The Golden Era of Dr.IR and Dr.SPB

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#115 பொத்தி வச்ச மல்லிக மொட்டு
(மண் வாசனை, 1983 , வைரமுத்து பாடல், ஜானகியுடன்)

A song that plays regularly on my car, often on repeat mode, after a quarter century of its release! I'm pretty sure it will continue to be a favourite for the rest of my life too as the beauty of this song is / will be undiminished by time. Like the charm of one's beloved mate!

It's unfortunate that the hero of this movie is no more - a Madurai nAyakan who couldn't make it big in TF. OTOH, the nAyaki has gone places, a competent actress who won some appreciation even in Mumbai. Though this movie was dragging in some portions, overall a very good -portions even brilliant -one. And the songs were quite interesting too with this one taking the top spot!

As the song is so well-known, often posted about in the last song thread, I don't want to post about those again. Suffice to say SPB is simply terrific in this, scoring over SJ even. And the Raja special of mELam in the first interlude is simply ootw.

I think I posted about me singing the whole song in reverse order in one of the college entertainment programs, which to this day some of my classmates remember. (Last time I met a guy in Detroit after decades, he reminded me of the "தித்பொ சச்வ கைலில்ம டுட்மொ", which was actually the kuRumbu of another friend in college that I used on stage). So much fond of the song - thalai keezhppAdam