I don’t think Ilaiyaraaja believes that his music is enough to experience a movie. You could say that listening to Onayum Aatukuttiyum score or any score before watching the movie is like listening to The Music Messiah album. However, I don’t think Ilaiyaraaja wants us to relive those movies while listening to this album. And I could hear cues from Pithamagan too. I know that themes from the Malayalam film Guru has been used, but I haven’t seen Guru. The Music Messiah is the score of a film that never got made. You paint your own image in your mind from the music, deriving from your past experience of watching movies and listening - consciously or unconsciously - to a film score. Ilaiyaraaja did demand us to make our own movie in our mind with his experimental instrumental album The Music Messiah, where you don’t have any visuals to help you decipher the narrative arc. I am not sure if I agree with that assessment. Mysskin claims that Ilaiyaraaja’s music by itself can narrate the story, and there is no need for the visuals. Mysskin coined the term “Munnani Isai” (foreground music) for Ilaiyaraaja’s score for Onayum Aatukuttiyum.
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