The Golden Era of Dr.IR and Dr.SPB

[app_engine]

BTW, paruvamE is the "pachchAs"

[baroque]

thanks a lot app_eng.
Though I often listen to the compositions, it is always a pleasure listening one more time at your tfmpage thread with your kutti postings.
enjoy,

HURRAY 80s Ilayaraja!

vinatha.

[V_S]

Beautiful song and post App and KV as always!!

Uravenum Puthiya Vaanil is a song of the century as rajkumarc rightly pointed out. Luckily I watched this movie in theatre when it was released with my parents. Eventhough I didn't quite understand, I still remember liking all the songs, picturization and not to forget Vennira Aadai Moorthy, Kumarimuthu and gang's laugh riot. I even cried when Keech died. I am not sure, if I can watch now with same enthusiasm, but it's great movie for sure and ahead of its time, very stylish film, but had a lot of heart in it.

KV, nice to read your college memories of this song. Just wanted to ask, if you informed your friend about which song came first and what was his reaction after that?

Do I need to mention about singing by SPB and SJ, name says it all! The tune and how it peaks high and suddenly dips giving the beauty. The start of charanam first line and how it ends low, sweeter than honey.

The bass lines runs as a life line through out the song, absolutely dreamy! The prelude is haunting. The flute just before pabapabapa... and the bass guitar chords when pallavi is on. These can't be separated out from vocals and are interwoven to perfection. While the first interlude plays an important role in developing their relationship to love, the second interlude is much more powerful. It is interesting to hear how the prominent guitar in the first interlude gradually goes to background and acts as bass guitar when other instruments comes to foreground ending with a beautiful violin crescendo!

What makes second interlude more interesting is the solo meloncholy violin for a happy and breezy duet. Just this piece made me curious to watch the song recently. It starts with Mohan and Suhasini were in middle of the road with their car having a starting problem. I don't know how this was conceived and conveyed to Maestro by Mahendran sir. But he gives here the intermittent chords and spooky phaser symbolizing the outage. And when the car starts, continuous flute begins to flow just like through our nerves. Cut there, then comes the carefree whistle when they both ride their bicyles casually. Till now everything is perfect and now comes the Oliver 'twist'. Suddenly a solo violin plays in meloncholy mood symbolizing there is some obstacle in their love ahead. Mahendran sir nailed it perfectly by bringing in Pratap there sitting over his car, when Suhasini and Mohan meets him. Here suddenly the tone of the violin completely changes what we just heard in solo mode when Suhasini and Pratap start chatting. Here again symbolizing something terrible is going to happen and the camera pans across Mohan and his expression says it all.

One of very few Maestro songs picturized to perfection. It's amazing that Mahendran sir captured the mood perfectly down to the instrument level not just the whole interlude level. Most others don't even notice these nuances.

Four great Masters in greatest action for one of the greatest song!

[skr]

Four great Masters in greatest action for one of the greatest song!

Beautifully said V_S..Enjoyed your write up thoroughly on this wonderful song ..

[rajkumarc]

Lovely writeup V_S. Have to listen to the song while reading your post.

Uravenum was a late discovery for me (about 3 years back) and never knew such a song existed in the movie. You could imagine my shock and disbelief for not having listened to this beauty and still proclaiming myself as an IR fan. I would probably blame the TV for they never showed Uravenum and it was Paruvame all the time.

Disovering the Hub and it's special group of IR fans are the best things that could have happened to me atleast, especially in terms of listening/sharing thoughts about IR's music and lot of other things about films.

[Sureshs65]

Superb writeups app, KV and V_S. Thoroughly enjoying them. Had posted link for these discussions in twitter. I am sure those coming here will be thrilled to discover such passion for Raja and SPB.

I watched this movie in Telugu. Loved the three songs. As everyone agrees one of the few movies where full justice is done for Raja's songs in terms of picturisation. Everyone who saw the movie was thrilled with the 'Paruvame' song.

[app_engine]

Nice post V_S!

I watched the youtube this morning and can relate to the analysis in your post

Thank you Sureshji for both the comments and referral

[V_S]

Thanks a lot skr, rajkumarc, Sureshji, App for your kind words! I am deeply moved. Definitely I agree with rajkumarc, this hub is a great platform to unite, share and learn daily from our friends here. Without this, the world will be less interesting!

[KV]

App, I think its time to cut down some redundancy and declare something like a universal variable, that can be used in every post, something like LAUAE (lovely, as usual, A_E) or APAE (awesome post, A_E)
The best part about Paruvame is the laid-back manner in which each aspect in the song rolls out - the tune, the interludes, the singing; absolutely unhurried, delicate and gradual, like blossoming of a morning flower.

V_S, beautiful writeup on Uravenum, very interesting points. And yes, my friends were around when we looked up the net (did it at our, then newly-established, internet center at college). Of course, they had no choice but to (in Vivek style) 'close the bonnet and dikki'!

[app_engine]

KV

'paruvamE' has this slow increase and decrease in sound levels for the lead instrument (strings / harmonium etc) which is another enjoyable thing in the first interlude. EGS! (evergreen song)