IR's Song of the day

Wow, great analysis Hulkster. Are you a musician?

Swathy, some observations:

a) PS has sung a LOT, and not just a FEW with IR:-) May be in IR's world, a 100 popular songs with a singer might be termed `FEW':-))

b) The song 'pAda vandhadhOr ghAnam' by KJY-PS in iLamaikkAlangaL was heard all-over TN when released (even though `eeramAna rOjavE' was more popular). To call it an `unsung' classic, is, IMHO, incorrect. The whole album was a big hit in those days with public address systems...including the `padippila zero, nadippila hero' by SPS...In fact, `isai mEdaiyil' was relatively a bit less popular than `pAda vandhadhOr ghAnam'...(may be because the KJY-PS number was the first song in one side of the LP record)...This was the 2nd movie of motherland pictures, after the stupendous success of 'payaNangaL mudivadhillai' where they started featuring Raja and the `iLaiyarAjavin innisai mazhayil' in the posters / hoardings...

I think the songs were recorded with R Sundarrajan as the 'to-be-director', but he was dropped from the project and so was the original storyline. And Manivannan was roped in to come up with some stuff to fit in the songs...which was released later as a movie and did average business commercially. The songs were a big hit months before the film got released...(Kovaithambi quickly patched up with R Sundarrajan for their next big hit `nAn pAdum pAdal')...

a great song . by UR & deepan

Ellei ab....i just use my ears to listen thats all...:)...perhaps app_engine sir might be correct...but nevertheless, not many people remeber the song compared to eeramana rojavae now...so that is why maybe i guess swathy picked this song....thanks for the info app_engine sir..:thumbsup:

was this song discussed

song: muthamizhe

film :raman abdullah

music: ofcourse ilayaraja

direction: balu mahendra

Thanks nilavu,narayanan,hulks,aruna,rajesh,
app_engine :-)

narayan: sorry for such a delayed post. Just now i listened the song form manipoor mamiyar. very good song. :-)

swathy: its a nice long-lost song. great to hear you enjoyed it too :). Did you listen to the other songs: Rasigane and Samayal Padame too ?
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Have a few more IR gems to write on too ;) let me know if you want me to put an SOTD some time.

I think we can still wait for few hours for renault,usha akka and rajasaranam's comments.

narayan: pls chk ur PM.

What can I say of this song... I purposely took a day off to think and write of this song.. but I am always at lack of words to describe a Raja creation.


I wrote about Raja-BR combo striking rich whenever they joined due to their wonderful chemistry. This song should be the Kohinoor of their combo-creations.

Hulkster has done a wonderful dissection. My thoughts:

1. This song though a great one, needed to be sung by someone subtle in singing and not the flamboyant SPB and Janaki. Deepan and Uma Ramanan fitte the bill so well.

2. Most importantly Ravi and the actress, both are new and Raja fittingly used new face singers.

3. Maestro himself acknowledged in an interview that according to him BR and Vamsy (telugu) picturises his songs well. But this song was only picturised well in patches. The good ones include the actress while coming out of a pond, Raja gives a sound that signifies some kind of a resurgence, a flower bloom kind-off in the second charanam interlude, the door opening in the begining of the song that ends with a bang sound followed by a mellifluous Veena.

4. Lot of flowers are picturised in the song as flowers being the lyric-theme.

I had this song as a monphonic ring-tone in my mobile for about a year till very recently .

'Poonkathavae Thaazh Thiravaai'
Opened up many doors for us...the laymen of TN
IR just elevated the musical sense and knowledge of tamilian's with such kinds of innovative songs.
This is one of the songs which made us look upon to know what a counterpoint is and what is Western classical music all about atleast theoretically. The Song is an excellent example for how a fusion music to be done. Its a marriage between indian classical wester classical and tamil folk rhythms. We can dissect this songs to an article running to pages :) Iam avoiding it right now and listening to the song in loops for the ultimate bliss it gives.