Para para kili — New songs
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  • Tranquil tunes..
  • Time to blow the speakers..Baby !!
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    2 Songs — 2 Shots

    2 Songs - 2 Thoughts

    Song  1 – Thought  1 [ Scene 1 Take 1 maadiri ille ?! ]

    I have heard about film songs express­ing a par­tic­u­lar sit­u­a­tion, a flash­back or even sum­ma­riz­ing the entire story. Have you heard of a song sum­ma­riz­ing a com­mon man’s life ?

    When celebri­ties write their auto­bi­og­ra­phy, they can write pages about them­selves, good / bad, expe­ri­ences etc., what hap­pens if a com­mon mid­dle aged man is asked for a short auto­bi­og­ra­phy? If the same task is given to you, how would you respond? I have a sim­ple answer which I take from this song.

     Ordi­nary lines of Vaali makes this song and SPB’s voice make this song extra­or­di­nary. I just gasp when he fin­ishes that time is already gone !

     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7X316JzJUo

    My story so far !

     துள்ளித் திரிந்ததொரு காலம்
    பள்ளி பயின்றதொரு காலம்
    காலங்கள் ஓடுது பூங்கொடியே பூங்கொடியே
    இன்பத்தை தேடுது பூங்கொடியே பூங்கொடியே

    அன்னை மடிதனில் சிலநாள்
    அதை விடுத்தொரு சிலநாள்
    திண்ணை வெளியில் சிலநாள்
    உண்ண வழியின்றி சிலநாள்
    நட்பின் அரட்டைகள் சிலநாள்
    நம்பித் திரிந்ததும் பலநாள்
    கான‌ல் நீரினில் சிலநாள்
    கடல் நடுவிலும் சிலநாள்
    கன்னி மயக்கத்தில் திருநாள்
    கையில் குழந்தையும் அதனால்
    ஓடி முடிந்தது காலங்கள் காலங்கள்.. பூங்கொடியே.……

    On the sim­i­lar note, the other good song sung by IR is “Kaatu vazhi “  from Athu oru Kanaa kaalam. More than the song, I again like the lyrics and the lines which we nor­mally need to take with a pinch of salt.  

     ந‌தி போல் வேக‌த்திலே
    அந்த‌ நாளும் ஓடுத‌டா !

    Song 2 – Thought 2

    I can’t digest the truth of philoso­phies and we need to go back to the fan­tasy world, to relax. To con­trast from the pre­vi­ous song, I hear this anti­dote song  with a beau­ti­ful cadence.  The word cadence means a recur­rent rhyth­mi­cal series – Sand­ham. The clas­sic exam­ple is Muthai Thiru Paththi thiruna­gai song [ Dei.. Dei ! ].  

    The song is “Chittu Kuruvi” from the film Chinna veedu. I still remem­ber those days where all my rel­a­tives go as pairs to this movie only dur­ing the 2nd show. We were not allowed to watch this movie, which in fact increased the curios­ity on this movie.

    What I liked is the rhyth­mic lines of Vaira­muthu and the beauty of Tamil. Kindly don’t devi­ate your­self by the ama­teur graph­ics and dance [?!] per­for­mances of Bhag­yaraj, in the fol­low­ing video. 

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ3CGh0Rm08

    த‌த்தை த‌த்தித் த‌வ‌ழும்
    தோளைத் கொத்தித் த‌ழுவும்

    முத்த‌ச் சுவ‌டு
    சிந்தும் உத‌டு

    க‌ள்ள‌க் க‌னியே
    அள்ள‌ச் சுவையே

    I am not going to talk about IR’s inspi­ra­tion from Dvo­rak — New World Sym­phony — 3rd Mvt. I ‘m not qual­i­fied to praise the great­ness of Dvo­rak, either. Dvo­rak is a Czech composer.

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp0-FVuLtOk - If inter­ested, fol­low his other works on “The New World”.

     

    Tit­bit as usual.. Once a dance mas­ter approached Bhag­yaraj for the song shoot­ing and asked hm to come for rehearsals. Bhag­yaraj replied that he doesn’t need rehearsals. Instead he asked the dance mas­ter to see his ear­lier dance steps and rehearse accordingly :)

    :)

    Toto.

    Related Posts B

    1. Para para kili — New songs
    2. Adadaa vaa asatha­laam — New good songs
    3. Time to blow the speakers..Baby !!
    4. Tran­quil tunes..
    5. Few grams from the gold mine IV

    2 Comments

    1. Totally for­got about the 2nd song. can recall the first song quite well.
      but only after u wrote this, i noticed the lyrics…, gen­er­ally our music direc­tors treat lyrics just as words used as fillers in between music and treat lyri­cists as their “Jalra”.… .

      from 60’s, 70’s prob­a­bly Kan­nadasan com­manded huge respect and mid 80’s till recently Vaira­muthu too. these days Thama­rai is quite clear about what she wants to write and even rejected a few oppor­tu­ni­ties when she found she cant suit the mood of the song. Some time back, i was sur­prised when i lis­tened to some nice mean­ing­ful lyrics even in Rama­ra­jan films, com­posed by IR.

    2. You are right, Rajan. The golden period of lyri­cists was 60s and the worst period is known, any­way. Some unusual songs sur­prise us by some means.. tune / lyrics / instruments.

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