Quote Originally Posted by jaiganes
I guess interlude is wholly Raaja's territory.
Musically, yes. However, the "length & feel" have a lot to do with the situation, IMO, as IR involves himself in such aspects so completely.

One more classic case of lip-sync song with lengthy interludes (the second one even funny) is the 'chinnanjiru vayadhil enakkOr siththiram thONudhadee' of meeNdum kOkilA. As it's a peN pArkkum scene (beautiful Sridevi and handsome Kamal there), there had to be lip sync. OTOH, GNR-IR combo possibly decided to include other details during the interludes and they had such a nice effect.

A conversational kind of song with lip sync- 'paRandhAlum, vidamAttEn' of guru had fantastic prelude and interludes which were way ahead of the time. Kamal-Sridevi again, in two different aircrafts, singing over "wireless" transmission

(side point - all this talk about IR & synth today, ada pOngappA, this one was decades back with synthO synthu)