The Golden Era of Dr.IR and Dr.SPB

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#315 ஏய் ஒரு பூஞ்சோலை ஆளானதே
(வாத்தியார் வீட்டுப்பிள்ளை, 1989, சித்ராவுடன்)

Eh oru poonjOlai ALAnadhE of VVP with KSC

A song where KSC almost sounds like SJ, especially in the pallavi line Excellent song - melodious and soothing with its flute accompaniments! SPB sounds like 20-something mArkkaNdEyakkural! With nice vaLaivu neLivukAL, the song has a "magudi" effect and can calm even a person of murderous rage! If I'm into "therapy using music", I'll strongly recommend this song to people with disturbed mind, in a rage, burst of anger etc to manage and control / subside their urges (OTOH, this may increase certain "maRRa" urge and one has to have a proper outlet for that )

Again, a song known to me only thru Cbe-area buses and was unquestionably popular!

Now, per my outlined plan, this song should have some interesting thing related to marriages / match making etc. Earlier, baroque admonished people to shed stigma (of 'attakkaruppu / sekkachchevappu' problems). Per my observation in TN / Kerala all thru the 70s-90s and even in the new millennium, this had been a problem - even though all of us can be called 'brown' in general. This 'fair color' had often been a decisive factor in picking the bride! TN-dark-boys-falling-for-fair-KL-girls wasn't an unusual thing.

I had a eastie team mate (from Gauhati, he didn't like to be called "northie") who loved 'sheNbagamE' and often hummed it. He often ridiculed TN-ers for this craving of fair thOl, especially pointing out to our movies having dark heroes dancing around with "imported fair" girls Interestingly, however, I happened to be involved in a "match-making" that was simbly opposite to this general state of the affair. (BTW, it was after Y2K and hope many of this type happen now).

I had a friend of friend, originally from TN but settled in KL due to his railway job. He & his kids had dark features (perhaps that was the reason for his love for coal / steam engine). He kept mentioning to me of not having enough contacts in TN and thus his difficulty in finding a boy for one of the girls who was in mid-20's. She had kaLaiyAna mugam but karuththa peN (that too thamizhachchi) inside KL getting a match was almost like a kuthiraikkombu.

Well, I mentioned this to my father during one of the phone calls and he told me that there's a malayALi guy - his neighbor - inside TN, looking for a bride from KL. I told him that this girl can speak both tongues, like the boy, and can be a potential match.

I was privileged to attend the marriage of them (and even gave a short speech in MalayaLam) The boy was no MGR but definitely with typical malayALi features. He had his own cottage industry in TN - that he subsequently left behind for the siblings and moved to the girl's town in KL to start their life. I had prayed as much for the girl as my sisters for a happy married life...

About a month back, when talking to my father, he handed his phone to a visitor. Yes, it was the malayALi boy from TN who married the Thamizh girl from KL.

I was so thrilled to hear his happy voice telling me "aNNE, enga poNNu anjAnglAss padikkiRA"
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