Pick of the week: 1 Mar to 5 Aug 2006

Thanks Ramki for your welcome card.

Thanks SN for the JA song

Thanks Mahesh. Probably I got confused between Deepa & Dappa it seems.

Ramki,

I would also join with Ramesh for Anbu Megamae song.Thinking of Vijayabaskar, I also request one more song from his music, Mohana Punnagai Oorvalamae from Uravu solla Oruvan, a lovely KJY solo.

Regards

While thanking for JA song I mistakenly said SN. Sorry JN and

Thanks JN for the song.

Regards

Pick #282

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

Song: kaNdene kaNdene
Film: kanni theevu
Singers: Malaysia Vasudevan, SPShailaja
lyrics: ?
Music: iLaiyaraja

After their successful(!!) pairing in 'ore vaanam ore boomi', Jaishankar and Seema were paired again in this 'one day innings' film. I vaguely remember seeing Sridevi in the posters.

Once a promising hero, Jaishankar kindof became the male shakeela in late 70s and early 80s. With the association of director karnan, Jai mainly acted in B or C grade movies. Thankfully he resurfaced again playing decent roles in the latter part of his career.Seema's careergraph was directly opposite to Jai's. She started with sleazy roles but ended up acting with superstars like rajini,kamal, mamootty etc. I heard she is currently acting in tv serials.

Back to the pick, are there any other good songs in this obscure IR film?

Dear Ramki,
:lol: :oops: :D

Sila comments discourage panni, film parkum asaiyai keduthu vidum.Anal ungal comments konjam different ana onru. Unga comments ---- Film ai parka vaikum!!!

About Jai comments - really very very nice!! Puriyadhavanga film parthu therinjukalam!!!! :lol: So niraiya perai indha Jai padathai parka vaika poreenga!!! :lol:

With Love,
Usha Sankar.

Ramki :rotfl:

Why B or C grade movies? Those are d-graded ones, starting with Ganga, Enga Paattan soththu, Jakkamma, Jambu etc. PadathOda peyara kEttaalE sirippu thaan varum. Jai looked like Karadi maama in Jambu :lol:

One more funny thing was the villain in Jai-Karnan's movies was mostly Major Sundarrajan!!

Seema's best performance in my view was in "Enga oor kaNNagi".

But this POW is paravaayillai... oru dharam kEtkalaam :-)

Indha maaperum padathai (!! )paarthu irukiraen.I think i saw it in thangam theatre Madurai( advertised as Asia's biggest theatre)i dont know if its still there.
I virtually dont remember anything at all.the vague thing i remember is that Jai goes to investigate ( as usual) something in an island where there are tribals.I remember only one scene where Seema steps on a plant and it encircles her like an octupus and Jai saves her from the plant(!)

Today TMS celebrates his 84th Birthday and there is a function today at Narada Gana Sabha, Chennai to felicitate him and P.Susheela. Sirappu Sorpozhivu by Vairamuthu and there is also Pattimandram on TMS- PS duets by Leoni.

Lets wish the Thespian a musical century.

Regards


PS: Mahesh, Thangam is non functional for the past 12 years embroiled as it is in legal tangles

Seema's another decent , noteworthy performance is in "pagalil oru iravu" where she features in the immortal song "thamtha dheemtha aadum uLLam paadum kaaviyam". "Kandene" is a catchy tune

Nice Song Ramki.

Rich IR's interludes make this worth listening. SPS is not bad...

Bala

http://www.dhool.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=3015

Sara advises these songs in Kanni THeevu

Bala, kannitheevu (1981/ Sri Aivar Art Films/ Jaishankar,Radhika)) was also directed by T.R.Ramanna. It has music by Ilaiyaraja. Songs are ' ithu oru pudhu vidha (Kandathai sollathae)'-SJ & chorus, 'hey, onna renda' (MV/SPS), 'Kandene kandene kaatil engum' (MV/SPS ) and 'ponnana neram raja' (SJ)

Bala

Neel,SN and Vel
Thanks for your appreciation about Paruvakalam.
The songs were big hits. The original Malayalam Chemabarathy was a hit.
I have seen the name of P.N.Menon's name appearing as Art director in many Tamil movies. When I saw the movie Devathai directed by P.N.Menon, I went on to find the details about him. Had he directed Paruvakalam in Tamil as the original Chembarathy, the film would have been a sensitive one. Directed by Jos Fernando, it is an average movie which had an average run in theaters.

balaji, is the song "ITHU ORU PUDHU VIDHA" song in KanniTheevu a fast paced S.Janaki song that starts of quite like the Rishimoolam SJ song "Mazhai Varuvadhu Mayillukku Theriyum"? This song has a fanstastic Guitar and flute first interlude and in the second one has Malaysia Vasudevan humming. If this is it, do you have it?

Thanks

Sorry natha, I do not have. Ramki have you heard this song?

Bala

Balaji, thanks for the reply. This was played freqeuntly in Radio Srilanka early 80s.

Thanks everyone

Ushashankar, inimel jai padam paarpadhu romba kashtam. TVle kooda avar 70s,80s padam ellaam vakkra madhiri theriyalai


Another film with decent performance by seema is 'kalyaana agadhigaL'.

jMahesh ungaLukku porumai jasthi. eppadi indha padam ellaam kasu koduthu ticket vaangi partheenga :)

Bala/Natha, i do not have that song with me

Pick #283

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

Song: uravo pudhumai
Film: aadu puli aatam
Singer: SPB
lyrics: kaNNadasan
Music: Vijaybhaskar

Due to increased requests for VB songs, i plan to host couple of his rare songs this week.

'uravo pudhumai' kicks off the series. 'vaanukku thandhai avano' ,the other good song from APA was already featured in POW.

I think todays pick is picturised on kamal and sangeetha on a bicycle. Sangeetha was a good looking actress but unfortunately she always did the second heroine role. I think her first film is 'deepam'(as sivajis sister). I could be wrong though. I also remember playing the female lead in couple of flop films.
She is now a popular 'amma' actress

Great Song. The kannada song (is it Besage Besage??) was a great song too.

On Sangeetha, the one acted in Deepam was called Sivaji Sangeetha. There was anothe Sangeetha who acted as MGR's sister (was it Meena Nanban?). I believe this Sangeetha acted with Rajini in AAV in the 'Kanmaniye Kadhal.' song.

I am eagerly waiting for the songs of VB other than the famous MMV, MOM, USO and KAV.

Thanks Ramki
Bala

Ramki, Song name is repeated as film name; Correct pannunga :-)

Vijayabaskar was a breeze like V.Kumar who had given many good songs. Though he was not very popular like IR, MSV etc, he was one among talented MDs in TFM. I like this song very much. Very soft as if ilavam panju :-)

Sangeetha clarification (romba periya vishayam !!):

'MGR'Sangeetha was introduced in Anna en deivam (MGR's film with Latha), which was incomplete. I think this was renamed as Avasara Police 100, directed by Bagyaraj in 90's. Sangeetha who acted as MGR's sister in original movie, continued acting in AP100 as Bagyaraj's mother. A hopeless movie, though few scenes were shown with MGR and Latha. This MGR-Sangeetha only acted in Deepam, APAatam etc.

Whereas 'Sivaji'Sangeetha was introduced in Ilaya Thalaimurai. She acted as oru-thalai-Kadhali of Sivaji and there was a dashing scene of Sivaji lying over Sangeetha :lol: I think this Sangeetha did not act in any more movies.

Later one more Sangeetha (really talented) came in thru MahaNadhi (Shobana's adult paruva girl / Kamal's daughter) and acted in many good films incl. Poove Unakkaaga.

4th Sangeetha (originally as Rasika) acted in Pithamagan.

Innum Eththanai SangeethavO... theriyavillai :lol:

I remember sangeetha and kamal riding in bike in this song as ramki has said.
indhap padaththaip patri nianivukku vandhadhu:
madhan is kamal's name in this movie.
kamal adikkadi indhap padaththile"idhu thaan madhan style" nu solvaar, inspite of rajini being in the cast. :D
sangeetha veetil kamal kudi iruppaar. rendu perum kaadhalipaanga. kamal velai thedrappo vaLaiyal koduththu sangeetha help pannuvaanga. kamal ku adikkadi slow motion le sangeetha valaiyal eduththuttu railway station varadhu pola scene kaN munnaale vandhutte irukkum. kamal velai le sera mudiyaame poyi rajini and innum rendu per? oda sErndhu thavaRaana paadhai le poyiruvaar.
sangeetha kamal ku wait paNNi avar varaadhadhinaale nun aayiduvaanga.

SPB kalakkuraar indha song le.
Other songs in this movie:
SPB's vaanukku thandhai evano - for kamal
VJ's poongkuyil paadudhu kaadhal raagam paadudhu - for Sripriya
VJ's maname solaiyaam, ninaivugaL malargaLaam - for Aparna.

JN..

Its AAdu puli aattaam featuring Rajini, Kamal, Sangeetha and others...

Rajini was the villain and Kamal , the hero....

nice movie..

the super hit song in this movie was...Vaanukku thandhai evano....

Infact, every Id or during Ramzan festival, Doordharshan Chennai invariably will put this song

Lakshmi: I was just recollecting my memory about the storyline of APA.
Thanks anyway :)

Bala,
Thats a tough list(to keep away). Will try:)

As SN23 mentioned , APA deepam and 6 to 60 Sangeethas are same. She acted couple of dubba movies with vijayaraj as heroine.

JN thanks for the recollection.

Pick #284

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

Song: mani viLakke
Film: unnaithan thambi
Singers: SPB, BVasantha
lyrics: Vaali?
Music: Vijaybhaskar


I'm not sure if this song was banned in AIR(If yes i can understand why), but i had never listened to this song until i moved out of India. Singapore oli plays this song on very rare occassions.

If you can ignore the lyrics, its a pretty good song. The interludes are very hindi song like but SPB's singing is as alwyas excellent.

'unakku naan sondham'(SPB,VJ) is another good song from UTT.
Any clue on the lead actors in UTT?

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Ramki

Any clue on the lead actors in UTT?

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Ramki,
Jaishankar & Jaichithra

You did it Ramki. You have given us a rare song, though often played those days. I believe it was played in radio frequently, though not sure if it was banned in AIR.

Sorry SN23 on the Snageetha Diversion.

Ramki try your best to avoid his superhits/hits
Bala

Ramki
Thanks for the really rare one. Those days radio ceylon use to play this quiet often. As ususal vivida bharathi banned it.

ramesh

Ramki,

Thanks for the song a hot number in those days. This movie was directed by T.N.Balu and it was released in 73-74. Though I don't remember the story, it was usual Jai movie. It became famous for it's situational dialogues ( Kanakku ketta veliyele poga solranga. ellorum Badhil sollra kalam varum etc) which had mirrored the happenings in TN at that time [ MGR expelled from DMK and started ADMK a year back before this]

Regards

spb's old collectionil intha paadal kandippagha cassetteil irukkum. vasanthavin kural inimai thaan

Ramki... very enjoyable song; lyrics too :wink:

SPB is as usual... Bv is also as usual. Does she not have similarity in voice and singing as Madhuri's?

Jaishankar, Jayachitr, Thengai, Manorama. etc acted. Navagraham kind of family, where Jai enters as Unknown and thiruthify the family besides join hands with Jayachitra. Super original story by Chitramahal Krishnamoorthy :-)

Wow, so many fans for this song.

Thenraja et al , thank you for all the details

Pick #285

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

Song: kaNNazhagil neeyum oru kaamatchi
Film: unga veetu kalyanam
Singers: TMS, SJanaki
lyrics: kaNNadasan?
Music: Vijaybhaskar

Compared to other female singers, VB has given more numbers to Vanijairam. PS, SJ, LRE have sung for him but not as many as VJ.

'iyarkai naatiya saalai' is a popular TMS-SJ duet under VB's music direction. Todays pick is relatively less known number from an obscure film.

Who are the actors in UVK?(Jai again?:)

What other song(s) SJ sang for him?

This is really a rare song. I think UVK also had
1. Iyer Veetu Poonu Sonna (Kovai S and LRA)
2. Pesamal Vaa en pakkam Nerungu

Bala

Hi, are you hosting song series of Vijayabaskar & Chitramahal Krishnamoorthy & Gopu & Jaisankar movies? Lovely combination Ramki.

Enakku therindu, Jai & Jaichitra acted in many films under this combination. Besides this pair, Thengai Seenivasan and Shubha also paired.

I hope you all know that Gopu was husband of famous novel writer Mrs.Kamala Sadagopan (Kadhavu fame).

More later with you all.

Hi

Leading pair of UVK is Thengai Srinivasan and Subha. Also *ng Cho, manorama, Jothilakshmi, Thangavelu etc.

Ramki, thanks for the rare song Kannazhagil. I can't even remember how long ago it was I heard this song last time. TMS&SJ duets have a unique quality. May be because there are not that many of them, compared to TMS&PS and may be even compared to TMS&LRE.

Why did the VB series abruplty end? Ramki?

Neeld

My take is the entrance of IR. Devaraj Mohan/SPM and PA who were having Vb as the MD shifted to IR. 1974/5 I think must be the best years for VB in Tamil. 1976 changed his fate and his chances dwindled in Tamil.

Though I am happy that IR got the chance, I miss VB so much and my favorites songs of his are from Malai Sooda Vaa. "yaarukku.." and "Pattuppochigal.." are one of his bests.

Vani outshone everyone in his songs,

Bala

Bala

Thank you all for the details. I was extremely busy for the past few days. I will continue the VB series later

Pick #286

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

Song: sindhu nadhi poove
Film: Shankar Salim Simon
Singers: MSV, SJanaki
lyrics: kaNNadasan?
Music: MSV

As far as i know there are only 2 MSV-SJ duets and both are good in their own style. While 'sollathaan' is a sweet melody, todays pick is a rocking bhangra. If you can bear MSV's hindi, then you will enjoy the song more. SJ , as always, sounds very sweet.
SSS had Rajini,Vijaykumar, Jaiganesh, Latha, Manjula, Vasanthi(?) etc. I remember reading that Vasanthi married an actor (thirumurugan?), her hero in one of her films.

Were there any other good song in SSS?

Nice song Sindhu Nadhi Poove. There isn't a genre of music that MSV has not explored. Another nice song from SSS is "idhu unthan veettu kiLithaan" by VJ.

Does anyone know what film "kOdi kAlam gnAnum thEdi" by SJ is from?

ramki: The other songs in SSS are:
vandhaaLE oru magaraasi by SPB and PS
gOpuraththile oru sittukuruvi (??) by kovai soundher rajan.
Today's pick and VJ's song are good ones in that movie. :)