Suresh Kumar
blogs from Bangalore
Latest posts by Suresh KumarI'm now doing a PhD at the Royal College of Music, London. On the experience of the audience attending Film-with-Live-Orchestra Concerts. On the accelerating audiovisual culture and its impact on live performance arts. I have made a sort of a film, a visual essay on my findings. I'd love to hear you...
Posted on 18 January 2022 | 12:26 pm
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Twenty minutes into the film Titanic, when Rose begins to recount the story, the camera slowly pans away from her close-up to the flickering screens behind. We see the video footage of the corroded remnants of the sunken ship. The flashback begins. The debris gradually peels off its rust and scar to...
Posted on 23 July 2020 | 11:37 am
Read postI was eight when I watched my first English film. Like most other mofussil town millennials growing up in India, Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park was my first English film too. At the time, I didn't yet have the ear to differentiate John Williams' rapturous score from T. Rex's thunderous roar, among...
Posted on 17 August 2019 | 8:18 am
Read postIlaiyaraaja's in-character singing apart, Kudhikkira Kudhikkira song's melody and rhythm have an innate innocence, chirpiness and charm from the beginning. When you listen to the flow of melody in the lines "Rotti Vaikatta, Jodi Katti Vaikatta" and its sync with the beats underneath, you understand...
Posted on 23 March 2011 | 11:05 pm
Read postBuy the Printed Book Buy the e-book Buy Kindle Edition A reader's Review of the book laiyaraaja is the first composer to win a National Film Award in the newly instituted 'Best Background Score' category. The Award was given, not just because Ilaiyaraaja's score for the Malayalam film "Keralavarma P...
Posted on 20 March 2011 | 9:56 am
Read postLove-making songs in films are getting more and more interesting nowadays. A new template that fits the shifts in the emotions of the situation is slowly evolving for such songs. The song begins with a slow rhythm, mild arrangements, and voices tenderly render the lines - almost like a seductive whi...
Posted on 7 October 2010 | 12:02 pm
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