app,
Superb effort and writing. Do continue. You have a huge task ahead in the 80s. I am sure you next quarter or half year is booked :)
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app,
Superb effort and writing. Do continue. You have a huge task ahead in the 80s. I am sure you next quarter or half year is booked :)
App,
I appreciate your tremendous dedication and effort in reviving this thread. :clap: Through you we already saw how IR's musical journey started and flourished in 70's and got to hear many beautiful gems in that period. Thanks a lot!
Splendid effort App :clap: Your posts invoking nostalgia is as sweet as listening to those unforgettable songs.
wow! app_eng rocks
neatly featured songs links gathered for us to enjoy conveniently....
too many choices .... many more to be featured soon ...
நான் ஒரு loving gift from இளையராஜா-பாலா எடுத்துக்கறேன் for my pleasure this lazy lunch hr
love,
vinatha.
Thank you Sureshji, V_S, rajkumarc & baroque!
80's is going to be a bigger group for this combo - yes, few more months are advance booked :-)
#38 காட்டில் ஒரு சிங்கக்குட்டியாம்
(அன்புக்கு நான் அடிமை, 1980 )
Alphabetically the first movie of the 80's where IR & SPB worked together. Another Devar films movie with Rajinikanth & IR. Being Devar films, animal references were inevitable and this song features lion cub, though not literally referring to one. I remember seeing posters of this movie where Rajini is shown with a leopard (is it really there in the movie?). In any case, another forest related movie I think.
Raja introduces "sounds" from some new toys (ofcourse, synth. Now don't tell me he got spoilt with synth only after the arrival of later day whiz-kids :wink:). The prelude itself has that vague-chipmunk-like sound which continues thru out the song (in the pallavi, that sound is the response to SPB's singing). One can also hear some wild-animal sounds here and there in the song.
Nevertheless, a sweet / simple tune and some cheerful singing by SPB. I've posted in another thread that IR gets some extra thrill when someone asks him to tell a story thru a song and this is one of them. (Another similar one with strange sounds that quickly comes to mind is the 'narikkadhai' by Kamal -Sridevi in moonRAm piRai).
Well, it won't be unfair to say that IR got inspired by some prior-era masters in this area (poo poovA paRandhu pOgum pattuppoochchi akkA by MSV in dhikkuththeriyAtha kAttil, kadavuL amaiththu vaiththa mEdai by the mellisai mannar again in AOT come to mind immediately).
The song was very popular - both on radio and other media (adhAvadhu teakkadai, horn speaker, bus etc). The movie's popularity and 'by-this-time-super-star-titled-hero' too helped in getting the song a wider reach. I think a real-life-black-belt acted as the villain in this movie (and you know how he would've got battered on screen by the charming hero :wink: )
Enna app, appo padam ellam parkurathillaiya? ANA is one of those rare animal-ess Devar films of that time. No, I don't remember any Leopard. Raasi-kaaga poster-la pOturuppangga. Karate mani's debut I think? Rajini impersonates a cop in a village, the very cop to be there was actually his long lost brother whom he "killed" on the way there.
Anyway, can't wait for the duet. :smile:
Oh yeah I have seen this in Telugu as well with Rajini himself(I think Chakravarthy took over the music though). One of those watched-many-times-in-theatre movies.
The songs were taken-for-granted hits. kAthOdu poo urasa is a lovely, lovely song, a rare SPB-Suseela one under IR.
App, what you are doing is tilting me further towards "70s Raja is the greatest" position. Somehow, I feel, the sheer magic in those songs is unreplicable even by Raja of 80s, 90s and now, gigantic greats as these later songs are, they still dont match up.
What? Totally different music/song in Telugu?
A different cast(bar Rajini) as well. I cant remember the songs but I vaguely remember anodyne stuff - most likely not Raja. Chakravarthy was an educated guess - given the time period, he was the most likely candidate so adichchu vuttEn ;-)