The Golden Era of Dr.IR and Dr.SPB

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#317 ராத்திரி நேரத்தில்
(அஞ்சலி, 1990 )

'rAththiri nEraththil' from anjali

The album had 7 songs and four were by group of kids! Possibly the first such album ever in TFM to have majority of them sung by kids! The other three songs were solos by established singers - SPB / SJ / Usha Uthup doing one each and all had tremendous drum work plus lot of guitar / synth stuff.

The only song that possibly had traditional IR arrangements was anjali-anjali-anjali, with choir-like singing and terrific bass guitar score! My most fav of the album, obviously This was closely followed by the terrific 'motta mAdi motta mAdi' with lovely wind instrument work (and the most interesting one on screen ). 'iravu nilavu' & 'vEgham vEgham' come after that. 'something something' / 'vAnam namkku veedhi' after that.

The "technologically distorted" SPB song is the last & least preferred song of the album for me. However, due to the following factors, the album sold like hotcakes and this song too was getting played everywhere :

-terrific IR-MR combo, after the phenomenal success of agni natchaththiram
-advertised as IR's 500th movie
-all songs except the 'anjali anjali anjali' had trend-setting orchestration / drum work / electronic sounds etc

I got the cassette immediately upon arrival and it got played in the bachelor home all the time, with the neighborhood kids ageing from 3-10 having a terrific time with us. Often we took the children to town, got them ice cream etc and became so lovable to all the "colony" members (about 20 houses off of the highway, mostly occupied by employees of same company / group...most were reasonably young families and ours was the only bachelor home)

Personally, I had great time listening to the cassette and also getting "engaged" in that time period It was also the first movie watched after making the commitment
(Unfortunately, it was a big azhugai movie - uncontrollable flood of tears the first time! Any watch later on in the small screen too typically ends up with tears for me and kEvikkEvi azhal for my wife)

sOdhA (ok ok sAdhA) song for Bala in a landmark album of IR!