in a KJY interview in DD he played mrudhangam in the end as requested by KJY (YG was the interviewer).Quote:
Originally Posted by Sureshs65
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in a KJY interview in DD he played mrudhangam in the end as requested by KJY (YG was the interviewer).Quote:
Originally Posted by Sureshs65
Oh child of 80s Jai, me also same interview watching and giving this news here today.Doordarshan pArththu vaLarndha balageenamAna koottam :lol:
ok, V_S_ji - no pressure - post about O vasantha rAjA at your vasathi :-)
Let me continue with the "routine" :-)
#163 ஒ வசந்த ராஜா தேன் சுமந்த ரோஜா
(நீங்கள் கேட்டவை, 1984 , ஜானகியுடன்)
Sweet & innovative duet by rAsA with his top-seeded-pair, the third one from the same movie! By this time, we were quite accustomed to his brand of fusion (starting from the days of nizhalgaL or even before, reaching a spectacular high with panivizhum malarvanam etc). So, it was no longer awe-inspiring or making one stunned. It was kind of "expected" or "given" that rAsA does some ICM+western -organic / seamless / homogenous - fusion number every month (or every week) :lol2:
By that count, O vasantha rAjA, while seen with awe from today's standpoint as a musical marvel (100K views on youtube for the hopeless video of Archana / Banuchandar...means most views are for appreciation of rAsA music only), was "just another hit" for rAsA, from a 1984 POV. Yes, it had a lot of radio time / bus time / teakkadai time etc but so were 100 other rAsA numbers from the same year and this definitely didn't stand out. What a prolificity (ask ANY composer living in the world to match IR's 80-85 record, impossible)!
We'll wait patiently for the musical dissection of the number by V_S in the coming days and meanwhile enjoy the splendid singing by SJ-SPB and the awesome orchestration by our brilliant composer!
This is the youtube I mentioned in the last post (of having 100K+ views, despite a very amateurish picturization by BM standards) :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjHmd3PmyFs
Plum,
One commenter at youtube (need not be authentic, chummA oru idhukku :-) ) :
Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr B O
Devi bala 100 days run_ngaradhe code word for flop app :)Oru medium sized living room dhaan devi bala. Sila flop padangal 100 days poster ottaradhukunne anga mattum noon show ottuvaanga.
Plum :-)
For the next song...I see a film called nEram nalla nEram with an SPB number listed but never heard before (and it doesn't sound like SPB)...
So, skip such numbers and keep scrolling down the 1984 list...to reach one of the best thrillers ever made in TF, IMO :-)
#164 விழியிலே மணி விழியில் மௌன மொழி
(நூறாவது நாள், 1984 , ஜானகியுடன்)
What a sweet prelude and grand second interlude that decorate a song borrowed from an acclaimed Kannada classic -also by the same SPB-SJ-IR combo, jotheyalli! The first interlude has a humming similar to the TVG stuff that we were treated earlier in andhi mazhai & idhu oru nilAkkAlam. However, I don't know who does in this number...Like on many other occasions, the humble Manivannan happily accepted this borrowed tune from Kannada to "fill" the brief joyous moments in an otherwise tense film.
And what a tense film that proved to be :shock: One of the most unforgettable movies for me from college days! I think this was screened in the newly opened Rambha / Oorvashi complex in Trichy near Cauvery river. (I may be wrong here - it's possible I saw this in Maris complex...either way, in the Chatram bus stand area). The BGM of this movie was so chilling - the exotic rAsA concoction with traditional Indian + western drums and some eerie sounds whenever the heroine gets into the ESP mode. And the scene where Nalini is brave enough to take the kOdAri to hit the drywall :shock:
A not to be missed movie that became a roaring success - starring an unusual Mohan / Nalini / Vijayakanth combination in which Satyaraj hit a bulls-eye with his mottai & round sun goggles! There were two other numbers (ulagam muzhudhum pazhaya rAththiri by KJY/VJ & uruguthE by VJ) that had some air time but vizhiyilE was the biggest hit and it's popular to this day. The song's recent avatAr - jAnE dO nA in cheeni kum with Shreya G's voice is very sweet as well, a piano beauty!
Ever-green melody, ever-young singers, ever-iLaya-king's music :-)
#165 ரோஜா ஒன்று உள்ளங்கையில் பூத்தது
(ஒ மானே மானே, 1984 , ஜானகியுடன்)
IIRC, this movie was a remake of the Hindi movie Julie where Lakshmi acted. The original had that fantastic "Julie, I love you" song (Rajesh Roshan music per wiki , I used to enjoy the song very much during my school days...it was a 1975 movie where Sridevi acted as a child artist it seems). The Thamizh remake after a decade - starring Mohan-Oorvashi - was a big flop despite nice music (this SPB-SJ guitar sweetie should have been the Thamizh equivalent of Julie I love you) and hype (Kamal singing a song as pinnaNippAdakar for Mohan, pon mAnaith thEduthE).
I had the misfortune of watching this movie in some "seconds" theater located between tolgate and Thiruverumbur on Trichy-Tanjore road. Simply atrocious :-( The Hindi original, directed by southie K S Sethumathavan was a hit it seems but nothing worked in its TF avatar.
Nevertheless, this duet was a big hit on radio and the usual 80's media. The chords are such a sweet delight and there's a small hint in the starting that the director wanted this song as the equivalent for the Hindi classic. SPB sings in a very youthful voice (sounds like 70's). For SJ, this was an extremely strong year and this is one more addition to our already-long-list-of-hits-in-84 with SPB. Like I often say, the interludes are not to be written about but simply experienced and enjoyed!