It is a bit late to review this album and the movie also got released.as everyone know the movie is a boxoffice hit.i believe that a song is good only if it blends well with the situation in the movie in that way pithamagan album excels in nativity and enhances the feel of the movie. coming to the songs
1)Pirayae
the song is penned by vaalee.the song describes a birth of cremator in the gravey yard.The song is really very melodoius with a female humming in the beginning followed by a male voice-Madhubalakrishna.He has an excellent base voice similar to yesudas.he has delivered the feel of the song well.no body can use the flute so brilliantly than illayaraja.
2)Elangathu
the song is penned by palani bharathi.The lines are very simple that even a commonman could understand and effective.the orchestarion of the song is excellent in the begium.it is great relief to hear a song without any english word . sung by sriram parthasarathy and shreya ghosal(in recent times she has been offered many songs by illayaraja and I could not believe that she doesn’t know tamil.a bit of information -she has got national award for best female singer 2002 for devdas).though it has some traces of the song in solla maratha kadhai it deserves appreciation.the melody king has prooved it again.
3)Adada
the song is penned by mu.metha.very strong lyrics with indepth meaning.in recent times I haven’t heard song that is very much deep in language .the percussions are very well used in this song.k.j.yesdas-it is nice to hear his voice again in illayaraj’s music.the track of this song is being played in the trailer of the movie.it is a pretty good song.
4)Kodi yethi
this song is also nice blend os various age gropus.i thought this would be a song during village festival but this song was not there in the movie.the part I like the most in this song is the ending track that is very traditionalvillage music.it is only illayaraja who can give songs close to villge traditions.
5)the medly of old songs-nice all the songs are super hit songs of 60’s and 70’s.
a bit about background score of the movie
the background score of the movie is mind blowing.it is very easy to score a song but it is very diffcult to score background convincinlgy for a movie.As far as pithamagan, he has done an excellent job and no where it disturbs the film instead it elevates the emotions of the characters in the movie.HATS OFF-MAESTRO YOU ARE UNBEATABLE.