dhaagame undaanathe(getti meLam)
Pick #301
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Song: dhaagame undaanathe
Film: getti meLam
Singers : KJY, Uma Ramanan
lyrics: Vaali
Music: iLaiyaraja
I realised over the weekend that POW, having just crossed 300 counts, never featured a uma ramanan song before. She is one of the rare singers in TFM to have more than 95% success rate.
She has a unique voice and was fortunate to sing some of the best songs by IR. She was sparsely used by other MDs. I recently heard her song for a recent vijay film and surprisingly her voice still sounded young.
Todays song is a fine duet by the hit pair KJY and UR. Its supposedly based on
Subhapanthuvarali raagam(http://www.tfmpage.com/ci/ci3.html).
'getti meLam' is a horrible horrible film. 2.5 hrs of pure torture(Thanks to DD). Like many visu films, GM had a cluster of stars with karthik and sulakshana(not sasikala as incorrectly mentioned inthe article above) playing the lead.
GM is the only film visu worked with IR.
'amma nee kaNNamoochi aadidalaama'(UR) is another nice song from GM
ingu irukkum(edhir kaatru)
Pick #302
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Song: ingu irukkum
Film: edhir kaatru
Singer : Uma Ramanan
lyrics: Mu. Mehta
Music: iLaiyaraja
Todays pick is a cocktail of excellent guitar arrangements and great lyrics , sweetened by UR's honey drenched voice.
Till to date i cannot understand why this song never made it big. could it be due to bad performance of the film at B.O ?overshadowed by other good songs IR was churning out at that time?
This is the only film i know that had all the female songs sung by UR(2 of them hehe).
'raja illai raani' (UR, AM),
'koondai vittu'(KJY)
are other good songs from EK.
The film, directed by Mukta Vsundar, had Karthik, kaNaga, anandbabu etc. I havent watched the film but believe the story is about 2 financially opposite people(karthik and anandbabu), switching places to deal with their troubled lives. Kanaga played a hip(?), modern (??) journalist. The kaatru in the title couldnt provide much oxygen for the film to survive at B.O.
sevvaraLi thottathile(bhagavathypuram railwaygate)
Pick #303
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Song: sevvaraLi thottathile
Film: bhagavathypuram railwaygate
Singers : iLaiyaraja, Uma Ramanan
lyrics: Muthulingam?
Music: iLaiyaraja
This cute sweet rustic song is one of her 3 duets with IR.
'BPRG' had 3 different female singers singing for the heroine shankarabaranam Rajalakshmi.
SPS with DC - kaalai nera kaatre
UR with IR-sevvaraLi
BSS - thendral kaatrum anbu paatum
The film had a skinny lanky karthik playing the male lead. Doe eyed Rajalakshmi was not cut out to play glamorous heroine roles and this was very evident in this film. Even though she played a village belle role, the director dressed her in white nightgown (like Barathiraja heroines) in the song sequences. She looked uneasy and uncomfortable and so did the audience. I have not seen the film but have watched the songs.
I think she played heroine in only 2 other films 'kodeeswaran magaL' and 'archanai pookaL'.