Gems of Ilayaraaja- Kaadhal Oviyam ( Cover version) with Narayanan Raju

Mohammed Ashraf said

Meera, I’m glad to be the first one here, but not the best one, of course :). A nice melody and well done by you as usual. Do u know anything more about the singer Jency? Just curious……

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Anu Gopal said

Beautiful singing by both of you. Great mixing. Please do more duets like this.

Guys, how about this song from Rhythm – Kaatre en vaasal vandai. Try it sometime. I think the track’s available on esnips. Would appreciate it.

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Dhiraj Barla said

Hmm I know this song this is one of my favs. Maatey Manthramo from Seethakokachiluka in Telugu.

Meera and Narayanan,

You both have sung this really well, I was expecting S.P. Balu kind of a voice, but figured out that it was sung by Ilayaraja in Tamil. Mixing/feel/emotions everything is right in this song. Keep up the good work guys.

Prem Abraham said

Meera – You have started to sound very professional. Keep it up.

I also think it is time for most of the senior singers including you to challenge yourselves from not being just karaoke singers. What I would like to hear is not just a lame repetition of the same film song, but a completely different version of the song. Obviously, you don’t have the facility to change the arrangements to your liking, but atleast you should try to sing the same notes in a different style. I’m not talking about subtle changes here and there, but modifications on the existing melody.
Initially keep the same pallavi, atleast try changing the charanams. It is going to be a little challenging and the results are not going to be everyone’s liking, but the listeners will have something new to listen to. Think about it. You all being exceptionally talented I’m sure it will come good.

Prem Abraham said

Ashraf – Looks like Jency is a music teacher at a school in Kerala. I always wondered how she got into film music, from like out of the blue. It seems her brother is guitarist who works in the same field. Not sure whether he was in IR’s team, but nevertheless that is the connection. Speaking of filmdom to teaching, Jerry Amaldev also works as a music teacher at a school in Kerala.

Ramya Harish said

Good one:)
Meera, Lovely track. Great Job. Loved the harmonies.
Narayanan, Great beginning. Your interpretation was quiet different frm the original, nevertheless good. Still I missed some nuances in places like ‘Mogam theerave’. Sounded like Surendar’s version to me.

Cheers:)
Ramya

Arun Raja said

Good job guyz… Narayanan- do you have any solos here in Muziboo?

Murali Venkatraman said

Very Good job on harmonies and shlokam.
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Narayana :

It appears like you have converted some of the gamakams into sangathis in some places or may be I don’t remember all the nuances of the original.

ThedinEn oh…en jeevanE -

1. I think the Ohs have more gamakam than sangthis
2. thEdinen – There is more curve at the end of “En”

Mogam theeravE – theeravE seekkirama theerndhu pOchu :-) a little more sustenance is welcome.

And why inhibit yourself ? Be vocal when you are singing (pun intended).

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Meera:

There is more nasality in your tone than in the earlier blogging days. Are you constraining your voice ? If you do that, it will start shrinking.

Rashmi Nair said

Excellent rendition, Meera & Narayanan. Your voices blended very well. Loved it.

~Rashmi~

Pls listen to Sundariye Chembaka Malare (Malayalam Cover) -Duet with Jo.

Subbu said

Outstanding rendition….and Meera thanks a ton for taking the request.

one of first songs I learnt guitar rhythm for (thanks to Kishmu)and the highlight of this song is use of Maj7th and minor6th chords in the charanam.The line thaedinaen…….has DM7, where in the raise in pitch to naen……reaches the flatted seventh note and stays there w/o touching the 7th actually,creating a beautiful tension,precisely done by IR……Meera felt you have done it exactly like in Thaangumo……felt Narayana has done it like a dominant 7th by reaching the 7th note straight.That said it sounded nice too.Just loved the Pallavi as rendered by Narayana

over all enjoyed it to the core.

Regards,
Subbu.
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Krishna Tangirala said

Meera and Narayanan,

Excellent job! I have listened to this song atleast 10-15 times continuously!

Murali captured all the comments I had in mind. Narayana’s rendition was falling short on few gamakams, especially the “Mogum….” part in the second charanam.

I loved the veda ucchaarana and harmonies following.

Meera, looking forward to singing this song with you :) Loved your voice!

Srujana Nadella said

Good rendition….of the song.Hats off!!! to both of you.

Vamsi Nadella said

Excellent you guys!!! Great job. Loved it!! The track is excellent (no noise at all). Good job who ever found it.

Meera: Your voice is sounding a lot different in this song (in a good way)!! Does Jency’s voice sound that way in the song. I did not listen to the Tamil version ever.

Narayanan: +’s: Superb dude!! Just loved your voice and expressions. Very suitable for this song. I know this song rendered by SPB. so you matched him.
Question: In the slokam…Your "Sa"thendriya
sounded a little different. is it right or did you mis pronounce it?
-‘s: agree with Murali’s observation. People have already pointed it out.

Excellent job you both. You both HAVE TO do more duets.

Check out my first song here
Please do comment. They help me encourage and improve.

Narayanan Raju said

First of all, thanks to Meera for getting me to do this song. And many thanks to all of you for your comments and feedback. I will work to improve in future renditions.

Smitha Passanha said

This was very nice! Loved Narayanan’s singing. Meera – U were good as usual. Hope to hear more from u!

- Smitha

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Kumar Srinivasan said

One of my favorites from the 80s. Good singing Meera and Narayanan.
Narayanan modified some of the sangathis but it sounded good. Enjoyed listening to this
-Kumar.

Srividya Kasturi said

Very nicely rendered!!

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Surajit Chatterjee said

Excellent work, Meera & Narayanan. Both of you sound so good and in perfect sync. I don’t understand the language but one thing I do understand is that you guys are totally in sur, laay and taal, etc. It sounds so sweet. Congrats, guys……

Krishna Tangirala said

Vamsi,
I agree with your comments on the Veda uccharana. I noticed that too. may be we can ask Nari later. :)

Psychuck said

This song is one of the trickiest one from Ilayaraja and is driven entirely by the music in that the lay-ins depend on the interlude and background music for support. Considering that you guys did an excellent job even with a bad track.

I particularly liked Meera’s voice and Narayana’s expression. Difficult song but you guys pulled it off. Commendable job.

Again, dont let the comments that compare your rendition to the original affect you. You guys made this song your own with your rendition and your own “andaaz” – a mark of a good singer.

N.gopinath said

Very nice song.

Both of you have sung very well. Very good expressive singing, Meera’s voice was especially superb…

Good luck

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Rajesh Raman said

Great singing both of you…. Slokam, Harmonies & Pallavi was the best in the whole song

Meera – You voice is litte strained on the high notes.Probably a lesser scale is more comfortable for you?

Narayanan- very expressive singing.!Liked the ‘Smile’ on pallavi ‘Paadum’ kaviyam very much…

Keep Singing!
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Ramyaa Narayanan said

Nice cover guys….
Meera I liked your voice in the song very much…
Narayanan nice singing. Could have added little more expressions in some places…

Over all good attempt.

-Ramyaa

Srini S (bye bye friends) said

beautiful song pick,loved it in ur voices.Tough not
ation.Gud feel,keep them coming.all the best.

srinivasan.s

Srini S (bye bye friends) said

Loved the k-track

srinivasan.s

Balaji Seetharaman said

Meera, very well sung. Pleasing meera but having heard to your newest works, this one has a little scope :P …… The ending notes cud ve been free flowing.

Gency’s voice suits well on these dream songs & situations, her range being very good. IR never tried her in these real challenging numbers maybe she was a little underused ? maybe !

Smooth male vocals, could ve been a little crisp. Good singing.
Cheers,
Balaji S

Venkat S said

One of the evergreen love songs of Tamil flim. IR & Jency were too good in this song.

You two have done really well. Thanks for bringing this number. Thanks to
Subbu as well. Subbu was bang on this observation. He is a big fan of IR, it will be nice and intersting to listen to him talking about IR and his compositions. Too much of an information… very modest as well.

Liked it. Looking forward to more such numbers from you…Meera…

cheers,
Venkat

Premkumar said

hi i just liked the way u both sung. good soothing voice. on the top happy to see my old frnd ashraf sending comments abt the song. he is a good singer we use to share good time in gulf, sure one day ashraf would become a known singer.by the way good luck to u guys. pls let me know hw to mix songs. mee to a bit of bathroom singer ya.lol

Abhinay Natarajan said

Awesomeee work! do you mind sharing the track?

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Satheesh Kumar nair (evanescing) said

wah !!!, better than original !!! hats off to both
meera and narayan !!!

Chander Raju said

Meera…to my favorites :) IR’s magic once again….what a orchestration. Western patterns on Indian classical

Raja said

very nice meeraaaaa

Avinash said

wow!! one of my fav songs… really soothing and great rendition… kudos to both of you :)