#17 அப்பனே அப்பனே
(அன்னை ஓர் ஆலயம், 1979)
What a joy ride of a song!
A trumpet / guitar delight, sung with full of energy and emotion by SPB and supported by PS!
This is an interesting movie for the animal-based-movie specialist, Devar films, who did a few movies with Rajinikanth and Kamal and IR was an unusual choice for some of them (their regulars were initially KVM and later their intro, the S-G duo).
This was the first IR movie for this company and he followed up with anbukku nAn adimai & Ram Latchuman. dhamathin thalaivan came after many years. Essentially, they had IR when he was fast upcoming but switched to cheaper ones when he became #1. (DT was possibly done due to the insistence of hero / director and an exception.) A careful, calculative prod house indeed when choosing technicians.
Well, IR did full justice to their movies when called upon and SPB / PS were the main choices. We got a few top SPB-PS hits from IR for this prod house. Devar-IR-SJ combo is a rarity (i.e. if at all it exists). (Please note, that prod house wasn't averse to using SJ as she featured regularly in their movies with S-G music, "tooth paste irukku, brush irukku, ezhunthiru mAmA":lol:)
It looks like the requirement for this movie was to take a leaf out of MGR's nalla nEram (in heroism and other format) and IR needed to fit in the elephant theme in a similar mode. Well, IR met and exceeded the expectations in a triumphant manner :-)
Personally, I didn't know who the MD was when the song arrived but later found out. However, what was very clear to me when I heard the song for the first time was it was an 'elephant song' :-) There was no doubt about it!
