The Golden Era of Dr.IR and Dr.SPB

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#98 நினைவெல்லாம் நித்யா நித்யா
(நினைவெல்லாம் நித்யா, 1982)

What a sweet title for a movie!

(Well, one should look from the 1982 perspective and erase the controversial sAmiyAr from the mind )

And what a sweet short song! The sweet flute, guitar and the mild background ambience to SPB's longing voice!

After the stupendous success of IO & AUA, the third movie where Sridhar & IR colloborated. And their best album together IMSO. Also one of the very best in IR/SPB combo albums. Quite innovative, experimental, futuristic, ever-green...use any superlative adjective and it fits this disc!

The young, thuLLal Karthik got signed up for this movie which should have charged up IR & SPB to give their best. On top of it, kAdhal mannan's daughter was roped in as the heroini. I don't think any intro-actress had so much of media coverage ever before. She was on covers of practically all Thamizh mags that used to hang on pettikkadais around the state. Though she was average looking, her dad's popularity (and step-mom's and half-sister's) made sure she was the talk of the town. She was called Jiji and was the poster girl UNTIL the release of the movie. After it bombed, nothing was ever heard of her. Possibly went back to medical college where she was a student at the time of movie-chance.

This was the LP disk that had 6 great full-size songs (3 SPB solos / 1 SPB-SJ / 1 MV-PS / 1 SJ solo) plus this short song.

As per my dost who went and caught it on cassette the same day the disk came to the center, it also contained instrumental tracks - many tik-tik-tik BGMs and ullAsappaRavaikaL title score. So, he captured those as well in that cassette. A cassette that was to play in the hostel for months and months!