The Golden Era of Dr.IR and Dr.SPB

[app_engine]

jaiganes,


pidinga one more title that is due to you : "Hub's imagery specialist"

[jaiganes]

jaiganes,


pidinga one more title that is due to you : "Hub's imagery specialist"

danq uvar aanar.

[V_S]

As far as SPB- SJ chemistry goes..
a line by SPB and a gentle nod "nana nana" then branch off to an aarohanam in a different scale followed by that haunting glide of "thara nana nana nana" ending up in the pallavi on a lower scale - these are two awesome eagles with years of flying together giving us a demonstration in flight..
Their majesty and proficiency make every flight an arresting sight. Ilaiyaraaja presents these wonderful birds with a beautiful blue sky and scintilliating drafts of swara transitions in the song which these birds use like staircases to climb up and down, roll and turn much to the delight of dumbfounded spectators like us.

Wow Jai! I am dumbfounded

[Divine22]

Santhana Kaatre , Lovely pick, Kaatele metekkera maatiri oru sugamaana paadal. I like the tananaa... joining in the charanams!!

[Plum]

jai, aakasadhindhA jAri is from jenma jenmada anunbandha

[PARAMASHIVAN]

I watched Jaya TV's "Thirumbi Parkiren" program yesterday, the guest was Deepan Chakaravarthi. Is he the son of "Thiruchi Loganathan" ? On the show DC was taking about his song "பூஜைக்காக வாழும் பூவை சூறையாடல் முறையோ " . During the shoot for this song SPB was appearently in Singapore on some trip, and couldn't make it on time for recording it, so IR asked DC to do the "Track singing" for this song. Once this has been completed SPB returned back from Singapore to record this song as per IR's request! Once SPB heard the version song by DC, he appearently said " ivar paattu nalla thaane iruku, ithaiye padathila podunga".

DC was overwhelmed by the "Humility" of his annan SPB, he had tears in his eyes when he said this on the show. This song fetched him the national award!

But I still thing "Sangeetha jathi mulai" deserved the NA more than any songs in the film

[app_engine]

Param, I'm not sure it was NA...probably Tamilnadu State Award

[PARAMASHIVAN]

Param, I'm not sure it was NA...probably Tamilnadu State Award

Sorry App anna, It was TN State award not NA

[app_engine]

#90 கூவுங்கள் சேவல்களே
(தனிகாட்டு ராஜா, 1982 )

The weakest area of SPB-IR combo, IMHO.

majestic muzhakkams. Where TMS with either MSV or KVM simply ruled during MGR days.

Both our men try hard (IR with his trumpets and other wind instruments along with strings and percussion work, SPB with high-pitched energy) but it didn't make the impact on me like, say, 'adhO andhappaRavai pOla' Not even the impact of 'podhuvAka emmanasu thangam' by IR/MV combo. And, as usual, my taste sync-ed with the taste of 80's TN-ers and this song didn't make it that big. Had some air-time, loud speaker time etc but not to the proportions of how a Rajini-SPB-IR song should have reached.

Well, if placed in a right setting, this may have made its impact. (For e.g. prior to 2011 TN elections, I happened to watch a program on Jaya TV where there was interaction with public / news clippings etc showing people's anger against the rulers, suddenly there jumped in a SPB song with unmistakable IR orch - so fitting to the situation and had me in pullarips - but it started in the middle of the saraNam and so took me a couple of seconds to figure out that it was a song dissed by me at the time of its arrival Gandhi dEsamE - a similar SPB-IR muzhakkam that failed to strike a chord in me when it came but worked big time with the reality visuals on Jaya TV).

Who knows, when placed in an appropriate setting, 'koovungaL sEvalkaLE' may hit me like 'adhO andhappaRavai pOla '

[Plum]

koovungaL sEvalgaLE could have been apt in the 1989 elections for ADMK(JJ)