Rahman said in one of his early interviews that he avoided listening to contemporary music as did not want to get influenced by that music. For our purposes to discuss Dharmavathi, I called ottagathai kattiko as Dharmavathi in this essay. In ottagathai kattikko, he very liberally uses both Ni2 and Ni3, making it difficult to bring it under either Hemavathi (58th melam) or Dharmavathi. Even though there is predominant use of Da2 in sugam sugam, in the charanam he uses Da3 Ni3 prayogam like Neethimathi raagam (60th melam). Of course, Rahman had exhibited the usual (predictable) “cinema musician’s tendency” of deviating from the raagam by using some foreign swaras in both the above songs.
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The song is ottagathai kattikko, which came as an unbelievable melody in that movie with a fantastic rhythm played in the pukka South Indian instrument “thavil”. Earlier, Rahman has tuned one more Dharmavathi in the movie Gentleman. While another song from the same movie became a good hit ( senthamizh naatu thamizhacheeyE sung by the late Shahul Ameed), this lovely song based on a pure classical raagam did not become a hit. He starts the tune in the madhyama sthayi like Sa Ga Sa Ga, with a very very prominent chord sequences in the background. It is one of the best songs that Rahman has tuned in his short career so far. I think the singer of the song is Vani Jayaram. About couple of years ago Rahman tuned a superb Dharmavathi song in Vandicholai Chinnarasu.
It is the prathimadhyamam of Gowrimanohari (23rd melam). Sa Ri2 Ga2 Ma2 Pa Da2 Ni3 Sa as arohanam and the converse as avarohanam. I’ve added links to the songs, so you can listen as you read.ĭharmavathi is the 59th melakartha raagam. This is the 15th of 15 articles titled Classical Ilayaraja appeared on Usenet in the 90s.
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