The Golden Era of Dr.IR and Dr.SPB

[Nerd]

Poor MV & PS got to sing only in the end pallavi which is an unusual feature of this song. Two top-class singers for just one line in a song, only richie-rich producers can afford!

MV sung (and PS, the last pallavi) the sad version of thenmadurai which comes after the Prof's demise. They probably sung both the versions in the same day. So orE sambalam, two songs perhaps That song has completely different ludes, only the groove was maintained.

Eventhough the series is nearing completion, one good thing is 'young' people like me can start relating to the songs from now on As you rightly said, one of the BIGGEST hits of Raja. Remember seeing the film in theaters and watching the song multiple times in oliyum oliyum during the pre-Sun TV days. And was a regular in Sun/Sun Music/ SCV etc. in the 90s. Hugely popular to this date. One of my favorite films of Rajini. The prof. was such a loveable character. 'T' fit for Rajini.

[Plum]

Actually, the prof character was the better part of the movie. Yet, the relatively poor run of the movie was attributed to the Prof character being wimpy and not acceptable to the mass fans of Rajini. This was about the time my migration started. As recounted many times before, the migration was complete by MMKR.

[V_S]

Very good info App on Kasme Vade. I didn't know about it. Yes, an evergreen song in tfm and a biggest hit for Maestro. SPB's casual 'smile and sing' at 'maane maane' and what an improvisation immediately in the next line 'naane naane' this with that little laugh. Trademark SPB . I love the picturization and Rajini's acting just exactly what was needed for that situation. AlavOda nadichiruppar, being both a brother and a lover. I usually watch this movie only till the first half. One of Rajini's best film!.

[app_engine]

nanRi baroque, for the 'U-K-K' comment & the youtube

nanRi RR sir, Nerd, Plum & V_Sji for the kind words!


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I talked about PM in my post on 'I want to tell you something'...

A youtube person has hosted a number of his hits (all links in the bottom of the youtube page) and I picked this "Toccata" where he himself plays on stage :



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[A_S]

App Engine,

How about the songs from Paadum Paravaigal (Keeravani & Egantha Velai for sure, may be there are more SPB songs)? These songs get played almost on a daily basis in all the music channels and hence deserve to be covered here. Remember this movie getting released (rather dubbed in Tamil) in 1985.

[app_engine]

Welcome to the hub, A_S!

thiraippAdal website lists pAdum paRavaikaL as a 1988-er, so we'll cover that movie now

[A_S]

Thanks App. Recently heard the song (starting with the movie title) from Theertha Karaiyenele (1987 Mohan, Rupini Starrer) when Jaya TV was showing it on a weekend. Typical IR melody (great orchestration, unforgettable interludes) rendered very well by SPB (humming has some classical touches as well). It will be good if you (as well as V_S) can cover this.

[rajkumarc]

Kind of sad to see the IR-SPB numbers dwindling down towards the late 80s. App - Hope you continue posting about IR-SPB numbers in 90s as well. Thanks.

[V_S]

rajkumarc,
I think the only year in 80's where SPB numbers are less is 1987 because the number of films Maestro did in 1987 is less compared to other years. It is around 40 in 1987. See we have to say 40 films is less
From 1988 till 1993 the number of films is again more than 50, peaking in 1992 and 1993. In 1992, a whopping 65 films (according to rakkamma) and 1993, 52 films. Again during these years, we didn't see many new singers coming up. So ideally we should see the drop in SPB numbers only from 1994. App, please correct me if I am wrong.

A_S, welcome to the hub!

[PARAMASHIVAN]

ideally we should see the drop in SPB numbers only from 1994. App, please correct me if I am wrong.

V_S sir,

Yes I do think this was the year RK's blockbuster "veera" was released. This was one of the biggest hits from IR+SPB! and AFAIK the last SPB+IR song was in the film "Friends".