The Golden Era of Dr.IR and Dr.SPB

While 1986 didn't match the numbers of some prior years, without doubt this was the year of "super hit" songs as one can make out from the above list.

Unfortunately, starting 1987, there may not be that many IR-SPB numbers :-(

This was the year when Mano arrived and IR's project management + producers' cost management requirements drastically brought down the numbers of the celebrated combo in TFM. IR-SPB combo should have been still going strong in Te / Ka fields (even after the arrival of Mano) but the numbers definitely took a beating in TFM. While Mano was definitely no match for SPB (cannot be even called "poor man's SPB"), many songs sung by him became hits due to other factors (IR riding high, big-hero-movies, great female voices like KSC that compensated in duets, terrific orchestration on many cases, hit movies etc).

So, my hunch is we may finish up year after year much quicklier in this thread...

#251 தோட்டத்தில பாத்தி கட்டி பாத்திருக்கேன் பாத்திருக்கேன்
(வேலைக்காரன், 1987)

Let's start 1987 with a biggie - i.e. from the Rajinkanth starrer that was a remake of Amitabh-Smita Patil combo's namak halAl. The only SPB song from a KB banner / SPM directed Rajinikanth movie where Mano & MV had 2 songs each! Ofcourse the SPB song was the top one in my list when the movie arrived and I can still enjoy the song - the beatsy pallavi, the smooth flowing interludes and the folksy saraNams. Balu brings in so much of energy to the song with his thuLLal rendering and Rajinikanth is enjoyable on screen as well. I liked the song's setting too - when the * hotel singer passes out after a few lines - very sweet part that - SPS sings a couple of lines for Amala, ending as 'thOttam'. As the program is 'andhAdhi', someone has to start with 'thOttam' and Senthil pushes Rajini to sing & dance :-)

The Hindi original came during my college days (I probably mentioned about its attractive trailers in some hub post) and I watched it in theater (Sona or Meena of Trichy) as well as college audi :-) Those days we had great liking for the 'aaj rapat jaayE' song :wink: Though I didn't understand Hindi much then, I found the movie quite funny (I still remember AB's Vijay Hazare / Vijay Manjrekar narration comedy). OTOH, I never had a chance to watch vElaikkAran on theater when it arrived (self-declared-cinema-viradham for a few months during that time period I think) but watched on VHS a few years back (got at Devon ave Chicago). My son liked it and insisted on watching many times until the player went bad...but I got bored in the first watch itself :-( romba romba sumAr for a Rajini film.

KSC has sung very nicely the vA vA vA vA kaNNA vA and one feels bad for the heroine who had to dance on snow (barefoot I think, also with no protective clothing)...I wouldn't have felt that bad had I watched it at the time of arrival but not after my first visit to NY in 1996 when there was huge pile of snow everywhere. That is my #2 fav song from this album. enakkuththAn is sweet too, with some nice orchestration. I don't have that much liking for the other three numbers of this album (mAmanukku mylapore, peththu eduththava thAn, vElai illAthavan thAn) but all of them became popular thanks to the Rajini factor IMO.

A relatively weak album overall but the SPB song is top-notch without a doubt!

Good job posting the featured compositions links update for us, app_eng.:ty:



both namak halAl and Velaikkaran albums have some favorite songs.

aaj rapat jaye... kishore da's duet with asha was a popular composition, seen in TV.


ORIENTAL RECORDS came out with a nice combo.:musicsmile:

VELAIKKARAN and EN BOMMUKUTTI AMMAVUKKU.

பாலா has sung less for other fellows too during 1987 in தமிழ்.

சங்கீத வானில்....சின்னப் பூவே மெல்லப் பேசு... Lover boy's must listen romantic composition. bus stand, tea kadaigal, blast them.

ஒரு காதல் என்பது.....சின்னத்தம்பி பெரியத்தம்பி .

ஏதோ பார்த்தேன் ... ரெண்டு தான் memorable songs


but.. DISCO ILAYARAJA'S Anand is here.http://www.mayyam.com/talk/images/sm...musicsmile.gif

Vinatha.

yw, baroque!

BTW, though there are not that many SPB-IR hits in 1987, looks like we'll reach double digits :-)

(kAdhal parisu, Anand, pAdu nilAvE and some singles from other movies...)

yeah number are less, but all devastating compositions from IR :-D

vaa veliye.... Subha panthuvarali composition like vaigaraiyil..... , my favorite.

app,

great job with the series! It's nice concept.. Apart from tracing the evolution of IR-SPB combo, it's taking us all through our own personal nostalgic memories associated with the movies..

இந்த டியூன் SPB பாடுவதற்கு முன்னரே உன்னி மேனனுக்கு இளையராஜா கொடுத்து இருக்கிறார். தென்றல் வரும் பாடல் உன்னி மேனனுக்கு தெரிந்திருக்க வாய்ப்பில்லையா அல்லது கடுப்பில் இப்படி சொல்கிறாரா?. தெரிந்திருக்க வாய்ப்பில்லை என்றே நினைக்கிறேன். ஆனால் எனக்கு தென்றல் வரும் வரிகளை விட அங்கும் இங்கும் வரிகள் பிடித்திருக்கின்றன.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=XvOScv1rjcI

Wondering what would be if SPB was there in the place of Mano :lol:

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Originally Posted by app_engine

#242 தென்றல் வரும் என்னை அணைக்க
(பாரு பாரு பட்டணம் பாரு, 1986 , ஜானகியுடன்)

This was the other song from the same movie that I had in that disk (mentioned in my last post). SPB sounds different in this too but this one is a much more acceptable song (sweet melody & the queen in decent form). rAsA had used veeNai freely. And with his chords, drums and flute this song is quite pleasing to the ears. Unlike 'yAr thoorigai', I don't remember hearing this song ever - i.e. prior to this "history-unknown-CD". One of the reasons could be my progressively-less-time-spent-inside TN. Another could be that the songs of PPPP weren't that popular among the masses (and happened to be in a flop movie).

However, the song has youtube presence with above-average viewings for rAsA songs of unknown movies. Interesting to see that the heroine was the same girl who called Mohanlal as 'kazhudha' in that super-duper-mega-hit Chithram :-) Since she was introduced only the prior year as a "side actress" by BR (andha nilAvaththAn nAn kaiyila pudichchEn), it's possible this was her first as heroine. After all, she did another "2nd-heroine" role with BR in another movie this year also. (podi nadaiyA pORavarE, poRuththirunga nAnum vArEn).

Her wikipedia page doesn't mention anything about her first movie as heroine. It has some other interesting info, however - that she was Singapore born and a lawyer by education prior to acting. In any case, though she hasn't done much in TF other than the two roles she did in MM & KK, she had earned a permanent place among MF lovers thanks to the phenomenal success of chithram.

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Originally Posted by app_engine

#233 ஒரு நிலவும் மலரும்
(நானும் ஒரு தொழிலாளி, 1986 , ஜானகியுடன்)

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சிறு வயதில் எங்கள் தெருவில் திருவிழாக்களில் போடப்படும் மேடைகளில் கமல் டான்ஸ் பாடல்கள் முக்கிய இடம் பிடிக்கும். ஏகப்பட்ட கமல் பேன்ஸ் இருப்பார்கள் அவர்களிடையே இந்த பாடலும் பேமஸ்

nanRi, RR sir!
I'm glad that these reminiscences have also evoked pleasant (or otherwise) malarum ninaivukaL to many music lovers :-)

San_K,
Is there some Unni Menon speech in the youtube link posted by you? (It played 'thenRal varum' song and I didn't wait till the song to be over...)

#252 கூக்கூ என்று குயில் கூவாதோ?
(காதல் பரிசு, 1987 , ஜானகியுடன்)

Another 1987 movie that I watched only in U.S. a few years back on a rented DVD where both chEchchi and aniyaththi acted with a handsome Kamal (well, I never liked that hairstyle but it seemed to be a craze with girls then). I think this was pre-nAyakan and during my cinema-viradham period. Otherwise I couldn't have possibly missed it, especially with heavy pressure from bachelor associates on Sat evenings to watch the latest TF release in Palakkad. (Interestingly, when tickets were getting sold in "black" in the nearby CBE for many biggies, there had been absolutely no issue in getting tickets in Pkd those days.) Well, going by the DVD watch, it was a good-miss as the movie is such a bore.

This song, however, is so sweet to listen and not a bore :-) With some sweet drum work, nice orchestration and excellent singing by our star pair, it's enjoyable even decades after its arrival. Sounding pretty fresh, IMHO. Another album that I never owned / recorded but heard solely on buses very frequently. Ofcourse the RMV produced movie had horrible picturization (not just this song, most songs with the exception of one duet). IIRC, both chEchi & aniyaththi were on the verge of retirement (i.e. getting married) and I'm not sure if they've acted with KH any more. Also, this is possibly the only movie where both sisters acted with KH. (They both acted with Rajini in engEyO kEtta kural, with Mohan in idhayakkOyil and with Prabhu/Suresh in veLLai rOjA...there may be other cases as well but I can remember only these few).