The Golden Era of Dr.IR and Dr.SPB

[PARAMASHIVAN]

இதுல ஷாக் ஆக என்ன இருக்குங்க?
ராசா முதல்ல ஜானகியை குழந்தைக்குரலில் 'கண்ணா நீ எங்கே' பாட வச்சார் (ருசி கண்ட பூனை). அதுக்கப்புறம் நிறைய வந்தாச்சு...
(உ-ம்)
கங்கை அமரன் - டாடி டாடி (மௌன கீதங்கள்)
சங்கர்-கணேஷ் - டூத் பேஸ்ட் இருக்கு (ரங்கா)

App anneh

I was not schoked about the song, I was quite shocked to know that SG composed for quite a lot of films from mid 70's till late 80's , I was often under the maya that 'IR' scored for 99% of Films in the 80's ! I am proven wrong It looks like IR scored for 80%, SG 15% and TRR 5% (well for his movies only) in the 80's!

BTW when did Deva enter TFM ?

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It looks like IR scored for 80%, SG 15% and TRR 5% (well for his movies only) in the 80's!

BTW when did Deva enter TFM ?

No way!

I don't think he did even 50% in most years, if one goes by sheer number of movies released!

Please check out the year-by-year list of TF from 76-92 (IR arrived in 1976 and ARR arrived in 1992) and you'll know that IR composed for around 500 Thamizh movies but the total TF released could easily be two to three times that number.

However, if you look at the number of hit songs per year, that will be a different story

[PARAMASHIVAN]

App anneh

1) Who was 'Big' composer after IR in the 80's?
2) Who was his main competitor? I didn't think IR had much competition in the 80's

As far as I know the outher Composers around this period were MSV,SG, S.A.Rajkumar, TRR and Deva in th Late 80's

[SoftSword]

No way!

I don't think he did even 50% in most years, if one goes by sheer number of movies released!

Please check out the year-by-year list of TF from 76-92 (IR arrived in 1976 and ARR arrived in 1992) and you'll know that IR composed for around 500 Thamizh movies but the total TF released could easily be two to three times that number.

However, if you look at the number of hit songs per year, that will be a different story

app, i guess even after ARR arrived IR was ruling by doing most no of movies and was giving hits too...
ARR was like two movies per year.

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Params,

MSV was quite active through out 80's, often composing for big stars and directors (Rajini / Kamal / Sivaji / K Balachandar / K Balaji)

S-G had their share of successes (Devar films / remake of Bappi Lahiri stuff in TF / Rama Narayanan kind of low bud movies / partnering with Bagyaraj for a couple of films - one with Bagyaraj named as MD)

Gangai Amaran was composing quite a bit till he started spending more time in direction (vAzhvE mAyam, sattam kinds)

Late 80's saw AVM productions heavily promote Chandrabose (manithan, for e.g.)

TR of course - mostly for his own but occasionally did movies of other directors (kiLinjalkaL, pookkaLai paRikkadheerkaL)

Composers from other lang fields - Shyam, Rajan Nagendra, L-P, Bappi Lahiri, Hamsaleka, even RDB - these were here and there.

Our KVM, who was busy with Telugu field, did one or two every now and then.

Then there were some onesies twosies kind of MD's - V S Narasimhan, Sivaji Raja, Manoj-Gyan - such were always coming and going

[SoftSword]

chummaa puttu puttu vekkireenga...
SG socks podra kadhaya patthi oru rumour sutthuchae adha patthi konjam brush'unga..

[PARAMASHIVAN]

app, i guess even after ARR arrived IR was ruling by doing most no of movies and was giving hits too...
ARR was like two movies per year.

NO In the early 90's till 1997 it was Deva who was Composing for most of Tamil Movies! but hey it's not the quantity it is the Quality

AFAIK the huge hits of IR in the 90's were Sembaruthi, Thalapathy, veera, inisai mazhai, ejamaan, ponnu mani

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app, i guess even after ARR arrived IR was ruling by doing most no of movies and was giving hits too...
ARR was like two movies per year.

Ofcourse, ARR was not after numbers. However, once he took the cream (big prod houses, stars, directors), the second grade MDs like Deva, SAR, Sirpi, Vidyasagar took away the other market.

IR became a niche player within a matter of a couple years after the arrival of ARR, IIRC. Some old faithfuls as Fazil / BM did a few movies with him before they became irrelevant in the market. Sethu helped a bit but IR's practical relevance as a commercially sought-after MD has gone after the arrival of ARR-Deva-SAR in the market, as a combined force.

We know the trend post-2000 when technology helped the newcomers a lot. One can compose for a film - good sounding music - sitting in a small apartment with no necessity of a big orchestra.

So we have Harris / Vijay Antony / YSR / GVP / VS doing most of the above-average-bud movies (top ones going to ARR) while low-bud can be done by anyone with a few gadgets and there're 100 of them today

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App anneh

Manoj gyan's oomai vizhigal
R.D.Burman did a Tamil movie
I know Bappi lahari did a few movies , Loved his 'Apoorva sagotharikal' (Karthik+Radha film), esp the song by SPB gaaru's 'Poo mEdiayO pOn veenaiyO '

BTW the md for Rajini's Film 'Naan adimai illai' was awsome as well, can't recollect his name

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chummaa puttu puttu vekkireenga...
SG socks podra kadhaya patthi oru rumour sutthuchae adha patthi konjam brush'unga..

No knowledge of that

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