1. What did IR’s father named him as ?
2. Could you guess the early work of ARR as a key­board player with IR ? — Answers at the end.

- May­ile May­ile — First time, IR exper­i­mented mix­ing a car­natic raga and a folk tune. This song is based on a car­natic raga ham­sad­wani with a folk tune.Sung by SPB and Jency [ Watch for the best gui­tar interludes ].

- Pre­lude [ intro­duc­tory part of the music just before the pallavi ]. The longest pre­lude in tamil film songs of IR is “Poon­gath­ave” from Nizhal­gall. It starts with a vio­lin, vio­lin — group, a per­cus­sion bang and slow veenai.

- Nor­mally, there are 2 BGMs in a song. BGM1 is before the Saranam1 and BGM2 is before Saranam2. One IR song has both the BGM1 and 2 as the same. The song is ‘Naan yaaru’ from Chinna Jameen [ Sung by IR ].

- We know about hum­ming.. ever heard of high/low pitch hum­ming ?!! High pitch hum­ming is used in “Ninaivo oru par­a­vai” from Sigappu rojakkall and a low pitch hum­ming is used in “poo maalaiye” from Pagal Nilavu. [ thanana nanaaa :) ]. My favourite hum­ming is from ‘Aagaya gan­gai’ — Dharma yuddham

- Dis­solve tech­nique.. [ to break up / melt ]. Rakkamma keiyei thattu song dis­solves from a peppy num­ber into a devaram song very eas­ily. The con­trast dis­solve is from “Ennulle ennulle” from Valli.. Its starts from Chendai and ends [ begins ! ] with a guitar.

- Obses­sion has been por­trayed with the help of flute sound in “Sun­dari kan­naal” from Tha­l­a­ba­thy — along with the voice in the pallavi and “aasa­iayai kaathula” from Johnny.

- IR did a crav­ing prayer song in Achaani.. Madha un kovilil. SJanaki had done her best to get the right emo­tions. Watch the voice in this line.. Mezhugu pol urug­i­nom.. Kan­neerai maa­tra vaa .

- Coun­ter­point tech­nique — Two or more tunes [ voices also ] get­ting exe­cuted simul­ta­ne­ously. En kan­mani from Chit­tuku­ruvi is based on this tech­nique. Even Vaali tried coun­ter­point in lyrics too !

- Cir­cu­lar music.. Rarely a song starts and ends in the same music.. “Poove sem­poove” from Solla thudikudhu man­asu starts and ends with the same gui­tar n flute notes.

- The known only-aroganam [ ascend­ing scale ] song is ‘Kalaivaaniye’ from Sindhu Bhairavi. It’s done much before in ‘Tham thana Nam thana’ song in ‘Pud­hiya vaarp­pu­gall’ . The songs steps up and don’t silde down.

- Kanne kalaimaane from Moon­dram pirai — This song has a solo vio­lin fol­low­ing just Yesudoss’s voice. This deep­ens the sym­pa­thy mood of the song.

- One reg­u­lar instru­ment was missed in all the 6 songs of Agni natchathi­ram — Tabala.

Answers

1. GnanaDe­si­gan
2. Film : Moodu­pani [ 1980 ].

–Toto.

** Few of the snip­pets are taken from ‘Pesum padam’, book writ­ten by Cin­e­matog­ra­pher Chezhian.