This is not the effort of list­ing the best of IR — it needs a big­ger com­mu­nity to col­lect and share about the entire good num­bers from IR. Rather, I would like to share the songs which I liked and didn’t hear much in the Thi­raiganam or in FM chan­nels. I have cat­e­gorised these songs as not very pop­u­lar in my expe­ri­ence and opin­ion. For ex Oram po song was very famous and Vaa­nengum vanna vin­meen­gall [ Moon­dram pirai ] song was infa­mous. With that scale, I have listed some of my favourites which got a dim spot­light then and now. It’s more like remem­ber­ing just a day of the child­hood or school­days, whereas the com­plete period was too good.

Devanin Kovil [ Aru­vadai Naall ]

Some songs make you to remem­ber some jour­neys. “Olai kurutho­lai” from Aru­vadai naall and “Chinnna chinna vanna kuyil” from Mouna ragam makes me to remem­ber my fre­quent bus journies to Chen­nai, in my school days . Some­how, I missed this good num­ber from Aru­vadai naall those days. I hap­pened to hear the inter­lude music in one of my FM days and caught the begin­ning of the song. That was another topic about hear­ing some music part or lyric part and keep try­ing to get the begin­ning of the song — we played this as a game to find the begin­ning of the song with that bit music [ evlo ubayo­ga­mana vellayaatu :) ].

I like the last line, espe­cially.. “Maran­thaal thaane nim­madhi” :). The lyrics was writ­ten by Gan­gai Ama­ran. The song has got the weird com­bi­na­tion like it starts like a peppy back­ground, pathos is shown only in voice n lyrics, won­der­ful inter­ludes. A rare pathos song which is based on slow tempo and interesting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9pE6gSN7ic

Kaad­hal ennum koil [ Kazhugu ]

I remem­ber see­ing this tourist bus movie in Balan the­atre for no rea­sons. The “Ponoviyam”  song was a catchy one but ‘Kaad­hal ennum koil” is close to my heart. I mis­took that it was sung by IR and included in my 90 min cas­sette col­lec­tions. Sur­pris­ingly, later I found that the song was per­formed by Sula­man­galam Murali. One of the fore­most songs, which I knew the com­plete lyrics [ you know the first song which I fully sang with my friends — Dhi­nam dhi­nam un mugam from Uyir­ullavarai Usha :) ].

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UF7vHKYy3Y

Poovile medai [ Pagal Nilavu ]

There is no doubt that the Poo Maalaiye song in this album, is the best. How­ever, I lis­ten to the other less freuqnlty aired song ppovile medai. A sim­ple piano n flute back­drop with Jayachandran’s voice is very sooth­ing to lis­ten. Supris­ingly it’s a short song [ 2.30 mins ] match­ing the soft jayachandran’s voice for Sarath­babu on screen [ what a nice match ! ].

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ew3ydyh3pKI

Uravenum pud­hiya vaanil [ Nen­jathai Killaadhey ]

It’s a plea­sure to lis­ten to this song and the ini­tial vio­lin bit. It starts with SJ and SPB joins the later part of the song. It’s the usual song for a slow motion duet kind of song [ may be on a horse in the beach :) ]. In between, it resem­bles the other good song “Chinna pura ondru”. The sig­na­ture ‘Pa ba pa ba’ kin­dles the mem­o­ries of bell bot­tom days. As usual in Mahen­dran films [ mostly ], the char­ac­ters don’t sing the song — an easy way to remove dra­matic expres­sions as well as not to dam­age the work of IR. Sim­i­larly in ‘Paru­vame’ song.

It makes a big dif­fer­ence to see the back­ground song , when a woman with prob­lems think­ing about life while spend­ing time with her kids — Azhagiya Kanne from Uthirp pookkall. It would have been so arti­fi­cial if Aswini might have sang for the situation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cji2ns0D1MU

Poon­then­dral Kaa­tre vaa — Man­jal nila

A beau­ti­ful num­ber from IR with Jay­achan­dran and Suseela.

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

Few more songs

Man­jal veyil maalaiyitta poove — Mud­hal Iravu — Uma Ramanan

Paniyum naane — Pan­i­malar — SPB / Jency — Supris­ingly from Shankar Ganesh

Alli thandha boomi — Nandu — MV

Paadi vaa Then­drale — Mudi­valla aram­bam — Jayachandran

Dheem Dhi­ranana ; Then aru­viyil — Aagaya gan­gai — SPB/SJ

I read a quote about money and it goes like this. “You can come to the Ocean with a tea­spoon, a bucket, or a trac­tor trailer! The Ocean doesn’t care! The Ocean just wants to out­flow!”. I can relate this to the IR songs.

Happy lis­ten­ing.

:)

Toto.

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