The Golden Era of Dr.IR and Dr.SPB

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V_Sji, avaru ippavum "current" thAnE

Of course Yes. But here I have another take. I don't want to club him with them.

[Murali Srinivas]

App,

Very nice write ups. Especially enjoyed Mysore KRS Brindavan. Rekindled some memories and it goes without saying all those were sweet memories. And coming to the year you are covering, you did a sudden jump and that too in reverse order. From Sep '84 Dhavani Kanavugal to April '84 Vaazhkai and Thambikku Endha Ooru. The last two were fabulous.

Vaazhkai was remade from Avatar that had Rajesh Khanna in the lead. There was a big tussle between Balajee and Chitra Lakshmanan for buying the Tamil rights of this movie and of course both had NT in mind. For once Balajee lost out and he had to contend with getting the Malayalam rights. He made the Malayalam film with Madhu in the lead with the movie titled Jeevitham. Balajee in fact made the film in quick time and released it on his customary date of Jan 26th of 1984, pre-empting the release of Tamil version which hit the screens on April 14th. He in fact managed to screen the movie in Chennai, Coimbatore etc with the English tag line of Life but it couldn't make inroads.

Since Chitra Lakshmanan the PRO of the irandam Travancore sisters produced the movie, Ambika fulfilled her desire of becoming the heroine of NT. Yes, this song was picturised on NT. Well though CVR couldn't recreate the magic of the old, in the humming before the final charanam, the one bit where NT with a big coolers would swerve to his right and do a majestic fast walk with the perfect lip sync made the day for us. The Opening show on April 14th at Madurai Madhu theatre reverberated during this song. This was a 100 day movie in Tamil also.

While talking about Thambikku Endha Ooru and Kaadhalin Deepam Ondru song, the two things that would always come to my mind are the Rajini's slow and composed walk with the hands tucked in his pant pockets and the shirt that he wore. If you cared to check it was a combination of two cloths stitched like a T-shirt. During those days this type of shirts getting stitched like a Tee were used to be called Half -Open shirts. Here what Rajini wore had the two sleeves, collar and the back side of the shirt in blue and the front portion covering the torso would be in white.We had a tailor friend to whom we would demand all sorts of "designer shirts" and he used to do it without any issues. Two of my friends, hard core Rajini Fans bought two separate shirt material in Navy blue colour and white and got it stitched like what Rajini had done in the movie. They had worn this on numerous occasions and it used to create a buzz around them!

Your post had taken me to that release day of April 20th of 1984 when I watched it in Natana theatre in Madurai. Nostalgic!
Thanks for that.

Regards

Good you choose to write about Madhavi and Oru Vadakkan Veera Gadha. And that brings to my mind Chandana Lekha sugandham, a beautiful Bombay Ravi melody.

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Thank you Murali sir for your kind words!

I'm thrilled that these layman posts could evoke some nostalgia in you, the acknowledged encyclopaedia of the hub!

And, as usual, you do have and provided more background info on these films Thank you so much!

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200 pages!

to rAsA and SPB for making this possible

adhu sari, where is the thread-starter Param?

ALaiyE kANOm

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Murali Sir,
Thank you for posting very useful information about Vaazhkai. My favorite film those days. Very interesting to read your post on Rajini's T-shirt trend. Yes, totally with you. Those days may be because of few heroes, people used to follow their costumes, hair style. I don't know still people follow this trend from today's heroes. Even I remember wearing the bell-bottom pants and tight shirt like Kamal. Also remember wearing a shirt stitched with two different colors (horizontally), but with round neck and full hand without hand buttons. Not sure who's style was that. It's all a matter of pride then.

Yes, App is bringing back all golden memories through his posts.

About Madhavi, we always used to comment, that whenever she acts with Rajini, it will become hit, but whenever she acts with Kamal it will become a flop (except Kakki sattai, but she was not the main heroine). Friends used to figure it out even before the release.

But one thing I am amazed totally about how do you even remember the day you saw the picture!

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200 pages!

to rAsA and SPB for making this possible

All credit to you and your non-tiring effort sir! Speechless! Big Salute

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All credit to you and your non-tiring effort

imaginary pulambal by my Chennai team mates :

அடப்பாவி, நாங்க மாங்கு மாங்குன்னு வேல செஞ்சா நீ சும்மா கான்ஃபரன்ஸ் காலாப்போட்டுட்டு ...100,200 என்ன 500 பக்கம் கூட கத விடுவ

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Like Nerd once mentioned, Rajini is quite smart in 'kAdhalin deepam onRu' :

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The compilation is going to hit another milestone tomorrow - which used to be a big thing for movie runs during yesteryears...

i.e. 175 days or 25 weeks (veLLi vizhA). 175th song will be on Oct 13th

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Congrats, App_eng!

KADHALIN DEEPAM ONDRU.....
Rajini...Sexy allure going on, that age-LOWER 30S! AWESOME

ORU JEEVAN DHAAN... SIVARANJANI composition from Naan adimai illai too, white kurta ley gorgeous eruppaa

aagaya gangai..... too, so gentle
vinatha.