App, the vocals in HTNI, though I'm not exactly sure, I always thought was by IR and Surendar (the singing isn't too clean; Surudhi often gets a beating in it)
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App, the vocals in HTNI, though I'm not exactly sure, I always thought was by IR and Surendar (the singing isn't too clean; Surudhi often gets a beating in it)
Awesome posts, AWE & Jai! While one chooses to drench us in nostalgia, the other brings showers of poetry on us! I’m thoroughly enjoying this rain!
As Jai rightly said, the bass guitar in Kaviriye is special stuff. I’m a mad fan of this song’s prelude… the conversation between the bass and santoor is spellbinding!
Moonrampirai is my Numero Uno favorite of all IR albums. Emotional opulence, technical sophistication and popular appeal, packaged into a blend of perfection!
The source for this madness/devotion/obsession over the album is a ‘soundtrack’ tape that my father had as part of his collection. (a solid collection of various genres, composers and artists).
I chanced upon this tape around the time I was passing out of school and moving to pre-university. PU classes used to be from 0730-1130 and I would be back home by 1200 or 1300. With both, mum and dad working, it used to be only grandmom and I at home, till evening. I would, almost daily, very religiously, carry the old, compact, Sanyo single-speaker taperecorder and some of my favorite tapes and lock myself in a room. After that, for hours it would just be music and me, undisturbed; relaxation and tranquility of the highest order. I can, even now, vividly recall several dialogs from the film and the music pieces accompanying them. Momentary silence and then a gradual passage of violins to musically paint the scenic landscape of Ooty, the loopy, naughty, enticing pieces of bass guitar portraying Silikku’s longing and melancholy… every scene is a slice of poetry, visually and musically.
Even after I got my computer and mp3 collection, I had very safely kept the tape with me for many years and would often go off on a ‘trip’ listening to it. Alas, the tape recorder threw up some trouble some months back and my tapes now lie in a corner, dust gathering over them and my memories.
Great descriptions jaiganes and nice recollect KV!
All of us have nice memories with audio equipments :-) During my 1st sem, not many students have any kind of audio equipment (max some battery transistor radios). So, music within hostel was limited to radio broadcasts & vocals / instrumentals by roommates / wingmates / hostelmates.
(Small explanation of the term "wing" - all the 9 hostels in REC Trichy had a bird-like structure. The entrance +common room (newspapers, later TVs) + TT table room + cycle parking space + staircase were like the "body" of the bird and the rooms of students were like the "wings" - all hostels had east & west wings. We had room mates during 1st to 3rd sem and single room from 4th sem onwards. So, there was more of wingmate menace than roomie menace)
Since RECs (now called NITs) have 50% local state students and 50% from other states, there were at least 125 boys in our batch from states other than TN, who were introduced to TFM :-)
One among them was an excellent singer from Bihar who loved 'kaNNE kalaimAnE'. I still remember his playing of chords on a spanish guitar while singing the moondRam piRai song!
Starting today, for seven days, we'll have the songs from another movie that got released in Feb 1982 like MP.
And this was a movie that had only two singers on the title card (SPB & SJ) :-)
I'm 100% sure it's not S N Surendar (maternal uncle of actor Vijay, who had dubbed for Mohan in a number of movies and had also sung a few songs.)Quote:
Originally Posted by KV
The voices in HTNI are heavier - sounding mid age men, IR highly possible to be one of them. SNS always sounded like a boy :wink:
Did SPB sing a song in Moondram Pirai ? :confused2: The Only song I can remember is the wonderfull "kanNe Kalai MaanE" by KJY!
sorry guys, I am back now. So hectic. Missed hub so much.
Lot of interesting song and posts by App, jai and KV. :thumbsup: Need to catch up.
Pesu En Anbe from Vidiyum Varai Kaathiru wow! Listening this song after long long time may be after my school days. Remember my friend who was grace about this film and watched it 5 times and used to force us to watch the film. Still I have not watched it.
Thenaruviyil - another gem of a song. App, Didn't know Murali was named as Karthik by BR, from where in the world you are getting such vital information.
Vanengum as grouch said, it was a later discovery for me too. No one can do such wonder. As jai explained, this song can take you and adapt to your imaginations.
Thanks App and KV for sharing your memorable college days through these songs. Ilaiyaraaja at his peak and college days can't come to everyone. Very happy and lucky to be part of that group. Those first year engineering college ragging days, it was way too much, still with Raja and exam preparations, all went so fast. My first year and Punnagai Mannan, can't get better! Still remember how I escaped to come out of campus and watched this film and how I escaped again into my room without getting caught by seniors!
Excellent write-ups by App, Jai and KV!
#76 இளைய நிலா பொழிகிறதே
இதயம் வரை நனைகிறதே
(பயணங்கள் முடிவதில்லை, 1982 , வைரமுத்து பாடல், ஆர்.சுந்தர்ராஜன் இயக்கம் )
Last Dec when a Detroit AA couple had to undergo my "TFM torture" for a ~2hr drive to Cleveland (and back as well), this number was part of the repeat plays and my superlative praises. Well, they loved the song too and asked me to give them a copy:-) In course of our talks, I mentioned that if they want me to pick a song as my "all-time-top-fav-TFM-song", it will be this!
I've posted a lot on various threads about the song itself. I don't think it's necessary to repeat the praises for the lines, SPB, great guitar interludes / postlude etc. Sufficient to say this is a superlative, landmark song in TFM!
There's something called "symbiosis" in biology (e.g. relationship between butterfly & the plant it helps pollinate) and a similar thing existed between IR & his directors. Starting with PM, he shared such a nice relationship with R Sundarrajan. Obviously, IR's genius in his domain cannot be compared to what the directors did in their own but purely from the resultant benefit part, it was a symbiosis.
To acknowledge IR's genius, however, the producer of PM (Kovai Thambi) did a nice thing. He started advertising on the poster as 'iLaiyarAjavin innisai mazhaiyil' on top! This was the first movie to have such posters and I don't think they carried his pic like the later ones.
While moonRam piRai strugged to complete its "iNaintha 50-vathu nAL", PM was effortlessly completing its 100+ on "gaiety" theater in singArathOppu, Trichy where I've watched the movie a few times. I don't think that non-A/C theater exists anymore.
This song was attempted by every troupe in light music competitiions & entertainment nights in the college thereafter. And, every guitarist worth his salt wanted to play this on stage:-)
Listen to the wonderful 'vAnil oru theepAvaLi' from the thiraippadal link in my post.Quote:
Originally Posted by PARAMASHIVAN
There should be youtubes available as well, Sridevi in jeans / sun glasses walking on a beach:-)