Raja's Gems - the latest one you heard...Part 3

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'Oh pApA lAlee' on loop in the car for the last two days (idhaiyaththai thirudAthE)!

What a sweet orchestration and fantastic melody, the first interlude just pizhinjifies the heart / nAdi narambellAm suNdi izhukkum strings!

Possibly the best song for Mano but he does dhrishtippottu on a number of spots Also, makes one feel why can't he sing with the intended feel for any song.

Possibly IR/MR decided that for that actor - with a single emotion of 'being in pain even when laughing' - this voice is good enough I've seen only one movie of Amala's hubby - this one - and IMO he is the Telugu equivalent of oru thalai rAgam Shankar. Always sad, troubled, in-pain kind of face. Like Mano, always flat feeling - let it be love, thAlAttu, sogam, hAsyam, veeram whatever.

(Some say Mano did great post-IR, why not, post-IR which composer bothers about giving "emotional" songs to Mano? What emotions needed to be showcased in, say, veerapANdi kOttaiyilE? or mukkAbullA? or azhagiya lailA? Obviously, why won't Mano sound great there!)