The Golden Era of Dr.IR and Dr.SPB

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#319 ரம்பம்பம் ஆரம்பம் பம்பம்பம் பேரின்பம்
(மைக்கேல் மதன, காம, ராஜன் - 1990 , சித்ராவுடன்)

'rambambam Arambam' of MMKR

Funny to see KSC singing 'pam' 'pam' while the naughty SPB correctly using the 'B'. (And Shankar smartly used the song in the pinnazhagu kAttum ragging scene of Thamizh 3 idiots ). One of those nice occasions when on-screen happenings perfectly matched the brilliance of the song! Credit goes to the repeat team of A-S The only new entrant is Kushboo - who too did a very enjoyable role with Kamal in the movie. Right from the fire-fighting scene to the kadankAran scene, whAtta flow!

Actually, though there are 4 Kamals, Raju is the real movie hero (or the better of the four).

How?

-2 duets for Raju (this one & pEru vachchAlum) compared to only one each of the cupid characters.
-Also, attched to the bigger of the herOinis of that time.
-Also, the only one fighttu given, and one of the two car heroics allotted.
-Even among the two comedian roles, only Raju was based on smart performance (while the Palakkadan was more by design ).

Well, this is based on my weird janaranjaga logic The movie was extremely popular in the bachelor home - beembAi beembAi getting used all the time (as also 'idhellAm apdiyE', 'wait a nimit' etc.) High & long term impact on youngsters of 1990! The most watched movie after coming to U.S. (That VHS is now unusable, I should get a DVD now).

No need to describe about the popularity of the song

One more reason to like Raju - his 'nAdaka acting' thingy & the costume for rambambam takes me back to my first-ever stage appearance during elementary school days. The make-up, lip-stick, hat to show as amerikkan etc that the teachers did to show me as T A Edison. Though it was just a role of one minute dialog in the whole 10 minute show of many kids acting as various scientists, it had a profound effect on me - of loving TAE lifelong.

(Even now, when I visit the Greenfield village, TAE's filament lab / workshop is the favourite destination for me...I can in a tiny way imagine how each character the famous artists played in their lives would have impacted them, e.g. Sivaji on VCG)...