This is nei­ther a follow-up post for Aayi­rathil oru­van movie nor the review of “To Kill a mock­ing bird “. Don’t worry :) .

I am grate­ful to FM Radio for the song which I lis­tened, today morn­ing. All songs are attached with some per­sonal mem­o­ries and some ran­dom thoughts. A sin­gle song can evoke dif­fer­ent thoughts and sim­i­lar songs that came in so far [ at least to our lim­ited knowl­edge ]. Let’s see what is this about.

A singer singing in changed voice is not at all new to Tamil film music. It started ear­lier with MSRa­jeswari singing in a kid’s voice [ Kozhi oru kootile ], SJanaki singing arti­fi­cially in a kid’s [ Daddy Daddy — Kash­tamappa !! ], SPB in rough voice [ Aariro aareero — Indi­ran Chandi­ran ]. Inter­est­ingly, KJY has man­aged to sing in the same voice with­out much inten­tional change — max­i­mum he has done some dif­fer­ent songs from his reg­u­lar melody area like — Vacha paar­vai theer­ad­hadi,  Kaana karanguy­ile kacheri vaikaporen.

The inter­est­ing per­son in this genre is Malaysia Vasude­van. His first song itself hap­pened to be in changed voice — Aatukutti mut­taiyittu. To my lim­ited knowl­edge, he has done the max­i­mum num­ber of songs in changed voices [ ignor­ing the vari­ety done by SPB ] — aahaan vand­hu­ruchi, aasai kiliye barla barla, maa­man voodu machu voodu, Singi­naa singi adi, Madana moha roopa sun­dari in Trichy loganathan’s voice, Suga raagame — in CSJa­yara­man voice, en soga kathaiyai kelu, .. Of course, this post is not about the vari­a­tions ren­dered by MV. Oth­er­wise, it is about a song which Mano has sung !

Song : Aayi­rathil naan oru­van [ 1997 ]
Singer : Mano
Film : Iru­var
MD : ARR

The idea of the song is to express the essence of self con­fi­dence n com­mu­nism related songs used by the leg­end MGR, in ARR’s music and pic­turised in Mani­rath­nam style [ desert and Gha­gra choli :) ]. They were very clear not to imi­tate any old song [ remix tor­ture ! ] but only the pic­tur­i­sa­tion and the word­ings. Vaira­muthu being worked in the film Iru­var [ shared dialogues[poems] along with Suhasini ], knew what words to use for MGR song. Ezhai, Dhar­mam, Puratchi, viyarvai ezun­yaayiru, kathir, thlaivan, malai, kadal, uzhaippu.

They care­fully cho­sen Mano [ avoided oth­ers like orig­i­nal TMS him­slef ] to sing like TMS [ emu­late basi­cally and def­i­nitely not to mock ]. Hence it didn’t turn up as a spoof by Mano but use the into­na­tions exactly as TMS pro­nounces [ Kunindha ullam, pazhaiya pagai ]. That’s a mem­o­rable num­ber from Mano. The pic­tur­i­sa­tion credit goes to San­thosh Sivan and dance mas­ter Brinda.

The film had another won­der­ful song — Naru­mu­gaiye where Bom­bay Jayashree made her debut in film music and the poem “Unn­odu naan irundha ovvoru” using Aravindswamy’s voice and a sim­ple hum­ming. In fact, the film itself needs ample time to enjoy n share about. Iru­var, Nayakan, Na.Muthukumar, IR/ARR songs — I can’t cap­ture them in one sin­gle effort. Instead, I share a part of them as I recollect. ஒரு பக்கெட் நீர்வீழ்ச்சி :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItI3l2GBj5c

I like these lines very much.

இந்த‌ உல‌க‌ம் க‌த‌வ‌டைத்தால்
எட்டி உதைப்பேன் ..
அது திற‌க்கும்.

Happy lis­ten­ing.

:)

Toto.

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