Pick of the week: 1 Mar to 5 Aug 2006

[Naaz]

Aanandhame Alaipayudhe....exactly my feeling on listening to this solo after nearly two decades! How do you manage to unearth these fine, lost treaures? It baffles me - pleasantly! (Can we expect Kadalodu Nadhikenna Kobam sometime? Or Raagangal Padhinaaru? Or Veenai Paesum Adhai Meetum Viralgalai Kandu? Or - this one has been a long time quest - Malaichaaralil Ilam Poonguyil? See how greedy I can be!!)

Ramki -
Did you get a message with a songfile from me a few weeks ago? Could you please confirm? Thanks.

[Ramki]

Naaz your song is up next

[Naaz]

Ramki -

I was only seeking a confirmation. There have been times when some of my messages/files have not reached their destination.
Thanks for the reply. I didn't mean to rush you.
Look forward to listening to it here.

[Thiru]

Nice song.. first time ippo thaan kekkaren... has SPB modulated his voice or is it the quality of the audio that makes it sound different? SPB voice sounds different initially..

[Ramki]

T i think its the quality..this is the best i could manage from a very poor file

[Ramki]

Pick # 74


http://tfmpage.com/stream/songs/thedi_sl.rm

Song: thedinen pudhiya
Film: ShankarLal
Singer: Malaysia Vasudevan
Lyrics: Gangai Amaran ?
Music : iLaiyaraja

Thanks to Naaz for sending this beauty. He writes:

If Malaysia Vasudevan were wine, he’d be Chilean. Red,
of course.
Robust in it’s wrestling of the palate, and an after
taste that’s muscular, unapologetic, with zero
vulnerability.
Wine for and just like the vintner that grew the
grapes: you can smell a richness of soil in the crush
- big and rugged.

But here, in this song, MVD is Spanish Rioja, light
and bracing like the early mists baked by the Seville
sun, wafting down red-tiled hacienda roofs to cloak
the yards.
The notes bear with them a hint of the past, a
snatched memory of Anbe Vaa and Pudhiya Vaanam, a ray
kissed bouquet of laughter and forgetting.
The composition, an early IR effort for TN Balu, uses
the walking stick to great metronomic effect. The
interludes are shards of daybreak dreams, awoken and
a-trot.

Sankarlal featured Kamalahaasan (two times,) Sri Devi
and Seema.
The usual lost-and-found, you’ve seen one you know how
they all end sort of venture. It was Manmohan Desai on
a sloppy budget and a lippy Seema fresh from the
mind-boggling (should that be mind?) success of
Avalude Raavugal. Her Ek Main Aur Ek Thu (in full)
dance intro (not so in full) in this film was not the
draw it was expected to be. But by then people had had
enough of Yaadon Ki Baaraat 1234, they couldn’t care
if any family, any where, was ever united again or the
hero got both his limbs locked in rail tracks and died
under a train. They might have even wished it were so
after YKB2 and it’s multilingual clones.

Indifference is such cruel revenge.
Sankarlal, the magician with a bag full of tired, old
tricks, cast a feeble, washed-up spell at the
box-office, and then was heard from no more.

The other songs I remember from the film are Kasthuri
Maan Ondru (SJ/ SPB) with a crazed Sri Devi prancing
(all thrust and glare) around pasty-white,
dark-glassed Arabs (!!) and Unnmai Endrum Vellum, (VJ)
where Seema (more see and less ma) gets predictably
physical, but this time in a last-ditch effort to save
her family from the oily, mustachioed don. O, the
circumstances!

This song is a fine vintage from Malaysia Vasudevan.
Proprietor’s Reserve, absolutely.

My 2 cents: The film was in making for a long time. Producer Balu died in the midst of the production. His son continued with enormous financial trouble. Kamalhassan helped him throughout and even returned the advance he received.
The film had another silly duet 'iLankiliye innum viLangaliye'(SPB,SJ)

[Thiru]

beautiful song... on first hearing it sounded like kamal had sung this song in his 'ninaivo oru paravai' tone...

[balaji]

Ramki

Thanks for the song

a. Enna Sir 'Ilankiliye' has SPB/SJ mouthing silly english words, but the song itself is a bubbly enjoybale song. One of the most frequently played song in ILangai Vanoli and a good job by IR. This I remember is the only song that had IR as the MD.
b. Isn't Gangai Amaran the MD for all the other songs inlcuding your selection? Surely the VJ number and is a GA number.

MV has sung the song well..

Thanks
bala

[Naaz]

Thanks for featuring the song, Ramki.
MVD gets shortshrift around here (so does Mano) but his is a unique voice, and his songs have a charm all their own. And no flaws in this tamizh, either! ( I always think of MVD as the TFM counterpart of HFM's Mahendra Kapoor.)
Balaji is right. Both IR & GA were credited as MDs.

[Ramki]

Balaji thanks for the correction. I still feel yesterday's pick is by IR.

regarding 'iLankiLiye'..Its a fun song i agree, but the lyrics and SPB,SJs yodelling makes it too silly .