The Golden Era of Dr.IR and Dr.SPB

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#301 ஏய் அய்யா சாமி
(வருஷம் 16 , 1989 , சித்ராவுடன்)

Ey ayyA sAmy (varusham 16, with KSC)

saraNam is so sweet in this, especially the first line is pure honey! Both SPB & KSC excel in bringing both the kuRumbu & kAdhal in this song which is also an adi-dhadi percussion delight! I've seen the original Malayalam movie (ennennum kaNNEttande) which was a sweet movie, though with limited success. OTOH, the Thamizh remake was a mega hit - with Karthik & Kushboo - but my colleague who watched this was so upset with the modifications done for the TF. Happily, I didn't have to suffer that (as I never watched this movie in theater). IIRC, I watched portions of it on the web years later but I don't think I've seen the revised climax etc. In any case, the ending in ennennum was too classy (for me) to be changed...

The "main" songs went to KJY (one that describes the girl as fruit garden, shore of gangAmA & melting heart). My most fav from this movie (the only song I had in my personal recordings those days) was / is "poo pookkum mAsam", a wonder in film music! Some instrumental expert please come and explain us how IR has achieved that wonderful adi-dhadi arrangement for the pallavi! Though the Malayalam movie had a couple of sweet songs, they were not anywhere close to the TFM (dEva dundhubi was excellent and even 'poovattaka thathichchinni', which is the equivalent of today's song is decent...Jerry Amaldev was the composer, who worked with Fazil for the original of poovE poochchooda vA also - nOkkaththA dhooraththu kaNNum nattu, he supposedly had music lessons in USA).

All the songs of V16 were big hits in TN & Palakkad - and most are evergreen to this day!