Oru Odai Nadhiyagirathu (lit. ‘A stream becomes a river’) is a 1983 Indian Tamil-language feature film, written, produced and directed by C. V. Sridhar and starring Raghuvaran.The female leads were Sumalatha and Manochitra (daughter of T. S. Balaiah).
- The highly successful soundtrack for Oru Odai Nadhiyagirathu was composed by Maestro Ilaiyaraaja. And DMC Have Excellent LP Vinyl Record Puplished by Echo.
Plot
Oru Odai Nadhiyagirathu – Raghuvaran visits his friend’s place on a tour and one night he happens to see a woman while he was returning from a party. On that rainy night, he rapes her and leaves.
He speaks about this incident to his friend and his friend advises him not to search for that girl, as she would have forgotten it. Haunted by guilty feelings, Raghuvaran searches for her later, but is unable to find her.
Meanwhile, the woman (Sumalatha) becomes pregnant and unable to come in terms with this incident, she leaves that place with her father (Prathapachandran). In a new place, she gives birth to a boy, and she tries to search for Raghuvaran, even though she never recalls his face from that dreaded rainy night.
Later, Raghuvaran marries Manochitra as everyone forces him, even though he is still fond of Sumalatha, the woman he raped. Whether Sumalatha finds Raghuvaran and what happens to Manochitra, or whether Raghuvaran identifies his son forms the climax.
- The highly successful soundtrack for Oru Odai Nadhiyagirathu was composed by Maestro Ilaiyaraaja. And DMC Have Excellent LP Vinyl Record Puplished by Echo.
Cast
Oru Odai Nadhiyagirathu
- Raghuvaran
- Sumalatha
- Manochithra
- Prathapachandran
- Kathadi Ramamurthy
- M. R. Krishnamurthy
- Typist Gopu
- Anuradha
Soundtrack
| Oru Odai Nadhiyagirathu | |
|---|---|
| Film score | |
| Genre | Feature film soundtrack |
| Length | 26:38 |
| Label | Echo |
The highly successful soundtrack for Oru Odai Nadhiyagirathu was composed by Maestro Ilaiyaraaja and sung by S. P. Balasubramanyam, S. Janaki, Krishnachandran, Sasi Rekha and S. Rajeshwari.
The song “Thendral Ennai Muththam ittadhu” song is in Malayamarutam raga,”Kanavu Ondru” is set in Revati,and “Thalaiyai Kuniyum” is set in Reetigowla. And DMC Have Excellent LP Vinyl Record Puplished by Echo.
| # | Track | Singers | Lyrics |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “En Thegam Amudham” | S. Janaki | Vairamuthu |
| 2 | “Thalayai Kuniyum Thamaraye” | S. P. Balasubramanyam, S. Rajeswari | Vairamuthu |
| 3 | “Thendral Ennai Muththam” | Krishnachandran, B. S. Sasirekha | Vairamuthu |
| 4 | “Kanavu Ondru” | S. Janakien.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._Janaki | Vairamuthu |
| 5 | “Rathiri Pozhuthu” | P. Jayachandran, S. P. Sailaja | Gangai Amaran |
External links
- Oru Odai Nadhiyagirathu on IMDb
- The highly successful soundtrack for Oru Odai Nadhiyagirathu was composed by Maestro Ilaiyaraaja
- About Ilaiyaraja:
Gnanathesikan (born 2 June 1943), known as Ilaiyaraaja, is an Indian film composer, singer, songwriter, instrumentalist, orchestrator, conductor-arranger and lyricist who works in the Indian film industry, predominantly in Tamil and Telugu. He has also worked in Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi and Hindi films.
Widely regarded as one of the greatest Indian music composers of all time, he is credited with introducing Western musical sensibilities in the Indian film musical mainstream. Reputed to be the world’s most prolific composer, he has composed more than 7,000 songs, provided film scores for more than 1,000 movies and performed in more than 20,000 concerts.
Being the first Asian to compose a full symphony, Ilaiyaraaja is known to have written the entire symphony in less than a month. Ilaiyaraaja is nicknamed “Isaignani” (musical genius) and is often referred to as “maestro”, amongst others by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London.
He is known for integrating Indian folk music and traditional Indian instrumentation with western classical music techniques. Composed by Ilaiyaraaja, the critically acclaimed Thiruvasagam in Symphony (2006) is the first Indian oratorio.
He is a gold medalist in classical guitar from Trinity College of Music, London, Distance Learning Channel. His scores are often performed by the Budapest Symphony Orchestra.
Ilaiyaraaja is a recipient of five National Film Awards—three for Best Music Direction and two for Best Background Score. In 2012, he received the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award, the highest Indian recognition given to practising artists, for his creative and experimental works in the music field.
In 2010, he was awarded the Padma Bhushan, the third-highest civilian honour in India and the Padma Vibhushan in 2018, the second-highest civilian award by the government of India.
In a 2013 poll conducted by CNN-IBN celebrating 100 years of Indian cinema, Ilaiyaraaja was voted as the all-time greatest film-music director of India. American world cinema portal “Taste of Cinema” placed him at the 9th position in its list of 25 greatest film composers in the history of cinema, the only Indian in the list.
In 2003, according to an international poll conducted by BBC of more than half-a million people from 165 countries, his composition “Rakkamma Kaiya Thattu” from the 1991 film Thalapathi was voted fourth in the top 10 most popular songs of all time. One of his compositions was part of the playlist for the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics.
According to Achille Forler, board member of the Indian Performing Right Society, the kind of stellar body of work that Ilaiyaraaja has created in the last 40 years should have placed him among the world’s top 10 richest composers, somewhere between Andrew Lloyd Webber ($1.2 billion) and Mick Jagger (over $300 million).
Ilaiyaraaja receives the Padma Vibhushan from the President of India, Ram Nath Kovind.
Ilaiyaraaja is nicknamed “Isaignani” (the musical genius), a title conferred by Kalaignar Karunanidhi. He is often referred to as “maestro”, the prestigious title conferred by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London.
He was one of the earliest Indian film composers to use Western classical music harmonies and string arrangements in Indian film music. This allowed him to craft a rich tapestry of sounds for films, and his themes and background score gained notice and appreciation among Indian film audiences.
The range of expressive possibilities in Indian film music was broadened by Ilaiyaraaja’s methodical approach to arranging, recording technique, and his drawing of ideas from a diversity of musical styles.
Ilaiyaraaja is known to have written the entire symphony in less than a month, and is the first Asian to compose a full symphony. He is reputed to be the world’s most prolific composer having composed more than 7,000 songs, provided film scores for more than 1,000 movies and performed in more than 20,000 concerts.Composed by Ilaiyaraaja, the critically acclaimed Thiruvasagam in Symphony (2006) is the first Indian oratorio.
The highly successful soundtrack for Oru Odai Nadhiyagirathu was composed by Maestro Ilaiyaraja. And DMC Have Excellent LP Vinyl Record Puplished by Echo.
According to musicologist P. Greene, Ilaiyaraja’s “deep understanding of so many different styles of music allowed him to create syncretic pieces of music combining very different musical idioms in unified, coherent musical statements”.
Ilaiyaraja has composed Indian film songs that amalgamated elements of genres such as Afro-tribal, bossa nova, dance music (e.g., disco), doo-wop, flamenco, acoustic guitar-propelled Western folk, funk, Indian classical, Indian folk/traditional, jazz, march, pathos, pop, psychedelia and rock and roll.
- The highly successful soundtrack for Oru Odai Nadhiyagirathu was composed by Maestro Ilaiyaraaja. And DMC Have Excellent LP Vinyl Record Puplished by Echo.
By virtue of this variety and his intermingling of Western, Indian folk and Carnatic elements, Ilaiyaraja’s compositions appeal to the Indian rural dweller for its rhythmic folk qualities, the Indian classical music enthusiast for the employment of Carnatic Ragas, and the urbanite for its modern, Western-music sound.
Ilaiyaraja’s sense of visualization for composing music is always to match up with the story line of the running movie and possibly by doing so, he creates the best experience for the audience to feel the emotions flavored through his musical score.
He mastered this art of blending music to the narration, which very few others managed to adapt themselves over a longer time. Although Ilaiyaraja uses a range of complex compositional techniques, he often sketches out the basic melodic ideas for films in a very spontaneous fashion.
According to Achille Forler, board member of the Indian Performing Right Society, the kind of stellar body of work that Ilaiyaraja has created in the last 40 years should have placed him among the world’s top 10 richest composers, somewhere between Andrew Lloyd Webber ($1.2 billion) and Mick Jagger (over $300 million). The highly successful soundtrack for Oru Odai Nadhiyagirathu was composed by Maestro Ilaiyaraaja. And DMC Have Excellent LP Vinyl Record Puplished by Echo.
- Ilaiyaraja, in his first-ever composition for a corporate, composed an anthem for Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages (HCCB) in 2019.
- Ilaiyaraja has composed music for events such as the 1996 Miss World beauty pageant that was held in Bangalore, India.
- He composed music for a documentary called India 24 Hours in 1996.
- Ilaiyaraja has invented a new carnatic raaga popularly known as ‘Panchamukhi’ which is considered as one of his noteworthy works in the field of music.
- The score and soundtrack of the 1984 Malayalam film My Dear Kuttichathan, the first stereoscopic 3D film made in India, were composed by him.
- Ilaiyaraja composed the soundtrack for the movie Nayakan (1987), an Indian film ranked by Time magazine as one of the all-time 100 best movies,
- Ilaiyaraja has also composed for a number of India’s official entries to the Oscars, such as Swathi Muthyam (1986), Nayagan (1987), Thevar Magan (1992), Anjali (1990 film) Guru (1997) and Hey Ram (2000) and for Indian art films such as Adoor Gopalakrishnan’s FIPRESCI Prize-winning Nizhalkuthu (“The Shadow Kill”) (2002).
- In May 2020, he composed a song on humanity titled Bharath Bhoomi as a tribute to the people such as police, army, doctors, nurses and janitors who have been significantly working amid COVID-19 pandemic. The song was crooned by popular playback singer S. P Balahsubramaniyam and the video song was officially unveiled by Ilaiyaraja through his official YouTube account on 30 May 2020 in both Tamil and Hindi languages.
- Ilaiyaraja has been awarded five National Film Awards—three for Best Music Direction and two for Best Background Score. In 2010, he was awarded the Padma Bhushan, the third-highest civilian honour in India and the Padma Vibhushan in 2018, the second-highest civilian award by the government of India. In 2012, he received the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award, the highest Indian recognition given to practising artists, for his creative and experimental works in the music field. He is a gold medalist in classical guitar from Trinity College of Music, London, Distance Learning Channel.
- The highly successful soundtrack for Oru Odai Nadhiyagirathu was composed by Maestro Ilaiyaraaja. And DMC Have Excellent LP Vinyl Record Puplished by Echo.
- Ilaiyaraja still uses his old harmonium, be it while composing a song in his studio or on stage during a concert with which he has scored more than 7000 songs throughout his career.
- In 1986, Ilaiyaraja became the first Indian composer to record Indian film songs through computer for the film Vikram.
- Academy award-winning musician A.R.Rahman worked as a pianist in Ilaiyaraaja’s troupe and went on to work for nearly 500 movies in his troupe.
- Composer Salil Choudhury once said, “I think Ilaiyaraaja is going to become the best composer in India”.
- Director R. K. Selvamani claims that for his film Chembaruthi (1992) Ilaiyaraaja had composed nine songs in just 45 minutes, which is a record.
- Cinematographer Santosh Sivan claims that Ilaiyaraaja finished composing for the entire soundtrack of the movie Thalapathi in less than “half a day”.
- During the recording for the song “Sundari” from the movie Thalapathi in Mumbai with R.D. Burman’s orchestra, when Ilaiyaraja gave them the notes, they were so moved and taken in by the composition that all the musicians put their hands together in awe and gave a standing ovation as a mark of respect for Ilaiyaraaja.
- Ilaiyaraja claimed he is the only composer in the world to have composed a song in the ascending notes.
