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Nandri. I was not hubbing regularly that time; hence I must have missed it :)Quote:
Originally Posted by app_engine
Per wikipedia, Mappillai is a remake of super-hit Telugu movie "Athaku Yamudu Ammayiki Mogudu". Mappillai boring?! Probably lost in Transalation?!Quote:
Originally Posted by app_engine
#296 வேறு வேலை உனக்கு இல்லையே, என்னைக்கொஞ்சம் காதலி
(மாப்பிள்ளை, 1989 , ஜானகியுடன்)
The third SPB-SJ hit from mAppiLLai. The funny thing about this song is that I didn't even know the song belonged to this movie :shock: Without thiraippAdal, I wouldn't have connected that movie to the song. (That shows how much that movie connected with me). Both singers show the necessary kuRumbu / kuzhaivu to make this song taste sweet. I'm not sure whether the 'rAjAthi rAjA' phrase was intentionally included to please IR (and he seemed to like it, giving some vocal harmony etc for that when SJ sings for the first time in the pallavi). Possibly it also applied to Rajini whose hit rAjAthi rAjA possibly preceded this movie.
Looked at the wikipedia, hoping to get the release dates of rAjAthi rAjA & mAppiLLai to find out whether the chronology assumption was right. Not enough info on both the movies...but interestingly, wiki says mAppiLLai was produced by Chiranjeevi and he had a fight scene in the movie too :shock: Shock because, onnum enakku Ormmai illa - very rare, unusual case of a movie where I don't even remember the presence of a mega star. All along, I've been thinking that I've watched Chiranjeevi only on 47 nAtkaL & rANuva veeran. Now, this adds to the list and I've "attended" three of Chiranjeevi movie shows in theater (and TV / otherwise too, song youtubes are a different matter though).
Also, as per the wiki, it seems they tried Vyjayanthimala for the mAmiyAr role initially :lol: So, it looks like not just Dhanush, even his f-i-l had problems it getting the first choice of on-screen-mAmiyAr :-) enna oru oRRumai!
In terms of Story wise mappilai was indeed a crap movie, but one can just watch it for the RK factor!
App anna
Chiru comes just for few minutes in Mappilai, for the temple fighting scene! Less scope for him thaan Raanuva veeran
There is 4th SPB-SJ duet unnaiththAn niththam niththam in mAppiLLai it seems :shock:
However, I've never heard this song before and cannot include it in our compilation...so, it will be a different movie for tomorrow's song (enna oru relief!)
App
Thanks for Mappillai songs
Enna Sir - "Unnaithaan Niththam" kettadhillainu sollittengale. Was my favorite those days
Bala
Seriously? :shock: My most favorite song from the film and this song is quite popular too. Saw it in Sun Music couple of days ago. You have skipped a handful I think but this has got to be your biggest *miss*. Veru velai illai for example is much less popular than this number if I am not wrong. Wonder how did you managed to miss listening to this. We had a mappillai/vetri vizha in a TDK 60. That was the last time I heard the entire mappillai stack.Quote:
Originally Posted by app_engine
Btw, yes Mappillai was after Rajathi Raja. Mappillai (and Vetri Vizha) are Deepavali releases and Rajathi Raja was somewhere between Pongal and April 14th.
I am yet to catch up on the past few pages incl. your world famous story :-) , just idhu kaNNula pattudhu.
Yeah, unnaithaan niththam is *popular* and was instrumental in our school principal abandoning a revolutionary " initiative of hers - a tale for another day.
எனக்கு ஆச்சர்யமாகவே இருக்கிறது "உன்னைத்தான் நித்தம்" பாடல் ஒரு பிரபலம் என இங்கு பலர் சொல்லும்போது! "என்னோட ராசி நல்ல ராசி, என்னதான் சுகமோ, மானின் இரு கண்கள் கொண்ட" பாடல்கள்தான் மாப்பிள்ளை என்றவுடனையே ஞாபக அலைகளில் வந்து போகிறது.
app, finished reading. Touching, very touching indeed. True lump in throat moment.
Otherwise, great going, and :thumbsup: Same feeling about unnaithaan nitham nitham, though I hated it back then (that I was on opposite camp didn't help).
Nice posts App on Rajathi Raja & Mapillai. That was the time I started paying more attention to songs, music in general and also started going to movies alone with friends (10th std). Watched both of these movies with friends. I remember purchasing the original audio cassettes (with lots of convincing to do to get the money) and may still have them lying around back home.
I loved Mappillai songs more than Rajathi Raja maybe because of SPB's singing. Also loved the orchestration in all the duet songs. Unnai Thaan Nitham was quite popular among us kids then mainly because of the song sounding very modern and also for RK's dancing (fast moves, complicated steps etc as per his fans) which is usually not his strong point.
I'll tell the story about my school. It was 1989, and I had this Rajini-fan friend, who was our camp's "leader" (against Ulaganayagans camp). He was a local saNdiyar's son, and used to thrill us with his tales of "sharing a peg" with his father(I mean, in 9th standard, that is.)(This was around the time of Apoorva SagodharargaL hence I was in a transition phase in terms of camps as mentioned several times before, that is a different story).
Around the same time, our bright principal, who didnt believe in the beaten path in terms of education introduced several innovations like open-book exams etc. One of her pet projects was to "encourage exra-curricular talents" in a grand way and she introduced this "talent show" after assembly every week on Fridays. Students were free to give their creativity a free reign - though initially it started with the standard "alaipaayuthae kanna" and "theeradha vilayaattu pillai" group dances, eventually it reached its pinnacle with (what else) a movie songs inspired skit by an enterprising gang, who happened to be the ulaganayagan camp. They were the posh besant nagar gang, and stuck to classic stuff and derived humour from some of the family-friendly popular ads and songs. Kamal songs featured liberally, a classy "Kamal in Salangai Oli reprisal included".
This went well with the principal, who appreciated the aesthetics of this. Seething at the glorificatin of the kafir impostor Kamalahassan, our leader, the sandiyar's son, planned a fitting reply glorifying "our supreme leader, the Superstar". As I was in the transition phase, I kind of drifted out of this plan, just being a mute spectator to their rehearsals. Something told me that while the Principal might have appreciated the cinema-influenced but mild-mannered skit well, a full-on reprisal of "Rajini-Amala" choreographed risquely by our enterprising leader will not go that well. Our gang did inflict on the unsuspecting Principal this abominable, family-unfriendly skit involving a full-on reprisal of "Unnai thaan niththam niththam", coolin glass tricks and all, among other cultural milestones like "nee koduthadhai thiruppi koduppen", "aasai nooru vagai" etc. I was privy to the Principal's emotions first hand as I had been chosen to compere the event - having drifted away from the full-on rehearasals, was emotionally blackmailed into participating atleast in this respect by the "Leader" - and was standing right next to the stunned woman. Too stunned to react initially, she recogered half-way through Unnai thaan niththam and managed to halt the proceedings. A severe reprimanding session in the Principal's room followed, with me turning approver, and thus began my exile from the Superstar camp and the eventual drift to the enemy camp. That was the last we heard of the "Talent Session" on Fridays :-)
Mappillai, thus became a turning point in my "cultural appreciation" career, and remains the one of the movies of Rajini that I haven't seen ever.
App, now that I have given you a story, you might as well feature unnai thaan niththam nittham as a supplementary song for today. A song of such cultural significance cannot be ignored just like that!
:lol: Plum. Did they go after you for your dastardly deeds?
To others, my transition period was around then too. I mean, by not abandoning Kamal, but also embracing Rajini. I can't quite figure out which film but not these ones for sure.
Speaking of talent session, my first stage song (some know this already) was Unna nenechen.
Great ! ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by app_engine
nanRi makkaLE, for the comments!
Sorry Balaji, Nerd, Plum, groucho & rajkumarc for being ignorant of the "unnaiththAn niththam" song :oops:
Going by the vociferous responses here, it should have been a big hit in TN. My miss!
And Plum, :lol: on your school episode! Agree it was a historic moment in life :-)
Nerd,
"touch" paNNama nadantha oru kathaiyai ellArum 'touching-touching'nnu solRAnga :confused: Please spend a few minutes reading those posts and tell me if you find at least some lines humorous and not senti...I re-read the posts and found it funny and not too much senti, possibly my memory is rich / multidimensional and fills a lot of details that are missed out in the text.
groucho,
nanRi for your comments on the "story"! It's extremely valuable to me coming from a writing professional! (Though I'm a little disappointed that you didn't laugh at the lines I find "funny"...please, didn't you at least smile at the 'paint pOyi on elbows' thingy?) I guess you can understand Malayalam and wouldn't have had problem with phrases such as 'chumbichchu mathiyAkki' -that line was actually not funny but touching - but some of our Thamizh-only friends could've missed that...In any case, it was quite an experience for me to write such a long sariththiram...
:oops: I was lazy to quote, considering I was reading many pages back, sorry app. But I had smile on my face, and giggled on the part where you samalichufied wife with importance on being hospitable :lol2:. Most of all, this part: "'ngangaLayokke vittuttu pOkAn thannE theermAnichchO?'
There was a brief thoNdai adaikkal for me but exercising great control, I replied :
'ellavarum oru thivasam pOkEndadhallE?' "
I literally heard the sad appu violin in the background :sad:
App - ok I missed out on reacting. I was perhaps one of your target audience - in that, you succesfully kept it funny for me till the last. Touching kichinglAm Avalai - as you can surmise from my previous reactions, which were all frivolous and flippant. I was a little apprehensive if you'd take it well if I told you that I found the story lot of frivolous fun hence I cut back on my reactions. I thought you'll be hurt hence didn't say it aloud - looks like by not saying it aloud, I might have missed pleasing you!
nanRi groucho :-) BTW, why sorry & all...once again, thank you for reading & commenting :-)
Plum, I feel a lot relieved now :-)
I was feeling "old" with most responses coming for mainly the concluding remarks (& not the fun part of the whole ithihAs)...Like I mentioned thru out, there was some tension here and there but mostly it was harmless(?) fun for all concerned :-)
enna thAn sugamO youtube (as expected, Rajini-Amala romancing)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vPXi...eature=related
vERu vElai unakku illaiyE youtube :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVMmDtK5drY
unnaiththAn nitham nitham youtube...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfV_c...eature=related
#297 ஏலேலக்குயிலே
(பாண்டி நாட்டுத்தங்கம் , 1989 , உமா ரமணனுடன்)
ElElakkuyilE of pANdi nAttuththangam, with UR
A film I know only by the songs. Had to browse to find out who the hero & ini were (Karthik-Nirosha, possibly a follow-up after agni natchaththiram success). And, if one goes by this blog post of Murali Kannan , the movie was a hit. There's an interesting thuNukku about the year 1989 in this article :
It's not difficult to see how many of the mega hit movies were non-IR (only one in the above listtu) :-) And what a variety of scores for these movies. IR was the true one-stop-shop for music during this time period and he offered all kinds. Whether classically rich (V16) modern sounding (VV / A-S) or nAttuppuRa albums (PNT, Karagam). Interestingly, each of the nAttuppuRa albums had their own distinct flavor as well. As one can hear, the songs of PNT had different "sounds" and construct compared to Karagam.Quote:
ஒரே ஆண்டில் சந்தேகத்துக்கே இடமில்லாமல் ஐந்துக்கும் மேற்பட்ட பெரு வெற்றிப்படங்களும் 10 வெற்றிப்படங்களும் அமைவது எப்போதாவதுதான் நடைபெறும். 1989ல் அப்படி ஒரு நிகழ்வு நடைபெற்றது (அபூர்வ சகோதரர்கள், வருஷம் 16, ராஜாதிராஜா, கரகாட்டக்காரன், புதியபாதை, புதுப்புது அர்த்தங்கள், மாப்பிள்ளை, பாண்டி நாட்டுத்தங்கம்.....).
This one is a racy song, with SPB & UR competing with each other in pouring a lot of energy! rAsA has some unusual 'rough' percussion sounds in the saraNam and one could even mistake this song as a product of some other composer if more attention is paid to only that aspect. Also, the jin-jinnAkkudi stuff and such not-so-rich-sounding chorus could turn off some IRFs:wink: I love this song, however, which is helped greatly by the melody and the singers!
Since there were abundance of hits during this time period, I didn't initially pay attention to PNT songs (never recorded or had the cassette BTW) and these weren't listened with a lot of enthu during bus travels either. I think motorcycling brought down the bus travels too during this time and the opportunities for such listens were dwindling. That made the first occasion when I did "connect" with this song quite memorable.
I posted earlier about how Cbe, Pollachi & Palakkad form a triangle. Interestingly, there are a number of "interconnecting small roads" between the two main roads from the TN towns to Kerala. There is one going from a place called Kanda koundan chAvadi on Cbe-Pkd road to KozhinjAmpARai on Pollachi-Pkd road. Then there is another connecting these roads starting from a place called Kanjikkode on Cbe-Pkd highway to the same KozhinjAmpARai. There are a few villages with name ending as pARai on the Pollachi-Pkd road. There is one village called pARai itself (also known as elappuLLi and that's where mellisai mannar MSV is from). Then this big village - can even be called a tiny town - called 'kozhinjAmpARai' which is in the border of TN-Kerala and one of the main hubs for vegetable movement from TN to Kerala. There is also another place called 'kOzhippARai' :lol2: and I happened to have a few distant relatives of father there.
This kOzhippArai is located on the country road (single lane, tarred) from Kanjikkode to kozhinjAmpARai. It is also on the KK chAvadi to kozhinjAmpARai road. There is a sugar factory close by in "mEnOn pARa" (Chittoor sugars) and these are lovely roads during the rainy season to travel...beautiful trees, flowers, wind-mills - lovely route with very few buses. During one of those bus-rides, the songs of PNT were played and I paid very close attention and simply loved them! So, three of those songs with SPB will be featured in this thread starting today, 297 / 298 / 299 :-)
App anna
Pandi nattu thangam was indeed a good movie! give it a go if you can. there was another Karthik movie during this period, which had lovely songs by IR. Do you know the name of this movie (see the songs below)
1) Aruvi kooda jathi illamal - by SPB + KJY
2) ennai thottu - SPB + SWarnalatha
F - that is "thought of you, sang a song(read a song)"
Got it ! It was from a movie called Gowri Manohari :) and the MD was some one called "iniyavan" and not IR :shock:
That's the first one. Second one is from unna nenachen paattu padichen by IR only.
Oh thanks :oops:Quote:
Originally Posted by Plum
Great post App on Pandi Naattu Thangam song. You nailed it on how Maestro shows the difference and variety when it comes to folk that too in the same year. :thumbsup: No relation whatsoever. I am not sure if the movie was a hit compared to others in the list, but the songs were huge hits. I remember seeing this film in Devi Kala. Only for Maestro. By this time, we got used to Karthik's monotonous acting. My favorite being siru koottile and un manasula, Chitra's signature songs. In fact, I recorded every song. That was my biggest hobby those days (even before listening). Memorable songs!
paandi naattu thangam was a super dooper hit movie ran well in all A-B-C centers. I remember seeing its 175, 225 days of celebration in Dinathanthi and Dinakaran.Quote:
Originally Posted by V_S
All songs were hits but unn manasula and siru koottula particularly so. There is also another version of unn manasula and SPB has "ilam vayasu ponnai vasiyam pannum valaiyalkaaran", which app may rejeet as not heard much
that is good song, I like it. ippove oru bitta pottu vachuduvomQuote:
Originally Posted by Plum
Thanks venkki for confirmation. Plum, Yes ilam vayasu and I also love another SPB number mayiladum paraiyile.
Wonder full songs! :thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by Plum
nanRi, V_Sji!
'vaLayal kAran' song - yes I've heard it many times and definitely a hit song, but not a SPB song (MV) so won't be "counted" in this thread ...
I strongly doubt whether director wanted another "Thatthom Thaaangu Thatthom".. Rhythm pattern athey maadhiri irukku..Quote:
Originally Posted by app_engine
raajarasigan,Quote:
Originally Posted by raajarasigan
Murali sir, our encyclopaedia, has posted that both VV & mAppiLLai were deepAvaLi releases of 1989 :-)
So, it could've been IR's idea (and not the director asking for 'pOna varusham onnu hit AchchE, adhE mAthiri onnu kodungaNNA') :-)
rendume orey tayathula vandhadha... :neutral: Thanks App Sir :)