The Golden Era of Dr.IR and Dr.SPB

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Another nostalgia - the local tea stall-er had the vinyl of kallukkuL eeram (eNNaththil Etho jil-lendRadhu, what a sweet song, en eNNaththil jil-jil right now). Interestingly, he didn't have the nizhalgaL disk.

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Was Nizhalgal a BR movie ?

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Was Nizhalgal a BR movie ?

Ofcourse, yes! Another important info - it was the debut film of Vairamuthu

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Ofcourse, yes! Another important info - it was the debut film of Vairamuthu

Oh So Vairamuthu's first song was 'இது ஒரு பொன் மாலை பொழுது' ?

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ஆமாம், வரும்போதே "வானம் எனக்கொரு போதி மரம்"னு சொன்னார்

VM was a BR intro (IIRC, BR was producer-director of nizhalgaL, it was a "Manoj Creations" movie).

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ஆமாம், வரும்போதே "வானம் எனக்கொரு போதி மரம்"னு சொன்னார்

VM was a BR intro (IIRC, BR was producer-director of nizhalgaL).

Oh OK, I Like VM over 'Valee' for Obvious Reasons but my all time Favourites is none other than கவியரசு

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Thank you groucho, for posting the PKB answer from NT thread

(About the video, though intolerable -mainly because of Sivaji's wig / appearance / Sowcar looking younger than her son etc - the degree of sahikkableness is much higher than engengO ...Sivaji looks somewhat like 'neethikkuththalai vaNangu' MGR in the song 'indhappachchaikkiLikkoru sevvanthippoovinil' )

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#41 பேரைச்சொல்லவா, அது நியாயமாகுமா?
(குரு, 1980 )

Another grand bass-guitar boosted album in the IR-IV Sasi combo! Supposedly a remake of Hindi film "Jugnu" with Kamal -Sridevi. I watched the movie many years later in the college audi - totally unimpressive ordinary masAlA and IR was too generous is gifting this many SJ wonders...(nAn vaNangukiREn, enthan kaNNil EzhulagangaL are both capable of making into any list that TFM lovers pick).

Two things that made me happy while watching the movie were
a) Title card had only SPB-SJ as singers
b) the mridhangam / whistle combo theme BGM

While pEraichchollavA is average on screen, musically it's so rich! 30 years after its arrival, even now it goes on loop on some days in my car - apart from the strong bass, the strings / wind instruments in the interludes are quite mesmerizing! So are the sweet voices of SPB & SJ and their brilliant singing that makes one feel so close to them!

I have a theory - Guru initially probably had two small size vinyl disks that were independently released - one with pEraichchollavA, nAn vaNangukiREn, AdungaL pAdungaL & enthan kaNNil & the other with paRanthAlum vidamAttEn, mAmanukkupparamakkudi, AdungaL pAdungaL another version and may be a repeat. The reason why I say this is because I've never heard 'paRanthAlum vida mAttEn' on AIR, even though that was my top fav when this movie songs arrived. They played 'pEraichchollavA' very frequently, however.

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Did you guys used to wear big sunglasses/ thick side burns/ bell bottoms/platform shoes and Afro Hair style those days

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Did you guys used to wear big sunglasses/ thick side burns/ bell bottoms/platform shoes and Afro Hair style those days

appA romba strictu - so no fashion fundA for us. Ofcourse, bell-bottom was unavoidable as that was the ONLY kind of full pants the tailor will make for youth during my +2 days (it was a very short-term fashion, went away during my college days, some of my older ones had to be "altered" to cut short the bottom).

I had two close friends in +2 who were Kamal fanatics. They were hostel-ers with lot more freedom from parents - so "step-cutting", bigger size bell-bottoms, 2 inch wide belts with shiny buckles, shirt with first button removed (or open), big side burns, thick meesai (sometimes french beard) and shoes that needed a stair case. Both were Sridevi fanatics as well (with so much expressed aversion for Sripriya). Interestingly, both weren't much into music listening so I was mostly in "listening-mode" when they spoke about movies as I had hardly anything to share...