The Golden Era of Dr.IR and Dr.SPB

[genesis]

Same people who made roja, aasai etc superhit eh? If your defn is "genesisku pidikkala so flop" then maybe it was flop. Ungalukku(enakkum kooda) pidikkalainaa flop aayidumaa? Ennayyaa logic idhu?oru velai enakku edhu pudikkalaiyo naan thoongiduven concept apply panningalo?

Cool Plum. I am not disputing whether CT is flop or hit. Nerd had pointed many if not all hubbers here hated CT movie and wondering who made it a hit!! It looks like the people who made it a hit are not visiting this forum or ashamed to admit it.

[al_gates]

Likewise, please don't post spoilers of gOpura vAsalilE here I plan to watch it someday...unless somebody names the original and I know that I had already watched that one

App, writing this as another Rip Van Winkle, I strongly recommend that the 'someday' take place this week! GV was one of the nicest, easy on the heart 80s/90s movies that I caught. The story was modern enough wihtout being too jazzy, had a nice small town events feel to it. I guess it might have been the locations around Ooty/Kodaikanal(confirm?) that won my heart.

Pull off a 10 hour workday, have family time, then kick your shoes off and watch this movie with coffee and popcorn. I love my movies better after a hard day's work

[Nerd]

Gopura VaasalilE, wow! One of my favoritest soundtracks of Raaja (Songs + BGM). What lovely songs, each one of them. And the movie is a favorite of mine as well. Seen it multiple times on (Trichy, Sona IIRC) big screen when it released and will see it each time they telecast it on TV for some reason. App, please do watch the film at least for Raaja's lovely BG score. But its a pity that you don't have any of your personal memories associated with this album

The loveable idiot phrase is so much intertwined with the opening strings that its never irritating for me. And I always go to madhura marikkozhunthu vaasam after this song. They both sound a little similar (the charanams esp). Same raaga? Super song. Super album

[al_gates]

Sometimes I wonder how we define hits. For example, it is widely accepted that after Roja, till 1998 and KMari, Raja didn't have an authentic hit

Plum, I really must reiterate that the word HIT has been hijacked by forums like these which focus on the composer and less on the merits of an album.
Hit according to these online forums = Popular album by Composer A with no real decent album from Composers B, C and D.

As a result in these pages you wont find Raja having a decent year in 1994(what about Veera, Walter Vetrivel, Valli?), 1993(Ejamaan, Uzhaippali, Ponnumani, Marupadiyum) or 1992(the guy composed 54 movies that year - nadodi thendral, meera, senthamilpattu).

The public doesnt bother about such criteria...if they like the movie they watch it...if they like a song, they play it

[Plum]

Yeah, al, the "scales" of comparison in this forum are warped and biased, indeed. Not to mention thick headed.

[PARAMASHIVAN]

App, dharmadurai-la aaNenna peNennaa ellaam hit kidaiyaadhunnu skip pannaadheenga. Again even in this album the biggest hit is a non-SPB number.

Yes Maasi Maasam by KJY , S.Latha was a huge hit, which later went on to be another Xerox Hit thanks to our Xerox deva , yes I am talking about "katipudi katipudi da" song from Kushi!

[PARAMASHIVAN]

#340 காதல் கவிதைகள் படித்திடும் நேரம்
(கோபுர வாசலிலே, 1991 , சித்ராவுடன்)

Just revisited GV yesterday, apart from the "I love that loveable" idiot bit this song is awesome! Karthik as usual performed well in thii movie ? Who was the heroine in this song ?

[PARAMASHIVAN]

App anna

I "highly" recomend GV for you! The locations and PC Sriram camera work, Rasa 's music and Bhanupriya as eye candy what else one wants

[A_S]

App: Surprised to note that you didn't know the name of the movie for the song "Ann Enna Pen Enna" till recently. Some info on this movie (that I could recall, Expecting Murali sir to provide accurate details ). Dharmadurai was released on 1991 Pongal day and since 1990 had only one RK release (Athisaya Piravi) as compared to 1989 that had four releases (three of those got covered recently in this thread), RK fans were eagerly looking forward to this movie. One movie per year was way too less for RK fans that time (as compared to the current scenario of one movie every 2-3 years). It was widely reported in the print media (DD days with no internet) that RK worked non stop in Dec 1990 to get this movie completed on time for pongal release. IR composed very good songs for this movie (even RK's previous AP had very good songs but since MV sung all of them, didn't get the deserved recognition) that had KJY, SPB, Mano, SJ, SL singing (only KSC didn't get a song in this movie and thankfully no MV). Completely agree with the positive comments made on GV. It's a movie worth seeing multiple times. IR's music was the highlight of this movie. If I remember it right, GV was being made for around 1.5-2 years (from late 1999 till it finally got released in April 1991) which was a long time for the making of a movie in that era.

[A_S]

Missed mentioning Param will like BP in GV and looks like he has posted that already