The Golden Era of Dr.IR and Dr.SPB - Part 2

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Great post App and my most heard and favorite song that time more for Swarnalatha. Great information Murali sir on Prabhu movies. Yes Raj Kapoor has become an actor just like other directors of that time.I believe he was the director of some Karthik movies too, like Chinna jameen and Seemaan. Prabhu-Kushboo starrer movies were rage that time mainly because they made a wonderful pair and also because of their closeness. Prabhu is the only actor who does the same number of films then and now. A rare phenomenon!.

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nanRi Murali sir, for the details on Pandiththurai & the correction of the director's name!

nanRi V_Sji, for the kind words!

nanRi A2A & HR for the visit

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I always wished they did not include the female dubbing artist comments in the song, it spoils the mood of song to extend.

Yes, that was the annoying factor of the song !

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Vinatha akka

Is that your Garden in the attachment ??

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Three songs - #364, #365 & #366 are due today!

And with that this compilation exercise will complete one year

I'll work thru today to get kooNdukkuLLa, muthu maNi mAlai & sAmi kitta solli posted

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I'll work thru today to get kooNdukkuLLa, muthu maNi mAlai & sAmi kitta solli posted

These songs didn't go that well with me, cos PS sounded really matured in this song, she sounded more like SPB's mum rather than sis

Aanast Raaj,

Aaiye AaiyeE

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#364 கூண்டுக்குள்ள என்ன வச்சு
(சின்னக்கவுண்டர், 1992 , ஜானகியுடன்)

'kooNdukkuLLa enna vachchu' from chinnakkounder, with SJ

A middle aged woman used to make our childhood summer holidays at the grand parents' home in the hot Ramnad district so memorable, with her afternoon shouts : 'mAlappathani nongoo'! I have waited for that sound on a number of days and run with such a thrill to the compound gate to invite the lady and walk behind her. As she slowly gets her big koodai down from the head and settle down under the vEppa maram to relax a bit after walking in the hot sunlight, we'll be surrounding her in great expectation!

After she parts with those delicious goodies -collecting what I would say her meagre reward from grandmA for the hard work - we'll have such a great time enjoying the precious nongu that's on the tongue only for a very short moment and instantaneously slips into the throat just like that! I can recall the childish thrill of opening the nongu and getting that sweet few drops of liquid fall on the tongue -delishshious!

This song is like those few sweet drops and the nice iLam nongu on a hot summer! For some reason, the movie's title / posters all remind me of a hot summer and palm trees. (May be because Vijayakanth had an umbrella). I have never seen the movie and its release time period had nothing common with hot summer but the panai maram stuff somehow got embedded in my mind, for some inexplicable reason.

If anything, it should have been thennai maram - I think the movie setting has Pollachi, which is famous for thEngAi / iLani & not so much of panangAi which is more assoicated with mid / south TN. My then-dwelling-place, Palakkad, was also a coconut & watery place and had no relation with panai maram whatsoever. However, as we all know, the mind is such a complex thing and it can connect / combine entities without any relation in an unusual manner.

SPB & SJ are in good form here and rAsA too got totally charged up for this album, possibly with some nice story telling by RVU. (I'm not a big fan of 'kaNNu padappOguthayyA' but love his 'andha vAnaththppOla manam padaiththa' - what a song!).

Well, after we finish this 'kooNdukkuLLa' nongu at Virudhupatti (old name, I saw milestones there with that name, known to us as 'Virudhunagar'), let's go back to my village in Maduari district and have another sweet treat from the tall trees...

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App anna

Isn't Nongu the younger vesrion of Panam pazham ?

And this is Nongu right ?

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Param,
That picture shows 'panangAi' (or panam pazham).

nongu is the kernel inside it, when it's still tender (typically, there'll be three nongu's in one panangAi).

Check out this link:
http://www.sangkavi.com/2011/04/blog-post_16.html

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Oh thanks app anna, I remember eating it when i was about 6 or 7 , but forgotten how it looked like