Greet­ings. I’m not going to praise about the known songs which every­one of us might have praised at least 100 times at var­i­ous instances in life. So, this is not going to be about the songs like Ger­maniyin Sen­then malaire, Andhi mazhai, Kan­maniye kad­hal enbahu, Paru­vame, Nilavaave vaa, pothi vacha malliga mottu range of songs. Also, I wouldn’t tor­ture you with some unknown SPB songs from TRa­jen­dar [ Raakala vela­iay­ila] or some Chan­dra­bose songs [ Pattu chat­tai pottu vandha maina :) ]. Even some excep­tions are there in TR songs too [ Thannand­hani kaatukulle, Maalai enai vaatudhu ]. Instead, this is going to be about the songs that came as a sur­prise dur­ing a  travel, from FM or in an old CD, or a music channel.

Sim­i­lar to the var­i­ties of the singer’s voice, there are cat­e­gories of songs based on the reach. For ex in Rajaparvai, Andhi mazhai is more famous than Azhage azh­agu, Sand­hana kaa­tre is faous than Raasaave unne naan enni thaan. Idhayam oru kovil com­pared to paatu tha­laivan [ enna paatunga adhu ]. The idea is to rec­ol­lect a lit­tle bit of the songs, which I nei­ther have in my col­lec­tions nor that i repeat­edly lis­ten [ some songs were new to me ! ].

Though I lis­ten to all music direc­tors, I get very nos­tal­gic when I hear these songs. The first rea­son is that they are attached to school days and the sec­ond is that the music also speaks [ yes ! I feel like the vio­lins / cel­los / flute talk apart from the lyrics ]. Of course, mostly the lyrics are made up of dummy/filler lyrics [ raathiri yaathi­rai, aavarem poovu, ] but the effort given by the singers are worth to mention.

Pen maane sangeetham — Naan Sigappu Manidhan

I don’t even know the num­ber of times, that I have watched this movie. The pity about the song is that lyri­cist is forced to end the words with ‘ne’ [ maane, thene, naane :) ]. A sim­ple but serene song which was just one of the songs from IR those days. Nobody can even think about this kind of sim­ple pic­tur­i­sa­tion — few changes in cos­tumes in a park ]. I never thought that we would run out of good songs in just 2 decades [ ! ].

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-V9ARAWW2E

Oh maane maane — Vel­lai Roja

I remem­ber that we planned stich a shirt based on the cos­tume of Prabhu from this song [ red square in the upper left part of a col­lar­less shirt ]. One more fast paced piece from SPB with good rhythm. One more shot to be men­tioned is that un kan­nil ennai kan­den was shot like sta­tic shot [ kit­tathatta maatu kan­nula mahav­ishnu theri­yara maadiri irukkum :) ]. The best in this cat­e­gory is a shot from “Uyire” where SRK sees his reflec­tion in Manisha’s eyes [ Nalla velai ;) ].

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_O5PAGN5QI

Nilavon­dru Kan­den — Keirasikkaran

I still remem­ber the snow mountain’s still poster with Prabhu / Radha with some fur cap [ it was run­ning in Lak­shmi the­atre, then ]. The other good song is “Kai veesum thama­rai” from the same movie.  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQiEhx9dGjM

Nathiyil aadum poovanam — Kad­hal Oviyam

There’s a cat­e­gory of drama called Naatiya nadagam and sim­i­larly in cin­ema, there are some films ded­i­cated for songs [ like the Mohan movies ]. Watch out for the extra­or­di­nary lyrics of Vaira­muthu in this entire album [ vil­laku vizithu paarkume, poovil vandu koodum ] and the dif­fer­ent ren­der­ing of SPB & SJ in dif­fer­ent pro­nun­ci­a­tions. Of course, I am aller­gic to the Gam­agam [ sa ni dhapa.. game ] which comes in the inter­lude. Some­how, VM has used the same poomaram, saa­ma­ram rhyming which is a favourite line of Bharathi­raja, as told in an interview.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjIU11j0Smg

Oru Kad­hal enbathu — Chinna thambi Periya thambi

The core song for this blog is this song, which I heard recently and regreted that I didn’t have this in my col­lec­tions. The first sur­prise is that this song doesn’t belong to IR — Gan­gai ama­ran is the MD for this Manivannan’s film. Watch out for the vio­lins that travel along with the voice in par­al­lel and enrich the song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_Cvz0g4P20

Illa man­adhu — Selvi

Another sim­ple song with some junk lyrics. The song looks like pile of cut cloth pieces in a tai­lor shop. It starts slowly, runs in a rhythm, some cho­rus comes in between.. still, I like this song. I remem­ber see­ing this movie for the adven­tures of a dog :).

http://music.cooltoad.com/music/song.php?id=328766

Addi­tional songs

Unnai naan paarkayil — Kan­nukoru Vannakili

It makes sense when SPB named his kids as Pallavi and Saran[am]. Hats off to his leg­endary life with 40000 songs over a span of 40 years time.

Happy lis­ten­ing.

–Toto.

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