For all the music direc­tors, I have some numer­ous songs as favorites and can list them. But for IR, any­time you ask me I can just say only one song — the song I heard lastly :) That’s the beauty of IR. I just live with the last song I heard and con­sider that as the end of all songs.

Once BBC Sam­pathku­mar said that ARR reserves the best tunes for the first level direc­tors like Mani­rath­nam and sees to that it is pic­turised at the best [ bad exam­ple : Sakkarakatti ]. This is not the case with our IR — He just gave the best [ pro­duced in a day ]  imma­te­r­ial of whether it is for GNRan­gara­jan or for K.Rangaraj. Both SPB ‚SJ might not have thought that they sing in the won­der­ful times. Some unsung but incred­i­ble songs.

Radha radha — Meen­dum Kok­ila; SPB/SJ ; IR.

It was just one another song pic­turised in Mysore Brin­da­van or Lalitha palace gar­dens for a flow­ing, melody song. Both the singers do the best jus­ti­fi­ca­tion for the song. Watch for the sub­tle smile of SPB in the mid­dle of the song — neey­oru pakkam. I can’t write any­thing about the instru­ments — they are beyond my lit­tle blog­ging skills. At the school days, I wor­ried much about why some star pairs didn’t get marry — one such lead pair was Kamal and Sridevi. [ அப்புற‌ம் எங்க‌ ப‌டிப்பு வெள‌ங்கும் ?! ]

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

May­ile may­ile — Kadavull amaitha medai; SPB/Jensi — IR

Of all the singers, If I feel that I miss one lead singer who sung very less num­bers in Tamil, it would be Jensi. By see­ing this video, you’ll under­stand why ARR hides the good tunes from some direc­tors — Sum­ithra over­rules what Meg Ryan does in When Harry met Sally ;). This is one of the songs which I remem­ber in my kinder­garten stages [ UKG — it used to come in radio ]. Jensi sim­ply super­sedes the voice of SPB with her pecu­liar voice.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhiYe70KWvU

Vaa pon­may­ile — Poon­thalir; SPB ; IR

To be hon­est, I came to know about this song from FM chan­nels, after mov­ing to Chen­nai. One of the sim­plest solo songs of SPB. Watch for ‘Kaniye manam mayanga mayanga’ . With­out much efforts,  they just shot this song in some trav­el­ers bun­ga­low. How sim­ple life was!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnOs1xeFKYc&feature=PlayList&p=A7234DC38CF370B6&index=57

Mouname paar­vaiyaai — Anbe Sivam; SPB/Chandrayee ; Vidyasagar.

It’s not included in the film Anbe Sivam. It’s the SPB who had with­stood all the changes in times and came out in a dif­fer­ent dimen­sion with the com­bi­na­tion of Vidyasagar. I can rec­om­mend this song for any­one learn­ing how to pro­nounce Tamil words. The credit goes to SPB who makes this nor­mal song to a greater height. The song trav­els with dif­fer­ent back­grounds with­out any change in the voices. The female singer is Chan­drayee. Kamal per­son­ally regret­ted that he couldn’t fit this song in the film.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neE6f7k7qIk&feature=related

Poovil vandu koodum

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0jsie-NBPw&feature=channel

As susu­ally said, these are just some ran­dom gems that I come across.  Instead of hear­ing in stress man­age­ment classes at a later day, let us hear them in the lit­tle time, which we have for self, these days.

–Toto.

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