TFM Page's 10-th Anniversary - Magazine Special Issue..!

RR · 3rd October 2005, 10:10 AM

Hi,

It was during Oct 1995 that three tamil film music fans in Bangalore wondered about a web site for TFM, and decided to set aside some precious vetti time to do some HTML-ing.. And, thus TFM Page was born ! It is 2005 now and yes, our 10-th anniversary..! We are celebrating it and would like you all fans to join us in the celebrations...! This issue of TFM Page magazine is a commemorative issue titled 'Pasumai Niraintha Ninaivugale' in which we'll recollect the fond memories. You'll get to read about the history of TFM Page & how it all started, memories and personal experiences by oldtimers, nostalgic threads, etc. For seniors, this issue is going to be like 'malarum ninaivugal' and for newcomers this will reveal much more about the culture and evolution of TFM Page over these 10 years. Hope you find it interesting. Of course, this is by no means exhaustive. We would like you all to write about your personal memories/experiences and share it with everyone. Come, let's reminisce..

On behalf of the team, I would like to thank you all DF-ers, lurkers, fans & friends for your support.. Without you this wouldn't have been possible! In particular, thanks to the current/ex team members Ravi, Pal, Ramki, BB, and Venkat for their cooperation, and the moderators Raj & Thiru for their tireless job. Special thanks to NOV for being our friend-philospher-guide, and for being always with us whenever we needed him. Apart from the core team, many DF-ers such as Sathya family (Kabali, Keerthi, and Kumar), Manisekaran, Kanchana, Mano, kiru, Naaz, MS and, of course, the PP&AP gang, have been like extended team members and helped in several ways. (Apologies if I have missed you. It's just my bad memory.) Thanks to one & all!

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History of TFM Page: Part I- The Inception (RR)

TFM Page Impressions (NOV)

gnaabagam varuthE... (Ramki)

10-th Anniversary Lucky Draw..!

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**Cinefan** · 3rd October 2005, 11:18 AM

Congrats RR&team.Will certainly go thro' this issue&post my comments.

**Scale** · 3rd October 2005, 11:49 AM

Wow! 10th Anniversary. Grt

Keep up the good work. I am not even an year, got addicted completely. Very informative, entertaining, & wonderful dudes to gather. Thats itself a big achievement

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btw, RR pls reserve that lucky draw for myself

**Sanjeevi** · 3rd October 2005, 12:07 PM

Congrats

I am proud of this as a senior hubber enjoying tfmpage for the past 5 years.

**Shankar** · 3rd October 2005, 02:12 PM

Great work TFM Team...been visiting this site every single day from 1997 and not single day have i felt this site has lost its charm !! RR and Team, Pls continue this great work !!!

**MADDY** · 3rd October 2005, 04:21 PM

great work RR,Thiru and other admins.......i know how tough it is to host and moderate a site.........hats off and let this 10th anniversary bcome 100th anniversary and my grand-kids wud also post in this site

**app_engine** · 3rd October 2005, 07:29 PM

Congrats RR & Team! Looking forward to more years of TFMpage & also more of your recollections on the magazine...

**balaji** · 3rd October 2005, 10:38 PM

Congratulations!

TFM page has been my source for Tamil Film music since 1997 when I accidentally hit upon the site and I have been enjoying my participation since then.

Best wishes and please continue the good work.

Thanks
bala

**rajdes** · 4th October 2005, 10:31 AM

Congrats RR & team! TFMPAGE has been my single consistent web-addiction since '98. Have some fond memories here. Apart from the names you mentioned, whose contribution has doubtless been outstanding, Srinath, Udhaya, rajaG and Srikanth D deserve a special mention.
Raj

**thenraja** · 4th October 2005, 07:28 PM

For sure, TFM Page's 10-th Anniversary - Magazine Special brings back fond memories. Going through RR's article about his good old days of Internet experience at IISc, I can't resist thinking about the days at the University in Louisiana (1992-94) when we depended on usenet newsgroups (soc.culture.tamil, soc.culture.indian) to know anything about things in India, using 'rn' to read news. And was fortunate to use pre-Netscape version, Mosaic, back in 1993. Thanks for reminding the names of Sandya (who used to write wonderful movie reviews and tamil film world titbits, I think she moved to http://www.tamilmovies.com/ which is not active now) and Prakash (who I used to meet once a while in Atlanta but returned to India a few years back).

Back to tfmp, I stumbled upon tfmp back in 1997, I do not know how, may be a search or via a usenet newsgroup. My first posting was on June 6, 1997 with the topic "List of songs by SPB - 60's and early 70's"
http://tfmpage.com/forum/29404.11874.6.html
In that thread, one can see postings by many of the first generation hubbers that RR has mentioned.
Since then, tfmp has been part of my daily routine. Though I do not post a lot, I do go through many threads on a regular basis. Through tfmp,I have got in touch with many wonderful personalities that include Sathiyakeerthi (sk), Sathya Kabali, and RR. It was sk and the tfmp forums that got me to know and work with Kalai, Rajesh and Rajagopal that gave birth to Melody Queen P. Susheela' web site http://psusheela.org two years ago. That led to get in touch with many more nice people like jn, chandru, yvsmani....the list goes on. People like Ramki and Saravanan have incredible amount of memory and knowledge about Tamil films. One can never stop appreciating the writings of Manisegaran. There are more and more nice aspects about tfmpage.
My congratulations to the entire admin team,past and present, of tfmpage.com for giving the entire world a great opportunity to share and learn everything about tamil film music.

Reading NOV's writing "They had a dream - to compile a complete database of Tamil songs since its beginnings in the 1930s" - Why don't we mark this 10th anniversary to start building a such a database?