The Golden Era of Dr.IR and Dr.SPB

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#333 காட்டுக்குயிலு மனசுக்குள்ள பாட்டுக்கொன்னும் பஞ்சமில்ல
(தளபதி, 1991 , ஏசுதாசுடன்)

kAttukkuyilu manasukkuLLa from thaLapathi, with KJY

Well, this is the first song we feature in this series where both my favourites had sung together We had to wait for >300 days and that many songs to finally get to this combo. We had every other possible combo before (even Mano & SPB ) but this is the first one with Dasettan in our listing! Not that they haven't done songs together before albeit rarely. For e.g. thirisoolam had that 'iraNdu kaikaL nAngAnAl' song but it was music by MSV. I don't remember any other rAsA song having SPB & KJY prior to this number...(And, such a song should have automatically been a hit, someone please correct me if one exists).

The legends had an opportunity recently to sing this song together on stage, with rAsA around, in the recent Jaya TV concert They both had so much of energy and the mutual appreciation was pretty obvious. The song itself has so much of energy packed into it - with lovely drum work and a great first interlude. (That first interlude part is my favourite portion on-screen also). Though many of my co-workers -who were big M fans- disliked the song and the movie, it didn't bother me. Each one of the scenes where both these great actors shared screen space was extremely enjoyable, including the 'EnnA nee en naNban' scene (not 'naNbEn dA' as mistakenly referred by many on the net world).

Quite enjoyable lines too - many people love the 'natpaikkooda kaRpaippOla eNNuvEn' line by Vaali. KarNan's senjORRukkadan based natpu is quite prasiththam for any who read the epic in some form. Me read in ambulimAmA first and then in many other forms...haven't watched NT's karNan - which is now re-released in TN and reported to be making waves. I think thaLapathi was a pretty neat take / interpretation of the Duryothanan -Kannan aka KarNan relationship (read Kannan with reNdu suzhi na & not moonu suzhi Na which refers to the blue colored mischievous fellow & one of the dasAvathArams - totally missing in this movie...we have vil veeran Arjun though, telling 'machchamillai machchamillai' ).

Great song, big hit, still enjoyable after many years!