The Golden Era of Dr.IR and Dr.SPB

[genesis]

nanRi, V_Sji!

youtube of 'adi sonAli bindrE kaiyaththattu'
(she was an ad model at that time, I think):

That's not Sonali Bendre. Her name is Sonu Walia (One of the less known Hindi actress... I guess Kushbu wave was too strong and TN movie watchers wanted to see more fair skin northies, so annan GV signs her up - I am unable to accept she could be MR's choice... MR generally has some class - Sonali Bendre in Antha Arabic Kadaloram, Malaika Arora in Dil Se, Mallika Sherawat in Guru).

And Kuyili(?! Reallly Mani?) in Nila Adhu vanaththu Mela... (I am confused)

[genesis]

I like the kAsi songs despite the gloominess they can throw one in ; but have the opinion that HH was a very poor choice for that album and he single handedly massacred the songs

Your criticism of HH is unfair (even though I am not a big fan of Kasi songs). HH is a good singer and he has sung few good songs for IR also.

Ennai Thalatta Varuvalo - Kadhalukku Mariyadhai
Nilavu Pattu - Kannukkul Nilavu

He has sung many more good songs for other MDs (Deva in particular). It is unfortunate the HFM does not use HH as much as they should.

If you have not noticed, almost all singers are very restrained when singing for Raja (including Chitra). It could be mostly out of respect or fear or a combination of two. IMHO, only SPB and SJ are able to take lot of freedom with Raja. (Even SPB is does less gimmicks when singing for Raja, you should listen him some non-IR Telugu songs).

It is not always the ingredients, some time fault is with the cook.

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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!

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Her name is Sonu Walia

my miss...not good with vadakkaththi nadikai peyarkaL that sound similar (they too deliberatly confuse us frequently, like kareena-kareeshmA etc)

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It is not always the ingredients, some time fault is with the cook.

Agreed, he didn't pick the right ingredient for kAsi songs

Also, he gave too many songs to HH

[buggle]

a_e sir, i believe Dhalapathi was 1991 Deepavali release which would be sometime around October, what happened to movies from Jan-October in 1991?
No SPB/IR combo?cmon cannot be.....

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a_e sir, i believe Dhalapathi was 1991 Deepavali release which would be sometime around October, what happened to movies from Jan-October in 1991?
No SPB/IR combo?cmon cannot be.....

You're right buggle, this was in late 1991 but I don't follow the date that strictly

I keep picking any movie from that year randomly

The only discipline (mostly) maintained is the YYYY part

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We're moving closer to the "anniversary" of this compilation.

Though it appeared recently that we may not make it there, I feel strongly about the possibility now.

We're at 333 now and all we need is another 33 numbers to hit the 366 number. I guess there should be a minimum of another 10 numbers in 1991 itself and there're some more productive years.

BTW, tomorrow's also will be from thaLapathi!

There are a few more Rajinikanth movies - ejamAn, veerA, uzhaippALi, some KH movies - dEvar magan, singAravElan...apart from chinnaththambi etc. 33 shouldn't be that big a number to get.

Once that number is reached, I'll only cover some mega hits -i.e. if any still left - of the 90's or later and won't go after meticulously like before...I'll have to pass the mantle...

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How did I miss getting a personal copy of this beauty in 1990? Well, it could be that the movie / songs arrived during the time when I was out of action due to an accident for 3 months (kAl odinja bedla thAn kidakka mudiyum, kaiyum vERa in plaster - due to bike-truck heads on...with access to only hindu paper that didn't carry much TF/TFM news

App, Fall of 1990 romba mattama irundhuchu Sir. Perusa sollikra maadhiri onnum nadakala.

I guess you had this accident after the 90 World cup final(july 8). Kizhakku vaasal came a week later. KV songs were a rage on Oliyum oliyum but you must have missed them due to your hospital stay. But apart from that there was nothing happening. India toured England and Tendulkar scored his 1st international 100 in Aug(How appropriate to bring it up now that he reached his 100th ton!). The feeling was almost certain that PT Usha would get a few golds in Beijing Asiad since she had won 4 at Seoul 86. What a ridiculous assumption that was, and underestimation of China's progress! Usha got 2 silvers. Our lone gold in the Asian games came through Kabbadi

After that, there was no major sporting event. In TFM/TF world too, nothing major. Off season for both KH and RK. Releases like Anjali and MMKR stemmed the rot a little bit later in the year.

Or maybe it was just my life that was boring Two of my BEST friends in class moved out of school(and out of town). I got pally with another guy(same class, different Section) as his house was close to mine and we used to frequent a sports club after school. Now my 3rd and last BEST friend did not like this development. So we were not on talking terms for over a year. So, from being very close deskmates and lunchmates in one year, we moved to being sworn enemies. On top of that, we were both captains of our intra-class soccer teams which had a fierce rivalry! So that entire year, all communication between the 2 captains happened through intermediaries We finally patched up after a year, but alas, the quality of the friendship was a pale shadow of what it used to be

So in several ways for me, that was a dry and painful season

App, if it is any consolation, you can go through the 1990 summer editions of Indian Express here
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=P9oYG7HA76QC

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.we have vil veeran Arjun though, telling 'machchamillai machchamillai' ).

The weakest link in the movie, Mani's puppet. Seniors get to strut their stuff, juniors end up doing this dour faced, wooden acting sponsored by Mani. By the way, am shocked to know that you have not watched Karnan, app. Your credit rating has just been reduced by 0.07%