The Golden Era of Dr.IR and Dr.SPB

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Excellent songs in Paadum Paravaigal and Unnaal mudiyum Thambi. However, I too could not associate UMT as a remake at the time of release.
First reason, it was by KB and I don't think he has done 'remakes', from his own films, has he?. Also, I think he never did remakes from other directors films too, right?
Another reason is, we knew it was based on a real story of Dr MSU who is a tamilian. So we were damn sure, it was an original thamizh film. Only when Rudraveena got the NA award, we believed it was true. I have not watched Rudraveena, so not sure how the story fitted to their mileu and also were wondering whose real story KB took to do this film in telugu?

Just like Yesudas was way better in 'Thoongaatha Vizhigal Rendu' compared to SPB in Gharshana, here SPB sounded better compared to Yesudas in 'Idhazil Kathai Ezhudhum' (IMHO).