti, Nenjukkul’s faster, rockier variant too is engaging! The rock base of Adiye kolludhey, with excellent vocals by Krish, Benny and Shruthi is aptly catchy while the Rai-styled Yethi yethi is rousing and addictive. The most interesting track is however, Ava enna, with a disparate, apologetically mild kuthu base which shifts to a somber mood mid way, after a brief operatic struggle! Vaaranam Aayiram’s soundtrack is a fantastic example of a set of mesmerizing tunes used with the right vocals and appropriate backgrounds, making a solid impact. Harris Jeyaraj springs a complete surprise – surprising because Harris’ few recent ventures were painfully monotonous and unsurprising because it is a Gowtham Menon film. But make no mistake – this soundtrack incorporates every trick we’ve come to love Harris for; but the composer uses them in the best way for maximum appeal!
Keywords: Surya, Sameera Reddy, Dhivya Spandana, Ramya, Simran, Gowtham Menon, Vaaranam Aayiram, Varanam Ayiram, Harris Jeyaraj, Harris Jayaraj
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1 | viraajan
September 26th, 2008 at 9:42 pm
This time am pretty sure. Delayed review
But excellent review indeed. Worth the wait
Betw,
Not even one single line about Thamarai
Extraordinary lyrics in Mundhinam and Nenjukkul. Wow… Kudos to Thamarai.
Yes, Harris once again proves that he strikes the right chord in choosing the singers.
Great job by Harris. Can i call it the best album of the year (atleast so far) ?
2 | SRINIVAS
September 26th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
Delayed but good review …… couldn’t resist this line however — “this soundtrack incorporates every trick we’ve come to love Harris for; but the composer uses them in the best way for maximum appeal! “
3 | SRINIVAS
September 26th, 2008 at 9:52 pm
Thamarai fills that void left by Vairamuthu in Tamil Cinema
4 | Das Prakash
September 26th, 2008 at 10:04 pm
Glowing Review! The credit must go to Gowtham for making HJ work very hard in this album. btw, what tricks? Are you mentioning abt his rehashing & re-engineering abilities on std. rhythms and making it sound fresh?
5 | Karthik
September 26th, 2008 at 10:17 pm
Tricks? The melodic hooks that are so unique and typical of HJ – the ones that even kids can go, ‘aah, HJ?’! But, he seems to have used them smartly this time!
6 | ohwhatever
September 26th, 2008 at 10:53 pm
Any idea about the 2 other songs (Ragasiyam endru & Meela mudiyamal) that were available (along with Adiyae Kolludhae) online since about May-June. They arent part of the OST?
7 | xxemoxx
September 27th, 2008 at 12:15 am
great review,liked it
harris has done a pretty good job… hope he does the same in his forthcoming films too 
all the songs are pretty good espcly ‘ava enna’. therz sumthin really nice about that song
great lyrix too !!
pretty good album…prolly te best till now this year i guess.
which track is your personal fav?
8 | arunmanian
September 27th, 2008 at 1:11 am
I personally like Adiye kolluthey for the energy…
and Oh! Shanthi… SPB sounds great…
but somehow i have a deja vu feeling when i listen to the songs… probably its just me…
9 | deepak
September 27th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
Wow….what an album….Oh! shanthi is triggering my energy levels that I am addicted to it and of course its my pick of the album…The album enthralls me to the core….I want many more seasonally different albums from Harris…
10 | ckannan90
September 27th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
The tracks which were available online earlier aren’t even from Vaaranam Aayiram, somehow this rumour has been spread by even Musicindiaonline who have these tracks on their site.
Ragasiyam is a beautiful song composed by the wonderful ppl at TSJ studios. You can visit their site here : http://blog.tsjstudio.com/
You can also listen to their other songs, equally amazing.
I’m not sure who composed Meela Mudiyamal, it is slightly amateur, but sounded a bit promising. If anybody finds out, do reply to this thread.
11 | ohwhatever
September 28th, 2008 at 2:10 am
Thank you ckannan90! Makes sense…yes Meela mudiyamal did sound a bit unpolished and I had already started giving HJ negative points for that! Makes sense!
Ragasiyam is pretty good and I did think HJ did a fantastic job there…well kudos to the TSJ guys! Great song!
12 | Arun
September 28th, 2008 at 8:33 am
Excellent album! Love ‘Annul Melae’ & ‘Mundhinam’! Shruthi makes a fab. debut with ‘Adiyae Kolluthey’.
13 | SRINIVAS
September 28th, 2008 at 10:15 am
TSJ guys have a done a great job … so have those who came up with Meela Mudiayamal ..songs are good ..guess they should come forward with their entire collection
14 | sam
September 28th, 2008 at 11:10 am
Good review..
HJ is at his best.. The thing I like about his music is that it is always smooth flowing.. no hiccups, no peaks and valleys.. easy on the ears. I can often play all his songs in a shuffle mode without having a to skip a single song.. I can’t say the samething about other composers.. Keep it going Harris..
15 | cskk03
September 28th, 2008 at 8:23 pm
“ava enna” song definitely sounds lik a pathos gana song… the lyrics seems to be so…. its only because of sudha ragunathan, “anal mele” song stands out….rest of the songs r usual harris stuff…(i dint lik adiye kolluthe’s finishing though)
16 | Sanjeevi
September 28th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
Very good album indeed but
* I am getting bored while listening some songs including Adiye Kolluthey
* Munthinam and Adiye kolluthey are heavily inspired or quite copied songs
* Listening some songs sounds like mixing non-continous musical/song bits
17 | gk1234
October 2nd, 2008 at 8:20 pm
adiye kolluthey a littile inspired from ac/dc’s love bomb….not very sure though…bt d startin sounds similar……
18 | en_arvind
October 5th, 2008 at 11:04 pm
Adiye Kolludey is heavily inspired from “Yendrendrum Punnagai” from Alaipayuthey…particularly the rock-like first stanza ..wondering how you missed the so obvious “inspiration”.
Mumdhinam’s guitars are copied from George Micahel’s “Faith”
HJ continues to re-engineer and re hash his old tunes tricks but still he manages to get a good review !! If ARR uses even a small instrument bit in his songs again, there would be a furore in the blogosphere and reviewers about how ARR has become repetitive !
19 | SRINIVAS
October 10th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
ARR is almost absent from Tamil Cinema ..and when he does come he recycles his tunes from Hindi ..
Great MD and potential is obvious , but he is not very keen to do Tamil films and that shows in his output . … very medicore by his own standards .
ARR lost Vairamuthu and Harris has Thamarai and that makes a huge difference ..
Blaze cannot be a replacement for Vairamuthu ?. . .
20 | deepak
October 13th, 2008 at 11:35 pm
We really can’t blame Rahman for not concentrating in the south bcos there is a lot of admiration and hope in the bollywood.. Also there is a lot of scope to get subjects more adaptable to his type of music..Yes I am sure Harris has succesfully filled the absence of Rahman in south…
21 | Dhruv
October 25th, 2008 at 11:56 am
Karthik, do you ever contemplate reviewing ‘dubbed’ albums?
In this case, Surya s/o Krishnan, the telugu version of Vaaranam Aayiram.. Shruti Hassan should have sung the Telugu ‘Adiye kolludhey’ 
22 | Arumugam
October 25th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
The Telugu version of ‘Adiyae Kolluthey’, ‘Yedhane Koiyyake’, is not sung by Shruthi Hassan, but by Bhargavi Pillai!
23 | Dhruv
October 26th, 2008 at 8:16 am
I know! That’s precisely what I was complaining about! I said Shruti ‘should have’ sung it
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