Pick of the week: 1 Mar to 5 Aug 2006

[RR]

This song is a real treat. Not often we get to hear songs so richly toned in Hindustani, yet sound good. That 'naLinam' part and later the swaras are just lovely.

[Ramki]

RR, I too thought the swaras were awesome

[Ramki]

Pick # 72


http://tfmpage.com/stream/songs/paadu_sk.rm

Song: paadu paadu bharatha paNpaadu
Film: sengotai
Singers: Chitra, Anuradha Sriram
Lyrics: Vairamuthu
Music : Vidhyasagar

'sengotai' is one good album by Vidhyasagar. I like almost all the songs.
While 'boomiye boomiye'(SPB,SJ), 'uchi mudhal paadham varai'(HH,Mithali) and today's pick are on the melodious side,
'viNNum maNNum'(Mano, Swarnalatha) and 'vennilaave veLLaipoove vaa'(Mano, chitra) were foot-tapping(and less irritating compared to VS current fast songs).
I watched 2/3 of sengottai and i thought it was not a bad movie.
It had Arjun, Meena and Rambha. I remember bits and pieces. The storyline from what i remember is as follows: Meena is accused of murdering a foreigner her family was hosting, Arjun is assigned to investigate her case. His fiance Rambha dies in a bomb explosion that was meant to kill Arjun.

Todays pick is for Meena and a white female. Vairamuthus lines are simple, plain and good. While chitra excels, AS justs gets to mouth ' wow beautiful ..i like it ' with an artificial accent

[rajeshkrv]

A nice song ..

btw Uchi mudhal in record had HH & mithali
but in film it was by Mano & mithali

[Thiru]

nice song and nice lyrics... my pick of the album was 'boomiye boomiye'... the violin piece at the end of the saranam makes me think that its an IR song... Another recent VS song which made me think like that was 'Athithom' from chandramukhi...

[Ramki]

Thanks rkrv

Thiru i have not listened to chandramukhi yet. Today oli played 'devuda' and it sounded like nimbuda song form HDDCS

[Ramki]

Pick # 72


http://tfmpage.com/stream/songs/thiru_ne.rm

Song: Thiruthani muruga
Film: Neelagiri Express
Singers: PSuseela, Soolamangalam Rajalakshmi
Lyrics: ?
Music : TKRamamurthy

'Neelagiri express' is a very special film to me as my late uncle played a very small role in that film. He passed away when i was an infant, so the only memory i have of him is from watching the film.
My uncle was a part time stage actor. He was working in AGS office along with KB, Major etc. He played Geminis role in the stage version of 'iru kodugaL'. He did few stage dramas. Neelagiri express is his only film role.

'Neelagiri express' is a typical Jaishankar thriller. Cho, vijayanirmala ,vijayalalitha, Asokan etc were his costars. Cho was one of this film producer.
TKRamamurthy did very few films after his professional divorce from MSV. Todays pick is one his memorable songs.

The song was picturised on Srividya and MBanumathi.
The other good song is 'naan kalaignan illai'(TMS).

PS:This will be my last pick for this week. I will be back with more songs next week.

[SN23]

This very good pair gave very good and sweet devotional film songs. The top of the list is always thiruparang-kundrathil nee sirithal. You do not see either of them overdoing. I think the period of these songs were without track-recording. Nice to imagine how the two sang together with a great devotion without loosing the sweetness in their voices.

Ramki, unga uncle peyarai (name) sollungaLen. If I also see the padam, let me remember.

[Ramki]

SN23-It's Narayanan

[Ramki]

Pick # 73


http://tfmpage.com/stream/songs/aanan_mm.rm

Song: aanandhame alaipayudhe
Film: Mathumalar
Singer: SPBalasubramaniam
Lyrics: ?
Music : Gangai Amaran

When Me and Mano were hosting the 'rare songs' webpage there were many requests for this song.I finally got hold of this sweet melody by GA.
Madhumalar was a forgettable film by Santhanbharathy. It had Prathap and Suhasini in the lead. I remember watching this film but do not remember the story(Prathap dies in the end?).
'Vaanamae mazhai megame' is other good song from MM