With that number 221, there's no backlog :-)
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With that number 221, there's no backlog :-)
Three songs in one day. Super duper App! :thumbsup: Nice to read your 'AthirampaLLi' falls experience and good to know the location of the song as well. I can't forget watching this move in KG Complex (Raagam), Coimbatore after escaping from my college. As a first year, coming out of college is like coming out of jail because of severe ragging. Every hostel room played these songs 24/7. So popular they were. Yes, as you mentioned, we were so glued to hear Chitra's vocals more than SPB's. Vaan Megham and YEthetho were just unstoppable, followed by the theme. Terrific recording!
Absolutely genesis!. That time we didnt' know all the inner secrets who did the programming, recording and sound engineering. If what you say is true, absolutely a whole-hearted pranams for ARR. Definitely we could feel the vast difference in the quality of output compared to all other soundtracks IR had given earlier. Even with some local cassettes (we used to record in coney/meltrack cassettes), cassette players and walkmans the sound quality was truly amazing.
nanRi, V_Sji!
Well, we're already 6 songs into 1986 and all huge hits & evergreen types as well!
Looks like this was a remarkable year for this combo, much bigger than my college days - though I have not specifically paid that much attention to rAsA music in that particular year, in comparison with years prior.
Let's continue exhausting the biggies (as they were more visible outside the borders of TN)...
#222 வனிதாமணி வனமோகினி வந்தாடு
(விக்ரம், 1986 , ஜானகியுடன்)
There was one year mate in the hostel who knew everything about bond movies. That was his speciality and he could talk hours about each of them (& other englees movies) and was considered an authority. I enjoyed spending some time with him every now and then. (He used to play guitar as well). Interestingly, though he ridiculed TF from time to time, he never dismissed them as not worthy and was a big admirer of NT. (Used to mimick NT's / Sean Connery's "single eyebrow raising" thingy and challenge me to do the same...mhoom, I could never do that).
Well, an interesting combination of tastes. In any case, he was instrumental in creating interest for Bond movies in a number of hostel mates and we never missed any that got screened in Trichy during college days (often 2 / 3 viewings).
Naturally, there were huge expectations when Sujatha & Kamal joined hands to produce an Indian version of a Bond movie. Part of the story appeared in Kumudam (like KBR's mouna geethangaL) and further increased the pulse rate. By that time the course was over, the movie was still not out. Kamal kept working on it for months. So, over to Cbe from Trichy.
It was in Geethalaya theater - next to Gandhipuram bus stand - that me and a collegemate / co-worker watched the Vikram trailer for the first time and got totally bowled! What a tremendously different one from anything seen in TF before, we wondered! The mechanical vikrEm sound in that song plus some more synthesised sounds, elegant drum work and the prose-order-like saraNam structure - all were novel and increased a lot more curiosity for the movie. Ofcourse, rAsA delivered goods as usual - a combination of futuristic stuff as well as signature stuff, melody and mastery all combined!
After the initial thrill with "new sounds" waned, vanithAmaNi remained the winner and got enjoyed innumerable times on headphones. SPB-SJ at their thuLLal best! People should listen to this song before calling any other number as 'racy'!
Lovely song , interesting reading about your Bond friend .:shoot:
Gosh , you just remember so much . Amazing memory :)
Btw App , u r just so fast posting 3 songs in a day.
Need to read and listen to the songs of Mouna Ragam and Punnagai Mannan during the weekend. (2 of my most fav'rite albums)
Thanks App yet again for sharing your memorable trip down memory lane with us .
The most noteable thing about Vanithamani for me ---- was the transition from KH's "Kanne ottikkavaa ...........parimaara vaa ila maangani' to SPB's "Vanithaa mani" . It would seem as if there was no voice change over. The legends are probably made for each other.
This song and SPB are made for each other!!!
It is impossible to think anyone other than SPB for this song. After a quarter century this song still remains fresh.... the thrilling music to go with the story also has been incorporated really well into the song.
One of my all time favorite!!
app, you have come to a film that even some prominent Kamal fans loath, and I lauv. I lauv, lauv and lauv, coz I am also a big Bond fan (you can ask your friend to challenge me on Connery eyebrow thingy). Waiting for the coverage of the other songs. (Intha songla kooda, there's Bondistic twang to the guitar, I believe is intentional). Always thought the computer meesic promotion started with this movie, guess am wrong. Great going, app, keep at it. Thanks.
Great going App Sir, so fast you've covered 2 albums within a few days, :) :clap:
Maunaraagam ~ One of my all time fav movie & album, Kaalathai vendra paadalgal & pinnani isai.... A cute movie !! love every scene and bit of the movie. Simply outstanding, MR, Ir, SPB, Sj, KSc.... :bow:
Punnagai Mannnan ~ ''Aggini Mannan'' still remember Revathy quoting KH like this in the movie :D Superb songs,, I prefer Singalathu chinna kuyile, esp the Nilave neethanaa...(part) & the amusing "Maamavukku kudumma '' by MS.V ..
Always brings back such refreshing happiness, when ever I listen to these albums.
Interestingly, both movies had Mazhai song, both for Revathi, slightly different situations. Sung by two of the greatest song birds, Sj & KSc. such sweeties. Gives the pleasure of dancing in the rain for me.
Thank you again App sir. You carry so much fond memories about your college days and friends, Do you still have contacts with them ? I'm sure you would think about all those friends every time you write abt a song and your memories... College days,,, vasantha kaala naatkal...
+1 Well said App :thumbsup: I too vaguely remember watching the trailer either in Devi or Devi Paradise and was totally floored. The sounds you mentioned haunts me till date. Somehow I keep remembering only school days with this film. May be this one released at the beginning of 1986. I second grouch, loved this film very much. Watching Amjad Khan that time in a Tamizh film was like dream come true for us.
Doc, spot on the Kamal-SPB transition part :thumbsup:
More on Vikram.
The film actually accomplished what the Bond films didn't. In1969, world saw the second actor playing Bond, George Lazenby. The tone of the movie was a lot more serious (than the 1967 Tokyo toor, You Only Live Twice). On Her Majesties Secret Service is still hailed as one of the best entry. At the end, Bond gets married and wife is killed. Movie ends. Then, the followup saw Lazenby leaving the franchise, and Connery returning. Filmakers wanted to go back to fun, so what could have been a film about Bond hunting down wife's killer turned into gayfest with the murderous horrible bad guy Blofeld (who ordered the death of Bond's wife) turning up in drag.
Vikram, on the other hand, had the wife killed part, and had him actually going after the killer under the pretext of handling an assignment. The gadgets are laughable now (that toy watch as explosive was awesome for us poor kids then), the size of the missile changing (happens to Bond all the time), and the whole notion of a fictional country (Salamiah, and this precedes 1989 Bond film which has Ithmus City, a fictional south American country). They are not cool if you look at it now, but goddam they were cool then.
Then, of course the music. Title song did not deviate from Kamal the dancer image, an the man himself gets his vocal robotised. Then, the rest of the song. My favourite being the erotic one that app is going to cover soon. En Jodi Manja kuruvi sequence itself was one of the best. Kamal's fantastic dance is one, and in the middle when the song stops as he accidentally flicks the princess' veil. The guilty look in his face, the anger in Amjad which dissipates and song continues. Just wonderful. More later...
grouch,
:clap: thank you for bringing in some great analogies between the bond movies and vikram. I have not concentrated much on bond movies, but your post is triggering me to watch these movies. Please write more on vikram. Would love to read. My memory is almost faded except few scenes. Need to watch again.
Thanks V_S, unfortunately I too haven't seen the film for a very long time. Also working from memory. Alas, I don't want to take the thunder away from the thread Nayagan. But will followup his posts.
My cousin used to sing as 'kaala kaalamaaga kaadhalukku arpaNam, kalidasan kamban kooda seiyavillayE darpanam" :lol:
nanRi skr, groucho, Divine22 & V_Sji!
:notthatway:Quote:
Originally Posted by groucho
Thread nAyaks are SPB & IR!
groucho sEvai threaddukku mikaththEvai! Please pour in bond info (& Kamal info)!
Interestingly, though I didn't think about it when I started Vikram yesterday, there's a "friday song" :lol2:...post to follow shortly :-)
Not regular contact with everyone but they're all part of a yahoo group and I keep getting update mails :-)
There are phone-call-level contacts with some of them as well...
Yes, like you mentioned, spring is the exact term for he college days that are incomparable!
# KH gave good company to his buddy RK's own production Maaveeran by registering this costly flop under the Rajkamal banner.
# The movie starts promisingly. First half sends goosebumps to the 8 year old kid ( that was me watching the movie with my dad for company in balaji theater , pondicherry )
# Opening court scene in the rain .... criminals led into the police van ..... kalakkal
# Rocket kadathall ..... Satyaraj intro ...... nakkal dialogues ..... nasthy
# VK Ramasamy entry into the high tension meeting ..... "Enna kappal .... sowkkiyamaa ? .....Rockettaa .... adhu sivakasi samaacharam ....... " Amburla en thottathula karumbu potturukken .... indha rocket adhu varaikkum vedikkumaa ? "
# Arun Kumar Vikram's passport photograph transiting into the monocular rifle lens view of Dharma ( Vikram Dharma after this ) .... and KH kissing Ambica's hand and starting off "Kanne .... Ottikkavaa " ..... marvellous
# IR using the chuk chuk train background in the Vanithamani charanam when SPB pours out " tha dheem tha dheem tha dheem podhaatho "..... priceless
# " naan poo thottikku thaan kuri vechen ..... satthiyama " Lollu by Satyaraj
# Title song ..... IR the great ...... thalaivar Kamal voice ...... typical dance .... including the famous lateral tilted, both legs meet on air step ......
# Kamal saying "thevudiyaa magan" and elder bro Charuhasan, "ketta vaarthai ellaam pesadhappa "
# KH and Satyaraj watching each other's profiles on a juxta interposed slide projector show, with Kamal's kalathoor kannamma still starting his profile
# Kamal exhibiting unnecessary male chaunism when he challenges the IIT Madras educated Lissy Priyadarshan to roam topless in summer, as he would do
# Janakaraj enrty post interval and the movie becomes a mess .... janakaraj has the same effect 3 years later in Vetri Vizhaa
# Rajasthan eli koyilur becomes Salamia country
# Indiana Jones dinner and bedroom attack sequences get superimposed on the Bond theme
# Amjad Khan does a fine job ...... did you know Kamal had amjad khan's son in HEY RAAM playing Altaf , the tailor, who splashes the tomato behind kamal's back in the Calcutta taxi, and also splashes the tomato out of Rani Mukherjee a few hours later.
# Kamal reciprocating the magic by the "mottai" magician in the royal palace ...... " Vadakari kari kari kari kari" ----- kamal has a liking for Vadakari ( Also refer to the song "kaamanukku Kaaman" from "Uruvangal Maaralaam" and " idly Vadakari ..... naakkula jalam oorudhu ....." from GUNA
# Sujatha recounts that the second half was made in a half hearted hurried fashion by director Rajashekhar who got busy with RK's manithan.
#223 மீண்டும் மீண்டும் வா
(விக்ரம், 1986 , ஜானகியுடன்)
Baahar Se Koi Andar Na Aa Sake
Andar Se Koi Baahar Na Jaa Sake
Socho Kabhi Aisa Ho To Kya Ho...
Socho Kabhi Aisa Ho To Kya Ho...
Hum Tum Ek Kamre Mein Band Ho, Aur Chaabi Kho Jaaye...
Those were school days when I didn't even know the correct words of these lines but was so mad after the song, including the instrumentals that accompany these lines - singing aloud and running around! Bobby was such a craze even in such a small hamlet as mine and I knew from the weekly mags that the movie had a beautiful girl called Dimple Kapadia. At that age, never cared about who she was or how she looked like. Later, my cousin who saw that movie talked highly about her and there was some curiosity. Still didn't know much about her except that she was beevi of the merE sapnE ki rANi kA hero, Rajesh Khanna.
Well, when Bobby was screened in the college audi, I was in total :shock: that a girl could be so beautiful! Well, by then she was divorced and was acting in a Hindi movie with Kamal (sAgar). Perfect combo, I thought, though I never had a chance to watch that samudram. Finally, it was like a dream to have the handsome Kamal with the beautiful Dimple on a Thamizh movie, that too in a song with the great IR/SPB/SJ combo! That was many times ROI for the money invested in the movie ticket and who cared about anything else in Vikram? okkE bOnassu! (BTW, when I first watched the movie in theater, thoroughly neLinjified -as the scene was very much 'A' - but recent watches on youtube didn't shock me so much...age & anubavam factor possibly...still, cannot watch with kids around).
As educated by Sureshji, this song is set to misra chApu thALam (tha-ki-ta-tha-ka-dhi-mi, 7 beat cycle) and the percussion combo is as delicious as AnnapoornA idly sAmbAr! SPB and SJ, experts in this special genre of songs excel with appropriate emotions and feelings. The interludes are exotic and transport one to some dreamland! What a song!
True to Bond movie traditions, this had 2 other girls besides Dimple (Ambika as Kamal's wife, vanithA maNi) and Lizzy (now w/o director Priyadharshan) and other such gimmicks as girl either getting bond into trouble or coming to his rescue. kambLeet package and Kamal thoroughly enjoyed it! (I'm sure they opened fan clubs in Madurai for Dimple & Lizzy...for I have seen posters in Madurai by even "Ursula Andress fan club" :lol:). BTW, I have another reason to like dimple (nAn sirichchA kannaththil kuzhi vizhum :oops:)
There cannot be two opinions about KB's musical sensitivity - he extracted gems out of every composer he worked with and the five movies that IR did with him had songs that can qualify among his finest, besides fetching him two NAs (SB / PM / MUV / UMT / PPA).
Did KB work on one more movie with IR - Unnai Solli Kutramillai with Karthik and Sithara in the lead?????
a_e, not sure i have missed it before..
did you cover Mudhal Vasantham? i believe it was 1985 release...
Thanks to skr, we got a copy of the raaja.com article by Prasanna here :-)
Interestingly, one of the songs listed by the musician is "ada machcham uLLa ', the song that got special treatment from V_S-ji recently :-)
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Originally Posted by Guitar Prasanna
Phenomenal job App :clap: :clap: :clap: Just caught up with the all the posts up and until 1986. Greatly enjoyed the posts about all those treasures of 1985, 1986.
V_S - superb post on Ada Machamulla from Chinna Veedu, never paid enough attention to this song earlier, your posts got me glued on to it now.
எனக்கென்னவோ, விக்ரம் என்றைக்கும் நாறோடு சேர்ந்து பூவும் நாறிவிட்ட ஒரு படைப்பாகவே இருக்கிறது. பூ-நார் இதில் எது கமல் எது சுஜாதா என்ற நிலைக்கு செல்லாமல் பொத்தாம் பொதுவாகவே எனது நிலைப்பாடு! பாடல், பாடல் காட்சிகள் தவிர குறைப் பிரசவம் என்று கூட சொல்லமுடியவில்லை. கருக்கலைப்பு.Quote:
a fun movie
phew! backlog cleared! a list of eternal songs and some nice memories, app. Keep 'em coming!
"Apart from reminding me of the walkman listens, this also brings to mind the visits to Bangalore that started by the end of the year 1986 (the employer had HQ there). I used to visit / stay with a college wing-mate every now and then - when the company guest house room couldn't be booked for e.g....or even otherwise because his room was walkable, < 100 meters, from the middle point of Commercial street. Many of the Bangalore bachelors of 80's possibly recall this place called "Rubin House" close to commercial street supposedly run by a Jew. It was in that place that me and the friend (who lived there in a bachelor room) had talked a lot about this song one evening!"
My, my! Memories couldn't get more overlapping than this! Rubin house was enroute to my school (the one that was just a few yards away). As a kid, before getting my bicycle, I used to go by walk and sometimes with a couple of my friends. As a routine, while returning from school, we used to stop daily at Robin House to drink water (that had a distinct taste, probably a tank that was rarely cleaned) from an old tap they had inside. I was really fond of the old-world charm the building possessed with dimly lit rooms and a kind of serenity that it always seem to wear. Lovely place... enigmatic, poetic, nostalgic and serene. Alas, the place doesn't exist anymore :-(. It was knocked down last year to make way for a pomp jewelry showroom. A piece of history torn off Dispensary Road. RIP. Thanks for bringing back all these memories, app.
App, RC, grouchy, great pointers on Vikram! The movie was really thrilling back then.. all the hi-tech stuff was pullaripps stuff!
And regarding Dimple, as an evidence of her popularity and craze among youth, here's a first-hand experience. My chithappa was/is a crazy fan of her's and had a big poster of her clad in a bikini (:mrgreen:) put up in his room! The poster stayed there till he got married, after which a baby's picture (with the words: god speaks to us through kids!) tooks its place! (I should've kept that poster with me, but sinna pulla, vevaram paththala. Damn!)
nanRi rajkumarc & KV!
I'm sad there's no Rubin house anymore :-(
Interesting to read about your uncle's dimplemania :-)
3 songs are due today (Sat / Sun / Mon)...after manjakkuruvi, it will be AKK :-)
Dimple is over-rated. She looks horribly made-up and plastic in both Saagar and Vikram. A dirty-looking Anil Kapoor did a "ravikumar in pagalil oriravu" on an equally dirty-looking Dimple in (jaanbaaz?). Traumatic memories.
#224 ஏஞ்ஜோடி மஞ்சக்குருவி
(விக்ரம், 1986 , சித்ரா / ஷைலஜாவுடன்)
This page from tfmpage gives some inspirational pointers to portions of this number. Interestingly, that page also talks about the portions of the same Jewish folk song getting reused by rAsA for MDM :-) So, looks like rAsA loved that Jewish folk song. Even given the inspiration, this song sounds very local - especially from the time KSC's voice enters, the song is so good - typical rAsA stuff that is from his TN-Kerala border area, with a small Malayalam flavor. Couple of Srilankan Tamils asked me in an Indian store yesterday about MullaipperiyAr. (Unusual to see them in Detroit area, may be visiting from Toronto and their Thamizh was definitely very interesting to listen, after a long time). As one watches helplessly the turn of events and worries about the immediate future to that region, there's also definite anger about the total mismanagement of any natural resource by human governments!
Another song typically enjoyed much during bus travels. On screen, one can see Amjad Khan (yes, the dacoit Gabbar Singh of Sholay) watching Kamal dance with two girls. Whenever I think of Amjad Khan, I'm again reminded of the Rubin House friend who used to keep talking about him whenever we walked on MG Road and crossed the Utility Building. (Is it true that Amjad Khan owned that building at some point of time, as claimed by my collegemate?). Well, I cannot separate Amjad Khan and RDB's mehboobA, he is definitely legendary!
Though energetic, somehow Kamal's dancing in this song wasn't impressive to me then (& now). OTOH, SPB is phenomenal with a lot of energy! With similar powerful output from the two female singers and some delightful percussion work, the song is a powerhouse without question!
#225 காலை நேரப்பூங்குயில்
(அம்மன் கோவில் கிழக்காலே, 1986 )
The sweet flute, violins, veeNai combined with that lovely tablA rhythm and excellent SPB singing! WOW! This song was an instant winner when I first heard this on a bus and has never failed to drench me with so much of pleasure ever since! The song smells morning so blatantly that even in midnight one can feel that freshness by listening to this number. A number from R Sundarrajan / Vijayakanth / Radha horror. Of the RS movies that I watched, this was the only intolerable one. (Well, there were only a few that I've seen - PM, NPP, AKK, VK & RR). However, what songs! This one is like morning dew and rAsA was kind enough to include a Janaki version as well on the cassette. (I don't know which one got used on screen).
A couple of my year mates, mechies, got selected by the Cbe based GD tools (most TN-ers possibly remember the famous scientist GD Naidu & his museum) in the campus interview. Though the pay was low (~1K), just as an interim & to gain some NC machine exposure, they worked there for a few months (before moving to greater jobs, abroad etc). IIRC, before taking up bachelor accommodation at x-cut road, one of them - a close buddy - had stayed with some friends in CIT (Coimbatore Institute of Technology) hostel for a while. So, I had the opportunity to stay in CIT hostel a couple of times and even taste their mess food, when visiting him :-) Obviously, we had to go to a movie know? Well, I'll have to also remind here that this friend is the same as the ambi chEchi fan :wink:
So, we went to her sister's movie, AKK. Thoroughly, horribly frustrated with the movie - though we were both fond of R S prior. enna seyya? But the songs! Oh, what a great treat they were! KJY had un pArvaiyil OrAyiram, PJ had poova eduththu oru & MV had oru mooNu mudichchAla muttALA AnEn - each one take one. IR-RS happily gave SPB 3 songs, however :-) Each one of a different genre and great in their own right! The first one in this post that smells morning is a sweet melody, soft and close to light-semi-classical and SPB handles it with elegance!
#226 சின்ன மணிக்குயிலு, மெல்ல வரும் மயிலு
(அம்மன் கோவில் கிழக்காலே, 1986 )
One of the most popular songs of TFM, ever!
The real patti-thotti-town-city hit! It was when I collected my final results, course completion certificate etc from Trichy and returning to native (a few months after joining the job) that I heard the song for the first time on the bus and was stunned! Being in Kerala and a little bit out of date, I didn't yet clearly understand the reach of that song inside TN. I still remember the way in which the woman who was sitting in the same row of the bus (opposite side) talked about the song in a loud voice!
(She was talking to the another country woman sitting next to her and not to me :-) )
இந்தா எங்க வீட்டுப்புள்ளக ரெண்டும் இதக்கேட்டா ஒரே குதியாட்டம் தான்!
அப்பிடி ஒரு ஆட்டமோ ஆட்டம்!
இநத மாதிரிப்பாட்டு நான் இதுக்கு முன்னாடி கேட்டதே இல்ல, யம்மாடியோ!
You don't have to guess that my heart was thuLLifying like anything! This is praise from a typical, not-so-much-educated, not-so-much-aware-about-complexities-of-music etc TN lady who by her natural instinct instantly giving certificate to rAsA for one of his finest, rarest compositions the accolade it deserved! It's a different kind of feeling - that I myself had become a crorepathi or something like that for a while :lol: I don't think I've experienced such a feeling prior or after - typical fanboy feeling but I don't feel ashamed to write that - since it was a truly deserving song of "rAsA genre" - like nothing before or after IMSO!
The unrestrained use of guitar, flute, country drums, chords - even shenoy - gives the song such an elated feel and SPB enhances it multiple times by his zestful singing. Though the on-screen thingy is quite comical, it's not too irritating considering the song itself is a free-for-all kind number and any childish pranks that VK does to Radha are tolerable, why, even a little bit enjoyable because of the tremendous feel given by the song :wink:
That way, though me and my friend got totally irritated by the movie, we had the fun of watching the whole theater sing / clap / dance etc for the chinna maNikkuyilu song. Also, the film had a terrific run in the BO I think, if one goes by the 100 day etc posters that used to herald more-or-less-the-correct fate of the movies those days. (There could have been few political manipulations here and there but not to the extreme levels as seen years later). That way RS-VK combo had another big success after the Revathy movie VK which had phenomenal rAsA songs as well (no SPB there and hence wasn't on this thread).
I had heard the kuyilu song 1000's of times since then, on headphones / radio / buses / street / teakkadais / cassette players of friends / relatives / on the web / in the car but never ever got bored! What a tremendous entertainer of a song with great interludes that jumped out of rAsA's mind when he was probably in one of his happiest moods! And it is very difficult to listen to this song without at least Attifying one's head (if not tapping on the nearest available object or with your foot)!
kaalai nera poongkuyil..... abhogi composition, soothing Bala's voice/humming prelude to rejuvenate the exhausted mind:musicsmile:
அப்படியே repeat லே - n times போடவேண்டியதுதான்,பாடலை !
பாலாவே சரணாகதி!:-D..
Forever fresh IR-SPB solo!
:ty:மனசுக்கு இதமா , you are amazing ! I love you very much , பாலா!
vinatha.
App-Engine
"Kaalai Nera Poonguil" is all my all-time favorite, what a great melody.
In the movie seems to be a duet (SPB-SJ)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9C0OIlfhdw
Still love the SJ and SPB solos better. I have heard SJ's solo once (May be Raja made them sing separately -like many other songs - Then combine them as duet for the movie)
Bala
nanRi, balaji for the youtube link & the information about the "duet" :-)
Nice to see Param back after a long time (looks like it takes Dimple to get him here :wink: )