Pick of the week: 1 Mar to 5 Aug 2006

Hello to All... I am New to the new forum. hope I will share what I know about old movies.

Ponnonjal and SonthangaL vazha (Jaishankar and Jayachithra) have the same story lines and released one after another. It was a tale around two family heads having rivalry in between but the siblings get attracted to each other; patiently waiting for their lead people to make then united. This story, later, had been repeated in many many movies by different makers. Cursed the viewers, shelling out bucks to make the creators rich without any good returns :)

MSV's score in music was at peak for a very long time in 60s and 70s. Both duets of TMS+PS were super hits shadowing this POW wherein Ushanandini imagining Sivaji as Lord Krishna and singing this song. Andha kaalaththu PLeela's Kaathirppan kamala kaNNan-kku equivalent??

One good thing... Failure of the movie (released in Plaza theatre) did not force the music lovers to shut their ears to the good work of MSV & his vocal team.

Ponnonjal... urasi paarthaal pithalaioonjal :-)

RR the pallavi reminds me 'neeraadum kangaL enge' and 'thennaiyin keetru vizhavillaiyendraal' line(from sandhosha kaaNadha).

Thanks Raj :)

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SN23[/color]](hope my hearing is fine so far :-)).
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Are you sure?:) Maybe its time for a recheck


Usha. en kitte poi raagam ellaam kekkareengaLe? No idea. RR or raj might know


VasumathiRenga Welcome to tfmpage. Thank you for the details

Pick #259

http://raretfm.mayyam.com/stream/pow06/thookam_am.rm


Song:thookam un kaNgaLai
Film: aalayamani
Singer: Sjanaki
Lyrics:kaNNadasan
Music: Viswanathan - Ramamurthy


A Classic. What else should i say about this popularand beautiful gem?. The only sore point of this song: It always reminds all the unnecessary over the top expressions by Vijayakumari.

I'm sure SN23 will add more details.:)

Over to SN23:)

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Usha. en kitte poi raagam ellaam kekkareengaLe? No idea. RR or raj might know

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Ramki: namma chinna baagavadhar FM-ai marandhuteengaLE :)

Ramki Anna, Many thanks for hosting this gem. Also thanks for believing me that I can share something. But the fact remains that you and many others are here with Doctorates in TFM :-)

It is very special for every artist involved in this song. If Best Female Singer award was institutionalized in early 60's, SJ would have easily snatched it. MaNimagudam on SJ's head. Her voice and singing with apt emotions (very very apt.... not overdoing at all) made elevated this as one of her top 5 best songs.

As you said, Vijayakumari has acted as if she was acting for a pathos song. May be with aanandha kaNNeer. Luckily SSR sleeps in that song :lol:

SJ's voice was a perfect match for VK also. Besides PKM songs, the one from Padha kaNikkai (Poojaikku vandha malarE vaa), aha thEninum inimai.

Every time Aalayamani song is aired, that Satti suttadhadaa will be, mostly. Enakku kaduppu vandhu and yell "suttaa yenda thodareenga" (NOM to anyone).

In the stormy days of MGR and Sivaji, our Kadhal mannan Gemini used to be a thendral. May be SJ's voice was a Zephyr in the Brawny rule of PS and a few others in 60s & 70s.

Kodi nandrigaL for hosting SJ songs this week. That too from the gana-surabhi of MSV. Hats-off to you, Ramki :-)

A good song but definitely there is something missing as a whole dont know what but definitely there is a miss.

Dear Ramki,
Neenga sonna madhiri ivargalidam ketkiren.

Dear RR,Raj and FM,
Do you know the ragams for these two songs?

1. Angadhan naatil - ?

2. Varuvan mohana rupan - ?

With Love,
Usha Sankar.

ramki,
good choices:) angadha naatil paatu kEttu romba varushamaachi.
un list le:
veeNai meettum kaigaLE
ninaivu pOdhum neeNda naatkaL vaazhuvEn
udhayam varuginRadhe...for sridhevi
idhellaam irukkaa? only MSV and SJ combo thaan pOda pORiyaa?

Dear Ramki,
IR music il Sj iruka? Irundhal,

Film : Poothadha pootukal

song : Vanna vanna vanna poondhotamae

Poda mudiyuma?

With Love,
Usha Sankar.

RC kareet..thanks for reminding :)

SN23 thank you. idhaithaan edhirparthen :)


JN and ushashankar next one week no SJ songs:)

IR-SJ songs podum podhu kaNdippa neenga request panna songs podren

SN23: Can you list your top 20 SJ songs? Being an ardent SJ fan, I would like to see the list of songs you come up with :)

Ramki: varuvaan mOhanroopan is a rare find. I sort of remember hearing this song looong time ago. Thanks for this.
Thookam un kaNgaLai ethana dharam kettaalum kandippa thookam varum... excellent singing by SJ.

Beautiful song. Very pleasant. Kaadodu dhan naan pesuven and this song needs that low pitched but singing with beauty. Both singers SJ & LREE did justics to their songs.
RC, adhu enna paara patcham? Even myself can come out with top 10 songs of SJ, though I am not a great fan of SJ. Chumma kindaling :-)
Ramki, ungalukku romba porumai jasthinnu nenaikkiren. Next week-ku ippave prepare pannanum. Yaar special? Happy week-end :-)

vel1970 Indha vaaram no special combos. Random selectionthaan:)

Pick #260

http://raretfm.mayyam.com/stream/pow06/maalai_aop.rm


Song:maalai iLamanadhil
Film: avaL oru pachai kuzhandhai
Singers: SNSurendar, Shobha Chandrasekhar
Lyrics: kaNNadasan ?
Music: iLaiyaraja

SAchandrasekhar made his directorial debut with AOP and pronto his wife and bil got a chance to sing this beautiful debut.
This may be their first song together but definitely not their first song. shobha sang 'oru maharaja oru maharani' with TMS in 'iru malargaL' and SNS was one of the child singers in 'varavu ettana'(baama vijayam).I think they have sung few other songs as child singers.
Shobha C never got a chance to sing 'outside' films. Late 90s she sang some memorable numbers like 'thottabatta road mele mutta barotta' ,'urmiLa urmiLa' etc :)
When i was visiting India in 2004, i saw her doing a solo karnatic kacheri in SUNtv. it was just painful to watch. I heard she is now doing her saba rounds. God save music :).

Todays pick is noteworthy just for the outstanding interludes by IR.

Who acted in AOP? By any chance was it sivakumar and Sumithra?
What are the othe songs in AOP?

Ramki, neenga neraiya cheese uLLa thaLLuveengaLaa? I could not control my laughter while I read "When i was visiting .... I heard she is now doing her saba rounds. God save music" :lol:

If my memory is good, AOP lead pair was Vijayakumar and Bhavani. B acted as 2nd wife of Sivakumar in BadrakaaLi. She acted in MGR Movies like Uzhaikkum karangaL (good role)and Navarathnam.

AOP had enough intimate and palaana scenes between VK and B, as I heard. VK dies very early in the movie and how the deserted heroine overcome the pain of loneliness was the great story written by SAC.

Shobha sang in Nalla pErai vaanga vendum piLLaigaLE (TMS, Anjali, Shobha) and NaaLai namadhE also (PS, Anjali, Shobha). Also Appa muththam thandhaar amma pakkam vandhaar (TMS, PS and Shobha; film: ????).

SNS singing did not yield him huge results than his dubbing for Mohan, Vijayakanth and many 80s heros. There is some unqueness in his voice, which was well received/utilised by lead actors.

POW is really a different one. Would have been a great hit if was sung by IR's fav singers SPB + SJ. TIMHO :-)

Ramki,

Thanks for featuring "pon Unjal katti vaiththu" last week. And for the other songs too.

Long time since I heard "mAlai iLam manathil". It is a lovely song. The score has a V.Kumar flavor. It was a hit when it came out. But did not sustain it very long. Thanks for bringing it back.

You now have a POW song list. Click on the link below to see the list. Try your favourite song and let us know if you have any problems with the audio. Also, let us know if your favourite is missing ! :)
Please note that the list pertains to the songs posted in this thread and not what is in the archives.

POW Song List

This link is also in the very first post by Ramki

remember hearing this song in radio decades back.those days when tape recorder was new I used to record songs as they aired in radio on to tapes.It wont be of great quality.But still I have some of these songs in casettes in an old cupboard at home.Thanks for the song Ramki.Idhu ilayraja musicunnu neenga solithaan theriyum

Nice leisurely song from Shri.Ilayaraaja! Thanks, Ramki!

Thanks everyone for sharing your thoughts and other details

Pick #261

http://raretfm.mayyam.com/stream/pow06/thiruvizha_ni.rm


Song:thiruvizha thiruvizha iLamaiyin thalaimaiyil
Film: naam iruvar
Singers: Jayachandran, BSSasirekha
Lyrics: vaali
Music:Gangai Amaran

Before Aarumuga saamis and aarus, one of our superhero did the role of liquor guzzling, beedi puffing, tough talking dada. It was so difficult to watch audience promptly rejected the film and the role.
The super hero is nadigar thilagam and the film is 'naam iruvar'.

I wasted 1.5 hours of my life watching this film. I watched it just for the song and promptly stopped my video tape after the song:).

Definitely one of the worst film by nadigar thilagam(and the one i mukkal watched :)
The film also had Prabhu(teacher/inspector role), srividya,urvasi etc.

This lovely song,with nice lyrics by vaali, was the only likeable aspect of the film. It had the rare combo of JC and BSS. Have they sung any other song together?.

Ramki and others: Here are the links for all threads( current and archived).


POW song list (this thread):

Songs in this thread

POW song list (archives):

Older picks

Dec04-Jan05

Feb05

thanks for featuring this famous song, ramki. ( Music GA ?? ...... as usual IR endru thaan ninaiththen.) BSS-n thiruvizha thiruvizha endra uchcharippil oru konjal iruppathu pol irukkum. PJ as usual, no need to describe. The film is remembered only for this song, I feel.

Ramki, I thought Ramayan serial Deepika acted in this movie?? Or is it NaangaL ??

Thiruvizha song has some similariries of Kalidasan kannadasan song. May be the effect of chorus makes me to think it so.

Good song for BSS.

Naam Iruvar was produced by AVM I think, probably one of their worst flops.Many Sivaji, Prabhu combination movies released at that time were damp squibs at the BO except a select few .
this is the only song i remember from the movie. Thanks.

Ramki , do you have the song ' azhage thamizhae ' or is it amudhae thamizhae azhagiya mozhiyae from koil pura.Mudindhaal host pannungal

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Shobha sang in Nalla pErai vaanga vendum piLLaigaLE (TMS, Anjali, Shobha) and NaaLai namadhE also (PS, Anjali, Shobha). Also Appa muththam thandhaar amma pakkam vandhaar (TMS, PS and Shobha; film: ????).

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appa pakkam vandhar is from "edhirigaL jakkiradhai"
you can hear the voices of shoba and surendar in "alayam enbadhu veedagum" from thamarai nenjam also..

ennvo pongo !! :P

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Ramki, I thought Ramayan serial Deepika acted in this movie?? Or is it NaangaL ??
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It was naangaL.

There is one more good song, but I can't recollect it.
I thought that IR scored music for this one and 'chinna thambi periya thambi'. mmm But some IR worshippers may say that IR should have helped GA to score music :roll:

SN23/FM

The film with Deepika is naangaL and the good song is 'paarthadhenne un paarvai ennai vaatudhe'(SPB,ksc - song long due in POW).

Mani because of the similar orchestration style many good GA songs were thought as IR songs.

Mahesh i have that song. Will soon host it in POW

Pick #262

http://raretfm.mayyam.com/stream/pow06/pudhu_rt.rm


Song:pudhu manjaL meni chittu
Film: Rudhrathandavam
Singers: SPB,VaniJairam
Lyrics: vaali ?
Music:MSViswanathan


KB's ground breaking, record breaking 'marocharithra' had excellent songs by MM MSVgaaru. The popular and my favorite song is 'aetheega poovunu'.
MSV slightly changed the interludes,increased the tempo ,changed the saranam arrangement and phat 'pudhu manjaL' was born.

(Listen to Marocharitra songs here:
http://www.raaga.com/channels/telugu.../A0000032.html)

I vaguely remember reading that VKR produced(and directed?) Rudhrathandavam and went bankrupt after the colossal failure.
I think the song was picturised on Sumitra and Vijayakumar(Or jaiganesh?). I also rememeber seeing 'RT" posters with VKR in sivaroobam.
(I hope my memory is correct this time :) ).
Any other good song from RT?

I have watched the movie as a kid. Almost all of the movie is a dream (by VKR?). VKR as Lord Shiva in the climax performs rudhrathandavam and the universe is destroyed which is when he wakes up with a change of mind and accepts Sumithra & Vijayakumar's love, I think.

I dont remember any song other than this.

Hi !

who acted as the poojari ( priest ) in "Rudhra thaNdavam" ? any idea ? Of course, I vaguely remember one more TMS song.. but I am unable to recollect.. let me come back again with it later !!

madhu,

nagesh performed the role of pujari

Telugu version of thookam un kangalai was also sung by SJ
listen and enjoy

music was by ghantasala

http://raretfm.mayyam.com/ifm/neekanudoyine.rm

Ramki, RT pair is Vijayakumar and Sumitra. The TMS song is "nee mannvanA chinnvanA solli vidum pirappu". As usual thathuva pAdal.

The advertisement shows VKR in Nataraja pose :lol:

About Yeetheega poovunu song. It was the first duet song for Kamalahasan though his lines are of short dialouges (, yei nee romba azhaga irukka; nee nalla poNNu etc). It was with PS.

Ramki Sir

Thanks for the 'Pudhu Manjal" song. If my memory serves right Rudhra Thandavam was released a year (1978) before Maro (1979!). The "pudhu" song came first. When I first heard the mega-hit MARO song, it sounded so familar to me and hence started scratching my peanut sized brain and one day when going to school got the revelation of the Pudhu manjal as the song was long dropped from playing in the Radio ..

MSV deftly reused the tune for the Telugu Songs.

However I can hardly questions Jambawans like you!

Thanks for all your effort. Seems my request for the Nangal song would soon be hosted. Can't wait to hear that beautiful number.


Bala

another good / forgotten song. thanks

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SN23/FM

The film with Deepika is naangaL and the good song is 'paarthadhenne un paarvai ennai vaatudhe'(SPB,ksc - song long due in POW).

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Ramki, I meant 'Naam Iruvar' movie. I have watched this movie (ofcourse long time ago), there was one more good song. I can't recollect it at this point.

There is one more good song in 'NaangaL' sung by SL. 'paaradi kuyilE paasa malarkaLai'

I'm trying to recollect some of the movie/songs, since 'jamphavans' are here, I'll post query here.

kaathOda pOgum karai thEdum Odam (Mano) (movie name ??)
poovai pOl vaazhavO punnagai vazhangavO (SPB) (movie name ??)

There is one lovely song in 'ivaL oru pudhu yugam' (*ing Jeyachitra, Raguvaran) sung by SPB. Can anyone recollect that song? It's been about 20 years since I heard them :)

kaathOda pOgum karai thEdum Odam (Mano) (movie name ??) ==> I googled. Ramki says it is from Marudhupandi

Bala

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kaathOda pOgum karai thEdum Odam (Mano) (movie name ??) ==> I googled. Ramki says it is from Marudhupandi

Bala

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Balaji,

Nop. I checked the maruthu paaNdi CD, it's not there. Plus the music doesn't sound like by IR. It could be CB.

marudhu pandi music is by IR

the famous adhamum evalum pole by Arunmozhi & SJ is from the same film