The Golden Era of Dr.IR and Dr.SPB

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#246 ஓ வானம்பாடி
(சாதனை, 1986 , ஜானகியுடன்)

Whether this movie directed by A S Prakasam (who earlier did 'echchil iravukaL' that had 'poo mEla veesum poongAththe en mEl veesa mAttAya' sweetie in the voices of KJY/VJ) did sAthanai in BO or not is not clear. They used to advertise on radio specifically about IR's music as 'rAsA vada indhiya isaiyil inimai seyyum thiraippadam' followed by 'aththi marappoovidhu' sound clip. Sivaji-Prabhu starrer where NT did the role of a film director and it should have had some decent run (unless the director did an extremely poor job). We need to request Murali sir for more details on that count.

I have heard both this sweet SPB-SJ duet and the SJ solo (aththi marappoovidhu, my favourite) frequently on radio / buses. The MV song 'ingE nAn kaNdEn' was quite popular as well. (I guess that was for NT - going by MV's voice -and the SPB songs were possibly for Prabhu). There are two more SPB-SJ duets - rAja mOhini and vAzhvE vA and I've hardly heard them before and so cannot post about. The songs are quite sweet, however, regardless of their hit status. Either A S Prakasam had good sense of music or rAsA was at his creative peak that nothing could go wrong or IR did put extra effort for the sake of NT-Prabhu combo. Whatever was the reason, the album has many sweet numbers...

Well, per wikipedia, there could be another reason for extra-interest of rAsA :

Ilaiyaraaja also appears in the film as himself.