Pick of the week: 1 Mar to 5 Aug 2006

No Mahesh, in many places I see the song 'pootha malligai kaathu nikkudhu' has been incorrectly attributed to 'Echil Iravugal".

Did Echil Iravugal had a solo that starts as "pootha..." sung by SJ? If so can u please advise more details

Bala

Pick #253

http://raretfm.mayyam.com/stream/pow06/enna_avr.rm


Song: enna kada selai
Film: adhai vida ragasiyam
Singers: PSuseela, BSSasirekha
Lyrics: kaNNadasan
Music: Shankar Ganesh

This baila kind of song shows us the energetic, perky, fun voice of PSuseela, a total contrast to 'raama suguna' song we listened to last week.
The film must have released in mid 70s but PS voice was still young and fresh.
The song was picturised on fatafat and suma(?). Sivakumar and JaiGanesh were the male leads.
The popular song from AVR is 'sengarumbu thangakatti aelelenkuyile '(SJ, MV).

Ramki, AVR's Year of release is 1978. Yendha kada(i) sEla(i) is a solo by PS, of course with Chorus. I do not hear BSS voice in this song. This is sung for Fatafat who criticises Suma wearing the new saree gifted by her lover Sivakumar. She acted in only one movie, I think; Resembles Jayashree??. PS laughs after the vishayam sollattumA... so sweet :-)

AVR has one more beautiful by PS starting with harE gOpAlA sri hari mAdhavA. Really excellent. This is also for Fatafat, singing to stop Jaiganesh, the villain, to ruin the life of Suma.

Thanks for this rare song.

Ramki,

Thanks for the rare song "endha kada selai". I have been looking for this song for years and years. It is such a happy tune that makes you feel good rightaway. PS totally enjoys singing it. The contrast in the line endings is really nice - sela vs mElE, ALa vs AlE.

I can't hear Sasirekha either. But the first charanam poNNu pArvaikku sounds like a different singer in the beginning and ends sounding like PS.

Ramki -

Vandhaa, Indha Kadaikku Dhaan Varum Indha Saela-nnu Enakku Nallaavae Theriyum! :D

This song was inescapable for a few months, from teashops to Nichchayaththaarththams! I watched Adhai Vida Ragasiyam in the infamous Lakshmi Talkies (Mootapoochchi Mahal!) of Amaindhakarai. If you know anything about this cinema, you would know that it is flanked by a line of shops going this ways and that ways, and the density of the area can overwhelm any time of day. When this song came on (in an adhai vida bore film!), there, at the bottom of the blotchy screen, superimposed as a slide and flashing in all the colours of a rainbow, was the ingenuity of a local merchant: "Vidai: Taj Green Dhaan!"

Thanks for airing this hidden sari. It still looks as good as new to me!

"endha kadai selai" paatu endha kaalaththule kEttadhu!!!!
Whenever I tried to recollect the lyrics, I could remember only 2 or 3 lines and that laughter of PS:)
indha padam paarththa baakkiyam(?) enakkum irukku:) enakku ninaivu varuvadhellaam jaiganesh oru painter. college fees kattradhukku fatafat or friend painting model aa pOvaanga.
jai ganesh will balck mail that lady later.

They used to play the first 2 lines of this song as advertisement for a saree shop in radio station. kadai peyar maRandhu vittadhu.
thanks ramki for this rare song.
Also thanks for the lava kusa songs.

what i wanted to say about this song 'JN' has already told.
I have also seen this movie but dont remember anything of it.
I also remember this song's first 2 lines aired on radio for saree shop ad.edhu endru nyaabagam illai.
Bala, as far as pootha malligai is concerned I have not seen echhil iravugal.I thought that it was from this movie b'cos my friend gave me a copy of Janaki hits on Cd. & on this he had handwritten that Pootha malligai was from Echill Iravugal.
Regarding the song mohathai kondruvidu from ini oru sudanthiram ,one of my friends thought it was an Islamic devotional song, he heard ALLAAL as ALLAH !!!!

Thank you everyone for your posts.

SN23 there are clearly 2 voices in the song. The first saranam is by a different singer and the cassette says BSSasirekha. It sounded like umaramanam to me


jmahesh that was hilarious ..allaal , allah :)

Pick #254

http://raretfm.mayyam.com/stream/pow...ravillai_mt.rm


Song: nee varavillai
Film: mangaiyar thilagam
Singer: Madhavapeddi Satyam
Lyrics: maruthakasi
Music: SDakshinamurthy


For the past 2 days I'm trying to get rid of this song from my head but in vain. Yes , I have listened to the song previously but when last week i was digging for this weeks POW i found this gem and have been annoyingly humming it to myself.
Something about that voice. SO mesmerising ,soul piercing,so emotional.

The way he sings the lines:

aarudhal aLithidum annaiyin anbai
anaadhai naanum arivadhedhu

Its like a child's cry with an adult voice.

The voice has traces of ghantasala but its more refined and sophisticated.
When i searched for madhavapeddi i found the following link

http://www.idlebrain.com/celeb/bio-d...havapeddi.html.

In 'Mangaiyar thilagam' a young looking Padmini played the aNNi character to Sivaji.Her pair was the character actor SVSubbaiyah
Looks like those days the stars were not scared of typecasting. Will Trisha or Asin play aNNi to vijay or ajit?(They might after few years but not when they are popular jodis).

MT also had my favorite favorite 'neela vaNNa kaNNa vaada' by Balasaraswathi.

Why dont they make such melodies anymore?

Hi Ramki..

thats a beautiful find...
Is there any other popular song by Sathyam in tamil films ?
I can remember one more song from this film "oru muraithan varum" by Jikki with the "da da da da" in proper place :P