However, no SPB there :oops: (Thankfully, no Mano :-), both duets went to KJY and the solo had rAjAthi rAjan)Quote:
Originally Posted by irir123
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However, no SPB there :oops: (Thankfully, no Mano :-), both duets went to KJY and the solo had rAjAthi rAjan)Quote:
Originally Posted by irir123
yeah... no Mano in ManiR film appadinnudhaan, pinnaaley
idhayaththai thirudaadhey full album Mano kku IR koduththuttaru pola :)
Rahman vandhu thiruda thiruda le super duper piano, chorus, flute, violin orchestral marvel PUTHTHAM PUDHU BOOMI.... koduththittar.... Sema paattu idhu!
ARR with Mano's
Thiruda thiruda blows my mind every time:-D
Mano - Ilayaraja's chellam, Rahman's guest star , He is fine.
baroque,
'puththam puthu bhoomi' is my all-time-fav (both for the lines & music, I've posted in jai's 1000 song thread that this is my #1 for kavidhai).
I think ARR had done manipulation of Mano voice there :wink:...for long I believed it had SPB :oops:
BTW, I'm not "against" Mano but simply feel he got too many songs from IR in the late-80's, disproportionate to his capabilities.
There is another "never heard before" number called dheepangaLE oLi thoovungaLE from dhooraththuppachchai in year 1987...and so can't make it to our compilation.
So is this number thEnE senthEnE from uLLam kavarndha kaLvan, a Vijayakanth movie...the song is a sweetie, though :-)
:)
Bala's notable MEDHUVAA MEDHUVAA KAADHAL PATTU....&
SELAI KATTUM PENNUKKORU... this year 1988 seems.
Vinatha
So, that makes the year 1987 complete (in my reckoning, we can always revisit as this is not the end-of-the-world :-) )
So, time for the compilation of links and do the EOY formality for 1987!
The links post, EOY 1987 :
From 1976 to 1986 hyperlinks
1987 hits:
#251 thOttaththula pAththi katti
#252 kookkoo enRu kuyil koovAthO?
#253 hEy, unnaiththAnE
#254 kAdhal maharANi
#255 puRAkkaLE puRAkkaLE
#256 hEy rAjA onRAnOm inRu
#257 malaiyOram veesum kARRu
#258 pAdungaL pAttuppAdungaL
#259 Ola OlakkudisaiyilE
#260 thodAtha thALam pOda vENdum
#261 I want to tell you / hEy you you come to me
#262 Eththi vachcha neruppinilE
#263 oru kAdhal enbadhu
#264 eduththu vachcha pAlum
#265 தென்மதுரை வைகை நதி
அது பாடும் தமிழ்ப்பாட்டு
(தர்மத்தின் தலைவன், 1988 , சுசீலா & மலேசியா வாசுதேவனுடன்)
Poet Bharathi wrote :
"சென்றிடுவீர் எட்டுத்திக்கும், கலைச்செல்வங்கள் யாவும் கொணர்ந்திங்குச்சேர்ப்பீர்"
Whether all TN-ers took this seriously and went in all 8 directions or not , there is one group that took this as dheiva vAkku. The direction that this group started towards was north-west and the destination is currently well-known worldwide as "bollywood":-) (Well, I can hear someone yelling, "hEy, we know here as hubbers that TFMD's have gone in more than 8 directions to fetch their 'kalaichchelvangaL' " :wink:)
'kasmE vAdhE' happened to be one of those kalaichchelvams that SPM & Co. brought to TN and it got popularized by "localizing" using Rajinikanth / Prabhu / Hasini / rAsA & SPB! (Did I forget Kushbu? Well, this was probably her first TF & in this Prabhu appreciates her kannams...while she went on to become so popular among TN-ers that they even built a kOyil to worship her, her kannams too had their admiration by the sAppAttu rAmans of TN who named a sponge-like-idli after them :lol:)
sari, namma matterukku varuvOm...
This fantastic song that showcases a 'thiruneer / kadhar vEshti thuNdu / maRadhi' Rajinikanth surprising his household with 'full suit', has three singers. However, IMHO, it is a "duet" between SPB & bass guitar! One can listen to their association any number of times on repeat mode! Ofcourse, there is additional bonus of listening to sweet piano, sax, violin portions. Personally, I love the visuals very much too and it got featured in the 'appreciating picturization' thread (but I know there are hubbers who'll run away the very moment they hear the word hAsini). Poor MV & PS got to sing only in the end pallavi which is an unusual feature of this song. Two top-class singers for just one line in a song, only richie-rich producers can afford!
Needless to say this song was a patti-thotti hit and is popular till today. I don't think there had been any time period -since its arrival - that I didn't have a copy of this number! Evergreen and almost always among my collections / current playlists!
By this time, I worked my way out of testing shop / production shop level tasks and was into product development. Which meant frequent travels to Bangalore where the top-R&D-brains were sitting. Stay was sometimes in the Indiranagar company guest house and when no-room-available, Rubin house :-) During one such stay, me & friend watched dharmaththin thalaivan in a theater near Shivajinagar bus stand (looks like they don't like to end names of places with consonants in KannadA - what we call Shivajinagar is "Shivaji nagarA" in Kannadam...sorry kannadA...and so it goes for all "puram"s that are called "purA"s :lol2:)
Well, when the drinking Rajini appeared on screen, there was such a roaring response from front benchers - throwing coins and what not! I haven't seen such a scene in theater even for MGR movies in TN and was surprised / shocked!
I watched the movie-DVD during 90s in USA.
absent minded , innocent professor ரஜினி is such a delight :thumbsup: , once he died , i kind of lost interest in the movie.
but composition is popular in buses, kadaigal etc..
such a beautiful composition from இளையராஜா , by the time
நெஞ்சில் என்னை நாளும் வைத்து
கொஞ்சும் வண்ண தோகை ஒன்று
மஞ்சள் மாலை மேளம் யாவும்
கண்ணில் காணும் காலம் உண்டு
பூவை சூடி பொட்டும் வைக்க மாமன் உண்டு மானே மானே
உள்ளம் தன்னை கொள்ளை கொண்ட கள்வன் இங்கு நானே நானே ... comes my mood fly high then & now .:musicsmile:
mmm...good old days, songs like this make you smile whole day :-D
உள்ளம் கவர் கள்வர்கள் indeed!
Evergreen composition from IR.
தர்மத்தின் தலைவன், கிழக்கு வாசல் & சத்ரியன்
What a combo from Oriental records!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul9bz...eature=related
Vinatha
Righly said. The bass strings are noteworthy in this song. But for them, the orchestration is kind of subdued, probably not to ovrshadow the lead melody. The picturisation of course played a key role to make it a patti-thotti hit..Quote:
it is a "duet" between SPB & bass guitar!
MV sung (and PS, the last pallavi) the sad version of thenmadurai which comes after the Prof's demise. They probably sung both the versions in the same day. So orE sambalam, two songs perhaps :smile2: That song has completely different ludes, only the groove was maintained.Quote:
Originally Posted by app_engine
Eventhough the series is nearing completion, one good thing is 'young' people like me can start relating to the songs from now on :-) As you rightly said, one of the BIGGEST hits of Raja. Remember seeing the film in theaters and watching the song multiple times in oliyum oliyum during the pre-Sun TV days. And was a regular in Sun/Sun Music/ SCV etc. in the 90s. Hugely popular to this date. One of my favorite films of Rajini. The prof. was such a loveable character. 'T' fit for Rajini.
Actually, the prof character was the better part of the movie. Yet, the relatively poor run of the movie was attributed to the Prof character being wimpy and not acceptable to the mass fans of Rajini. This was about the time my migration started. As recounted many times before, the migration was complete by MMKR.
Very good info App on Kasme Vade. I didn't know about it. Yes, an evergreen song in tfm and a biggest hit for Maestro. SPB's casual 'smile and sing' at 'maane maane' and what an improvisation immediately in the next line 'naane naane' this with that little laugh. Trademark SPB :thumbsup:. I love the picturization and Rajini's acting just exactly what was needed for that situation. AlavOda nadichiruppar, being both a brother and a lover. I usually watch this movie only till the first half. One of Rajini's best film!.
nanRi baroque, for the 'U-K-K' comment & the youtube :-)
nanRi RR sir, Nerd, Plum & V_Sji for the kind words!
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I talked about PM in my post on 'I want to tell you something'...
A youtube person has hosted a number of his hits (all links in the bottom of the youtube page) and I picked this "Toccata" where he himself plays on stage :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfkIWnThTB4&feature=BFa&list=AVGxd CwVVULXd 4npUSEb94g_lRhe5-hlhq&lf=list_related
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App Engine,
How about the songs from Paadum Paravaigal (Keeravani & Egantha Velai for sure, may be there are more SPB songs)? These songs get played almost on a daily basis in all the music channels and hence deserve to be covered here. Remember this movie getting released (rather dubbed in Tamil) in 1985.
Welcome to the hub, A_S!
thiraippAdal website lists pAdum paRavaikaL as a 1988-er, so we'll cover that movie now :-)
Thanks App. Recently heard the song (starting with the movie title) from Theertha Karaiyenele (1987 Mohan, Rupini Starrer) when Jaya TV was showing it on a weekend. Typical IR melody (great orchestration, unforgettable interludes) rendered very well by SPB (humming has some classical touches as well). It will be good if you (as well as V_S) can cover this.
Kind of sad to see the IR-SPB numbers dwindling down towards the late 80s. App - Hope you continue posting about IR-SPB numbers in 90s as well. Thanks.
rajkumarc,
I think the only year in 80's where SPB numbers are less is 1987 because the number of films Maestro did in 1987 is less compared to other years. It is around 40 in 1987. See we have to say 40 films is less :sad:
From 1988 till 1993 the number of films is again more than 50, peaking in 1992 and 1993. In 1992, a whopping 65 films (according to rakkamma) and 1993, 52 films. Again during these years, we didn't see many new singers coming up. So ideally we should see the drop in SPB numbers only from 1994. App, please correct me if I am wrong.
A_S, welcome to the hub!
V_S sir,Quote:
Originally Posted by V_S
Yes I do think this was the year RK's blockbuster "veera" was released. This was one of the biggest hits from IR+SPB! and AFAIK the last SPB+IR song was in the film "Friends".
welcome to the hub A_S :)
Lucky fellows :)Quote:
Originally Posted by V_S
You guys must have been spoilt for choice. His music is the only reason i wish i was born a decade or so before.
I don't know for sure how many SPB-IR hits will come up for the years 1988-93 as I wasn't in TN & also had many other factors influencing my "not-listening-to-TFM-much" during this period:-)Quote:
Originally Posted by V_S
Let's find out together, in this thread, in the coming weeks :-)
Between 1988-1993, we haveQuote:
Originally Posted by app_engine
VARUSHAM 16, VETRI VIZHA,KARAGATTAKKARAN,KELADI KANMANI,CHINNATHAMBI, GOPURA VAASALILEY,THALAPATHI,CHINNAKKOUNDAR, KIZHAKKU VAASAL,NAADODITHTHENDRAL,SEMBARUTHI ETC...just name a few,
if you are living in South Indian states or even visiting them sometimes, it's hard not to listen and enjoy them. App_eng.
How can it be "not-listening-to-TFM-much" period for you?:roll:
mmm...
No point of time, I move away from my Tamil film music.
I woke up with Composer Jaidev's mujhe jeene do..tantalizing compositions when I exercised this morning, finished with Ilayaraja sangeetham.http://www.mayyam.com/talk/images/sm...icon_smile.gif
Vinatha.
I'm talking about "relative" to other periods :-) For e.g., between 1976 & 1982, it was 99% TFM and that 1% distributed to BoneyM ABBA kinds. From 1982-1986, there was possibly 90% TFM and others MJ / Madonna etc. However, from 1987, other interests crept in - MFM, PM to name two majors...(In addition, job-career has taken its toll. Then came marriage in 1991 :-) )Quote:
Originally Posted by baroque
:-D
Vinatha
While we don't get pages & pages of responses in this thread, the # of views had a spurt in the last couple of months...while it took a long time for the thread to get 100K views, the time taken between 100K & 200K views is pretty short and impressive :thumbsup:
I'll have to post 3 songs today (sat/sun/mon) and will start with pAdum paRavaikaL...
Add Vanna vanna pookal to the list :)Quote:
Originally Posted by baroque
#266 ஏகாந்த வேளை இனிக்கும் இன்பத்தின் வாசல் திறக்கும்
(பாடும் பறவைகள், 1988 , ஜானகியுடன்)
The top SPB-SJ pair is back in business with this strong album and I simply lapped up those songs when arrived (had the "original" cassette of poor manufacturing quality and another recorded version as well)! I didn't know much about the background of the movie except the fact that it had Karthik & Banupriya. It was much later that I came to know about its vadakku origins. (i.e. vadakku to Poovirundha valli). I'm sure Plum (and a few other hubbers) liked the originals much better; but, for people like me, these songs are gorgeous! Though this song starts with brief mukkal-munakal, such do not continue and it possibly got accepted by AIR fellows. (I don't know for sure as I couldn't get much opportunity to listen to AIR during this time period).
In any case, I've heard this song many times on buses and that's how I came to know about them in the first place, before getting the cassette. One associate who had the chance to watch the movie said that it was a thriller about someone who researches in music (sounds of birds?). Whatever it was, the film possibly didn't do well in TN IIRC. Going by logical reasoning, this movie must have been a hit in Telugu (otherwise the money bags wouldn't have chosen to dub / remake). Regardless, the songs were popular and were my favourties. And they do remind me of my morning walk from the room to catch the bus to workplace, will cover a couple of features of that in the posts on PP songs.
Feature #1 : Tippu Sultan kOttai.
Like I mentioned before, one can see the "kOttai" if they stand in the walkway of about 200 meters from the main road to our lodge. I used to cross the main road and walk on the unpaved road that was around the agazhi of the kOttai to reach the bus stop. The kOttai itself is not that impressive - for one reason, it was not on a "rock mass" (as in the case of those in Trichy or Dindigul) and so not a real towering structure. In addition, when you walk by a historical site / monument everyday (for months or years), you stop thinking about it as a tourist typically does (envisioning crocodiles in the agazhi, elephants opening the passage, soldiers with spears sitting on the watching towers etc). In addition, there were many gov offices around that kOttai, including the dist collector's office / district court etc within walkable distance and so the place is surrounded by roads that buzz with vehicles / buses / pedestrians etc.
So, no one in the right mind gets into "history-dreams", especially when they walk around the agazhi to catch the morning bus to work :-)
Anweshana - I guess you are talking about "ilalo kurise" or "EkAntha vELA". I haven't heard the tamil version of the former and have vague memory of the latter. Not a particular favourite, this album, except for the upcoming masterpiece in Keeravani. One interesting fact is Vamsi, true to his reputation, got IR to rework his then-recent hit in "edhuta neeve" from Abhinandana. The latter is a love-lament ballad while the one in this movie is a thrill-frill song. Experiment, I guess. Whatever be the case, both were big hits (in telugu atleast). Try matching that for cheek! Ofcourse, SA Rajkumar made a career out of one or two tunes so this is not something to be paraded as an outstanding achievement of IR :)
#267 கீரவாணி இரவிலே
(பாடும் பறவைகள், 1988 , ஜானகியுடன்)
Extremely sweet number and SPB & SJ both simply excel in this number!
Being a rAgA ignorant / rAgA agnostic, I never knew before the name "keeravANi". So, the first time I heard this song on a bus (amidst other noises), my mind caught the first line as 'keezha vAnam'. Once it registers that way, it automatically plays back the same line each time - especially when you're paying attention to many other things happening in the song. So, it was 'keezha vAnam' for me until I got the cassette and I was confused to see it listed differently. When Vivek jokes about cinema educating people of the existence / names of various diseases (dhool), one cannot help but acknowledge the element of truth in it. Same way, during the rAsA era, movie songs are the primary key to educating common public about rAgams & this song happens to be one among them :-) There's no question about the sweetness of keeravANi!
So, from the sweet rAgam, I'm moving into one sweet experience when walking along the agazhi of Palakkad kottai. Which is our feature #2 - national atheletes practicing around the fort :-)
During my walks to catch the morning bus, I've often noticed girls & boys (atheletes) practicing along the same walkway around the fort (using that as their "track"). I thought they were some local atheletes, making use of the available space - a little raised over the surroundings so no collected-rain-water-sakadhi-kind-of-hassle etc. I often noticed the tall & well-built man standing with his motor cycle, timing them and giving them instructions etc and assumed him to be local PT master or someone like that. Then one day, I saw a familar face standing near him in track suits.
"indha mugaththai engEyO pAththirukkOmE", I thought. It didn't immediately flash in my mind but the face got stored in the memory. Well, the very next time I saw the same face on some magazine or newspaper, my mind jumped in joy! Hey, I've seen a national star practicing in my neighborhood! It was MD Valsamma, whose success those days was second only to P T Usha's and the man whom I've seen coaching youngsters there was her railways coach - Mr Kutty. Though I've never talked to either of them during my many walks, I've seen the whole group - the coach & atheletes with a lot more respect from that point onwards. (And sometimes pitied them for the poor facilities they got for practicing - despite getting the nation some honor in the Asian games levels).
Well, I do have a personal picture of the famous athelete, when she visited my son's elementary school years later and gave him some medal :-)
It was possibly 'EkAntha vELA' (the Thamizh one being 'EkAntha vELai') :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by Plum
My second post was on 'keeravANi' ofcourse :-)
I don't think the other "bayamuRuththal" song from pAdum paRavaikaL qualifies as a hit. So, only two numbers from that movie.
For the Monday song, another movie...is there a Kamal one around?
Yes, the Thamizh version of IR's NA winner seems to be from this year...let's start the music :-)
(sigh...another Telugu remake...full of "kalaichchelvams" this year, endha nEraththil BharathiyArai quote paNNinEnO :-( )
#268 இதழில் கதை எழுதும் நேரமிது
(உன்னால் முடியும் தம்பி, 1988 , சித்ராவுடன்)
ICM lovers call this song a milestone number in film music.
Let me give a portion from the "Classical IR" section of tfmpage, written by Lakshminarayanan :
/quote/
Considering the panchama varjaya ragam of Mayamalavagowlai, he was the only one who ever used it so far! That is the Lalitha ragam. It seems to be a recent attraction to him. The first Lalitha came in unnal mudiyum thambi, when Kamal sings a duet with the heroine Seetha! 'Idhazhil kadhai ezhudhum' is a great Lalitha. Illayaraja should have definitely got the idea for this tune from Muthuswamy Dikshitar's heranmayim lakshmim. To me, the movements of both the song and keerthanai seem similar. But Dikshitar ingeniously starts the keer- thanai in suddha daivatam. The continuity of the tune that Illayaraja has maintained in 'idhazhil kadhai ezhudhu', the step by step progression from one swara to another, the development of superb sangathis, each and every bit in that tune is simply excellant. This song is like a milestone in Thamizh cine-music. Gangei Amaran's lyrics is unusually wonderful, matching his another brother paavalar Varadharajan's 'mannil intha kadal' (keladi kanmani). He proved himself a poet in this song!
/end-quote/
(took some liberty & edited the italicized area with achchuppizhai & it's not related to music / song)
I don't have to talk more about the prathAbam of this song :-) Ofcourse, SPB & Chithra at their sweetest! I'm not a big fan of Kamal's arai-kuRai meesai in this movie but the KH-Sita pair is very enjoyable! (Plum will come and say Chiranjeevi & Shobana were better but I have not seen them :wink:)
I've watched this movie in Palakkad and concluded "it's ok but not great" but liked the songs very much! We've already talked about the samayal song when discussing maNippur mAmiyAr and won't post it now. Of the other numbers by SPB, obviously this duet is the top one for me. We'll discuss the other numbers in the subsequent posts...
The movie's climax was a big joke to me when a "Rajiv-Gandhi-like" person was used on-screen. We kept laughing in the theater. (May not do so if I watch it today on DVD but never felt like revisiting this movie).
Quickly scanning through the movie listing of 1988 indicates to me that we may not hit the 300-mark this year.
Still, I want to give at least the honor of being the "last song of this year" to the grand number that failed to make it to NBW:-) Let us see what will be its serial #...
MDV won the gold in the 400m Hurdles in the 82 Asiad if my memory serves me right. Usha was 18 then but really took off from next year onwards and lost the bronze by 0.01 seconds in the 84 LA Olympics. This is that race, look for PT in the white jersey: http://bit.ly/jayQyQuote:
Originally Posted by app_engine
I recollect seeing a pic of MDV at her office either for a Bank or for Railways. Usha's coach OM Nambiar had a sad story though...I recollect reading that at Usha's wedding to a railway officer Srinivasan(1991), Nambiar was sidelined to a corner of the event. The villain apparently was a relative of Usha who caused the fallout. Nambiar had picked Usha as a special talent since she was very small.
PS: App, Judi Brown who pipped Usha by 0.01s to win bronze is from Michigan(Lansing or so..) I hope you will pass her by on way to work :)
For some weird reason I had difficult time associating IR with பாடும் பறவைகள். The songs from this movie are so different from what he had done earlier. For few years I used think the MD for this movie was Keeravani aka Maragathamani aka M.M.Kreem (because of the Keeravani song!?)Quote:
Originally Posted by app_engine
It also looks like this movie "part-dubbed" in Tamil few years after original Telugu release - some parts of Telugu movie was edited out and replaced with Tamil actors.
app,
It was indeed 'ekantha vela'. I ofcourse haven't heard of the songs in Tamil except 'Keeravani'. It was major hit movie in Hyd, with guys flipping for Bhanupriya (and girls for Karthik) in this and for the photography. Other than music that is :) The songs were all big hits. The movie is supposed to be a thriller but Vamsi spends more time giving 'effects' and confusing people. I thought it was shoddily made.
Again 'idhazhil kadhai ezhudhum' I prefer in Telugu for the lyrics. Seetharama Sastry in absolute crackling form.
Yes. Not sure if the movie had a comedy track in Telugu but in thamizh a GM-Senthil track was added. Annan comes as a 'pOli' puli vEttaikkaarar. (Don't confuse this with thaalaattu kEtkuthammA). This one was largely unfunny. Have seen the film too. Mokkai blade. This song used to be a regular in SCV during the 90s and thats when I discovered it.Quote:
Originally Posted by genesis
Paadum Parvaigal,
Really a spooky stuff for 80's standard, I only saw the movie about 1 year ago! I really liked it. Cant's stand sarath babu , but watched it for Karthik, Banu and IR+SPB songs!, was this originally a telugu movie?