Pick of the week: 1 Mar to 5 Aug 2006

madhu: chinna koyandhaikku onniyum theriyaadhu.. aana chinna koyandha maari "bose" kudukkuravangaLukku theriyaadha vishayam edhuna irukkaa?

ayyang !

nangalllam "bose" kudukkaravanga illa..
meyyalume koyandhathan..
dhammathoondu irundhukinu aisa vela seyyura bada killadi koyindhangala kandukkama poveengala.. inna naina.. kalaichukinE keerE ?

Pick #111

http://tfmpage.com/stream/songs/thaam_poi.rm

Song: thaamtha theemtha
Film: pagalil oar iravu
Singer: Sjanaki
Lyrics: kaNNadasan
Music: iLaiyaraja.

Another less known gem of SJ and one of her best songs for Sridevi. 'POI' became popular for skimpily clad sridevi and the heavenly 'iLamai enum poongaatru'. Other songs like todays pick, 'ponnaaram poovaaram','thottam konda' and 'kalaiyo silaiyo'
were rarely played on radio.
IMO, Sridevi is the only actress who has paired with likes of sivaji, vijayakumar to young stars like arvind swamy, salman, shah rukh etc. In POI she had 2 pairs (i think)-ravikumar and vijaykumar.
I have not watched the film and only recently watched the 'iLamai enum poonkaatru' and was quite shocked with the picturisation.

Hi Ramki !

"thamtha theemtha" is for actress Seema in the film !

I think, this is the first song picturised in such a way that all the dancers are Seema ! superimposed !

IR used only tabla and voices of the singers and no other instrument for this song ! amazing ! isnt it ?

May be some friend here, who knows abt composition of music etc. can explain more !

I was shocked too :) sevaayila ellam indha maadhiri picturize paNNa maataanga, romba dejent ah edupaanga :lol:

`ponnAram, poovAram' had its regular airtime in the IOKS...espeically in the evenings from 5.30-6, it was played every alternate day in one time period...

The rhythm arrangement of `thAmtha, dheemtha' is really novel and fascinating...so much that Rajiv Menon / ARR combo used this for the audio recording studio scene in kaNdukoNdEn,kaNdukoNdEn...(scene involving voice test for Aish or something like that)...

Those years of Raja were like the initial phase of a river...jumping through the hills, quick and energetic streams...(compare them with current phase which is like a river in its delta region...)

I feel I V Sasi had very good taste for music...(this song is on Seema, who is I V Sasi's wife and is also an accomplished actress)...almost all his Tamil movies, however few were them, had great music (POI, guru, kALi are the three I can remember)

ramki: thanks for this song:)
this song is picturised with seema in a saree shop woth sarees flying all over:)
Vijayakumar who is murai paiyan of seema (doctor in the movie), is coming to meet her to tell her an imortant news. Seema thinks he is going to express his love for her and this is a dream song sequnce. Actually, Vijayakumar comes to tell Seema about his love for Sridhevi.

Thank you all for the details. Never knew seema was part of POI

Pick #112

http://tfmpage.com/stream/songs/thodu_nt.rm

Song: thoduvaanam romba thooram
Film: nyaya tharasu
Singer: PSuseela
Lyrics: Vairamuthu
Music: Shankar Ganesh

Malayalam films of early 80s can be classified into 2 categories: slow or sleaze. Then a crop of new directors like bhadran, sibi malayil , hariharan etc brought in an excellent change and malayalam films started getting notice for their brilliance.
'Panchagni' directed by Hariharan is one such film. DD's regional service showed this film on a lazy sunday afternoon. I started watching without any interest or prior knowledge of the film.
The story starts in a jail. A female prisoner(played by actress Geetha) is released on parole to visit her dying mother. The story then travels with her. We are shown flashbacks of her past, the reason for her imprisonment. She has a drug addict brother, a sister(Played by Nadhiya) married to heroine's ex boyfriend. No one wants to speak to a prisoner. A journalist (Mohanlal) befriends her and they fall in love. Her only confidante is her close friend(idhayam nallennai chitra) who is married to a abusive husband.
Geethas mother dies and she moves out of the house to live with Mohanlal. When you think the film is going to end on a happy note, a shocking twist comes in the end .
The film was excellent. Geetha, Mohanlal, chitra, thilakan each and every actor were at their best.

Panchagni was remade in tamil as 'nyaya tharasu'. Radha chosen played Geethas role and nizhalgal ravi for Mohanlal. I think Anand babu played the junkie brother. I did not watch the tamil version but know it was a flop. Shankar Ganesh, who were at the tail end of their career, came out with few good songs.
Vaanam arugil oru vaanam(KJY)
vennilla ennodu (Mano)
yaarukku aarudhal(KJY,PS) and today's pick.

Todays pick has a brilliant violin interlude after the first charanam. Though PS voice sound jaded, it still expresses the desired emotion of the character.