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    P.U.Chinnappa

    List of Songs:
    Alphabetical
    http://forumhub.lunarpages.com/hub/lyrsort.php?t=2370

    Chronological:
    http://forumhub.mayyam.com/hub/lyrsort.php?t=2370&opt=c

    http://forumhub.lunarpages.com/hub/v...?p=80480#80480


    Topic started by Sathiya Keerthi (@ synergy.nus.edu.sg) on Sat May 30 01:10:49 EDT 1998.


    Tamil Cinema's first Chapter consisted of actors
    who also sang very well. The two great stars of
    that chapter were MKTB and PU Chinnappa. In the
    singing department MKTB was clearly the more popular
    one among the masses. But, in acting, dialogues,
    fights etc., PU Chinnappa was the better one. He
    was probably the first to effectively do two, three,
    and even ten roles in a single movie.

    We have already collected lots of information
    about MKTB, thanks to Manisekaran. Shall we do
    the same for PU Chinnappa?




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    Sathiya Keerthi (@ syne*) on: Sat May 30 05:02:00 EDT 1998




    'Chandrakantha' (1936), I believe is the first
    movie acted by PUC. He acted as a prince in that
    movie. Though it was a success, several movies
    acted by him soon after that were failures. The
    movie, 'Uththama Puththiran' (1940) by Modern
    Theatres gave him a lift again. (This movie was
    remade later with Sivaji as the hero.) PUC acted
    in dual roles (maaRupatta guNangaLai koNda
    irattaiyargaL). Bharadhiyaarin senthamizh
    naadennum pOdhinilE
    gaNeerendra PUC voice-il
    indha padaththildhaan idam petradhu. sudhandhira
    pOraattam soodu pidiththirundha vELaiyil ip paattum
    padamum siRandha vetri petrana. Another big hit
    that came soon after was 'Aryamaalaa' (1941) in
    Patchiraja Films. aanandha roobiNiyE aariyamaalaa and
    siva kirubaiyaal were two hit songs in that
    movie. PUC acted in 10 different roles in that
    movie and impressed the audience tremendously
    as a great actor!

    More later...





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    pg (@ clie*) on: Sat May 30 08:49:30 EDT 1998




    PUC's masterpiece was namakkini bayamEdhu ?





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    Ramaswamy Gireesan (@ m42.*) on: Sat May 30 11:51:22 EDT 199




    Hi!

    namakkini bayamEdhu (rag : kalyani) was certainly a masterpiece, no doubt.

    Some other songs of PUC that I can think of are :

    1. kAdhal kanirasamE
    2. nadaialangAram kaNdEn
    3. ellOrum nallavarE, ulaginil
    4. a big kathaakaalakshebam in the film Krishna Bakthi.

    I will rake my brains to list more songs of PUC.

    Regards

    G.Ramaswamy





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    saketh (@ call*) on: Sat May 30 13:12:50 EDT 1998




    Apart from the song "namakkini bayamEdhu" which is based on the raga kalyAni, there are few more superhit songs of PUC, two of which i can recollect immediately are


    1. Nadai alankAram KandEn - KaraharapriyA (superb)

    2. Chandrodhayam idhilE - ShankarAbharanam
    (i personally feel this is the greatest tamil shankarAbharanam song in its pure form that i ever listened to, though there are lots of songs based on that scale. (of course, another greatest song on the raga is the well-known superhit telugu movie shakarAbharanam and the song "OmkAranAdhAnu".





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    Vadivel (@ 202-*) on: Sat May 30 16:05:20 EDT 1998




    Though I have heard of PUC, I don't know anything about him. Waiting for Manisekaran's memoirs of PUC. Is he a contemporary of Kittappa? One song in a Paandiarajan movie goes like this:

    KittappA andha kAlathula kAyadha kAnagatha
    P.U.ChinnappA indha kAlathula kAdhal kani rasamE
    manmadha leelai MKT kAlathula
    ...
    ...
    So I think PUC must have come to cine field after KittappA and one of PUC's hits must be "kAdhal kani rasamE". Am I correct?





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    Pagalavan (@ bbn-*) on: Sat May 30 21:24:52 EDT 1998




    Ramasamy Gireesan

    Your mention about kaathal kanirasamE song brings back my childhood memories. (Then in cylon radio, (very) old songs were played at 5:15 AM or so, and my father was an ardent fan of MKTB ad PUC). There is a line avaL kANakkidaikkAtha thangam.. that gets repeated couple of times in one of PUC's song. Is this line from kAthal kanirasamE song? Is this song from the film jagathala pradAban? Thanks for any info.





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    pg (@ clie*) on: Sat May 30 23:47:18 EDT 1998




    One more PUC masterpiece :

    sArasam vaseegara seer tharum
    mugam chandra bimbam






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    Sathiya Keerthi (@ pano*) on: Sun May 31 00:18:54 EDT 1998





    In 1942 PUC acted in Jupiter Pictures' kaNNagi. SV Venkatraman
    was the MD and Udumalai Narayana Kavi wrote the lyrics. The lyrics
    were very very good and the music was excellent. Several songs by PUC
    became big hits:

    anbil viLaindha amudhamE
    dhEva magaL ivaL yaar
    maanamellaam pOna pinnE

    But the song mentioned above, chandhrOdhayam idhilE was the most
    special song in this movie. adhil isaiamaippaaLar SVV Shankarabharanam
    raagaththai saaRu pizhindhaar; chandhrOdhayaththai senthamizh sandham
    aakkinaar udumalaiyaar; indha mayakkum rasak kalavaiyai than saareeram
    enum paLinguk kOppaiyil parimaaRinaar PUC; moththaththil andha paadal
    oru mukkanich chaaRu.
    -- ippadi solgiRadhu PUC patriya oru pazhaya
    journal article.

    adhE padaththil naNdu - sippi vEy kadhali naasamuRungaal, thaan
    koNda karuvaiyE azhikkum koLgaiyadhu pOl
    endru naakkil nuzhaiyaadha
    oru paadalum uNdu; adhaiyum thiruththamaagavum laavagamaagavum
    paadinaar PUC.

    1942-il PUC Prithiviraj endra padaththilum nadiththaar.
    adhil thanakku jOdiyaaga nadiththa Sakunthala-vaiyE than nija
    vaazhkkaiyilum manaivi aakkik koNdaar.

    SVV-yin isaiyil PUC pala inimaiyaana paadalgaLai paadiya padam
    kubErakuchElaa (1943). Pabanasam Sivan acted as KuchElaa. kaayakalpa
    vagaiyaRaavil ondrai saappittu kuchElar kubEranaaga maaRum pOdhu,
    vatral vadivam koNda paabanaasam sivan, vaattasaattamaana PUC-yaaga
    maaRividuvaar. 'paNam pandhiyilE' endra karuththai veLiyeedum
    selvamE suga jeevaadhaaram miga inimaiyaana paadal. Saamaa
    raagaththilum Ranjani-yilum amaindha indhap paadal PUC-yin paavam
    thadhumbum bhaaNikku nalla eduththuk kaattu. kubEra Chinnappa,
    kaadhal maiyam koNdu TR Rajakumari-yai thodarum pOdhu, nadai
    alankaaram kaNdEn
    endru uruguvaar. Karaharapriya-vai kadaindhu
    eduththa siRpamaaga veLikkaattum inimaiyaana paadal.

    The song, namakkini bayamEdhu in Kalyani raagam, it seems,
    was made for the movie, Jegathala Pradhaaban (MD: GRamanathan).
    But, it seems the song was never used for the movie.

    Kavinjar Kambadhaasan 'kadhaiamaippu, paadalgaL' varaindha padam
    Mangaiyarkkarasi (1949). Thaaththaa-Thandhai-Magan endru
    moondru vEdangaLil PUC nadiththu asaththiya indhap padaththil varum
    paadaldhaan kaadhal kanirasamE. Thyagaraja swamigaLin
    naadha dhanum anisham endru Chiththaranjani raaga varNa mettai
    appadiyE thazuviyadhu ip paadal. indha Carnatic mettin azhagu,
    thuLiyim baadhikkap padaamal paadiyuLLaar PUC. idhE padaththil
    paarththaal pasi theerum endra paadalil Chenjuritti raagaththaik
    koNdu nenjuruttiyuLLaar PUC.

    The article that I have also talks about a movie, manOnmaNeeyam
    (1942) acted by PUC and TRRajakumari. It seems the songs in that
    movie were a feast in Classical music. I will write about them later.





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    Sathiya Keerthi (@ pano*) on: Sun May 31 00:23:07 EDT 1998




    PG:

    The last song that you mentioned is from the movie,
    Krishna Bhakthi.





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