Malayalam Film Music

[V_S]

Thanks App. Yes, I have to watch the movie again to understand better. Another big minus is I am not able follow and understand fully the malayalam dialogues, may be that's where I missed it. Definitely Lal's performance is superb. Megham pooothu thudangi is a beautiful one!.

[RR]

app sir (this is the semantically correct way considering our age groups )
tks for the links. you have raised expections on thuvaani. have to catch it sometime.

raagadevan,
With such a name, you should not call yourself novice your raga insights are of course correct!
Tks also for the nagumomu videos. I guess 'engirundho vandhaan' song is the tamil counterpart. Interesting MSV-TKR chose their own composition for the key song.

[Plum]

Incidentally, caught the middle third of the movie in DD Malayalam today afternoon (Chitram). Only Lal's performance still holds up. For those few years, what an actor this feller was!

[app_engine]

you have raised expections on thuvaani.

Sorry for my typo in one of my posts (corrected now).

It is 'thoovAnaththumbikaL' (thoovAnam = sky spraying rain, thumbikaL = dragonflies / beetles)... even the movie title has "rain" in it and quite poetic (there was a Hindu article as to how rain serves as a character in this Padmarajan classic)...

[app_engine]

Another big minus is I am not able follow and understand fully the malayalam dialogues, may be that's where I missed it.

It's a problem for me too sometimes, when they have multiple meanings

BTW, in 'thadi contractor', thadi means timber (hope you already knew) and not fat

Yes, Lal is not the regular lean hero but here it refers to maram only

[app_engine]

Only Lal's performance still holds up. For those few years, what an actor this feller was!

The scene where he boozes with PoorNam - I think no actor can match Lal in intoxicated mode

[Plum]

Incidentally, app, one of the scenes has a police constable reprimanding Lal(on a bike following and teasing Lizzy) for "vAi nOkking" Lizzy. I was instantly reminded of your "vAy nOkkAn pOyOdO"

[app_engine]

Plum,

on a bike following and teasing

That's from the early lot of the first 100cc bikes in India (IND-SUZUKI had only two colors in the initial release, the red-yellow & blue-light blue)...my wife's eldest bro had a blue one from the initial lot (his dad aka my f-i-l got it for him when he was still in college) & it was so dear to him for decades, even after he had a variety of 4 wheelers!

He rarely allowed others to ride that bike it seems and me, as one of the mAppiLLais, was among the few privileged ones allowed to take it
(udanE "andha vaNdila Trichy'la vAy nOkkiyO"nnu kEkkapdAdhu, this is post-1991 stuff )

[app_engine]

Though not in the same range as 'manjaL prasAdhavum', the other songs in nakhakshadhangaL are enjoyable too...

kEvalam marthya bAsha (PJ the singer):



Areyum bhAva gAyakanAkkum (KJY):


neerAduvAn (KJY):


All are Bombay Ravi + Hariharan + MTV delights

[raagadevan]

Another song composed by Dakshinamoorthy Swami; for the movie "vilaikku vaangiya veeNa" (1971)

Song: "kaattilE paazhmuLam thaNdil ninnum..."

Lyrics: P. Bhaskaran

Singer: K.J. Yesudas

Raaga: Kamboji, Shanmukhapriya, Manolayam

Featuring: Prem Nazeer, Sharada, Jose Prakash