#53 பாவையர்கள் மான் போலே, காவிரியின் மீன் போலே
(ஒரே முத்தம், 1980 , ஜானகியுடன்)

Now this is a totally different kind of song from an obscure movie. (Movie known today only by a couple of songs that had regular radio time - this one and PJ's 'rAjAppoNNu, adi vAdiyammA, konjam Anandha nAttiyadam Adadi'). When they used to transmit this song on radio, I never bothered to find out the movie / composer. My automatic response upon listening to the stage-drama-like beginning was "it can't be a rAsA pAttu". The sudden genre changing into some cheesy sounds / lyric, finally some praise for Indiraji etc (nallathOr peNmaNi nAttaiyum ALalAm) made one look in the other direction (or try some other station etc) when this was heard those days.

All said, no one of my age group could have avoided hearing this song at one point of time or other.

Ofcourse I knew the PJ's song to be IR's and was fond of it but never connected the 'pAvaiyarkaL mAn pOlE' with that one as a buddy. In any case, in course of this current SPB-IR compilation process, came across this one as IR's & from the same movie - orE muththam. Since this was at least a radio-hit those days, I'm obliged to include in this thread.

Ofcourse, SPB's singing is impeccable as usual Some may like this song overall, though not fondly remembered by me...