The Golden Era of Dr.IR and Dr.SPB

[Plum]

Yeah, I guessed it right. There IS a Nagesh connection, isn't there? App - Dharmam Vellum: "Devi Devi" was mildly popular in Radio stations. I guess the lack of bus airtime shows the steady decline of IR songs' popularity. Where every obscure movie/song became popular, I guess this period started the oblivion of unknown movie songs. Annanukku Jey had Arjun-Seetha and the song "solai ilangiliye", a loveduet-shaped rework of "kudhiriaiyle naan", a sad song from the 70s. Can't remember which movie. Chinnappa Das is the one with vaanam thodaatha recently highlighted by Querida in the other thread?

[Plum]

Ofcourse, these weren't SpB songs so won't feature here. I used to think Devi Devi was by Mano. Is it really SpB? Appo spiritually also it doesn't belong here, if it sounded like Mano to me.

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There is this metallic clang after "Devi Devi",(devi devi -tuttosh - nee en devi. - tutoosh) an interesting sound that made its appearance in IR songs during this period. I think he meant it as some sort of stylish city-lovers, or club song appendage. Also heard in thathom thalangu and "poongatre idhu podhum" in padicha pulla. What would you call that filler sound?

[A_S]

App:

"Devi Devi" from DV was reasonably popular song and yes it was by SPB (not Mano) based on the AIR station announcements made when this song used to get played.
So the missed song count is slowly inching towards double digits I remember CD also had 1-2 SPB songs that had some air time. Let me double check.
Have been hearing Uzhaippali songs for the past few songs and finding it challenging to figure out the songs sung by Mano in this album.
Guess Mano's purple patch was in early 90s when he was sounding almost similar to SPB. IMHO in late 80s songs (for e.g. like GS in 1988), it's quite easy to make this out.

DV was a 1989 Deepavali release (when biggies like RK, KH had releases) and hence expectedly got overshadowed by them.
VK acted in double role (father & son) in this movie if I remember it right. Murali sir will have more details.

[A_S]

@ Genesis: Vivek's debut movie was MUV (You are right about KB introducing him).

[al_gates]

Plum: Raghuman brings back traumatic memories of Nadhiya - anbulla appa in particular so please go easy on Raghuman references
>>>> Aaah Rahman....what an innocent face! I first noticed this guy in IV Sasi's Malayalam movie Kaanamarayathu around 1988 and used to wonder about this guy's resemblance to Wasim Akram.

App_Engine: However, the basic nature doesn't change a lot, in my observation. I've seen tons of people who continue to deliberately speak untruth - make up stories etc, even after 3 or 4 large(drinks).

>>> I am actually reminded of a story narrated some years ago by former state cricketer V.Ramnarayan(husband of the Hindu's music reviewer Gowri Ramnarayan). Apparently in the the 60s, a Tamil Nadu cricket team went for a state tournament in Bombay around New Year. The team manager was one Mr.Annadurai and accompanying the team was Chepauk stadium's groundsman Perumal. The party had drowned one too many drinks that New Year night and in that state Perumal roguishly approached the manager and waved a finger saying, "Annaduraiiii, I the manager, you the groundsman now!". The poor man showed up the next day repentant and shamefaced.

App's visit to erumappatti: App, that sounds like an orthodox syrian christian marriage, in their tradition the prayers/rituals are said in Syrian which is why you could not understand head or tail of the ceremony.

App: I don't know for sure, however, whether the movie(Pandinattu Thangam) is really set in the pANdiya nAttuppakuthi.
As far as the fight scenes of the movie go, it was shot near the Hogenakkal falls close to Dharmapuri.

Plum: A severe reprimanding session in the Principal's room followed, with me turning approver, and thus began my exile from the Superstar camp and the eventual drift to the enemy camp. That was the last we heard of the "Talent Session" on Fridays. Mappillai, thus became a turning point in my "cultural appreciation" career, and remains the one of the movies of Rajini that I haven't seen ever.
>>>>> Bwahahaha! Plum, I havent laughed this hard in weeks....thanks for making my day

App:I was privileged to sit and watch the river in it's complete beauty on a fantastic sunny day, after attending the marriage of a co-worker in his home which was in a walkable distance from this! My view was very similar to this picture on wiki...

>>>> App, &*!%@!?$$%^%&^$*&^*^*^%#^%#$%@#!!! Kindly allow me to swear(lovingly) at you for once as I burn with jealousy! Indeed what more can you ask from life Sir??? You were treated to Raja at his scintillating and scorching best during the best and most adventurous part of life : college and bachelor days. Apart from living in a picturesque location and exploring the best of Mother Nature's wonders in God's own country. Rombave kuduthuvechirukeenga Sir!

[PARAMASHIVAN]

Great, let's avail ourselves in another round of Mano bashing

I am warming up my Biceps now , Flau join the fun

[PARAMASHIVAN]

Have been hearing Uzhaippali songs for the past few songs and finding it challenging to figure out the songs sung by Mano in this album.
Guess Mano's purple patch was in early 90s when he was sounding almost similar to SPB. IMHO in late 80s songs (for e.g. like GS in 1988), it's quite easy to make this out.

Honestly, it is very easy to note the Difference between SPB and "Thilagam" . I can easily differentiate

Pls provide me the link to this Devi Devi song, I will confirm who is singing it regardless what it says on the link, CD cover etc etc.

Thanks

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Is it really SpB? Appo spiritually also it doesn't belong here

Param,
Here is the link for the "dEvi dEvi" number - please comment :
http://www.thiraipaadal.com/tpplayer...7'&lang=en

A_S,
Thanks for catching the missed ones. At the current rate, we should be done with the completion of my listing in a month or so...so, the 'missed-by-app' can be done in summer

al_gates,
nanRi for reading thru the posts and highlighting those that touched you

[app_engine]

#311 அழகிய நதி என
(பாட்டுக்கு ஒரு தலைவன், 1989 , சித்ராவுடன்)

azhakiya nadhi ena from pAttukku oru thalaivan, with KSC

First of all, I encourage all to read this interesting, hilarious, detailed post by a fellow IRF, HonestRaj, in the TF section on this film :
HR's post on pAttukku oru thalaivan

The most interesting part :

It's not a typical captain film.. his character is taken from the climax of Amman Koil KizhakkalE & his acting is similar to that <since his is limited talent.. he needs to repeat the same expressions>. He looks super-fit & he was 37 yrs old when he did this film.. the age of present day Vijay / Surya. He acted well as a innocent villager. Always captain does what the director expects. The acting in this film forms the base for present day mimicry artists to imitate VK.. something like nobody tried to imitate the earlier days MGR & always mimic the one after he was shot by MR Radha

A big favourite song for me those days (despite the soththakkadalai 'jumcha jumcha chakka' chorus), IR played around with harmony in this song and SPB-KSC relish singing the sweet melody. The saraNam part sounds almost like some MSV-TKR number of the MGR-Sivaji days - though it has some distinct IR marks Much like current web popularity, the Jikki song 'ninaiththadhu yArO' was more popular during the arrival time too (on public address systems, i.e. as much as I heard). I'm not sure which of the two songs got telecast more on TV channels...

Before I write yet another wedding function tale, let me state the connection to this song. Since this wedding was in the nadoo center of TN (Samayapuram near Trichy), I was treated with this number on the city bus, as soon as I got into it, after the wedding was over In real loud volume, that bus with shiny aluminium body work was playing the sweet number. I thoroughly enjoyed it while riding it from Samayapuram to Main guard gate, before travelling back to Palakkad, while thinking and smiling about the surprises I had during that day.

He's a close buddy with some similarities to me in life - from kukgrAmam, appA vAththiyAr, +2 varai Thamizh medium, same hostels for 4.5 yrs (but different engg branch), same company-la first job and thus a Palakkadan for a few years. He then took off to gulf, came back to get married to his mAmA poNNu plus childhood love. That was this wedding. (He never went back to gulf because the Kuwait crisis started...but prospered inside the country to be on top positions in many companies - now VPs report to him in a big corp - a good example for 'kaRROrukku senRa idamellAm siRappu').

However, the question - what was peculiar about the wedding?

Well, for one, this was the first time I was attending a marriage of 'peN koduththuppeN eduththal', with both brother & sister getting married on the same stage to their complements - a sister & brother. The interesting part is our man having his "love" for the girl for many years - right from the days he hurried from time to time during college hostel days to her village to help her in her studies etc. We were used to making a lot of fun of him on his 'childhood luvvu' and I was hoping to tease him a lot that day.

The morning of the day of wedding, when I reached there, he had an interesting surprise for me. That was this marriage of his elder brother, in the same town, on the same morning, in a different maNdapam So, break-fast in aNNan's marriage. Lunch in thambi-thangachi double marriage. Same day 3 siblings got married While the morning affair was relatively simple, our engineer-foreign-return boy had grander plans for his, including having an elephant garland him

That was a real memorable day for me to tie in this 'azhakiya nadhi ena' song!