The Golden Era of Dr.IR and Dr.SPB

[al_gates]

Folks
When was the film released? Kushboo looked really beautiful in this film

param, that was in 1990 as this link shows:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=kizhakku+vaasal+release

[genesis]

could have been, but I got "involved" with those only in 1990

Thanks for Doordarshan National Service and Wednesday/Friday Chitrahaar, Sunday morning Rangoli I was exposed to new and old Hindi songs. I think my first recorded hindi album was "Tezaab". Then QSQT, MPK, Saajan, Ashiqui, Dil Hai Ke Manta Nahin.... I almost forgot TFM for few years. The only TFM songs that recorded during this period were primarily MR movies. (As you can see, I did not miss SPB much, with MPK, Saajan, Patthar Ke Phool etc)

[baroque]

yeah...dhoordharshan, chithrahar, radio programs etc..

Even during glorious 80s IR time and before, Kabhie kabhie, Sholay , Aandhi, Aaradhana , Abhiman etc.. are popular.

Once I went to college, out of state students only added more old hindi works to my attention after I told them about my favorites of Lata, Rafi etc.. songs.

then, moving around Seattle, Bangalore, Chennai, California over three decades only added IFM addiction.

So what, SPB's works in hindi offering are there..

We always want SPB's vocals in IR songs.

When Bala-IR numbers reduce, we are unhappy, that too SPB flying high in his formidable years.

Unacceptable.

No time, I moved away from Tamil cinema music. Whenever I call home - tanjore / trichy/B'lore/Chennai, I always asked my amma,

"என்ன வந்து இருக்கு?
எங்கம்மாவா... இளையராஜா தானம்மா போட்டுண்டு இருக்காரு... எப்பவுமே இளையராஜா இசை தான் நம்ப ஊருலே.., even by 1996 , ரஹ்மான் வந்த பிறகு கூட ,அப்படித்தான் சொல்லுவாங்க"

listening to MSViswanadhan-TMS is not my favorite, adhu onnu dhaan
I think this TMS factor is discouraging for me.

When I regularly took time to visit MSVTIMES at least for 10 mins or a single post or read konjam kojam SL's articles or Ram's articles, I was enthu sincerely, for Padma award petition, I signed.

I surprised myself with Yesudas, Bala, Susheela hits without knowing the film details when I was going to MSVTIMES.


End of the day, Lata hits with various hindi composers, Rafi- Lata combo, Geeta Dutt, asha collections, Composers like Khaiyyam, Madhan mohan etc... along with Ilayaraja invite me, I crave for the music time, hang around with them with different themes, moods.

I think MSV-TMS not giving me that soothing, sublime mood.. not listen to MSV-TMS songs at all


P.B.Sreenivos collections 3 cds only I have, I cherish them. Often listen.

I listen konjum puravey.... MLV hits also often.

all in all, from C.Ramachandra to Vishal Barathwaj, Konjum puraavey- MLV hits to up coming Gibran's vsv songs, I am doing good. Content.

vinatha

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I couldn't post on Sat / Sun / Mon...will try tonight to post at least one (doubtful, holiday means busier schedule)...if not, 4 songs will be due tomorrow

[PARAMASHIVAN]

param, that was in 1990 as this link shows:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=kizhakku+vaasal+release

Thanks al_gates

Another gem from the movie was "Paadi parantha kili"

[tvsankar]

app,
padikaren. All are Sweet home works...........

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#259 ஓல ஓலைக்குடிசையிலே கொஞ்சிக்கொஞ்சி விளையாடுங்க
(ஆனந்த, 1987 )

Nice sweet themmAngu from this Prabhu movie that had a lot of air-time on buses per my memory. One quickly gets reminded of Prabhu and that's a big success for SPB, nicely sung!

One of my close colleagues (and a year senior) at the workplace was from Kovai and he frequently used the word 'paradEsi' at anyone / anything that got him upset The second interlude of this song -where some conversation etc happens -, this term comes ("paradEsippasangaLA") and instantly reminds me of this nice man who was also my roomie for sometime later on. Far removed from film music (he was the one who exclaimed 'Oh you identified that sound instantly - that it is from violins - neenga periya ALunga') but heavy watcher / commenter of movies & was many a time company for the second show. Size-wise too he reminds one of Prabhu

Unfortunately, I never recorded any of the SPB songs from this movie on my cassettes those days; but somehow that 'ArArO, ArArO, nee vERO, nAn vERO' got into one of them. Not because it was a fav but simbly for snob value. This was the year when both northie sisters came to sing for rAsA. I loved sheNbagamE very much though. LM had to wait till the Sathya song to get my repeat listens. From the snob POV, however, both these songs helped me a lot with peers those days ('enga composer kooppittA - with viral sodukkal - chummA vadakka irukka top-top pAdakikaL ellAm Odi varuvAnga theriyumA, avvaLavu mariyAdhai' ).

Like many movies of that year, don't know how the movie fared, what was the story etc. From the net, I could see that it had both Radha & Sasikala.

[jaiganes]

#259 ஓல ஓலைக்குடிசையிலே கொஞ்சிக்கொஞ்சி விளையாடுங்க
(ஆனந்த, 1987 )

Nice sweet themmAngu from this Prabhu movie that had a lot of air-time on buses per my memory. One quickly gets reminded of Prabhu and that's a big success for SPB, nicely sung!

One of my close colleagues (and a year senior) at the workplace was from Kovai and he frequently used the word 'paradEsi' at anyone / anything that got him upset The second interlude of this song -where some conversation etc happens -, this term comes ("paradEsippasangaLA") and instantly reminds me of this nice man who was also my roomie for sometime later on. Far removed from film music (he was the one who exclaimed 'Oh you identified that sound instantly - that it is from violins - neenga periya ALunga') but heavy watcher / commenter of movies & was many a time company for the second show. Size-wise too he reminds one of Prabhu

Unfortunately, I never recorded any of the SPB songs from this movie on my cassettes those days; but somehow that 'ArArO, ArArO, nee vERO, nAn vERO' got into one of them. Not because it was a fav but simbly for snob value. This was the year when both northie sisters came to sing for rAsA. I loved sheNbagamE very much though. LM had to wait till the Sathya song to get my repeat listens. From the snob POV, however, both these songs helped me a lot with peers those days ('enga composer kooppittA - with viral sodukkal - chummA vadakka irukka top-top pAdakikaL ellAm Odi varuvAnga theriyumA, avvaLavu mariyAdhai' ).

Like many movies of that year, don't know how the movie fared, what was the story etc. From the net, I could see that it had both Radha & Sasikala.

Oh that terrible farce this movie was...
The only thing that must have gotten Raaja to do this movie would have been the fact that this was another adaptation of Devadas . It was also done in Telugu by Annapoorna studios with Nagarjun (but i am not sure about the Music Dir of that movie). Here devadas and paru were not childhood sweethearts .
The movie had sivachandran playing the role of villain - he does a Lago(from othello or for ppl who saw VB's Omkaara - LAngda tyaagi) here and breaks the love of devdas and paro by planting suspicion thereby keeping both characters as saintly as possible. The movie runs a tumultous course (for the audience) with Prabhu contributing early proto sketches to Nic Cage's Leaving Las Vegas and in the course he sings this song for a "kuppaththu" kaadhal couple (incidentally he is a pop singer catering to the elite Michael jaaksun casette holders!!)
The biggest casting gaffe of the universe was having the ever "not to be taken seriously" cho ramasaamy as Sad father of devadas paired with "ever ready to cry" soccer janaki (sorry typos sowcar) .
The movie ends with estranged lovers lying on the road dead like "road kill" - looks like the director got us viewers like that in our neghbourhood roads - had only he known that another 5 minutes sequence of amara lovers united in heaven - thankfully producer and distributors prevailed with the movie ending .
I could have spared all this and said - "Anand The Massacre of the innocent". But wouldnt have been half as funny or wouldnt have provided me of much needed catharsis.

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jai,


romba bAthikkaptturukkeenga

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#260 தொடாத தாளம் போட வேண்டும்
(ஆனந்த, 1987 , ஜானகியுடன் )

Another "heard-only-in-buses-in-and-around-CBE" song With excellent wind instruments + drums + guitar work, this song is quite catchy and enjoyable! The top singer pair sings without much ado and the song was in the "then-latest" rAsA format (following some of the style / patterns that he developed during the prior year for the MR / PM kind of movies where the rain songs had similar arrangements). We can match each set of "sounds of rAsA" to its own time period and that's how we get nostalgic feelings also. These sounds are purely late-80's, peppy, "almost programmed" kind of drum work, majestic trumpetting etc.

Now question to music-genre experts - under what genre can this song be classified? The melody almost sounds like 60's (MSV-TKR-ish when they had some jazzy songs, theirs were a little slow IMO where jazz drums was deployed...whenever they wanted to speed up the tempo, bangos were invariably used - paruvam enadhu pAdal, pattaththu rANi are quick examples that come to mind) and it's easy to picture MGR-Sivaji in this song with 60's setting. OTOH, the drum-work can be taken as disco. Then there's some harmony using chorus, naduvula oru strong guitar sound. Nice challenge to identify the genre

Now that jaiganes revealed the fact about the hero of the movie - pop singer - the lines of the pallavi is a little bit more interesting pudhu anubhavam for the fellow whose earlier toys were drums and rAgams and not flesh and blood stuff. Since the movie has already been trashed, one cannot expect the director to have some dialog around such things, get into some poetic setup etc. Still, it would be interesting to read about the 'sichchuvEshan' as how this duet gets placed in the movie...One website says director was billA Krishnamoorthy (who did a few with producer Balaji)...so was this movie a Balaji / Sujatha films production?