Siththan Sound Services
வச[ந்த]ன கால கோலங்கள் !!
“Vinaayagane vinai theerpavane” used to be the first song that starts in any small temples in my town in the month of Aadi [ 2nd song would be “Velanuku moothavane vigna vinayagane” :) ]. It normally starts with Sirkazhi Govindarajan, followed by TMS [ Kandhan thiruneeranindhaal ], LREaswari, etc., Suprabatham or Shasti were considered as high class devotional albums. Can u identify for which Rajini film, Sulamangalam Murali sang a famous film song ? . After Bhakthi songs, them comes our film dialog episodes. I still recollect the inter-cut “Trinngggg…” [ Murugaa !! ] sound for change of scenes.
There were many forms of getting film dialogues. Book format — I have seen some brown color low price edition books on the same [ Sakthi A krishnaswamy ]. Radio “Olichithiram” at Sunday noons were the edited versions of the actual movies. Also, the monthly magazine “Pesum padam” had cinema dialogues at the end of the book. Similarly, we had Tamil movie dialogues in LP records and cassettes. We used to share the stories of the movie which we watch. [ including the BGM :) tan tan taaain.. ha..ha]. I learnt Tamil both in school as well as in films.
கொங்குதேர் வாழ்க்கை அஞ்சிறைத் தும்பி
காமம் செப்பாது கண்டது மொழியுமோ..
M : ஓஹோ
N : கூப்டீங்களா
M : படியும்
N : வரியை வுட்டுட்டனே..ஆங்.ம்
பயிலியது கெழீஇய நட்பின் மயிலியல்
செறியெயிற் றரிவை கூந்தலின்
நறியவும் உளவோ நீயறியும் பூவே. [ அவ்வளவு தான் ! ]
Kurunthogai reached the mass easily from Sivaji n Nagesh rather than from the textbooks. The audio cassette starts with “Eeasanadi potri” song and it goes on. We didn’t know what a screenplay was.. but we knew the entire flow of Thiruvillayadal film and it’s dialogues. I remember most of them. Even our Padmavathy theatre was started in late 80s with Thiruvillayadal as the first show [ sentiment ! ]. Then of course, we had other cassettes like Saraswathy sabatham, Parasakthi [ not played in temples ! ], Manogara, Rathak kanneer [ strictly for seniors — it’s classic by it’s own ] etc.,
The other films were
Veerapandiya Kattabomman [ நீல வானிலே செந்நிறப் பிழம்பு. அந்த வட்ட ஒளியின் பெயர் சூரியன்].
Thooku thooki [ ஒரு உதைக்கு கதவு பணால்.. உள்ள வந்தா நீ பணால் :)]
Karnan [ மேலே சொல்லுதல் பாவமா.. நரகமா.. ]
Gouravam [ ஸாப்ட்டேளா.. எங்க வந்தேள் ? ]
Vidhi [ டைகர் தயாநிதி ! ]
Samsaram adhu minsaram [ கோதாவரி.. வீட்டுக்கு நடுவில ஒரு கோடு கிழி ! ]
Palaivana rojakkal [ VJVன்னா வெகு ஜன விரோதி ] My hoetown is full of pro-dmk.
Amman Koil Kizhakkale [ சின்ன மணி !! ]
Oru thaiyin sabatham [ சிரிக்காதீங்க.. - That’s the way my home town is ! ]
Naan sigappu manithan [ சின்ன சேலம் சிங்காரம் ]
Padikkadhavan [ காலேஜ்லேர்ந்து இன்விஸ்டேஷன் வந்திருக்கு]
Muthanai mudichu [ நீயெல்லாம் ஒரு வாத்யாரு.. ]
Vaidehi Kathirundhall [ பாப்பாவுக்கு குங்குமச் சிமிழ் வந்திருக்கு..]
Kadalorak kavithaigall [ ஜெனிஃபர் டீச்சர் ! ]
Velaikaran [ I am Raghupathy son of gajapathy son of valaiyapathy ]
I don’t want to include the comedy cassettes or the song cassettes with director [ remember BR films ] or hero preview about a song [ Friends .. Naan dhaan Vijay pesaraen.. ( appa paatu poda maateengalaa ?! )]. Don’t think that we owned a tape recorder and came across all the above these film dialogues.. The sources were teashops or functions or temples , friend’s house [ they had the Panasonic horizontal tape recorders ] and public places. I was disappointed to see no tea shops in Bangalore in the beginning and started living with half-teas in the bakeries :) .
Philips — DR571 .. I remember when we bought our first tape recorder. We had been to TNagar and bought out all possible combinations of Sivaji film songs and dialogue cassettes again! The set had a tuner with two extremes labelled as mono and stereo. I asked the Philips service engineer uncle whether this tuner can eliminate the voice out of the song [ Karaoke solla theriyalai :) ] and the look he gave is still memorable [ ithula eppadinne eriyum ! ]. We had tough times with DR571 later, when the cassette struck inside and we need to roll the tape back with sketch pen :). We repeated the “Naatu makkallukor narcheidhi” of ThiruVillayadall part many times. I still like the timing jokes of Nagesh in the whole segment [ சாப்டாச்சா..ஏப்பமா..சர்தான்..நேரத்துக்கு சாப்டறவர் போலிருக்கு.. ].
Somehow, at later stages TV, comedy drama, pattimandram occupied the space of film dialogue broadcastings. The above films and film dialogues rest peacefully forever, in my subconcious mind. I may tell the dialogues, if done with a psychoanalytic test [ Woody Allen includes this in all his films :) ].
சங்கருப்ப தெங்கள் குலம்
சங்கரானார்க்கேது குலம்
சங்கை அரிந்துண்டு வாழ்வோம் ..அரனே
உன் போல் இரந்துண்டு வாழ்வதில்லை.. — நக்கீரர்.
–Toto.
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Toto,
You have brilliantly captured those good olden days. When I completed reading, I saw the title and that evoked smile (Sitthan Sound service).
I too have seen some filmi dialogues in Pesum padam book (Monthly). And have sporadically listened to Sunday 3–4 pm dialogues from films.
As you said, those days all of us pretty much depended on shops, events, marriage halls etc. We did not own a tape recorder until I started working. I started listening to songs only in PC…
Thiruvilayaadal — was very well known for its dialogs and delivery by Nagesh and Sivaji Ganesan.…
Good post.
Thanks
Venkat
Thanks Venkat.. ’ Sithan sound services ’ name has been borrowed from the film Subramaniapuram :) . Now all the magizines have changed as ” Pesum Padam ” !!
hi toto
very well done
this post depicts the true version of 1980’s
thanks
as u said many of the dialogues lay in our subconscious mind
but in ur case, the flow is very clear –very nice
I still remember the dialogues of senthil & kaunda mani in vaithegi kaathirindhaal
” enna anne voduchiputeenga” “andha voomaiyuda vlaasam vlaasam“
they were fantastic dialogues of that time
we had no other entertainment
thanks for reminding those days
bye
Chancey illa.….Enna oru gnanam.….
Thanks Kathir.. As usual “Aarvak kOllaaru”.. freeyaa vidunga.. :)
Toto,
Thanks for bringing this posting. We (my brother and me) were wondering if guys at Chennai would have enjoyed things like this during their school days. Saraswathi Sabatham, Thiruvilaiyadam, Samsaram Athu Minsaram, Vithi, Kudumbam Oru Kadhambam were our all time favourites. My wife always looks at me like an alien when am getting so involved in these movies and when I recite the dialogues. The dialogues are dissoved in the blood.
I made me remember my school days when we serviced as ‘messengers’ for our neighbourhood akkas and aunties to the Sound Service person for their favourite songs. I sat and watched endlessly when the black disc like record running on the player. It was really nice to see the disc wobbling when its getting played. (Getting kicked by my father for sitting there with the sound service guys and for not studying is a different story)
Thanks again for bringing this up.
Regards,
Srikanth
Vaanga Srikanth.. Thanks for the touching comments. I am glad to know that you have similar memories. I liked this line ” The dialogues are dissoved in the blood” — it may look exaggerating but it’s the fact.
During my school days, syudying for quaterly and half-yearly exams were not easy… escaping from the overwhelming sound of Thirivilayadal dialogues from the nearby temples was not easy.. i end up listening to the dialogues rather than study… ithu oru reasona kammi mark vangirathukku.… Though I may not recall all the dialogues, I know the flow of it due to th repeated broadcasts over the years.…
Vidhi was one of the movies which was heard by lot many people those days.… The audio dialogues of the movie was a hot cake those days.… The court room scene and the sexual explicit dialogues…
Good work as always.… Ungal kalai thondu todarattum.…
Visuvin sevai kalai ulagukku thevai.….
Thanks Irshaad, for your comments.. True.. The repetitions were too much.. We used to laugh or get ready, before the dialog comes.. Happy to know about the sync with most of the friends in this topic.
Vidhi was such a big BS of a movie. Probably one of the worst mainstream movies ever…I don’t know what kind of societal psychology that drives people to play these dialogues at public places.
I can still hear (inside my head, of course) Sirkazhi’s voice… i have those MP3 and hear every now and then. my house @ Pudupet was very close to 2 temples (and a church), both the temples were very active and come Adi masam, the whole area will be baktimayam.
Thiruvilayadal – Nagesh the best ever. Well done, very nice topic.
Thanks Krishna.. Nalla velai.. I didn’t write much about the movie “Vidhi” :) .
Sirkazhi’s set includes “GanapathiyE varuvaari”, “Nee ellaam dheivam illai” — They are original carnatic music songs but they blended very well with the small villages and towns.
I think of private buses in those early morning trips — “Azhgendra sollukku”, “Karpanai endraalum”, Oraaru mugamum”, “Ullam urugudhaiyaa” … Aaahaaa.. [ Pochu.. Innoru blog ready !! ]