Pick of the week: 1 Mar to 5 Aug 2006

Pick #205

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

Song: sarithaana
Film: thaaLam
Singers: Chitra, Mano, sukhwinder,udit N?
Lyrics: vairamuthu
Music: ARRahman


'taal' is my personal favorite. Yes it had exceptional songs , there cannot be any doubt in that. But it was also the first CD i bought in my life.
I was in love with the songs for a while(You have to if that is the only CD in your Car:) ).
Todays pick is the favorite(or the second) of the lot. The tune, interludes and the lyrics(hindi) gel wonderfully.
Tamil version of the songs, IMO, were not as good as the original. But yet they are much better than the songs that came out in that period.

Just curious: Do you remember the first CD you purchased?

Yaa I do:) In 1991 I bought, memorable melodies of KJY, released by Oriental. mmm I paid $18 for that CD :oops:

IMO, hindi version is much better than tamil, even recording wise, the tamil version had very poor recording.

I can't describe how disappointed I was when I heard ''thaalathil nee seravaa' (I had listened to Taal already). This must be one of the tops in the spoilt-during-remake songs category. Using some track singer (Is she the 'maargazhi poove' one?) for this song was atrocious.

First CD bought.. My first was one carnatic cd as a gift for a friend. First for myself, I think was a '2 cd for $5' offer that had 'KJY's MGR songs' and a 'PS sad solos'.

Neel, you are correct. SR's laughing is not present in this song, but it is in KaNNan enakkoru piLLai (Movie: Yen). Got confused.

SR's vetkka pattukittu paadum "ennidam edhuvuuuu illai" (2 times) did not sound good for a young heroine.

Ramki: aNNi serial comes in Jaya TV? I don't get J TV here :-(

RR: is ThaLathil sung by Usha Shankar? Not sure ??

SN23 its shobha shankar. The same one who sang 'margazhi poove'. She is a singaporean residing in states(when the film was released)

Pick #206

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

Song: solla vallayo
Film: kavari maan
Singer: SVaralakshmi
Lyrics: Bharathiar
Music: iLaiyaraja

'kavarimaan' is one of the good film of sivaji that was released in 70s. I had a chance to watch it few years ago and was impressed with the theme and performance of sivaji and sridevi. The story is about a fathers yearing for his daughters acceptance. The daughter witnesses the father murdering her mom and rightfully starts hating him. She doesn't know that her father did this is a fit of fury after catching her mom(PramiLa) and a friend (Premkumar) together.
Will she ever recognize his love for her? The story was very well told and sridevi proved her match to sivaji's underplayed performance
The film had very good songs by IR. Todays song is one of the 2 songs SV sang in IR's music

On Sarithaana

nice song Ramki but having listened to Taal songs thaalam came as a big disappointment to me.. particularly inserted lyrics like 'nee muttai pola udaivadhu seri thaana'... The best dubbed music for ARR was Uyire and Jodi...

Btw, my first CD was a combo by Magnasound 'Thiruda Thiruda' & pudhiya mugam.. Remember buying it for 175 Rs back in 1994..... I'm very poor in keeping my collection intact and the CD is probably in one of my friend's CD rack...

Nice song 'solla vallayo' ! I have posted the lyrics in MOY. Sounds like Bhairavi.

Raj,

I think it's a ragamalika: Surutti, Atana and finally with swaras in Shanmugapriya. Nicely done.

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Originally Posted by Thiru

my first CD was a combo by Magnasound 'Thiruda Thiruda' & pudhiya mugam..

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Surprise..surprise.. :D

isnt "Solla vallaayo" any already existing carnatic composition(composed by Bharathi)? I have seen Lalgudi's version of it.Its a ragamalika.IR might have just re-used the tune, will have to verify.

Another song for which an original compisiton could have been created but an already existing krithi was used was - "brova baarama" by KJY in the same film. Squandered opportunities, I thought.