Pudhiya Mugam - Waste of time !

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I wasted 35 $ along with 3 precious hours today !

Yeah, I watched a Malayalam movie 'Pudhiya Mugam', which I thought would be good, based on just one Super hit song 'Picha Vecha Naal'.

Learnt a well deserved lesson ! The movie was nothing short of 'C**P'!

But for the songs, re-recording and cinematography, not to forget decent acting by Prithiviraj, this movie is not worth watching.

The movie started with a bang and then within 30 minutes, right after the super song 'Picha Vecha Naal', became stale. Typical Masala !!

The language barrier

There is a debate in the 'Mallu' music world about the latest super hit song 'Picha Vecha Naal'.

It revolves around 'Shankar Mahadeven' the versatile singer, who has sung this Malayalam song from the movie 'Puthiya Mugam'.

Many feel that the pronunciation is bad !! The consensus is that Shankar has done a great job with the 'Feel' ...but missed out in pronunciation.

That's makes me wonder. Why didn't Deepak Dev ask a Mallu singer to sing this song...why Shankar?

Honestly, I don't know why.

I've seen this happen in Tamil for a long long time ! Music directors would prefer a Sadhana Sargam or a Shreya Ghosal or a Sonu Nigam or a Udit Narayan to tons of local singers ! Result - songs with pathetic Tamil pronunciation.

Why ? Is it the Money? No idea !!

Look at Hindi on the other hand. It's hard for a singer like Chinmayi / Benny Dayal to get more opportunities in Hindi. I doubt if anyone would give them a chance outside AR. RAHMAN ?

However - I am surprised how Rahman manages to dominate Bollywood !

Why is the non-Hindi audience more receptive to non-native singers? Can someone help me please?

Jo's Version of PICHA VECHA - Rocks

This song is in repeat mode at home these days.

Everyday, I watch this song at least once in my DVR.

Jo has his version in his blog today. Check it out and give him a big hand !!

I am sure a whole bunch of singers are going to sing this song in their blogs..thanks to the amazing Karaoke that came as a part of the original album !!

Picha Vecha - Inspired by ?

THANK YOU - KRISHNAN PRASAD

for letting me know about the song that inspired Deepak Dev to create ' Picha vecha NaaL'

Deepak Dev

Deepak Dev - Malayalam music industry must be proud to have a MD like Deepak. I fell in love with his music, the first time I listened to 'Thumbi kinaaram' from Naran.

His latest from 'Pudhiya Mugam', 'Picha Vecha' is probably breaking records in Kerala already, if what I see on the Malayalam TV channels is any indication.

Here is the beautiful song - sung by Deepak first and then the one from the movie. I am very impressed at Deepak's singing, not to mention the reactions of Mr.Alphonse and my favorite M.Jayachandran !