Pick of the week: 1 Mar to 5 Aug 2006

Naaz

DHIL KA SAATHI DHIL was the name

This website has more etails
http://www.salilda.com/filmsongs/hindi/dilkasaathi.asp

Bala

Ramki, good series of PS&SPB songs. Top of all, is this Nee oru maharani song. I liked the intermediate humming of PS. If I assume the actress is sripriya, it would hv been a perfect match. A small hitch in SPB, he does not pronounce clearly DeivangaL in "kaadhal deivangaL" phrase. Otherwise a fresh and original ever living Sankar-Ganesh song.

Aduthu enna series?

Ramki, I again listened to Nedu naal song. The style of PS singing the line Naan naanamilladhaval alla is very sweet. I would ask teh girl to sing this line when I go for girl seeing function. Ponnukku naanam irukka illayannu therinjukkalaam :lol:

Thanks everyone

SN23, i believe the song is for sujatha and jai. They sing during a function


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>>I would ask teh girl to sing this line when I >>go for girl seeing function.

Good luck:) But beware since you will ask her to sing a duet, she might expect you to sing the male portion :)

Pick #279

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

Song: veLLi rathangaL
Film: paruva kaalam
Singer: Madhuri
lyrics: kaNNadasan?
Music: GDevarajan

Indian film Music lost one another of its brightest star last week. The maestro of early malayalam movies (and handful of tamil) GDevarajan.
Here is a brief note on his accomplihments:

http://www.hindu.com/fr/2006/03/17/s...1701720100.htm

Todays pick is sung by his favorite(and only his?)singer Madhuri. She sounds like a young SPshailaja in this song.
I think 'paruva kaalam' is a malayalam dubbing. I can be wrong as i always keep confusing it with another mallu dubbing 'paruva mazhai'.

CONGRATULATIONS Ramki and other contributors to this thread for reaching 100 pages. :D

Ramki

Thanks for the song:

Seacrhed the net and got this info about the song and the movie. It seems to be another early movies of Kamal, where he acted in not so benevolent role.


Thanks for this nice song
Bala

ramki and all the hubbers: vaazhththukkaL:)
roja ramani kadhaanaaygiyaaga aRimugam aana padam. There is another pathos version of the song.

Ramki, take-off of vanamenum veedhiyile and veLLi radhangaL are on the same notes, if I am right. May be music experts please confirm.

Madhuri's Rajamagan raajavukku yaanai mele ambari (with PS in Yaanai valartha vanambadiyin magan), Kannugal pooti nyan oru nimisham (Thirumalai-Thenkumari), Vanamenum veedhiyile (with KJY in Annai Velaankanni) etc are really good pieces. Slight goNa goNa voice but sings well, I think.

RojaramaNi was hyped in media as if she will trash Sridevi into dustbin. But her films are alomsot flop. Esp, the most expected Vayasu PoNNu. To my knowledge Sivappukal Mookkuthi, Vandikaaran Magan are ok sort of films in her career. But she did well in Telugu films I heard.

Hi Ramki
Here is the Paruvakalam song - I posted in Dhool last August as nEyar viruppam.

There are some songs which you have heard long.....ago... lingering in your ears.... Here is one such song "veLLi rathangaL azhagu mEgam" from Paruvakalam. Here is my attempt to dig out the details of the movie Paruvakalam and the 2 songs from Paruvakalam- Happy and sad versions of "veLLi rathangaL azhagu mEgam".

P.N.Menon is the pioneer of new wave cinema in Malayalam , His film Olavum Theeravum broke Malayalam cinema traditions, from artificial sets and stage drama presentation to outdoor locations. M T Vasudevan Nair's script and dialogues evoking local accents was something unusual to Malayalam cinema.

Born in a poor family in Vadakkancherry in Kerala, young Menon found pleasure in visionary sketches. There were tents in the open village grounds, where films were shown. They were in Tamil and came just once a year. After completing his studies at Trichur School of Art at the age of 20, he took the Madras Mail, the only train that went from Kerala to Madras. He didn't know what he could do in films. All he knew was that he wanted to be where the films were being made.
And his dreams were shattered when he wasn't even allowed inside the two studios in Madras, Newton and Gemini. For five months he tried but the gates still wouldn't open to him.. He travelled to Salem as a ticketless traveller,to find a job in Modern Studios..He couldn’t locate Modern studios. He took up a job as a production boy in another studio. He was doing all kinds of work…cooking, drawing water from the well, washing clothes, cleaning the house and running errands for everyone. But, after two-and-a-half years, the studio was shut down and he went back to Madras.
He started doing sketches, then painting and doing magazine covers. . One of his designing assignments was for producer B Nagi Reddy's magazines. The production house was so impressed with his talent that when they bought Vauhini studio, Nagi Reddy's son appointed him as an apprentice in the painting department. That was P N Menon's first paid job in the film world.

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One of the first Mayalayam films, Ninamaninja Kalppadukal, was being made in Madras at the time. Menon, was chosen as the art director. Thereafter, almost every Malayalam movie then had Menon as the art director. He was learning all about films;read many books.He used to see a lot of international films.
Menon recalls ”Those films were my books;that was my education and I learnt a lot.The desire to create a movie myself intensified with each day, and my greatest ambition was to transplant movies from the interiors of the studios to the vast outdoors, where you don't need artificial light or colour. It was because I felt films should be closer to life. Films made in Madras then were far from realistic. Actually, in those days, I even felt my idea about movies were wrong."
What gave him confidence was the movies made by Vittorio De Sica, Italian master of neo-realism and director of classics like Bicycle Thieves.
Inspired by Woman of the River, Menon finally made Rosie, most of which was shot outdoors. There was no make-up and the sound was also dubbed. All these were unheard of in Malayalam films. That was the first time a Malayalam film was made outside a studio.But the film failed. Menon was not perturbed.
In 1969 , based on M T Vasudevan Nair's script he made a remarkable film, Olavum Theeravum (released in 1970)with Manikada Ravi Varma as cameraman.Olavum Theeravum,., still holds as one of the most realistic and sensitive films ever in Malayalam. Menon didn't resort to melodrama or sentimentality, just narrated the tale of some characters.The film very realistically. told the story of Nabisa, an innocent Muslim girl of Malabar region with immense visual appeal. That was also the first authentic statement of the way of life of Malabar Muslims. It was perfect in its accuracy of dialect, choice of location and art direction. Reminiscent of the Italian neo-realist films in its stark realism
The film was produced by P A Backer, who later turned director, (Cast: Madhu, Jose Prakash, Nellikode Bhaskaran, Usha Nandini Music: Baburaj) It won the State award for best film.This is how Menon reminisces about this film “All of us worked in unison and it was the creative effort... We didn't use a single light. There were no actors in it. We camped on the banks of Aluva river and the whole film was shot in a small hut. But we enjoyed the process. We did win some awards, including the Best Film award from the Kerala state. But even if we hadn't won any awards, we wouldn't have been disappointed; it was one film all of us enjoyed making. People still respect me for that film. “

Other notable film Kuttiyedathi (Eldest Sister), was based on a short story by M T Vasudevan Nair. Gayathri and Malamukalile Daivam have won national awards.

Here are some of his films Maappusaakshi(1971),Panimudakku, Chemparaththi (1972),Darshanam,Chaayam(1973), Mazhakkaaru (1974) , Odakkuzhal (1975), Udhayam kizhakku thannaey (1976) , Taxi driver,(1978), Devathai (Tamil) (1979) , Anu (Tamil)(1982), Malamukalilaey daivam, Glimpses of Kerala (English) , Asthram (1983), Padippura (1988), Money order (1990), Nerkkuneraey (2004)

In 1972 Menon directed the film Chembaraththy in Malayalam. It is the story of an innocent girl Shantha on the threshold of adolescense.He cast Rojaramani who was in early teens(may be thirteen or fourteen). It was a very sensitive portrayal by Rojaramani.The film became a hit and bagged the second best film by Kerala state government. She did the Tamil and Telugu remakes as well, Paruva Kaalam in Tamil with Kamalhasan and Kanya Vaiyasulu in Telugu. Music was by the legendary music composer G.Devarajan, one of the most original composers of Malayalam theatre and movies.In 1972 Devarajan bagged Kerala state award for best music for his work in Chembaraththy and Maram.

Devarajan hails from Paravoor of Kollam district. Paravoor is known for its contribution to literature and arts. Paravoor K.C.Kesava Pillai, a gifted poet, prose writer, dramatist and scholar, originated the musical play in Malayalam through his work Sadarama. His Kesaveeyam, a Mahakavyam, is of outstanding literary importance. In the history of Malayalam music, he has a prominent place as a gifted composer of songs. Paravoor Kesavan Asan, the founder editor of Sujananandini, another prominent literary figure, was a journalist and a prose writer. His Saratchandrika is a contribution to the study of Ayurvedic system of medicine
Devarajan was born on 27th of septemeber 1927. His father N. Kochu Govindan Asan, a reputed singer and mridangist, was his guru.Devarajan as vocalist, closely followed the famed G.N.Balasubramaniam style..He started singing in stage concerts..Even during those early days, Devarajan, used to render specially composed songs during his concerts. Most of them were from the poems of Changampuzha, G. Sankara Kurup, P.Bhaskaran and others.
His tunes to O.N.V Kurup’s poems brought out the inherent talent as the composer. One of them `Ponnarival ambiliyil... ' became so popular that it was later used in the landmark play `Ningalenne Communistaki', which changed the whole genre of Malayalam light music. The drama songs, especially of the Kerala People's Arts Club or KPAC were a rage among the masses and even now a number of cassettes of drama songs are being released frequently. His first recording session in Chennai was in 1951. To cash in on the popularity of the drama songs of KPAC, HMV decided to bring out discs and all the songs were recorded at their studio in Chennai.

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"The studio room was very small. They did not have a dedicated orchestra and used to call the artistes for each recording session.
The duration of the HMV discs was 2.55 minutes and I had to record an abridged version of `Ponnarival ambiliyil... ' to include it in the disc. While recording these songs I remember Soundrarajan, P. Leela and other singers waiting for their turn in the studio. After recording the film songs at the studios, the singers used to rush to the HMV studio and record it again for the disc," he remembers.

Devarajan recollects that the first song he composed was the one written by his childhood friend M.K. Raghavan Pillai. He had composed the music for many other poems, including those written by G. Kumara Pillai.






Since his debut in the film `Kaalam Marunnu' in 1955, Devarajan went on to compose immortal tunes for fifty years, He worked with ONV Kurup to compose the music for `Kaalam Marunnu' in 1955. It was a film that altered the course of Malayalam film music as it brought together two creative minds who transformed Malayalam film music The songs of `Kaalam Marunnu' were recorded in three days at Merryland Studio in Thiruvananthapuram. "A tabalist Palaniswamy arranged the orchestra. K.S. George, KPAC Sulochana, Kamukara Purushothaman, Lalitha Thampi and Santha P. Nair rendered the songs. The songs were all popular," he recalls.
During the last 50 years, Devarajan scored the music for nearly 400 films and innumerable plays.He has created songs of astounding variety As a composer , his ability to blend harmoniously the best from folk, Carnatic, Hindustani and traditional music made him a great musician.

While participating in a `Meet the Press' programme at Press Club in Thiruvananthapuram. Mellisai mannar M.S.Viswanathan paid this fitting tribute "I am still a student of music and am walking the path trodden by great men like V. Dakshinamoorthy, Devarajan Master and Baburaj. I had to struggle hard to reach where I am today," .


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Rojaramani started her film career in 1965 when she was five in AVM’s Baktha prahaladha and worked till 1981.
She married Chakrapani, an Oriya actor,stayed at home for two years, then started working again, as a dubbing artiste. to Radha, Radhika, Vijayshanti, Poornima Jayaram, Suhasini and many others.She has done over 400 films as a dubbing artiste. Her husband heads the Oriya channel of E TV. Now she is the proud mother of actor Tarun.


Paruvakalam is about an innocent young girl Shantha. S.V.Subbiah is her father Periyasamy who is the watchman in Anandha bavanam, a palace now turned to a guest house. Shantha does all the daily chores at Anandha bavanam.

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Hunter Jambu (Sasikumar),painter Ravi(Sudarsan), horse trainer Jhony, Kanaga (Pramila) the call girl and saamiyaar Nagesh are the regular customers who stay there for every season. Chandran (Kamal) comes and books a room for his brother Gangadharan(Srikanth) who is on bail on a murder case.Everyone treats her like a child. Shantha comes of age and everyone’s behavior has changed towards Shantha .Kanaga who always had a soft corner for this innocent little girl advises her to keep a distance with everyone.Periyasamy an ardent devotee of Ayyappan leaves for Sabarimala On the night before the end of the season, Shantha loses her virginity.She is not able to identify the person.. When her father asks for justice, evryone has left.The manager of Anandha bavanam asks him to wait patiently for the next season. One year has gone. The season comes and so also the regular guests.Shantha now has a child. Who is the father of the child? Pramila sets out to find the truth.When everyone suspects Srikanth, it is Kamal who is the culprit. Shantha and Chandran get married.
Devathai was a good film directed by Menon. Tamil version of Chembarathy, Paruvakalam was directed by Jos Fernando. A.S.Pragasam’s dialogues are noteworthy with sensible portrayal by Rojaramani,Pramila and S.V.Subbiah. Kamalhasan is much like a guest artiste and his name appears last in the long list of actors. The songs are the plus point of the movie.The song “saraNam ayyappa” was a huge hit and took several avatars in the casette market in Kerala. For many years,I thought this was a devotional song.


It’s early morning…sun is rising…Like a flower Shantha sings this song in the garden.
One of Devarajan’s songs goes like this "manninte athmavilninnu ponmuthu eduthutharam njaan." .."take out the pearls from the soul of the earth... "
Here is one of such rare pearls!

veLLi rathangaL azhagu mEgam
sellum veedhi sivantha vaanam
paavai nenjin iLamai raagam
paada vanthathu paruvakaalam

Movie:Paruvakalam.
Singer : P.Madhuri
Released on 9-2-1974
Banner: Jupiter art movies
Actors:Rojaramani, Kamalahasan,Pramila,Srikanth,Sasikumar,Surulirajan ,Sachchu,Sudarsan and others.
Lyrics:Pulamaip piththan, Poovai Senguttuvan.
Music:G,Devarajan.
Story , Dialogues: A.S.Pragasam.
Produced bySekar raja
Direction:Jos A.N.Fernando

other songs:
saraNam ayyappa - Rajesh and co
velvettu pattu katti -L.R.Eswari.

Here is the happy version of veLLi rathangaL

http://www.coolgoose.com/music/song.php?id=195941

With the child crying in her hands, Shantha sings the sad version of the song!

http://www.coolgoose.com/music/song.php?id=195944