The Golden Era of Dr.IR and Dr.SPB

[app_engine]

didn't she make her debut in tamil for the film "sakkalathi" ?

appadeengaLA? That is a 1979 movie (vAda vAttudhu, enna pAttuppAda enna thALam pOda). I know the hero was Sudhakar, no idea about the heroini...If Ambi chEchi, that is prior to kadal meenkaL...

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#145 கல்யாணச் சேலை உனதாகும் நாளை
(அம்பிகை நேரில் வந்தாள், 1984 , ஷோபா as claimed in thiraippAdal, sounds like SJ to me)

Quite a 'mangaLakaramAna' song, even though there's a mild tinge of sadness (possibly invoked by the parithAba chorus voices and the shenoy in second interlude). There's also some amount of northie-ism / SAR-ishness etc...

I remember listening to this song often on buses / radio but never cared to check the movie name. Also, I remember seeing the Mohan / Radha posters of this movie but never cared to find out what songs existed in it. Such was the prolificity of rAsA during this time, after thoroughly routing all the competition away. Sometime during this year, TR , who used to come up with hit songs every now and then since OTR, had his (possibly) biggest career hit - uyiruLLa varai ushA. His UU and subsequent albums got played around TN in a big way and was perhaps the only alternative to the flood of IR numbers.

I've seen some strong remarks back & forth in IR's new albums thread about people commenting on whether IR has lost his touch / lost "it" / out of form / coming back to form etc.

While it's true that IR comes up with some winners even in the year 2011 (SRR in Telungu is a sure biggie, for e.g.), it's no longer a winner each week That may be the difference which drives some old timers into desperation

[genesis]

Is it same Shoba - Vijay's mom?

[Divine22]

Yes, the lyrics are : Kalyana selai unathaagum naalai,,,

And the female singer , some website says her name is Shobana, Shoba...

This TFM page says her name is Devi.

http://www.tfmpage.com/forum/5284.06:11:54.html

Thanks.

[app_engine]

nanRi, genesis & Divine22.

Corrected the errors

[app_engine]

#146 அலை மீது தடுமாறுதே சிறு ஓடம்
(அன்புள்ள மலரே, 1984 , வாணி ஜெயராமுடன்)

Another song which I've heard frequently on radio and knew not much about its background. In some ways (orchestration, feel) sounds like 'veLLaippuRa onRu Enguthu kaiyil varAmalE', even making one feel that the director possibly pointed out that number to rAsA and asked something similar.

I've just noticed that thiraippAdal says the director is B R Ravishankar. I was wondering for a minute 'where did I hear this name before'. Then it dawned upon me that eera vizhikkAviyangaL too has his name as the director

While EVK is today hailed as one of the best works of IR ever, it was not that big a hit those days and the popularity was pretty much limited to radio and IR-fanatics. That the EVK movie managed to get released was a chamathkAr in itself but the same director getting another chance is a bigger chamathkAr
(dig - I'm curious to see naNban by Shankar whether the chamathkAr thingy is retained and what is the word in Thamizh. Also, I'm curious to see the climax of naNban - whether the same "delivery" scene will be retained...if so, won't it look like a repeattu from enthiran and thus less shiny?)

Interesting to hear VJ here with SPB. Though she wasn't singing that many numbers for IR, she did get some good ones. In the same year, she got that fantastic 'inRaikku Enindha AnandhamE' in Vaidheki kAthirundhAL, a movie with no SPB song.

[Divine22]

nanRi, genesis & Divine22.

Corrected the errors

No worries

[Sureshs65]

App,

Came to know of the 'alai meedhu' song only a couple of years back. Raja either made it first in Telugu or remade it (my guess is he made it there.)

It is a very happy song in Telugu and also it has a curious mix of Telugu and Hindi. Janaki giving company to SPB. I like this version very much.

[app_engine]

That's quite interesting info, Sureshji!

(Going by Plum's theory, it could also explain the VJ presence in this song - i.e. " borrow the other-lang's track, translate the lyric, record with available singer, don't even bother the busy IR " )

[Sureshs65]

My feeling is that Plum may be right