மெலிதினும் மெலிது கேள் !

This list is about the songs that were ren­dered slower than the usual pace [ also in low pitch ] and an ultra melody — like “Kanne Kalaimaane”. Slightly slower than the melody — slow in tune, voice and flow of the song [ Har­i­ha­ran, Shankar mahade­van gangs don’t fit here ! ]. Don’t worry .. I’ll not start more series on other adjec­tives [ cool, hot, short, long.. ] :) Just gave a thought.

1. Paru­vame [ SPB, SJanaki — Nen­jathai Killathe ]

To start and get on track, I quote this superb song. It’s sightly slower than any reg­u­lar song [ husky ! ] and singers sing in a slightly lower voice [ not whis­per­ing ! ]. I have never come across 2 friends jog­ging on screen, after this song. Pic­tur­i­sa­tion at its best. Besides the ease­ful melody, I love the visu­als of Ashokku­mar — the pol­lu­tion free Ban­ga­lore and mist cov­ered Cub­bon Bagh. I remem­ber the early morn­ing returns to home from majes­tic rail­way sta­tion, in the misty morn­ings with extreme chillness !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxCIUL4cDxw

2. Oh Paapa lali [ SPB — Geethanjali ]

I mean the Tel­ugu ver­sion of the song and not the Mano ver­sion in Tamil [ it’s more mas­cu­lar ! ]. You know the song.. I had the entire songs in a mini book­let form [ அட்டைப்ப‌ட‌த்தில் கிரிஜா :) ]. I used to mem­o­rise them, before I open the tution home work [ ப‌டிப்பு வெள‌ங்கும் ;) ]. All my Tel­ugu friends never accepted that Mano ver­sion of songs in Tamil were good at all. It’s some­what closer in this cat­e­gory of relax­ing songs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6uEbFGNR9Y

3. Then­drale [ Unnikr­ish­nan — Kad­hal Desam ]

Mathan used to intro­duce new songs to me — he was an alter ego for me liv­ing away, from par­ents in a sin­gle room with his own free­dom in life. He used to buy the new cas­settes and of course, imme­di­ately share the same with me. First time, he said about the Unni Krish­nan song as the slow­est song he has ever heard about. [ பாடாவ‌தியா ப‌ட‌மாக்கியிருப்பாங்க‌.. ]. A sim­ple song can just be played with a piano and the voice .. Like SPB sung ‘Anjali Anjali ’ in ARR’s Dubai con­cert with just piano music. Unnikr­ish­nan was clearly told to make the lis­tener to sleep at the end of the song and he does it neatly !  The piano inter­ludes are so soothing.

The idea of this song is not to raise the tone even when high pitch comes and play in a slow pace. It was a dif­fer­ent expe­ri­ence. The other good song from Kad­hal desam was Oh Ven­ni­laa [ with high pitch — won­der­ful lyrics from vaali ].

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyBmG9ZZnLM

4. Thoda Thoda [ SPB, Chi­tra — Indira ]

This song is sec­ond base for this post. I got this cas­sette INDRA for the first time along with some Malaysian movie on the side B, through a Malay­isian source. When every soul set­tled with “Nilaa kaai­gi­rathu” song in this album, I was fas­ci­nated with the low pitch, softy voice of SPB. It’s like, he sings just for us or singing alone so that nobody else watches that. Clas­sic of its kind. The lines were truly clas­sic and slightly devi­at­ing from the usual Vaira­muthu lyrics.. இடைவெளி தாண்டாதே.. என் வ‌ச‌ம் நானில்லை !

SPB once said that the flute in the first inter­lude was not the flute itself but the whistling sound of ARR !!  Tough to digest this tit­bit as wel as the junk pic­tur­i­sa­tion of the song !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STA4vhZ6I3w

5. Azhage suga­maa [ Srini­vas, Sad­hana Sargam — Parthale paravasam ]

This song is the basic idea of this series. This song expresses the lone­li­ness and divide between cou­ples, as softly as pos­si­ble. Srini­vas is the best in this cat­e­gory of songs and I feel this song is the best in this list. He begs, express pain, con­cerns, wor­ries a lot in this song. The song reflects somethng they [ we !! ] missed greatly in the past.. வாழ்க்கை ஓர் வ‌ட்ட‌ம் போல்.. முடிந்த‌ இட‌த்தில் தொட‌ங்காதா. We too wish the same, right ?! The piano n vio­lin work in the back­ground is too good. Such a calm­ing n soft song. Check Srinivas’s flow when sings “pookkall thaan ser­aad­haaa “. Clas­sic ! The song ends just like a great singer hum­ming some­thing dur­ing the end­less end..

Singer Srini­vas him­self dserves a sep­a­rate post for his songs like Kaalai arumbi [ Kanaa kan­den ], Thiru Thiruda [5 Star ], keiyil mid­hakum kanavaa [ Ratcha­gan ].. Later the same Srini­vas was asked to sing the beau­ti­ful tamil lyrics [ a bit ] in the begin­ning of Sne­hid­hane song. He once slowly sang the piece with the beau­ti­ful lyrics.. “நேற்று முன்னிர‌வில் உன் நித்தில‌ப்பூ ம‌டியில். Bu sadly, he was asked to sing it in dif­fer­ent pict [ hard !! ] so that [ nobody under­stands :) ] it con­trasts the melo­di­ous flow of Sad­hana sargam.

As usual, these are just seashells that I have picked up and the entire ocean is in front of us with unex­plored abyss.

Happy lis­ten­ing.

:)
Toto.

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