groucho, sabbatical was between 7th & 12th grade - that was till 1981 :-)
Plum, please wait till the likes of nizhalgaL arrive, for balancing :wink:
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groucho, sabbatical was between 7th & 12th grade - that was till 1981 :-)
Plum, please wait till the likes of nizhalgaL arrive, for balancing :wink:
Plum
Suttufied form some website:
Looks like Rajini, Rathi and Sujatha retained in the Telugu version, including Raja
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Mayadari Krishnudu was one of the tollywood movie released in the year of 1980 produced by C Dhandayudapani and was directed by R Thyagarajan. Music was composed by Ilayaraja. Acharya Aathreya penned lyrics for this movie and SP Balasubramanyam, P Susheela, P Sarada, P Anu shared their voice for playback. Main cast includes Rajnikanth, Sridhar, Rathi, Sujatha, Allu Ramalingayya, KV Chalam and many others. A Complete family oriented movie and the complete backdrop will runs in a village.
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#39 காத்தோடு பூ உரச, பூவ வண்டுரச
உன்னோடு நான், என்னோடு நீ
பூவா, காத்தா உரச?
(அன்புக்கு நான் அடிமை, 1980 )
groucho & Plum have already mentioned about this hugely popular SPB-PS duet from the same movie (Rajini-Rathi romance possibly). Obviously, none of those popular references (star / movie) had any relevance in my case. It was purely IR magic that took me to this song, apart from the superb singing by both PS & SPB. (PS loosens up a bit in this song to adapt to IR brand folkism, IMO).
This song is an evidence of what characterized IR's music during most of early 80's - going after hitherto unknown patterns, i.e. unknown to him or others. In other words, innovation / trying to experiment. The rhythm arrangement / pattern in this song is an example! Tabla started taking all kinds of avatars in IR songs from this time period - mostly going away from previously known patterns that were all tried out during 70's. Well, it started earlier here and there (thAmtha dheemtha, for e.g.) but from 1980, it became the norm. Possibly IR was consiously trying to form his new brand / set new trends etc (and go away from "only folk" "away from folk means sounding like MSV/KVM" etc).
This was new Raja for us who were accustomed to looking for such things in Raja by this time. In fact, every music I heard during my +2 days were evaluated as "what's new in this? sounds? beats? patterns? combo of instruments? etc". I remember a function in Madurai collector office where one Shivshankar's music was being played before it started. While the lead melody was in sitar, there were fusion arrangements with western instruments and some interesting rhythm patterns! It was around that time that I wanted some kind of fusion in every Raja song!
I still don't know what fusion exists in 'kAthOdu poo urasa' (lacking music knowledge) but I'm pretty sure it's a mix of genres by IR to create his newer brand...
எனக்கு கமல், ரஜினி etc ... அந்த palace and streets wall posters லே தான் தெரியும்.
even in posters many of these fellows face அரை குறையாதான் தெரியும்.
இந்த சிவாஜி, MGR , ரஜினி, கமல் etc ... different fellows ஓட different தீபாராதனை கும்பல்கள், opposite /வேற actor posters மேலே cow dung அடிச்சு வைச்சுருக்கும் ...
இளையராஜா பாடல்களை ரோட்டில் கேட்டுக்கொண்டே, friends கூட பாண்டி விளையாடிண்டு , இந்த fellows லூட்டியை வேடிக்கை பாக்கறதுதான் என்னோட after school/ home work entertainment until my mom arrived from her work .
but songs , songs , songs , radio & tea shops blast .... அது போதும். Golden Ilayaraaja period.
breezy flute prelude sets the romantic mood, S.P.Bala is as smooth as a butter.
oh... playful violin passage kku some silly fellowsஎல்லாம் goofy ஆ jumping around.
vinatha.
Hi app_engine,
Great write up !! thumbs up!
The 80's payanam has started, I think I will be indulging myself thoroughly in your writing in a much acquainted turf (80's) . Looking forward to this journey , with my jannal orathu seat reserved, Breezing the cruise with IR & your writings.
I had the chance to watch Anbukku Naan adimai recently, and I love those 2 songs, Story was not much, just a lame 80s kku endre uruvakka patta kathai, pazhi vangum,annan-thambi,kathal,naduvule aadu,dog & etc and not forgetting the gramathu nattamai @ villain with a rustic voice
Kaatrodu poo urasa, lovely pick indeed. Rathi, being one of the most prettiest actress of that period,she has a funny way of lip-synching .. :D :D
Rajini was still Rajinikanth is title cards, when did he started using the Super star title? Can any one clarify this for me pls? Ippo ennadanna oru padatheleye twinkle2 little star-nnu pattam podarange ...oops ... LOL!
:oops: I really wanted to watch this as Rajni played a baddie , but I could not get the DVD here, will search harder this week :)Quote:
Originally Posted by groucho070
Not at all :)Quote:
Originally Posted by groucho070
App anna
We all 'Highly' appreciate the task of 'Mission Impossible'. Hats off :notworthy: I hope you have the Stamina to keep going when You come to the 80's songs :)
Folks
I was listening to an addictive song of SPB with annoying dialogues like (epdi epdi ) by S.N.Surendar, the song starts like this அங்கரங்கம் யாவுமே சொல்வதென்றால் பாவமே ஏழையின் காதலை மாழிகை அறியுமா ? which film is this song from and who was the MD for this song?
Thanks Balaji. As I said, vague remembrance onlyQuote:
Originally Posted by balaji
A_E, thodarattum ungal thondu… please accept this saalvai and thundu :)
Param, that's from Aayiram Nilave Vaa, by IR, 1983. Yeah, the eppidi eppidi is quite a nuisance in an otherwise fine song.
Oh antha padama ithu ! That too a Karthik film, (how did I miss it :oops: ) By the way Devathai ilam devi song from this film gives me the creeps :shaking:Quote:
Originally Posted by KV
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kh4Bm...yer_detailpage
Another kosuRu info - 'Ayiram nilavE vA' was advertised as Raja's 200th film.Quote:
Originally Posted by PARAMASHIVAN
Oh I see , :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by app_engine
Thank you, I accept all color thundoos, no filtering :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by KV
I see a song "chErikku sEvai seyyum nallavaru" from a Rajinikanth movie ellAm un kairAsi directed by MA Thirumugam (was it Devar films too :roll:). Though it didn't ring a bell, gave it a listen.
I probably heard it a few times on kOlAmbi speaker those days but don't think it can be considered a hit. So, skipping it. (Surprising to see a song having such tags as IR / SPB / SJ / Rajini / 1980 being skip-worthy).
Divine22,
Thank you! Early 80's are IR's best phase in my personal opinion. That I was in +2 / college could be the main reason but the fact that those songs are sought after by much younger people (my nephews / nieces in TN, for e.g.) underlines their speciality...
#40 வாடாத ரோசாப்பூ நான் ஒன்னு பாத்தேன்
(கிராமத்து அத்தியாயம், 1980 )
The moment I saw the name of this movie in IR's 1980 discography, all four songs - each one very close to me - jumped to my mind instantly and started playing one after the other, even before I went to thiraippAdal!
Aththu mEttula & oothakkAththu are SJ sweeties (one with MV & the other with PJ), poovE idhu poojaikkAlamE is by BSS and this one with its "ammAdeeee" singing by SPB'll melt anyone!
The village tea stall - run by the son of my dad's colleage - was alternating between the HMV fiesta & the Rs 900 panasonic casstte player during this time. (i.e. if one was being retained by his 3 sisters on a day, the other ends up at the kadai). So, what songs he played depended upon what system was at the shop on a given day since he had only "mutually exclusive" songs on vinyls & cassettes. GA was on vinyl and all the four were so much loved by we boys.
Interestingly, he also had the other song 'pon mAnaththEdi nAnum poovOdu vandhEn' on vinyl and there were some who liked that better than this one ; but to me, that was just "cloned" from 'vAdAtha rOsAppoo' and I used to tell others that thambi got inspired by aNNan...to be fair to thambi, pon mAnaththEdi was a bigger hit on radio compared to vAdAtha rOsAppoo, though 'Aththu mEttula' was the most popular among all songs of that time period. Both pon mAnaththEdi & vAdAtha rOsAppoo start in somewhat similar manner which led me to disappointment on occasions when listening to radio.
Poor Rudraiyah, after the glorious avaL appadiththAn, he ventured into this GA which finished him. I've seen 'Athu mEttula' youtube sometime back:-(
SPB's emotional singing in this song can be compared to his effort for 'uchchi vagundheduththu'. Though it had some air time, could have become much bigger had it been in a different movie.
Absolutely love the tabla. A revisit from Vizhiyile Malarnthathu.Quote:
Originally Posted by app_engine
Oh, athu Rudhraiya film-a. If not mistaken that too was a "banned" film for us kids.
App, what was tea kada for you, we hear these gems through the kitchen where the rickety old radio accompanies mom with her chores. Ellame mono-sound-thAn enggalukku. Sometimes we overhear her discussing certain songs with dad/neighbouring aunty/passing by estate worker/etc. For example, she complained about SPB's voice in Paranthaalum, Vidamaatten (Guru), "Eppadi iruntha kural en ippadi irukku!" :lol:
More digression on kitchen conversation:
7 year old grouch: Amma, what does Kamban Eemanthaan means?
Grouch's mom: Those are bad words. Don't ask again .
:rotfl::rotfl2:Quote:
Originally Posted by groucho070
Sorry VS, it was my mom's line. I edited, but I think you got it.
Yes of course groucho, I got it. :smile:
app, kedechacchu kedachachu
I corrected him, saying you queried.Quote:
Originally Posted by RAGHAVENDRA
More on Yaaroo song:
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Originally Posted by RAGHAVENDRA
Thanks grouch for posting about 'Yaaro Neeyum Naanum Yaaro' song here. First time I am seeing the song and giving good listen to lyrics. As always kaviyarasar. As usual NT :notworthy: no one can replace him, could have lived longer :sad:, definitely miss him so much.
Very interesting approach by Raja. Starts as a birthday celebration song, but in the interludes conveys the actual emotion. In first one, he uses guitar, but used it to sound little closer to veena and uses veena in second one followed by guitar. All again in this early years. Genius!
Credit goes to Raghavendra-sir.
Gramathu Adhyaayam revives traumatic memories of Rameshwari, the telugu belle who went on to "conquer" Hindi heartland with - was it Chit Chor or was that Zarina Wahab? Baroque might be able to confirm - a few films before fizzling out. And that hero....
Sorry Rudriah, even a monstrously superior film like Aval AT didnt give you a licence to inflict GA upon us.
I remember vividly that I was taken to the theatre for this movie - kicking and screaming, which, as I have recounted in hub before, was my general reaction to being taken to the theatre those days - and spending the time walking around trying several seats across the length and breadth of the movie hall, which were courteously available thanks to the entertainment quotient of the movie, in the hope that one of the seats would result in better EQ from the movie. No such luck!
But what songs, though! SPB sizzles in Vaadadha rosappoo, and IR infuses class to the composition, though as app observed, the mass of Pon maana thedi gave greater immortality to the latter. Aathu Mettula deserved a better movie than this. It's a Janaki-fest, with IR's 70's instrumentation in its dying embers. From here on, we'd move to more synth and the 80's rigidity and regimentation, which, while brilliant enough even now, doesnt evoke the same intimacy as the free-flowing 70's genius for me.
I always thought Nizhalgal was 1978-79. Wrong, app? And I had mentally mapped Rosappoo R.kaari to 80s. I guess over a period of time, chronology does get messed up in the mind.
But Nizhalgal apparently released along with VNS, so I am kind of almost sure it was before 1980. app?
Amazing stuff from the Legends :notworthy:
Similar kind of emotion to Uchi vaguntheduthu song from Rosapoo Ravukaikari !http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrJyw_Iwg34&feature=player_detailpage
Yes, I think it was released in 1981 !Quote:
Originally Posted by Plum
Plum,
Both VNS & nizhalkaL were deepAvaLi releases of 1980 (means toward the end of the year). IIRC, the nizhalkaL disk was released not too much in advance.
BR's venture prior to nizhalkaL was kallukkuL eeram (direction Nivas, direction mERpArvai was BR in the film he acted) and that too got released in the same year - months earlier. People didn't take "years" to make movies those days :wink:
Those were my +2 days. There was this MSV fanatic in another class at school with whom there were so many heated discussions :-)
(I clearly remember discussing about the fact of nizhalgaL songs becoming bit hits despite it being a terrible flop movie - power of IR)
alaigaL Oyvathillai got released at summer of 1981, just after my +2 exams - medical school / engg school admission interviews etc time period. I clearly remember seeing the 'Ayiram thAmarai mottukkaLE' video in oliyum oLiyum at my cousin's home in Chennai (just after release) -B & W transmission ofcourse -during the visit to attend Guindy interview in that year.
My memory apart, other sources confirm this too - BR wikipedia
Another nostalgia - the local tea stall-er had the vinyl of kallukkuL eeram (eNNaththil Etho jil-lendRadhu, what a sweet song, en eNNaththil jil-jil right now). Interestingly, he didn't have the nizhalgaL disk.
App anna
Was Nizhalgal a BR movie ? :shock:
Ofcourse, yes! Another important info - it was the debut film of Vairamuthu :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by PARAMASHIVAN
Oh So Vairamuthu's first song was 'இது ஒரு பொன் மாலை பொழுது' ? :roll:Quote:
Originally Posted by app_engine
ஆமாம், வரும்போதே "வானம் எனக்கொரு போதி மரம்"னு சொன்னார் :-)
VM was a BR intro (IIRC, BR was producer-director of nizhalgaL, it was a "Manoj Creations" movie).
Oh OK, I Like VM over 'Valee' for Obvious Reasons :lol2: but my all time Favourites is none other than கவியரசு :notworthy:Quote:
Originally Posted by app_engine
Thank you groucho, for posting the PKB answer from NT thread :-)
(About the video, though intolerable -mainly because of Sivaji's wig / appearance / Sowcar looking younger than her son etc - the degree of sahikkableness is much higher than engengO :wink: ...Sivaji looks somewhat like 'neethikkuththalai vaNangu' MGR in the song 'indhappachchaikkiLikkoru sevvanthippoovinil' )
#41 பேரைச்சொல்லவா, அது நியாயமாகுமா?
(குரு, 1980 )
Another grand bass-guitar boosted album in the IR-IV Sasi combo! Supposedly a remake of Hindi film "Jugnu" with Kamal -Sridevi. I watched the movie many years later in the college audi - totally unimpressive ordinary masAlA and IR was too generous is gifting this many SJ wonders...(nAn vaNangukiREn, enthan kaNNil EzhulagangaL are both capable of making into any list that TFM lovers pick).
Two things that made me happy while watching the movie were
a) Title card had only SPB-SJ as singers
b) the mridhangam / whistle combo theme BGM
While pEraichchollavA is average on screen, musically it's so rich! 30 years after its arrival, even now it goes on loop on some days in my car - apart from the strong bass, the strings / wind instruments in the interludes are quite mesmerizing! So are the sweet voices of SPB & SJ and their brilliant singing that makes one feel so close to them!
I have a theory - Guru initially probably had two small size vinyl disks that were independently released - one with pEraichchollavA, nAn vaNangukiREn, AdungaL pAdungaL & enthan kaNNil & the other with paRanthAlum vidamAttEn, mAmanukkupparamakkudi, AdungaL pAdungaL another version and may be a repeat. The reason why I say this is because I've never heard 'paRanthAlum vida mAttEn' on AIR, even though that was my top fav when this movie songs arrived. They played 'pEraichchollavA' very frequently, however.
App anna
Did you guys used to wear big sunglasses/ thick side burns/ bell bottoms/platform shoes and Afro Hair style those days :lol2: :yessir:
appA romba strictu - so no fashion fundA for us. Ofcourse, bell-bottom was unavoidable as that was the ONLY kind of full pants the tailor will make for youth during my +2 days (it was a very short-term fashion, went away during my college days, some of my older ones had to be "altered" to cut short the bottom).Quote:
Originally Posted by PARAMASHIVAN
I had two close friends in +2 who were Kamal fanatics. They were hostel-ers with lot more freedom from parents - so "step-cutting", bigger size bell-bottoms, 2 inch wide belts with shiny buckles, shirt with first button removed (or open), big side burns, thick meesai (sometimes french beard) and shoes that needed a stair case. Both were Sridevi fanatics as well (with so much expressed aversion for Sripriya). Interestingly, both weren't much into music listening so I was mostly in "listening-mode" when they spoke about movies as I had hardly anything to share...