Question to KV & Sureshji,
There are two voices in the "and we had a talk" piece in HTNI.
Could one of them be TVG? (and the other IR?)
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Question to KV & Sureshji,
There are two voices in the "and we had a talk" piece in HTNI.
Could one of them be TVG? (and the other IR?)
oNNu TVG, innoNNu?
andha innONNu dhAnga TVG ;-)
I'm behind by a day (long-day-time-drive) and will come up with 2 songs today to catch up. And the first number will obviously be related to Trichy :-)
#74 காவிரியே, காவிரியே
(அர்ச்சனைப்பூக்கள், 1982 , ஜானகியுடன்)
Can't place a date on this movie, so decided to go with the alphabetical thingy. As mentioned above, the first line is directly related to the city close to kallaNai, mukkombu, koLLidam & kAviri :-) The city where I spent 4+ extremely interesting years. 4 things made life so thrilling - obviously one being Raja's music (and anyone who listened to his output during 1982-1985 -those were fresh juice then, now aged wine - can testify to this fact), second the totally new set of friends in college hostel / Trichy and the life-perpectives that they influenced me to build up, third the countless books / periodicals / material that was opened out for me to read (Sujatha being one of them, at his peak) and fourth -countless other new people (including some whom one would have "met" :wink: only once in a bus journey).
Well, this song, is like one of those countless new people. Was there on the recordings of my Thanjavur hostelmate. And heard many times on radio. And on other occasions on buses.
Sweet melody, strongly influenced by the stronger rAgA leanings that IR started doing in 80's. Sweet melodic interludes, using his most favoured instruments. (The santoor sound reminds one of trees on riverbanks). And the tablA, which I'll love even if IR uses unchanged in another 1000 songs!
Before I write about the song / movie that is so dearly loved, some history. The intention is not to write autobio but could give some flavour to the later descriptions of songs / impact of music on a person as to "how-a-pattikkAttAn-turned-engg-student-viewed-IR-music-during-college-days".
Though I mentioned 9-9-81 the start date at REC, after a couple of days of being locked in the Agate hostel (per order by seniors, most part of 1st sem was spent in khAki-khAki dress outside hostel), we were given time-off to go home because seniors were celebrating "Festember 1981". Happy to let go, away from the terrorizing ragging atmosphere, I took off. Home sweet home.
The whole 1st sem was an experience of terror - being taken as "captive" to senior hostels to wash their clothes, clean-up their rooms, provide them entertainment and sometimes even savagely getting beaten up - all these built a lot of empathy in me for any who gets persecuted in life. Well, during all that time, once back in Agate after a fearful experience - the endless discussions about music with roommates / wingmates were like balm to the heart!
Our 1st sem was an extended one i.e. till May of 1982, to ensure there's one year gap between us & our immediate seniors, who were the first 4 year batch. (They were the first +2 group who were forced to finish course in Dec, to give the last 5-year batch at least 6 months to find jobs. Later, we had only 6 months gap between us and our immediate juniors...so the engg was 4.5 years for two batches before it became true 4 year course).
So, the next couple of movies I'll include here happened within the '1st sem' of Agate + "A" mess life in khAki dress (forced to clean shave etc) though these got released in year 1982 :-)
Nice way to begin the yr 1982 and also App's College life :) ..
#75 வானெங்கும் தங்க விண்மீன்கள் விழி இமை மூட
சூரியன் வந்து கடல் குளித்தெழும் நேரம்
வானில் ஒரு தீபாவளி, நாம் பாடலாம் கீதாஞ்சலி
(மூன்றாம் பிறை, 1982 ஃபெப்ரவரி வெளியீடு , ஜானகியுடன்)
AhA, what a movie! And, what a song! Sophistication levels that only Mahendran & BM movies / songs reached in TF! Right from the prelude which is similar to BM's camera work and his 'pace-at-my-will' narration. SJ's humming slowly building up a sun-rise theme that culminates in a glorious trumpet sound to start the vaira varigaL! Second to none in depicting nature, the kavingar had a field day!
A classic drums / trumpet / phenomenal bass guitar first interlude! SPB's tha-tha-thoo-thoo youthful second interlude. Very casual singing by both the veterans to thrill youngsters! Well, the whole song is a marvellous package! (add to these the BM special of oLi Oviyam having Sridevi on screen).
This was probably the first movie I saw in Trichy, with a newly acquired friend (son of dad's friend / distant relative...) who had a beautiful akkA :-) (Honestly, my first "crush" though she was 5 yrs older...very loving person who got married within a couple of months after I met the family, to a foreign mAppiLLai). The stressful 1st sem at hostel made me run to all people known to my dad in Trichy and I was on bus every Saturday and returned only Monday mornings (Dad worked there for a few years before I was born and quit the job to serve in a hamlet school).
The movie - a moderate commerical success but won critical acclaim - ran for only a few weeks in kalai arangam (a huge state owned theater near Trichy bus stand, changed its name to Thiyagarajar manRam later on, I don't know the current name) before it got moved to 'rukmaNi' theater in uRaiyoor (written as Woriur in English). Even after that theater changed its name, people called it 'padmA maNi' which was its original name it seems. I don't think it exists anymore.
That's where I saw the movie and melted, crying like a child in the end.
Revisited that movie many times in suburb theaters, watched both shows when screened in college audi etc.
One of the top movies of KH, SD, BM & IR! Though the better songs were bagged by KJY (kaNNE kalaimAnE & poongARRu), I'm glad SPB-SJ were part of this classic!
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Originally Posted by app_engine
This is one song where the bass seems to carry the song through all the scales.
Sounds so simple, but the intricacies are so tightly packed and concealed like the inji (ginger) and cocnut pieces
inside a kaarthigai pori urundai. Though not a classical counterpoint, the repartees by first flute, then followed by strings section
to the charanam first phrase by singers is a delight - It is a delight because it creates a swift stroke of a country side breeze in one's mental
canvas. In the country side, unpolluted and solitary, nature is always in conversation, birds chirping to a breeze, responded by fluttering leaves of a
tree. Here a young couple's song resonates with the elements of nature in such a conversation. Awesome pick App - From now thou shalt be invoked
as "Awesome App Engine" or AWE!!
Getting back to the rakshasan SPB, that chuckle and sigh in the second charanam is something no ordinary singer can produce - it is possible
only from a person who is a singer, actor and a story teller. There are a million meanings in that sigh and chuckle. Only a man in love can decipher
half of those meanings - for the rest of the unfortunate unloved creatures (Read critics) it will appear unfiltered through their monochromatic prism
as a simple "konashtai" anyone can do.. Therein lies the power of SPB - to elevate a song from mere chain of notes into a story of a character!!
Whatta song? drums in this song is worth dying for. From the slow pluckings of a guitar to SJ humming casually, a true beachside romance this song is...Quote:
Originally Posted by app_engine
Talk about imagery and Ilaiyaraaja, here the song is a pure image studio. Every line loaded with evocative imagery.
Raaja reused the elements of this song later with even more stupendous success in Oh Premi song from pallavi anupallavi.
In many ways it is a pioneering effort from Raaja and SPB!! every passage is so surprising that no matter how many times you have listened this song before, it catches u unaware, gaping.
It is like a short term memory loss patient with insatiable affinity to sweets taken through a melodic maze of unlimited sweets. ... Again the story teller SPB rises to the occassion and stamps his
uber cool all over the song.. one of my favourity Balu mahendra songs ever...
App & Jai :thumbsup:.
The MP song, many here would not know about it. Not helped by the fact that the cassettes then (usually two in ones) did not even have this song. I realised it when revisiting the film in later years. Beautiful piece.