Kannada film music

[bingleguy]

sorry RR ... i dont have access to musiconline any other infamous site ... coz only that may not be blocked

[bingleguy]

i heard a song of Dr.Raj Kumar yest ...

Haalu jenu ondhaga .....
ninna nanna jeevana

nice song ... where can i get the lyrix from !

[Sudarshan C R]

The film ‘Badavara bandhu’ is a colour film released during 1976. It is a story of a rich man’s son brought up by an ordinary poor man. Dr. Raj had played the role of ‘hotel server’ excellently in this film and he takes care of his colleagues against the dictatorship of the hotel Manager and others and finally happy ending. Excellent and meaningful lyrics by Chi. Udayashankar

From the year 1954 with ‘Bedara Kannappa’ to 2000 of ‘Shabdavedi’ with actress Jayaprada, Dr. Raj had acted in 205 films. None of his films were ever given ‘A’ certificate.

May his soul rest in peace.

The lyric of the song ‘naidileyu huNNimeya’ follows:

citra: baDavara baMdhu (1976)
gAyana: pi sushIla
saMgIta: eM raMgarAv
sAhitya: ci udayashaMkar

naidileyu huNNimeya caMdrana mareyuvude
tAvareyu bhAskarana maretare bALuvude.. /naidile/

hariyuva nadiyu sAgara kaMDu dUrake ODuvudEnu..
suriyuva maLeya hanigaLu bhUmiya bereyade hOguvudEnu
dEvara niyamavu tAne ariyuvarAranu kANe /naidile/

haNateya kaili hiDiyuva hAge beLakanu hiDiyuvarAru..
parimaLavannu haraDada hAge mADuva jANaru yAru
tIrada Aseyu tAne capalavu EkO kANe /naidile/

The meaning of the song:

Can water Lilly forget full moon’s moonlight?
Can lotus live without sunlight?

Can flowing river run away from the ocean?
Can drops of (heavy-suriyuva) rain instead of falling on the earth, where can they go?
Can’t see any one who knows the Almighty’s rules.

Is it possible to hold light like holding a lamp in hands?
Who is that clever can avoid spreading of fragrance?
Why are this un-ending hankerings and desires (in me)?

[Sudarshan C R]

hello bingleguy,

Here is the lyric of the song 'jotheyali jothe jotheyali' from the film 'Geetha'. Excellent tune by Ilayaraja.

The song is available here:http://music.allindiansite.com/k/f/geeta.html

citra: gIta
gAyana: es pi bAlasubramaNyaM/es jAnaki
saMgIta: iLayarAja
sAhitya: ci. udayashaMkar


gaMDu:
joteyali jote joteyali iruvenu hIge eMdu
jote joteyali iruvenu hIge eMdu

joteyali jote joteyali iruvenu hIge eMdu
hosa haruShava taruvenu innu eMdu

heNNu:
O.. O...
eMtha mAtADide iMdu nI
eMtha mAtADide nanna manasina bhAvane neene hELide
joteyali jote joteyali iruvenu hIge eMdu

gaMDu:
A... A...
prItiyeMdarEnu eMdu Iga aritenu..
savinuDiyali tanu araLitu
saviganasali mana kuNiyitu
olavina I mAtige
karediha jEnnOTake
koDuve ninage bA prIti kANike

heNNu:
joteyali jote joteyali iruvenu hIge eMdu

mODadalli jODiyAgi tEli naliyuva..
hArADuva aragiLigaLa mAtADisi muddADuva
kAmana billEruva
jAruta nAvADuva
hagalu iruLu oMdAgi hADuva
joteyali jote joteyali iruvenu hIge eMdu
hosa haruShava taruvenu innu eMdu

gaMDu:
O... O..
eMtha matADide iMdu nI
eMtha matADide nanna manasina bhAvane nIne hELide
joteyali jote joteyali iruvenu hIge eMdu

[RR]

Dr. Rajkumar & Ilaiyaraaja combination

I want to make this week a Dr. Rajkumar special, with the passing of a Legend of the Indian cinema. Maestro was very close with him, as a budding music director, when working as assistant under GK Venkatesh (GKV was a famous Kannada MD and the MD for many of Rajkumar movies). They had a so close relationship that when Rajkumar was kidnapped by Veerappan, Ilaiyaraaja had been mentioned in the press as stating that he is willing to even sacrifice his life for getting him back from Veerappan.

Following details are found in Maestro’s interview to Kalyan (Kannada film lyricist).

“GKV has scored music for Sampathige Savaal. Ilaiyaraaja was his assistant. PB Srinivas was supposed to have sung for Dr Rajkumar in that movie. But GKV’s assistant didn’t prefer the song ‘yare koogadale, oore horadali’ to be sung by PB Srinivas. He had told his guru GKV about this. Then they both discussed and decided that it should be sung by Dr Rajkumar only. That laid the base for Dr Rajkumar to become one of the best playback singers in Kannada field. Are you surprised that the credit for this should go to Ilaiyaraaja? But then, that is history.

Once a song was to be sung by PB Srinivas. That film was Sampathige Savaal. I told GKV ‘anna, this song would be very soft if sung by PB Srinivas. It would be nice to have this in a bold and bright voice.’

He asked who can sing it then. ‘Shall we ask Muthuraj to sing?’ I asked. Muthuraj means Dr Rajkumar sir. I asked GKV if he could sing. ‘hey, he has worked in the drama company, he can sing excellently even without a mike. He is the best choice, let us have this sung by him.’ I was very happy. He asked ‘but why PB Srinivas should not sing this?’ I said PB Srinivas is singing all the songs in the movie. I feel this song will come out nice if sung by PB Srinivas.

He said ‘if Muthuraj said ok, I don’t have any objection.’ Next scene, Dr Rajkumar has come to the recording theatre. As per situation, I had to teach him the song. GKV used to forget the tune often. I used to remind him ‘anna, this is not like this, like that’ etc. He said ‘then you yourself shall tech this song to Dr Rajkumar.’ He was a senior artist. I was a small boy. He just looked at me, I couldn’t go a step near him. He was a great soul and had a charisma. With mutual rapport between us, the recording went on well. ‘yare koogadale, oore horadali, ninna nimmadhige bhanga illa’ – this song was picturised on Dr Rajkumar, sitting on a buffalo and singing. You all know how well it clicked. It started the practice of his singing in his films. There is another evergreen song in my heart ‘thamma manuvu indhu nandhayithu’.”

Today, I am presenting three songs from Nee Nanna Gellalaare.

Anuraga Enaaythu:

This is a pathos-mixed romance song. Dr. Rajkumar has a very unique voice, well utilized by Maestro.

http://www.filefactory.com/?562c37

Jeeva Hoovagide:

A beautiful duet with a nice female chorus. The prelude humming reminds me of Engengo sellum song from Pattakathi Bhairavan.

http://www.filefactory.com/?91ada9

Music Mazine has analysed this song very well here.

http://www.themusicmagazine.com/drrajlegends.html

Rajkumar has been the leading hero in Kannada cinema for five decades, but he emerged as a singer only mid-way in his career, when he sang the energetic and wildly popular Yaare koogadali in the 1974 film Sampatthige Sawal. Legends presents this song in Volume 1.

Ilaiyaraja made the music for one Rajkumar film, Nee Nanna Gellalaare, and Legends features two songs from it -- Anuraga enaaythu and Jeeva hoovayithu. Both are notable for their unorthodox tunes and interludes. In the second song, Ilaiyaraja gets Rajkumar to sing on parallel tracks and achieves a warm, fugue-like effect, with the voices beginning at unexpected points and overlapping one another like waves.

Nanna Neenu Gellalare:

The situation here is a song competition between hero and heroine. Maestro has used Shrutibhedam concept, with various ragas.

http://www.filefactory.com/?add62e

This excerpt is from an article by Chaya Rao in www.raaja.com, which will help you to understand the song very well.

“A song in Kannada called Nanna neenu Gellalare (Movie - Nee Nanna Gellalare), he has used this range for the Shruthibhedham. It fits very well to the mood of the song. The subject in the song is that the hero and the heroine are competing with each other, arguing who amongst them has higher music knowledge. The song starts in Hindola and stays that way. In the second interlude the singers (S. Janaki & Dr. Rajkumar) start the swara alapanas.

S. Janaki Starts this sanchara - Sa Ga2 Ma1 Ga2 (Pure Hindola),
Dr.Rajkumar Replies - Pa Ni2 Sa1. Ni2 (Pure Shuddha Dhanyasi),

It goes on like this -

S. Janaki : Sa Ga2 Ma1 Dha1
Dr. Rajkumar: Pa Ni2 Sa Ga2 S
Janaki : Sa Ga2 Ga2 Ma1 Ma1 Dha1 Dha1 Sa Ni2 Ni2 Ni2
Dr.Rajkumar: Pa Ni2 Ni2 Sa Sa Ga2 Ga2 Pa Ma1 Ma1 Ma1
S. Janaki : Ga2 Ma1 Dha1 Ni2 Ni2 Sa Ni2 Dha1
Dr.Rajkumar : Ni2 Sa Ga2 Ma1 Ma1 .Pa Ma1 Ga2
and it goes on and on.

After which Dr. Rajkumar sings the Mohana swaras (Sa Ri2 Ga3 Pa Dha2 Sa) - Hindola equivalent (Dha1 Ni2 Sa Ga2 Ma1 Dha1), Madhyamavathi Swaras (Sa Ri2 Ma1 Pa Ni2 Sa) - Hindola equivalent (Ni2 Sa Ga2 Ma1 Dha Ni2), then Hindola swaras, followed by Suddha Saveri (Sa1 Ri2 Ma1 pa Dha2 Sa) - Hindola equivalent (Ga2 Ma1 Dha1 Ni2 Sa Ga2) and finishes with Suddha Dhanyasi Swaras. Brilliant composition! who else but Raaja can do something this good!. "

http://maestromagic.blogspot.com/200...mbination.html

[rajeshkrv]

great write up RR

Rajkumar was made to sing by GKV and thus PBS's chances faded. PBS himself says i was made to sing for rajkumar by GKV and the same GKV was the reason for his downfall but all in game..

coming to rajkumar's singing abilities, it's really wonderful amidst of great trained singers, he could compete and prove in many songs ..

http://www.udbhava.com/udbhava/songs.jsp?id=36

listen to the innu hattira hattira from the film Bhagyadha laskhmi baramma

but his prime period was during 60's where he got very good songs from M.Rangarao, vijayabhaskar, GKV, TGL etc..

listen to

Nee mudhidha (Dr.Raj &kalpana)
http://www.psusheela.org/kannada/rm/...dha_Mallige.rm


nannavalu nannadeya (Dr.Raj & kalpana)
http://www.psusheela.org/kannada/rm/...luNannedeya.rm

oduva nadhi
http://www.psusheela.org/kannada/rm/...hi_sagarava.rm

this is Dr.Raj's personal favourite too

Let me come up with some more write up soon on Dr.Raj's songs

[Sudarshan C R]

Lot of info by you RR & Rajesh

Do you know this?

As early as 1959, Sri Muthuraj (Rajkumar) had sung a duet song with P Susheela(?)for the film ‘MahishAsura Mardhini’, a B/W film directed by B S Ranga.MD was GKV and lyrics by Chi. Sadashivaiah. The few lines of the song:

tuMbitu manava taMditu suKava
prEmada gALi nanna jIvanavaraLi
nanna jIvanavaraLi (eraDu sAri)

This song is hardly available to listen now except AIR.
But Rajkumar gave chance to PBS till 1974 when he sang ‘yaare kUgaDali’ in Sampathige Savaal. Raj’s body with voice of PBS in all Raj’ movies. In kannada they say ‘SharIra’ (body) and ‘ShArIra’ (voice). The voice of PBS was so matched to Raj, that layman never guessed there used to be a playback singer for Raj.

Because of competition, the song ‘nanna neenu gellalare’ was very famous during those days. Excellent composition by Ilayaraja.

Maximum numbers of songs (lyrics) for Raj’s movies are penned by chi. Udayashankar. You will never find a single unpleasant word in his lyrics.

[RR]

Rajesh & Sudharshan,

Thanks, but honestly the credit goes to crvenky.

BTW, Rajkumar won a national award for Best singer (I was taken aback by that news then, as I hadn't seriously listened to any of his songs). Is the song online anywhere?

[rajeshkrv]

Next kannada pick is a beautifull duet by P.Susheela and Rajkumar Bharathi

Song:Prema Baalige swapna


Movie: AgniDivya
Music:Shyam
Lyrics:Prof. Doddarangegowda

Shyam is a noted Music director in malayalam and he had given music in Tamil,Telugu and kannada.

Rajkumar bharathi also have sung many kanada songs

this is a nice duet by P.Susheela and R.K.Bharathi

listen and enjoy



http://raretfm.mayyam.com/stream/ifm/premabalige.rm

[Sudarshan C R]

The film ‘agni divya’ which was released during 1990 was a colour movie with Bhavya and Jaijagadish in lead roles. Not a popular movie at all.

Prof. Doddarangegowda’s poem selected as a duet song for this movie and music by Shyam. Rajkumar Bharti is famous for singing non-film songs and classical music has sung this song with PS.

Lyric goes like this:

citra: agni divya (1990)
gAyana: rAj kumAr bhArati/pi sushIla
saMgIta: shyAm
sAhitya: pro. doDDa raMgEgauDa

prEma bALige svapna siriya taMdide
suKada hAdige eMdu nAMdi hADide
olavu celuvu oMdAgide
prAya tuMbi raMgAgide..

heNNu: prEma bALige svapna siriya taMdide
suKada hAdige eMdu nAMdi hADide.
olavu celuvu oMdAgide
prAya tuMbi raMgAgide..

ibbaru:
prEma bALige svapna siriya taMdide
suKada hAdige eMdu nAMdi hADide

gaMDu:
hitavAda mAtanADi dinadinavU Ase mUDi
sogasAda saMga kUDi tanu manada bayake kADi
heNNu:
inidAda bhASheyiMda prati nuDiyu mOha kUDi
celuvAda mAtiniMda hagaliruLu mOju nIDi
gaMdu: kuDi nOTavE
heNNu: oMdAgutide
gaMDu: anurAgave
heNNu: iMpAgutide
gaMDu: RutumAnave
heNNu: kaMpAgutide
gaMdu: oDalALave
heNNu: taMpAgutide
ibbaru:
hAyAgi prEmada nauke tElADi niMtide /prEma/

heNNu:
manasAre tOLa baLasi
kShaNa kShaNavu milanakAgi
oDanADi baLige seLedu
hRudayada rAgavAgi
gaMDu:
balavAda baMdha beLedu
atimadhura snEha tOri
geluvAda bALu olidu
rati suKada dAha hIri
heNNu: huDugATave
gaMDu: hiMdAgutide
heNNu: oDanATave
gaMDu: naMTAgutide
heNNu: beretAgale
gaMDu: raMgErutide
heNNu: aritAgale
gaMDu: ceMdAgutide
ibbaru:
saMtOSha sAgara tuLuki OlADidaMtide /prEma/