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Dear Neel,
Thanks for the IR song.

Azhagu malar ada Beat ai ninaivu paduthum.
But happy mood.... Tats IR.

With Love,
Usha Sankar.

Nice Song, thanks to Neel and Priya.

This song Reminds me "aLagumalarAda" song.

regards
Meerakrishna

Another KJY song that I haven't heard before; and a good one too!!! Thank you Priya and Neel:)

Another good song in the movie is "thiruda thiruda thiruda, en manadhai thirudum thiruda" sung by S. Janaki. SJ's naughty and youthful tone makes the song, a romantic melody.
The film starred Jeevitha as the lead. She also starred with Vijaykanth in Naane raja naane manthiri along with Radhika.
I dont think Lakshmi starred in the movie E.N.Neethipathi

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Usha, Meerakrishna, raagadevan & baroque, you are welcome.
arunprasad, thanks for the details.

Pick #659

Song: ippOthenna thEvai
Film: Makkal Aatchi
Music: Ilaiyaraja
Singer: Lekha(?) or Devi(?)
Lyrics: ?
Year: 1995

I heard this song for the first time only a few days ago. I have to confess that I am not very familiar with songs from the 90s and later, including popular songs. Listening to this song brings mixed feelings. It certainly is unique in its arrangement and in the use of an unfamiliar voice. But there are some aspects of the song that I find to be working against it.

First, the loud drum beats in the pallavi, to me, is a big turnoff. It is so annoying that if I had not made an effort to tolerate it and keep listening I would have missed the beauty of the charanam. The drums are muffled in the charanams and it lets the other instruments and the voice come to the fore. However, the interlude before the second charanam is beautiful and the drums here work so well.

The lyrics of the pallavi is the second aspect that works against the song... ippOthenna thEvai thappA enna pArvai... nothing attracts me here. The lyrics do get somewhat better in the charanams.

The third aspect that works against the song is the rendition. Don't get me wrong. The singer is good and her pronunciation is good. But the voice lacks in confidence. It is a common thing with many new singers during their initial songs. It usually takes few songs to several songs for a singer to mature and blossom into a confident playback singer. I know, and so do you, that I am biased when I say this. :) But I can't help but think how a singer like Vani Jairam with her confident voice would have absolutely nailed a song like this. Or, a singer like Uma Ramanan would have added a unique confidence blended with vulnerability.

Thanks to Priya for sending this rare song.

http://raretfm.mayyam.com/stream/pow07/ippothenna.rm

Dear Neel and Priya,
My thanks to this Great song. Yes its great to me.
TV il , apodhu dhan tamil cinema virkaga trailor show vara arambitha pudhidhu...

Indha paatai sila seconds ketttu , full song ketka asai pattu
irukiren.

Padathin peyar marandhu vitta karanathal, ithanai
varudangalaga thedi kondaeeeeeeeeee iurkiren.
Ungal punniyathil padam perum theirndhu konden. Paataiyum
kettu vitten.

Indha padalukana scene il Actress Lakshmi's daughter
Aishwarya varuvadha ninaivu....

Anyway Thanks for the film name and the nice song.
(kashta pattu kidaikkum edhuvum nice dhanae..)

Thank you once again priya and Neel....

With Love,
Usha Sankar.

>>Wonder what other SAC films IR worked on? <<

There is this Rajini / Bhagyaraj starrer - nAn sigappu manidhan. It had 'veN mEgham' & 'pon mAnE, sangeetham pAda vA' and also the 'Gandhi dhEsamE'

Singer is Chithra for this song..