The Golden Era of Dr.IR and Dr.SPB

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#153 நிலவொன்று கண்டேன் என் ஜன்னலில்
(கைராசிக்காரன், 1984 , ஜானகியுடன்)

If one wants to listen to Janaki at her sweetest, this song can easily be recommended. In the same way, if someone has to be showcased with the enchanting way rAsA uses strings, here is a demo number! And, if someone wants to listen to SPB's romance urgently, no need to look any further.

enna oru inimai, kuzhaichchal, konjal in a dignified way!

One of our fellow hubbers mentioned in a PM that the poster for this movie was seen in Trichy around the same time as rAgangaL mARuvathillai and opined it could be from 1983. However, going by the web-gurus (rAkkammA-thiraippAdal-tfmpage), I'm placing this Prabhu-Radha movie songs under 1984.

I really don't remember the exact time of the arrival of this album What I clearly remember is the huge popularity of this song even after a few years when I was in Palakkad, frequently visiting Coimbatore (towns only 30 miles apart). The private city buses in Coimbatore - many of them had superb sound systems in the late 80's - frequently played this number. Extremely, thoroughly enjoyable song which hasn't aged even now! So, it's not a true justice to categorize such a beauty as "80's song" / "old song" etc!

Another obvious reason for the difficulty in placing a timeline is IR's prolificity in 1981-85! kaNakku vazhakkillAma hits. Parade of recorded cassettes. Flood of movies all around the year - all kinds - star directors / startups / star actors / new faces / low-med-high budgets. Unless one had the habit of writing diaries i.e. recording every event -even trivial ones- in life, it's very difficult to remember release dates. (The ambi chEchi fan had this diary habit and could tell how many times he did "certain things" in life ).

Or, one should have some special personal event that smells out when listening to this song and connect to the arrival time. To me, the only thing that smells out is Coimbatore city bus travels and may be other bus travels from Cbe to Pollachi which again skips a few years. So, start-time for this song is unknown

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App,
I am still in Kai Kodukkum Kai. Beautiful post! Again one of the films which I cannot forget, even it was a flop. I watched this film twice with our same neighbors (which I expressed in thanga magan post). We could not believe we were in tears. I like Rajini's acting this way more and these are one of the very few films where the director has used this marvelous actor and conveyed his true substance. And what a soothing song!
neerum ponaal megham yethu, neeyum ponaal naanum yethu
ennuyire yeh...yeh...ennuyire neeyirukka unniyirum pogumaa
Aha! what beautiful lines and how it was tuned, truly melting!

Wonderful post Jai! I really loved this portion. Very true!
"an old worn out cloth that grand mother used to put as cushion to many a cradles in the family can create a feeling that no advanced foam mattress or blankets can give you. When one hears songs like these, that is what dawns on you - the guys simply doesnt create music using instruments, he creates music from a soul train that has been running from ages, passing from grand mothers to mothersto grand children - there is no question of rating this guy's music - coz this is not music that we are experiencing - it is this soul train of our warmth -or to put in thamizh parlances..our "eeram". No wonder his music creates invariably the "inexplicable" feeling in so many of us.."

[groucho070]

Ku Klux Klan, I really liked the movie even back then when I was in the other camp. A more subtle Rajini, though his performance is nowhere as good as the two other ventures with Mahendran. This song was overplayed back then, as did the female duets. These days I find myself looping MV's Atha pettale Ambalaya ennathAn in my head (the percussion could have been ear-shattering during recording, damn they were prominent). In fact, I like it even more than PothuvAga or any other muzhakkam songs. App, great job as usual. Jai, enggeyO poyitEngga....

[skr]

Nilavondru - What a beautiful song ..
That prelude already gives you a feeling of what to expect from the song ..a melody soaked in honey..
App as usual you r awesome ..

[Avadi to America]

Ku Klux Klan, I really liked the movie even back then when I was in the other camp. A more subtle Rajini, though his performance is nowhere as good as the two other ventures with Mahendran. This song was overplayed back then, as did the female duets. These days I find myself looping MV's Atha pettale Ambalaya ennathAn in my head (the percussion could have been ear-shattering during recording, damn they were prominent). In fact, I like it even more than PothuvAga or any other muzhakkam songs. App, great job as usual. Jai, enggeyO poyitEngga....

What a comparison!!!! Only you can!!!!

[Murali Srinivas]

Dear App.

This should answer your doubt regarding Kairasikaaran release date.

http://www.mayyam.com/talk/showthrea...rated./page22&

Regards

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Thank you Murali sir!

It was nonsensical on my part to search around for info on a Prabhu movie when we have the kalaikkaLanjiyam in you Great statistics on that thread, as usual!

BTW, Plum, had some nice moments in the Prabhu thread on your comments about sindhu-bhairavi

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#154 கை வீசும் தாமரை
(கைராசிக்காரன், 1984 , ஜானகியுடன்)

Another sweet SPB-SJ duet from the same Prabhu-Radha movie. With the rhythm pattern somewhat similar to thAmtha dheemtha / dEvan kOvil deepam onRu. Made with kilO kaNakkil sugar & honey. There's a Thamizh poem that goes like 'எத்தனை கோடி இன்பம் வைத்தாய்' and this duet reminds one of that line.

How many SPB-SJ-IR songs that are straight from "crusher"! (In my dad's village, "crusher" guys install their equipment once a year in the midst of sugarcane fields, typically during the weeks around the pongal season, run the "crusher" of sugarcanes that finally results in the production of jaggery right there in the field, under a thatched shed. Oh, just the memory of that setup and the jaggery makes the mouth water! Another by-product, 'thEmbAgu', a colloidal sugarcane syrup, was the delicacy that got used as a ready-made companion for idli-dOsai when we kids were in no mood to eat with chutney-sAmbAr)...

As I've mentioned long time ago on the tfmpage, at rAsA's prime period, TN was like a village with such sweet 'Alai' in full swing. Post-IR, we have only 'iluppaippoos'!

As far as "smell" of this song goes, didn't even realize those days the movie of the song. Thoroughly enjoyed it almost 100% via involuntary showers from radio and other sources thru out the years. Don't even remember playing this number from a recorded cassette -neither mine nor one that belonged to any of my associates. Perhaps today is the first time when I "played" this song myself, from thiraippAdal

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App,
Loved reading your write-ups on kairaasikkaran songs. "Made with kilO kaNakkil sugar & honey". Absolutely! viola! whopping 59 films in '84. I also started to see a pattern from '84 onwards, especially on the orchestration compared to previous years. Lovely melodies, kaiveesum thaamarai, devan koyil deepam ondru, kanavodu yEngum all follow a unique trend with tabla based rhythm. I think this style continued till 87-88. But how many melodies he churned out all these years keeping the trend in check and still continues till sneha veedu. What a memorable journey it has been! Unbelievable!

[PARAMASHIVAN]

Perhaps some "Old school boys Association" can help me with these songs

Can some one please tell me the name of the movies these songs featured in , thanks

1) Margazhi paniyil
2) Nee oru raaga maligai (here SPB sounds so much like BMK)
3) thendraluku endrum vayathu 16
4) O maina O maina