Pick of the week: 1 Mar to 5 Aug 2006

Ramki, super song. Kai yeduthu IR-ai kumbidaNum. Appidiye ungaLaiyum thAn :-)

What an imagination in IR's composition. Nadhaswaram musical bits are spread on the music feast served by PS & UR. PS had enough of feathers and star accolades in her singing career, but in my view, UR did her best in this song.

Your comment "The confidence of a leader in PS voice and obedience of a sishyan in UR's adds more flavor and aunthenticity to this wonderfully crafted song" is excellent. But if I remember correct the childhood friends (Shankar and Saritha) sing this song and both of them are shishyas only.

The mesmarising line in this song "en kanavum ninaivum isaiyE, isai irundhAl maraNam yedhu". When UR repeats this line, enakku mei silirkkum :-)

Vazhga thamizh... vaLarga nam TFMPage :-)

Thanks very much for the song Ramki.
I have seen this song only once on DD on black & white tv as a kid.But the song & song sequence remains deeply etched in my memory due to its inimai & the content.
Recently in Ilayaraja's one man show in Madras he sang this song with Bhavatharini.
IR & daughter in place of PS/UR respectively.
Bhavatharini was no match for IR and he was playfully bullying her & making her sing the lines again & again.She never did it perfectly even till the end. :)
Madhu , for boys the voice is quite squeaky or girlish until it breaks in adolosence.One more example of PS singing for a boy is 'kannizhandha pillaiku'

mahesh : yeah ... I know.. but I never imagined that this song is for a boy.. thats all !

Nice songs Ramki
(Alaiy Alaiy and Amudhe ..).

Not able to make a connection, is it songs starting with the letter 'A' this week?

Bala

a great song.. Thamizhukku idhai vida oru nalla paatu kidaikaadhu PS & UR azhutham thiruthamaga paaduvathu innum azhagu

Bhavatharini?:)..Thank god she was just a baby during the peak years of IR :)

Pick #333

http://tfmpage.com/stream/pow06/ponnana_iv.rm

Song: ponnana uLLam unnodu irukka
Movie: iru veedugaL
Singer: BVasantha
Lyrics: ?
MD: Vkumar

There are not many solos by BVasantha. Her humming songs will easily outnumber the songs that has her singing some lyrics.
Thanks to NeelD for sending this rare song. He also sent me another solo of her from the film 'shri chamundeswari'.

Any other solos?

The following link says IV had Ravichandran and Sowkar.
Any more details?Anyone?


http://tfmpage.com/forum/9713.20880.03.21.22.html

wow !

I think I am hearing this after many years...
they used to air it often in "thirai amudham" of vividh bharathi.. in the afternoon...

"Amudhe Thamizhe" is easily one of my fave IR songs... not just of that time period, but in ALL of Raja's 30 years of MDing. Almost needless to say, I can't tell you how expert the orchestration sounds in the song, esp. the nagaswaram.

I think this song inspired Raveendran Mash to compose "Pularkaala Sundara..." in the Mallu film 'Oru May Maasa Pulariyil,' released 6 years later, although I couldn't say for sure. :)

It's true mahesh. I've watch the program. She never followed her father until the end of the song. Even, both Yuvan and karthik couldn't sang Chinnak kannan alzaikkiran in Andrum Indrum Endrum, Jaya TV show. YYYYYYY??????

Thanks for the nice and beautiful songs. First time i'm listening ponnana uLLam.

Nice song. Listening after so longggggggggggggg time.

Regarding the other two latest picks, alai alai naan idhu thaan muthal murai ketkiren ena ninaikiren.
Abt kovil pura all the songs are good. All the singers would have done justice to their songs except SJ ( konjam antha pattu paaduvathil kashtapattaro ena thoandrum athai ketkum pozhuthellam)

Ramki

'Ponnana neram' used to be played quiet frequently on Ilangai Vanoli. A very nice song...

This is our MSV's creation (not V Kumar). The interludes can vouch for that...

Bala

Ramki, was Iru VeedugaL released? I have never heard about. Ravichandran & Sowcar paired in Kaviya Thalaivi and Ranga Rattinam. In this too? Somehow not able to digest Sowcar jodying with RC, AVMR (ThuNaivan, Prarthanai), Srikanth (Deivam, Edhir neechal) :-) Has she acted with Jaishankar as jodi? Could be with Muthuraman.

B.Vasantha's voice is very sweet in this song. She could have been utilised much more in TF's.

balaji,

V.Kumar is not "our" V.Kumar? :-)

I told Ramki that it was by V.Kumar. I wasn't sure of that myself and should have left it blank. You may be right that it is by MSV. Thank you.

SN23,

I think so too. BV must have been utilized more. I think she was typecast as the humming voice. I guess it is very hard break out of that in TF indsutry.

Balaji, it coule very well be MSV. But the link i posted too says the MD is VK

Pick #334

http://tfmpage.com/stream/pow06/ethanai_pp.rm

Song: ethanai malargaL thaavum
Movie: pattampoochi
Singers: TMS, SJanaki
Lyrics: ?
MD: Srinivasan

Song requested by Premananth.

TMS and Sj have sung few duets and very very few of these few are sad songs . Todays pick takes the cake. Can
a song get any more sobby? I doubt :). From the lyrics i understand the song argues on arranged vs love marriage.

Pattimandram with azhugai naduvar :).
I have not seen this film but i have enjoyed the other song 'chakkarai panthalil'. TMS for Kamal is always a
no no to me so i try not to think about the picturisation.
Was this song too for KH? I know jayachitra was the heroine. Who are the other actors?

Thanks a lot for fulfill my request. As you said, it is a wonderful song.

I've watched the movie long time (around 10 - 12 years) ago in VCR.

Kamal and Jayachithra were the leads. It’s another Silappathigaram style of movie but a little changes in climax.

Kamal and JC were from poor family. Kamal is lonely and JC lives with her father. They fall in love and married. Along the movie Kamal said, “Kadal pola veedu, kappal maathiri Car-u, ippadi vaalzhanum.” He acted in a greedy role. In one of the scene, he had asked JC, if he leaves her, what she will do. She replied, “I’ll kill you and i will commit suicide”. Later Kamal founds an actress and married her. He got kadal mathiri veedu and kappal maathiri car. JC knows about it went to see him. The “ethanai malargaL thAvum” song sang by a way-faring couple when JC goes to kamal’s new house. After long argument, she stabbed him and swallows the diamond on their wedding ring. The story ends.

If I’m not mistaken, pattaampoochi was the first film Kamal did as solo hero.

Story, screenplay and directed by A.S.Praghasam.
This song wrote by Kannathaasanaar.
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Indha alavukku sob song kettadhae illai Ramki.
The Janaki part ofthe song reminded me of 'kannilae neer edharku'

Neel D:

Sorry the "our" was a typo. V Kumar-m "our" V Kumar than.

Ramki

"Chakkarai Panthalil Then Mazhai Pozhiyudhu" was a nice song, though this sob song used to be played frequently as well.

Nandri
Bala

Mani: adhE thaan sariyaa sonnenga :-)
Mahesh: neenga sonnadhum sariyE.
I add some more.. b'cas of too much soha singing (vuuuuuuuuu), namakku soha uNarvu varaama, erichal thaan varudhu. Edhukkum oru aLavu vENum illaya? Innoru aLavu kadandha soha singing is OdathilE kaNNeeru... vengayam urikkaamyE kaNNula erichal varum.
Ramki, oru super chandrababu paatu irukka (definitely not azhgai paattu) :-)

Ramki: Vasantha's solo is really a gem. As Neel and SN23 said she shoudl hv been given opportunities. Unlucky singer. After 2nd saraNam, her humming is lovely. Here too she uses cham cham cham type of hum. Definiteaa MSV's padaippu endru nambugirEn.

Premananth thanks for the storyline. Storyline sounds very weird :)

Pick #335

http://tfmpage.com/stream/pow06/indru_vop.rm

Song: indru mudhal
Movie: veetukkoru piLLai
Singers: SPB, BVasantha
Lyrics: kaNNadasan
MD: MSViswanathan

Here is another sweet duet by BV. She does the humming and sings one word :). Its a very cute song though. SPB's voice sounds young and fresh.

'Aenda raaja' from the same film was hosted few months ago. For discussion on this song and the film click here

http://forumhub.mayyam.com/hub/viewt...=361232#361232

Ramki: B.Vasantha enRaale humming thaan ninaivukku varum. :)
solo song is very nice.
eththanai is not my favourite song. :)
In today's pick SPB's voice romba soft and sweet. :)

Ramki

Thanks

Spb - "Manjolodu KUngumam" enbathai "Manjoludu Kungumam" endru solvadhu Azhagaga Ulladhu...

Bala

jn: enakku BVasantha endralE Yesu nadhar pEsilnAl pAttu thAn ninaivukku varum. Was it for Devika?

BV is good in today's song too. I guess she is telugu speaking. But the pronounciation in tamil songs is really superior. In addition she sings with clarity.

Bala, SPB "ing" solradhukku badhilaa "ink" endru sollarar. Adhuvum suhamE :-)

Ramki: I saw some excerpts of PattAmpoochi. Jaichitra as usaul did over-acting and over-taking Kamal. He was just an on-looker mostly. He marries (or switches over) Usha. Usha acted with him in 2 more films ArangEtram and Unnai sutrum ulagam.

Thanks for iindru mudhal song and i am looking for this so long. nice melody ,apt song for sleepy afternoon. :D just relax.

ramesh

reg pattam poochchi, titleil JC peyar thaan first varum, then only kamal's name

Surprisingly Ramki, the song sounds very familiar especially BV's humming parts of the song & not the song itself.
Another good song with her humming is 'pottu vaitha mugamo'

Quote:

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Originally Posted by SN23

jn: enakku BVasantha endralE Yesu nadhar pEsilnAl pAttu thAn ninaivukku varum. Was it for Devika?

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SN23: correct. yesu naadhar is for dhevikaa in thaaye unakkaaga. :)

Thanks everyone.

Mahesh, the humming part reminds me of some hindi song..i cant tell which one though.

Pick #336

http://tfmpage.com/stream/pow06/kai_vc.rm

Song: kai veenaiyai aendhum
Movie: vietnam colony
Singer : Bombay Jaishree
Lyrics: vaali
MD: iLaiyaraja


Early 80s. MSV was working in less movies and introducing even less singers. His songs were getting less air time, some even went without being aired. One such album was 'thambathigaL'.
ThambathigaL had sivakumar and poornima jairam and i think it was directed by Muktha Srinivasan. MSV introduced a new singer Jaishree. He gave her two duets with SPB. I remember one song 'vaada kaNNa hare hare gokulakrishna'. The film was not a hit and the songs got aired for the period the film was in the theatres(which was not very long).
Jaishree vanished from TFM scene but later became a leading karnatic singer. She now had Bombay tag attached to her name(dont know why)
Todays pick is her second break in TFM. 'narumagaiye' happened 3 yrs later and with 'vaseegara',released 4 yrs after narumagaiye, she became a household name.

'vietnam colony' was a bad remake of Mohanlal malayalam hit with the same title. Prabhu did ML's role and vineetha did kanaga's.
Tamil version was directed by Santhana Bharathi
Todays song is picturised on veteran actress Jayanthi.
The film had few other song but only this pick was listenable.

Hi Ramki

I had a doubt about the singer of "thambathigaL" song. Thanks for the clarification. :P

Ramki

Thanks for the song.

The movie recently was shown on Sun TV and I happen to watch the film and the film was not bad at all. However that may be beacuse the original could have been even better. However songs were so bad except this one. Swarnalatha crooning an unforgettable seduction like song, Mano as usual doing a below par song, and then a dappanguthu song with beats similar to IR's songs of the 90s. IR was very disappointing.

This song was good more because of the unique voice of the singer, than anything to do the song itself IMHO.

Thanks for hosting the song

Bala

Ramki, I thought there were 4 songs in ThampathigaL. 2 solos of Jayashree and 2 duets with SPB. I waguely remember the story also....With suspicion Sivakumar ruining the family life with Poornima. The voice of JS was very young and did not have the kara karappu that of her's these days. Enna saaptaangaLO theriyalai :-)

MSV only introduced Swarnalatha also in Chinanchiru kiLiye kaNNamma song.

Vietnam Colony film had a good start with village background, where Jayanthi (Prabhu's mother) teaches music to children. The picturisation of this song is not for the full song, if I am correct. B.JS did a decent job. Thanks for the good song Ramki.

SN23: Jayshri went through a lot in personal life. It must have had an effect on her voice. :( She has since picked up and is moving forward.

mano & swaranalatha's MArghazhi maasam was a catchy number too

Madhu, my pleasure :)

Balaji, totally agree. Songs were unbearable.


SN23 you could be right. Enakku ninaivilirundhadhai sonnen :)
I find her voice more suitable for jayanthi than for reemas or Meeras. :)

Pick #337

http://tfmpage.com/stream/pow06/sapta_nu.rm

Song: saptaswaram punnagaiyil
Movie: naadagame ulagam
Singers : SPB, VaniJairam
Lyrics: vaali
MD: VKumar

One of the good duets by VK during his 'almost VRS' phase :). The interludes, voices and lyrics, esp the lyrics make this a great song.

Look vaali writes:

'angangaL engengum kaalathin kolangalae'

If you have watched the picturisation you would understand vaalis nayaandi. I did, thanks to oLiyum oliyum.

padakatchyai kaNdu en 'sapthaswara' punnagai maraindhu, 'saptanaadiyum' uraindhu ponadhu:)

A 40+(age/hipsize ) KRVijaya in mini, midi, jeans, maxie etc etc singing this duet with a much young looking Mohan(Lakshmi's ex).
Shocking enough for a kid to loose sleep for several nights :)

indha kaatchiyai karpanaithukondaal vaaliyin andha otrai variyin artham puriyum :)

Kindals aside, the song is a good one and was a popular one. Its not easy to find these songs nowdays. No worries for me though, i just need to send a request to NeelD and pronto he sends me from his treasure.
I have done this before, but again I want to use this opportunity to thank NeelD for being a great source of long forgotten songs