Pick of the week: 1 Mar to 5 Aug 2006

I watched the song "anangan angathan" from the film "kaNkaatchi" yesterday in JTV's Then Kinnam presented by KV

The song was picturised on Sivakumar and Usha Nandhini (i think)

Shankar

VJ is fabulous in uLLam urugAdha song. ULLam urigiyadhu endrAl migai AgAdhu. Manam kasindhu pAdhuvadhu VJ's special trait.

Sumalatha's first film in Tamil!! I think it was heavy load on her to show innocense and youthfulness in first half and restrained and composed flavour in second half. She did quite well. I think she sings this in front of her pAtti (Kumudhini???), as the pAtti wanted to see the pEththi in person before her death. Sumalatha in Nun attire singing with veeNai in her hand in praise of Lord Muruga. Vinodha karpanai but innovative.

Nandri Ramki.

Shankar, it is Kum.Padmini in KaN KAtchi. UN and KP has some similarities, I too agree. In fact, KP is a very good classical dancer whereas UN is very good weight lifter (Ramki-ai kElunga... sirikka sirikka solvAr :lol:)

Ramki

Sorry, Clue puriyavillai. Can we get more Clues?

bala

THE BEST OF ILAYARAJA AND A.R.RAHMAN

I am planning a special 2 hour radio programme on the BEST of IR and ARR in Tamizh and Hindi Films. The show (if all goes well) will be aired on 23rd July 2006 on :

www.citr.ca

8-10 pm PDT.

I could use all the help and input you can provide. Please drop me a line at naaz99@yahoo.com and I will be glad to tell you my requirements. Hope you can make this programme a success...I will check for your email messages all of this and next week. Thanks in advance.

Naaz

Ramki: Is it "vaaryO thozha vaarayO malar manjam kaaNa vaaraayO" from aangaLai nambaathE *ing Pandian, AlexPandiyan, Rekha, Senthil etc sung by TMS?

SN23 :-)


Oops Balaji, im too late. Anyway RC figured it out :)

Ramki

No problem!

Anyways, I could have never guessed this song. Too weak in the post late-80s period song.

Bala

Pick #346

http://tfmpage.com/stream/pow06/vaaraayo_an.rm

Song: vaarayo thozha
Movie: aangaLai nambaadhe
Singer : TMS
Lyrics: vaali
MD: Devendran

Its been a long time since we had a funny song in POW.

Vaali should be give the credit for writing this funny spoof of the famous paasamalar song. The lines are hilarious. But TMS is a bad choice for this iLamaiyaana song. MV might have been a better option.

'aangaLai nambadhe' was a sodhappal adaptation of stella bruce's vikatan thodarkathai (first?) 'oru muraithaan pookum'. I have read few of SB's stories and liked his narrative style. AN had Rekha and Pandian and few others.
'kaadhal kaayangaLe' (KJY, MV) is another good song from AN

Devendran is one of those good MD's who were denied more chances in TFilmdom. Though he stuck to IR's style, his tunes and singer choices were mostly good. I like his mannukuL vairam vedham pudhidhu, kaalai neeye maalai neeye songs.
He made a comeback as Ravidevendran with visu's 'meendum savithri'. I believe he is doing tv serials these days.

Naaz,

I look forward to your program. Your previous program on VJ about a year ago (songs + interview) was out of this world. The song selection was terrific as well ("dhoom tana...", "mora saajan" and "sri gaNanaadham" in one program!). Coincidentally, you happened to play all my favourite songs :-)

My recommendations for ARR + the IR program:

For IR, it will be lovely to have the VJ solo enuLLil engo, and/or en kalyaNa vaibhogam. And the choiciest classical song by KJY under IR's baton.

For ARR in Hindi, I recommend "ek tu hi bharosa" in Pukar or a song from Earth 1947 - "eeshwar allah tere jahaan mein nafrat kyon hai jang hai kyon" (a song that asks God an apt question one day after seven ghastly blasts in Mumbai). The song is very soulful. I also recommend the Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan song "chandaa sooraj...." in ARR's private album "Maa Tujhhe Salaam".

In any case, I am sure that your pick will be nice.