The Golden Era of Dr.IR and Dr.SPB

**al_gates** · 13th April 2012, 08:00 AM

Originally Posted by A_S

. 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.

Wow A_S! you are very perceptive. While watching a movie, I had this habit of looking for clues as to when the shooting must have taken place(wall calendar in a scene, some character's diary, etc) and when I first saw GV in 1999, I thought Sumitra's diary showed the calendar of Apr 87 or maybe 89. From this I held on to the belief that GV was released in 1989. It was only few years later I found its release date on the internet and now you have nicely filled in the pieces as to when it was shot

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**groucho070** · 13th April 2012, 08:13 AM

OH.MY.GOD. V_S. I am speechless. That's all I can say

**al_gates** · 13th April 2012, 08:15 AM

VS, Lovely write-up as usual

Originally Posted by V_S

Those days there were no audio releases like today, so we were guessing all the time how the songs would be and also excited to watch the film.

I remember App mentioning he heard Dalapathy and Guna songs a month before the movies' release!?! App, can you confirm ejjatly when they started releasing the audios first?

**V_S** · 13th April 2012, 08:22 AM

Thanks a lot grouch for your appreciation. I am truly delighted, it means a lot to me.

al_gates, Thanks a lot for your wonderful comments.

Sorry, I meant that there were no audio release functions which we have now. Just audio releases.

**jaiganes** · 13th April 2012, 10:39 AM

best song in indian films(music, arrangement, melody choclatey, picturisation, rajini, SPB everything, kitchen sink) , period .

**jaiganes** · 13th April 2012, 10:41 AM

that lahari audio cassettes had the best sound for a raja movie in years..
And remember the days we spent speculating about the movie story line from the songs..

**Bala (Karthik)** · 13th April 2012, 10:54 AM

Thank you VS, thank you

**Bala (Karthik)** · 13th April 2012, 10:57 AM

Those who saw/experienced this song being composed/recorded - onniyum solrathukku illa

**Bala (Karthik)** · 13th April 2012, 10:58 AM

I don't want this thread to end. S'not enough, what to do...?..

**A_S** · 13th April 2012, 12:07 PM

App: This thread has become part of our daily routine that it's going to be very difficult to start our days without reading about the SPB-IR song posted for the day. Hopefully the total will cross 400 when this is completed (I was hoping for 500 earlier when every year had 30-40 songs). Thanks for all your efforts in this regard (like it always happens with IR songs, time (1 year in this case) has really run very quick). Once you are done, we can try compiling the list of the missed out SPB-IR songs (coming up with interesting write ups like what you or VS have been doing, can be considered bonus) and add them to this master list meticulously put together by you.

Al: Thanks for your appreciation. Those were the times when I was closely tracking TFM (which was synonymous with IR).

Don't know when Guna cassette (that had IR, KH and SB interacting) got released but Dhalapathy's audio release was done on July 15, 1991 (nearly 4 months before the release of the movie on 1991 Deepavali day) and it created record in the audio sales (huge for that time). IR aptly wished the movie will have similar success during the audio release function (Yes IR attended this which was quite unusual for him that time). It was reported in the press that RK was paid huge salary (3-4 times more than what he was getting for a movie till then) for this movie.