The Golden Era of Dr.IR and Dr.SPB

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நீதானே எந்தன் பொன் வசந்தம்
புது ராஜ வாழ்க்கை நாளை உன் சொந்தம்
என் வாசல் ஹே வரவேற்கும் அந்நேரம்
பொன் சொர்க்கம் ஹே அரங்கேறும் கண்ணோரம்
ஆஹா...

சரணம் 1

பாதை முழுதும் கோடி மலர்கள்
பாடி வருமே தேவ குயில்கள்
உன்னாடை ஹே மிதக்கின்ற பாலாடை
உன் காலை ஹே குளிப்பாட்டும் நீரோடை

வெயில் நாளும் சுடுமென தேகம் கெடுமென
ஜன்னல் திரையிடும் மேகம்
இரு காதல் விழிகளில் வீசும் ஒளிகளில்
பிறையும் பெளர்ணமியாகும்
சந்தோஷம் உன்னோடு கை வீசும் எந்நாளும்


சரணம் 2

ஈர இரவில் நூறு கனவு
பேதை விழியில் போதை நினைவு
பன்னீரில் ஹே இளந்தேகம் நீராடும்
பனிப்பூக்கள் ஹே உனைக்கண்டு தேனூறும்

நீ ஆடை அணிகலன் சூடும் அறைகளில்
ரோஜா மல்லிகை வாசம்
முக வேர்வைத் துளியது போகும் வரையிலும்
தென்றல் கவரிகள் வீசும்
நெஞ்சோரம் தள்ளாடும் முத்தாரம் எந்நாளும்

[KV]

Ah! What a life-breather! Its been only sangu sattham, thappu and azhuvachi after Indian cricket team's gangrEp this evening. This song and your post with all your lovely usual anecdotes helps in a large way in bringing back some solace. Your enthusiasm is infectious; your commitment and perseverance is enviable stuff! Thodarattum indha inba mazhai

[San_K]

How to congratulate you? Huge applause for your monstrous contribution and non-tiring commitment. App'in 'Nooraavathu Naal' and brilliant post . We are proud of you App for having your here!

+1 (I borrow V_S words)

@ KV kola veri vasanthamagiducha

[KV]

Ada, adhellam summa oru rhyming timing thing saar. Kalai (கலை) veri dhaan firstu, kola veri ellam nesstu dhaan.

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nanRi, KV & San_K!

Since I'm behind by 2 days, pani vizhum as well as rOjAvaiththAlAttum should get posted today

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#101 பனி விழும் மலர்வனம் உன் பார்வை ஒரு வரம்
(நினைவெல்லாம் நித்யா, 1982 , பாடலாசிரியர் வைரமுத்து)

I remember posting in some other thread about the Thamizh activities in the college. There were some enthusiastic students who organized literary activities, got some approvals / funds / support by some faculty and ran a cyclostyled magazine called 'thEnaruvi'. It possibly started when I was in the first semester but I came to know / appreciate it only in 2nd sem as the 1st sem was one of terror.

Even during the terrifying ragging period, we were generally appreciative of one of the senior's hostels where the treatment was very mild. It was Pearl hostel where 50% of the 3rd yearers lived (who belonged to the last of the 5 year BE system), and most were from TN (the other state fellows were harshest raggers in our experience with Odiyans the worst). Now, this very nice senior - a bespectacled, bearded gentleman whose appearance was like the student who shouts "மாணவர் தலைவனை அடித்த ப்ரின்சீபால் ஒழிக" in iLamaikkaalangal, was the #2 in that Thamizh group (after the editor who was from final year).

He was not only a poet / writer but also a lover of music. Specifically, he was very gentle to freshies and treat with real friendliness. No wonder we quickly became friends and after a year, when he became #1 / editor, he even published a short story by me and a couple of poems in "thEnaruvi" Now, he was a lover of pre-IR music and obviously that led to a lot of mutually-respectful discussions. At times, he could make fun of the poem part of the new songs.

One interesting feature he introduced in that mag - he used to post a poem (for which he had a tuneful melody in his mind) and ask the readers to come up with a melody for it. It was like trying to identify budding composers. I don't know how much he was succesful in getting responses for that but I found it a very interesting exercise. In our corridor talks, we used to have the mag and try to sing it with a number of tunes, make fun of the "composition" etc and it paved way for a lot of fun.

One sample line of such :
"அன்னமே இவள் முன்னால் உன் மென்மை எங்கே
ஆஹா இக்கன்னியின் அழகிடம் தோற்றாய்" ...what he originally had in mind was a soft, slow melody while in our wing we had a rocking dappAnguththu (with addition of "dhik-dhikkum...dhikkum...dhik-dhikkum" sounds etc )

Now why do I write all this about him? Well, what more can I write about 'pani vizhum malarvanam's greatness that none of you know? So, let me add this peculiar behaviour of this gentleman w.r.t. this song. When it was a rage, he told me "I don't like the song". Shocked, I asked him why. He said, "because everyone is praising it sky-high". Interestingly, he hadn't even heard the song at that time but already disliked it.

I learnt a lesson in psychology then. There are people -nice people - who hate things simply because those things are talked about all the time (regardless of whether those were good or not, such people simply don't care for them).

BTW, one of the best poems from VM on appreciating iyaRkai azhagu

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pani vizhum youtube...

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BTW, at the height of the bloody riots in 1983 in SL, this senior wrote a story in thEnaruvi which I still vividly remember Sure it was imaginary but there were very similar real-life incidents in any place that gets suddenly torn based on racial / linguistic /ethnic / caste etc differences.

It was about a friendly Sinhala neighbor who was always well-known to this Thamizh family in which this girl -the main character of the story - is a tailor. To cut the story short, at the heights of the riot, this once-well-behaved-neighbor tries to rape her and she kills him with her scissors. The story ended like "there was born the next extremist"

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#102 ரோஜாவைத்தாலாட்டும் தென்றல்
(நினைவெல்லாம் நித்யா, 1982 , ஜானகியுடன்)

The prior two albums that IR did with Sridhar were VJ specials -orE nAL unai nAn & nAnE nAnA respectively - but here no VJ. SJ got two songs (essentially the same song - happy / pathos) while PS got the third one, duet with MV (kannippoNNi kai mElE, katti vachcha poomAlai). With SPB together, my most fav duet pair happens for the first time in an IR-Sridhar movie and what a sweet song that results! Vairamuthu was it terrific form too as the similies came in a flurry (koondhal = mEgham etc). Raja had strong chords in this song (possibly using electric guitar as he did for iLaya nilA) and a unique rhythm pattern to make it absolutely catchy!

There is some "basically-north-indian" touch in the song (can't explain, possibly the rAgam or the instrumental combo for interludes or the way SJ sings in the saraNams) but one senses such a strong flavor. The strings that run along in harmony are a sweet treat as well. My most fav portion - in the middle of the saraNam when one sings a line, the other responds as 'hA'...e.g.mounamE sammadham enRu -hA, what a good feeling of togetherness there!

Per existing standards, this song enjoyed the best recording quality and obviously a rage with anyone who had a decent music system. And the most preferred album for all those tea-shops with big box speakers. And those recording centers that incessantly kept recording cassettes off of the NN LP to get their cash registers ringing played these songs at their best settings possible, to attract crowds.

It was impossible to walk in the main guard gate area in Trichy those days without listening to a portion of NN song coming from somewhere or other. I clearly remember how many boys started learning guitar those days - purely inspired by IR! And the starting sounds of pani vizhum were the ones that everyone tried to play first as it sounded simple Lead in the pani vizhum interludes or chords of rOjAvaiththAlAttum were reserved for "advanced students". In one way or other, the songs of NN had an impact on the public of TN regardless of whether they were serious music lovers or not.

What a memorable album for a forgettable film!

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rOjAvaiththAlAttum thenRal youtube :