1. Para para Kili
Film : Ret­ta­suzhi
Singers : Rahul Nam­biar, Deepa mariam
MD : Karthikraja Lyrics : Pazhanibharathi

It’s long time since I heard KR’s music — a tal­ented and wasted [ due to his ego, I under­stand ] music direc­tor of Tamil ndus­try. Good songs catch your atten­tion when you hear it at the very first time and this is one such number.

The tune just flows like a stream and it’s enjoy­a­bale. Both the singers have done a won­der­ful job for this inter­est­ing song.  You can feel him as a mod­ern IR and gives plea­sure, which a good num­ber offers to us.

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

2. Ray­ilin Paathaiyil
Film : Appavi
Singers : Har­i­ha­ran, Shreya Goshal
MD : Joshua Srid­har Lyrics : Na. Muthukumar

Once again it caught me at the very first instance and the pack­age was attrac­tive with Har­i­ha­ran and SG. It could have been given to any other pair of singers but the essence might be eas­ily missed. The expe­ri­ence­sof Har­i­ha­ran and SG have been used eas­ily in this enchant­ing num­ber. Some­how, the lines sung by SG was not as clear as Har­i­ha­ran. Na.Muthukumar has given an inter­est­ing and peotic cin­ema song once again.

I am more inter­ested to see how this song would be pic­turised - the song trav­els like a train and reminds the ray­ile song pic­tur­i­sa­tion in ‘Five Star’. And in between, it reminds ‘Kumari’ song from Anniyan. How­ever, a sparkling num­ber from Joshua Srid­har. Few lines from Na.Muthukumar’s poetry [ in this song, of course ]

ர‌யிலின் பாதையில் பூக்கின்ற‌ பூவே..

க‌ண்ணீரை சேர்த்தே
அது முத்தாக்கும்

க‌ண் பார்வை வாளாகும்
நான் தேற‌ நாளாகும்

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfGE9D1V-Z8

3. Aval appadi ondrum
Film : Angaadi theru
Singers : Ranjith,Vinith Srinivas,Janaki Iyer
MD : Vijay Antony, Lyrics : Na. Muthukumar.

Other face of Vijay Antony. A melody from VA after ‘Azha­gaai pookudhe’ in Ninaithale inikkum. Ranjith/Vinith Srini­vas has pro­vided a rus­tic n nat­ural voice  This song was inter­est­ingly penned for Na.Muthukumar’s mar­riage invi­ta­tion and dropped later :). The flute and san­toor magic comes through out the song, flu­idly. The lines were really shock­ing because till this time truth was never writ­ten about a nor­mal girl where as in real­ity you won’t find the walk of annam, the light­ning smile and of course Kodiyidai !! ;) .

There was a dark n blank period in Tamil film music, where words were just used as fillers [ even dur­ing IR’s period.. check ‘Nilaakaayum neram saranam’ from Sem­baruthi ]. Now, it’s not the sit­u­a­tion and we get more poetic lyrics than ever and not from the same lyri­cist. We do have vari­eties now and that’s more impor­tant for a fan.

Some unused line from this song [ Na.Mu told ! ]

அவ‌ள் விளம்ப‌ர‌ம் எதுவும் செய்த‌தில்லை
அவ‌ள் விற்றால் விள‌ம்ப‌ர‌ம் தேவையில்லை 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snZjsVaif0k

4 : Thuli Thuli
Film : Paiyaa
Singers : Haricha­ran, Tanvi
MD : Yuvan Shankar Raja Lyrics : Na.Muthukumar

 Its start sim­ple with a gui­tar and gets in to an attract­ing tune. Haricha­ran has jus­ti­fied his voice in this soft and solo song. Tanvi has pro­vided the sup­port­ing humming.

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

5 : Poove poove
Film : Sid­dhu +2
Singers : Yuvan Shankar Raja, chin­mayee
MD : Dha­ran [ Paar­i­jad­ham, Laadam ], Lyrics : Na.Muthukumar

 A sim­ple but catchy num­ber from Dha­ran. It’s a west­ern based song and YSR voice fits the require­ment eas­ily [ New­ton sonna vidhi !! ] along with his hum­ming at the end. It’s good to see a music direc­tor lend­ing his voice in another music direc­tor which shows a healthy environment.  

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

 Other new songs that I admire recently are

Karikalan kaale pole — Vettaikaaran

Yeno yeno panithuli — Adha­van [ Akkam pakkam yaaru­mil­lai ..vaa en pakkam :) ]

Vaarayo vaarayo — Adhavan

Imma­te­r­ial of the music direc­tors, singers, album.. Na.Muthukumar [ my fav ] rules the tamil lyrics world and com­fort­ably took place of the senior lyri­cists in the recent past. I still remem­ber admir­ing his first attempts in Dum Dum Dum. Time has at least few answers for every unan­swered ques­tion. [ not always ! ]

Happy lis­ten­ing.

–Toto
 

Photo cour­tesy : Krishna.

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