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thanks. i dont know what happened to me, but the amount of time i spent on TIS is unbelievable. now that Ilistened to the songs probably 100 times, i dont even need the CD anymore. It just ringining in my brain.
I have asked Sound Engineer Ashok Shukla (for more than 100 hindi films and sound engineer for "OOmail Vizhigal" - he is an adherent fan of IR and he rank IR at the top of MDs followed by RDB) to review TIS CD. After 3 days, I called him to get the review and he said "I am still not over with the first two songs. Its hard to review, since each time I wanted to take a note, I am into the music, so I forget myself. give me couple of more days". Then I asked him "which song" and he said "both 1 and 2, it need multiple listening to understand"
Few NI customers bought it because I decorated my shop with TIS pictures, and ONLY TIS CD behind counter. they dont know IR but they came know the minute I say MD for Sadma. I will be getting reviews from this people.
If you are on tfm/yahoo group of IR, join. Different people are viewing TIS differently. There was a comparision between "Kothumbi" song and another song of Bach (called Flying bee) and that kindled few technical discussion and comparision between Bach and IR and the discussions are really great.
Last, just to divert you from TIS (and still keep you with IR), listen to it
http://www.danceage.com/media/276-Black ... ephunk.php 
Go to 11th song (Elephant Phunk Theme)
The song is from the movie Raghavendra (Rajni starrer) and its amazing how they "lifted" the tune!