Pick of the Week: Aug 2006 - Sep 2007

I'm glad Jack.

SN23 thanks for the info. Never knew that RC acted in another tamil film.

jn, Naaz- thanks :)

Pick #429

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




Song: maathavamen maadhavane
Movie: raja rishi
Singers : SJanaki, Malaysia Vasudevan
Lyrics: PulamaiPithan
MD: iLaiyaraja
Year : 1985


Rajarishi is a good comedy film and todays song sequence is the most hilarious scene of the lot. No Im not kidding.
The song sequence is for Menakai mayakkufying Viswamithrar.

When chosing the actor for menaka the director(shankar?) might have imagined the following scenario.



DevargaL: 'mannaa..boologothil viswamithrar meendum aazhndha thavakolathil irukkiraar.
adhai kalaikka muyarchi edungaL'

indhiran: 'nalladhu oorvasi rambai menaka ambika radha anuradha discoshanthi
yaaraiyavadhu anuppi mayakka sollungaL'

devargaL : 'muyarchi seidhom aanaal avargaLin callsheet kidaikkavillai'

indhiran(manadhirkkuL): viswamithrar kaanju poi kidakaar yaarai anupicha enne.
devaragaLidam ' sari indha oorvasi ramba menaka aishwarya ivangaLoda amma yaaravadhu irundhaal
anuppi vaiyungaL'

devargaL 'avargaL yaarukkum nadanam theriyaadhe mannaa'

indhiran: adhanaala ennaiyaa. kaNNai mooditirkkira munivarkku break dancennu theriyuma
twist dancennu theriyumaa .chumma poi kai kaalai aattittu varattum.





Based on this wild imagination the director should have chosen actress Lakshmi for the apsaras role.
We were then treated(or punished) to watch a aged, bloated (talented) lakshmi shaking her arms and legs
and hip(whatever left of it) to this good composition by IR.
What was more torturing was the 'seductive' poses Lakshmi was asked to make throughout the song
udhattai kadithal vazhithal, imai padapadathal, oru madhiri paarthal..kodumai. Even normal man will become
a thuravi after witnessing her 'actions' :)
If you find this funny wait till the climax of the song.
Sivaji, freshly enticed by Lakshi, will wake from his penance and will try to embrace her.
But their thoppais will prevent it happening and finally(after several takes)
they will manage a clumsy hug. This scene is not for weak hearted :lol:



Try listening to the song without visualising anything i said above :)
It has some good singing by SJ, neat lyrics by PP(The song has resemblance to 'poongaatre theendathe'(kunguma chimizh)

Excellent write up, came back from a bad day at work and could not control laughing. Thanks

IR patta VKumar endru solli vitteerey! IR sumaragathan pattu potirukkirar, adhanal vandha Kuzhappoma.
Ungalukku Thandanai: Indha songai 10 murai thirumbi varka vendum!!

SJ's sweet voice. Hmm! Vera Yaraal ivalavu azhaga pada mudiyum. ..

After reading the write up, cannot listen the song without visualizing, kodumai thaan..

Thanks for the write up
Bala

Bala

Ramki... :evil:

kurangai ninaikkAmal marundhai saappidaNum
appdinnu sonna Doctor maadhiri irukku neenga solradhu :lol:

anyway.. maRupadi andha scene-ai ninaivu paduthi enakku vayiru valikka seithatharku nanri..

Ramki: examukku padikkum podhu ippidi ellam ezhudhi vayiththu vali vara vazhaikkireengaLe :lol:

Innoru kodumai... Radhika acted as Thilothamai, theriyumO. She also has a song OR at least some shaking dance, I guess.

Innoru gundu is.. Dhushyandan (appavukku thappaama porandha piLLai)... thalai vidhi indha padam.

My pick is Maan kandEn from this film. VJ sang beautifully :-)

Have you watched telugu Vishwamitra? NTR with Meenakshi Seshadri :lol:

"ezuthAtha pAdal" is a lovely song. It belongs in a Sivaji or MGR film. At least Muthuraman, Gemini Ganesh, Vijayakumar. Someone who had a better screen presence than young Kamalahaasan. Regardless of the actor, a score requires singers who can best execute it. TMS fits perfectly. K.Swarna is better suited for songs like "ennOdu ennennavO". She struggles to keep up with TMS. Any of the four leading ladies of the time would have done full justice to the song.

Ramki: paattai vida un writing rasiththen.
Nicely sung by SJ. :)

Ramki -

All day I've been wondering when (at what point in the plot) this song is featured in the film? I think I'll give up. Going by your review, forgetting all about Rajarishi might not be such a bad thing!
:lol:

The song in which SJ / Lakshmi chemistry works well is Vasantha Kaala Kolangal (Thiyaagam) This is a bit of a coincidence, but just two days ago I was thinking of another SJ / L song: "Naanum Neeyum Saerndhu, Ezhil Vaanam Pola Vazhndhu..." (Thandikkapatta Niyaayangal?) A Shankar-Ganesh original!

Ramki, thanks for this beautiful song.

regards
Meera.

Thanks everyone :)

SN23-NTR-MS makes some sense. Menagai is supposed to by young and beautiful and MS is both. Viswamithrar is supposed to be old, which NTR is. After doing thavam for several days with food or water, these munivars should be skinny. NTR nor NT were anything but skinny :)

Naaz the other good songs in SJ-Lakshmi are
'poNvaanam paNNeer thoovudhu'(my favorite) and
'maatha un kovililil'