Pick of the week: 1 Mar to 5 Aug 2006

are you sure the lyric was KD
because Oru vidukathai oru thodarkathai had lyrics by Vaali and GA

vaali (nayagan oru puram avan vizhiyil manaivi)

Ramki -

A thodarkathai of a song for sure! Can't stop humming it once you're in the loop (and I get into those quite a bit!) There is a veneer of the wispy ghazal in there, no doubt a reflection of the popularity of the genre around that time.
What was not very successful was the song's presentation on film. For starters, it was all broken up and used as a transitional bridge when Rama Narayanan didn't know how to work his way out of the riddle. Kondaa Paattu.happened a lot and bits bitsa.
And then there was Vijayan.
To make bad worse, he did the whole "madras girl" routine, which more or less (and soon) nailed his as a one note career (uthiri pookkal excluded as that was all mahendran.)
Hunched, meesakaara middle-aged man, speaking talayalam, pining or dumped, who occasionally meandered (should that be shed?) as Man Cobra and A Loser Widower, but always found his way back to the good old pine. It's all about the comfort of depression.
See why I don't like to see a song most times when I listen to it?
:D

PS: Wouldn't it be nice if some tamizh cinema paithyam Vallal (hope you're reading this!) wrote a cheque to restore/remaster these classics from the 70s/80s? All the available recordings are the drop-out stepchildren of Abysmal.

nice song Ramki... really a rare gem...

Ramki: Good choices last week.

Enga Voor Kannagi was a great movie in terms of action. All 3 heroines with big vatta vadiva KangaL. Saritha topped the list. Idathathaan romba rasichEn was for Saritha. NaduvilE oru mridangam pola sound makes the song different. PS excelled in the folkish duet. SOTD (SJ's) was really mavellous. It was a total suit for Seema. Worth watching movie.

Devar film's name is Thayillaa Kuzhandhai (not Pillai). There was an good-old movie with Thayilla Pillai. Four songs. All duets. Only TMS+PS for Vijayakumar + Jayachithra. She performed in 2 different roles. That saadhu amma role was excellent. VK got the media title Jallikattu Kumar from this movie, as he wins that Jallikattu & RekLa Race in the movie. He preferred to drive that RekLa by himself, not by a dupe :-) PEsum Padam used to list the best artists awards those days. PS got award for this song, though it was a duet. Simply excellent. Very difficult charanams sung with fullest dedication.

Somehow I get tired of listening to the song vidukathai ondru, though the lyrics are meaningful. Lengthy and slow :-(

Naaz-
vidukathai- why the movie was made
thodarkathai- audience pain

SN23 thanks ..corrected

Thanks T

Pick #161

http://tfmpage.com/stream/songs/kai_anan.rm

Song: kai veesamma
Film: ammavum neeye appavum neeye
Singer: KJYesudoss, ?
Lyrics: Vaali
Music: MSViswanathan


SPM rewrote his 'engaiyo ketta kural' story but again couldnt find the courage to make it a bold one Like the heroine in EKK, ANAN's heroine(saritha) leaves her poor husband(Rajesh) and their daughter, and takes Raveendar as her second husband. Like many indian movies, Rajesh becomes rich in a couple of scenes and Saritha starts working as his secretary. After long scenes of morality preaching and duaghter longing episodes, Rajesh will die. Saritha will don the costume of a widow( white saree etc) and start living with her daughter again.
As always Saritha and Rajesh were good. Raveendar too(with help of delhi ganesh voice) gave a good performance.
Todays pick is picturised on Raveendar. The only other song i remember is a VJ solo picturised on Saritha.

Beautiful song Ramki! Youthful tune & music, sweet early KJJ’s voice, nice! Thanks!
VJ solo adhu yenna pattu? Please mention it.

Thank you Baroque. Reg VJ solo I'm not sure on the exact lines but it goes something like 'mangaiyar ulagam'(kindof feminist song)

Pick #162

http://tfmpage.com/stream/songs/dhinam_iei.rm

Song: dhinam dhinam oru naadagam
Film: idhu eppadi irukku
Singer: PSuseela
Lyrics: Panju Arunachalam
Music: iLaiyaraja

'engum niraindha iyarkkaiyil' will be in top 50 in most of our IR's favorite list. It is the only aspect worth remembering from this another disastrously adapted film of sujathas writing(was it 'geetha oru shenbagapoo')?
Todays solo may not be outstanding as engum niraindha but its still worth listening for IR's eerie interludes and PS gambeera kural.
Sounds like a song picturised for a 'Pei' situation.
I know Jaishankar and Sridevi acted in this film....was the song picturised on sridevi?

a nice song

thanks ramki