#369 கும்தலக்கடி கும்தலக்கடி பாட்டு
(மன்னன், 1992)
'gumthalakkadi' from mannan
Songs like this could have eventually made Rajini decide to move away from IR, strictly IMO. I have a feeling that IR didn't enjoy doing such "hero-worship" songs anymore at this point of his career. This song sounds so ordinary and at par with his innumerable dappAnguththu numbers - with some standard template arrangements, low-class-chorus etc.
Not that he did great with such songs at any point of his career but there had been some biggies in prior decades (pothuvAka emmanasu thangam, nAn thAn sakalakalA vallavan, oru nAyakan uthayamAkiRan for e.g.). However, compared to other MDs in general, this genre of songs weren't that big with IR overall. May be it was his philosophy that story takes the driver's seat / music should eulogize the story theme and not hero etc.
Which is also perhaps the reason why he emerged out as the first iconic MD in south with only ARR repeating that feat. With ARR not doing that many TFs, the status quo seemed to have returned back -that of MD being regarded as just another technician who'll get appointed as per hero's demand & ends up churning out 'ellAm nAyakanE' kind of songs. nallA irukkattum :-)