The Golden Era of Dr.IR and Dr.SPB

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nanRi, baroque & al_gates!

We have one more song from KP (for today) and this was the one with some decent picturization.

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#255 புறாக்களே புறாக்களே
(காதல் பரிசு, 1987 , சித்ராவுடன்)

After three duets with SJ, this one with KSC. I'm giving this song "benefit of doubt" w.r.t the hit status at the time of arrival. Though I simply don't remember hearing this song at all along with my countless listens of other KP songs under various settings (not even there with my chithi's recordings), going by the web presence of this number / youtube etc, I assume this had decent response at the time of arrival. Since I wasn't in TN, cannot say for sure and that's why the benefit of doubt.

However, when I watched this movie, this song instantly attracted me (both musically and for an OK picturization - like an oasis in that desert of a movie). However, I don't remember much about the scene now - Kamal, Radha, possibly some foreign country (or some northie city) and a gumbal of kabooththars + some lush green. Will try to look at the youtube this evening for memory refresh & will also post the link if its worthy in the overall scheme of things (and not just within the KP context). Listening to this song is a really pleasant experience in any case, especially the saraNams and interludes (weak pallavi IMO, possibly simple pallavees were insisted upon by the director for the sake of masses... but the same director got those awesome thanga magan songs & sOlaippoovil mAlaiththendRal only a few years back).

Going by this tfmpage thread it's possible that this song was not in one version of LP record and hence missed out by many recording centers. Which could explain why I didn't get to hear every time someone buscasted the KP songs. In any case, a great relief to listen to songs like this in these days of kolaveRi!

BTW, this is the post in that old thread :

hi.. mano & ramki,

There is one song in Kadal Parisu MD IR,
song : Purakkale Purakkale..... by SPB
This song I watched only in the film, can not find in audio,
Can You please upload this

[jaiganes]

To add to vinatha's list an interestingly energetic "pookaLaththaan parikkaadheenga"..
but let's stop it here and let the Raja - SP discussions continue..
If possible let us move it into a relevant thread for the thannambikkai thamizhan VTR.

Mod EDIT: Posts on TR moved here
-RR

[V_S]

#255 புறாக்களே புறாக்களே
(காதல் பரிசு, 1987 , சித்ராவுடன்)

However, I don't remember much about the scene now - Kamal, Radha, possibly some foreign country (or some northie city) and a gumbal of kabooththars + some lush green.

App,
You have got some excellent memory. ---http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erhS9MoHk_8---. Somehow the song looks pale now. At-least through these songs, we can be very happy how far Maestro has come and delivered in millenniums and in 2010s, beating the 80's.

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App,
You have got some excellent memory

veettula daily kEkkuRa vachanam : "vara vara ungaLukku romba gnAbaka maRadhi Ayittirukku"

nanRi for boosting my morale

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#256 ஹே ராஜா, ஒன்றானோம் இன்று
(ஜல்லிக்கட்டு, 1987 , மனோவுடன்)

Murali sir's first post in the NT thread of TF section (Part 1) gives this interesting tidbit - that MGR attended the 100th day function of this Sivaji movie in the same month of his death (Dec 1987). I'm not sure about my memory but somewhere in the hub I read that MGR kissed NT's cheek on this occasion and MN Nambiar immediately demanded (jocularly) that he should get one too The successful Manivannan movie had Sivaji acting with Sathyaraj (& possibly SPB sings for Sivaji in this song while Mano gives voice for Satyaraj). Radha danced for the second version of 'dAs dAs chinnappa dAs dAs' (same tune as the small BGM song of kadalOrakkavidhakal, starts as 'kaththichchaNdai pOdamalE' sung by KSC) and there is a MV song for NT 'Eriyil oru Odam'.

I did watch this movie when released, in Palakkad. I'm not quite sure whether the following phenomenon happened on that particular night but it definitely happened on a number of occasions: That of having to buy a ready-made shirt after deciding to watch a movie by peer-pressure (i.e. as an alternative to go to the room & wash a shirt for wearing to work the next day ). There was this 'Milan Dresses' in the Sultanpet junction of Palakkad - a brightly lit store on the opposite side of "Elite restaurant" (that we talked about in the discussion of meeNdum OT songs) where I did this "shirt-buying-to-watch-movie" thing on a few occasions.

I remember liking portions of the movie (I think NT retires as a judge but takes up the assignment of confining Sathyaraj to an island) but didn't like it enough to revisit / remember scenes / dialogues etc and have favourite parts to recall. The music album can also be called as one of the "average" albums of TFM (and by rAsA standards definitely below-average album, with Mano doing that kAdhal kiLiyE kAdhal kiLiyE song). Typically, after watching an IR movie, one song or two gets muNumuNuththufied for at least a week - even if I had not heard them before. In the case of jallikkattu, it was 'kaththichchaNdai pOdAmalE' and that tells the overall quality of the songs.

[baroque]

yeah... no songs for tea shops or buses to blast from this album.

I think KAADHAL KILIYE.... Mano with Janu was heard during that time.

I am listening from my oriental cd.

JALLIKKATTU is along with PAATTUKKU ORU THALAIVAN.

In Paattukku oru thalaivan too, Mano's ninaiththadhu yaaro..... with Jikki is popular than the other duet by Bala.


Vinatha.

[groucho070]

More than anything, app, I thank you for the link to Murali-sir's first post. Did you read the Deiva Magan scene Murali-sir wrote? Wow, like revisiting that scene, I can go on rereading Murali-sir's writing.

Anyway, I wonder if Mano and SPB had sang together again after this under IR's music. I think this is the only time.

[V_S]

Well said grouch! Thanks a lot App. Just now read Murali sir write-up on Deiva Magan. He literally brought NT(s) in front of us by his thorough writing skills. We can feel, how much he must have enjoyed that film, moment by moment. Sadly, I only have childhood memories of that film watching it on Doordharshan. Murali sir's write-up tempts me to watch now. Thank you sir. Will be watching very soon.

BTW, grouch, you avatar is truly divine. I like his chubby smiling face with that hair-style very much.

[groucho070]

V_S, ellAm pugazhum NT-thirkkE.

Just to not run away from the thread's nOkkam. Jallikattu is actually a very enjoyable film, with SR coming in with his previous avatars (chinnappadas, half-boil Arumugam). NT almost like what if Barrister Rajinikanth lived on to become a judge and have mellowed down. If I am not mistaken VV Sundaram was involved in the script. Can't find any evidence to that.