Pick of the week: 1 Mar to 5 Aug 2006

[Naaz]

Ramki -

Thanks for featuring the song and the commentary! It is reassuring to know that my picks (few and far between) resonate so vividly with the participants in this thread. Adhu Podhum Enakku!

What happened to the SAR of this calibre? Swallowed up by "assembly-line" TFM mediocrity? That's the sad thing. But this solo is his crowning glory, and a reminder of the fine potential that was commercially squandered.

SPB...Eththanai Sringaaramaai Paadugiraar! Delicious!

Thanks again, Ramki.

[Nitya]

Coming to the song from "Maappillai Sir," I remember seeing this song on TV way back in 1999, when I was living at home with my family. I remember the song for Visu(?) stroking the hair of a doll on his lap. I figured this song was about a father's reminiscing over a lost daughter, as with the cuts of a cute little girl. I think that the cuts with Visu and the doll are especially effective in conveying pathos; just think about it, a grown man petting an inanimate object incapable of giving any affection in return.

[Nitya]

I second Naaz on his bit on SAR's talent being squandered by commercialism. I would even go insofar as to compare SA Rajkumar to Mallu composer Ouseppachan. Both started out in the mid 1980s, both started out giving songs very similar to IR's style, both gave us false hopes with their debut films, and both eventually caved in to commercialism and gave mostly superficially catchy songs.

[Naaz]

[Naaz]

Balaji -

If I may address your question:

"SAR Perumai Pada Vaendiya Paadal...just a handful...painful tenure (!)"

The answer to your "how was this selected" query is also within your post!

This solo is a "rare" example of SAR's excellence. Sure, it was popular around the time of the film's release. And given the forgettable output by the same MD in the later years, you must admit that Ponmaankuyil seems to be more and more of an (exceptional) abberration?

Popular songs can also showcase some "lost" creativity that deserves celebration in this thread!

[Ramki]

Bala
If you been noticing, i always try to have atlease one 'known' song, if not more, per week. It kind of balances the selection and also makes the thread active(Look at the response for the first 2 selections of this week )

Next selection, hopefully, will be a rare song to most of us.

Coming to the storyline of MM, charanya will shoot senthamarai after he murders prabhu with his wild electrical plugs

[Ramki]

Pick #308

http://raretfm.mayyam.com/stream/pow...thamizh_aot.rm

Song: painthamizhe vaa
Film: avaL oru thamizhachi
Singer : SPB
lyrics: ?
Music: M.S.Viswanathan

I might have said this many times before, but no harm in repeating . Savithri and Saritha are 2 actress i admire for their
performances. They can handle any kind of role. Saritha must be the last heroine in TFM to have received performance oriented roles. Thanks to KB for exploiting her potential to the maximum extent. Not only she did good roles in tamil but also in telugu, malayalam and kannada too.
Like any good actor, she did overact sometimes but these instances were far and few.
After a fantastic debut in Marocharitra, KB and Saritha once again joined hands for another telugu venture 'kokilamma'.
She played a poor deaf girl who encourages her poor loverboy(Rajeev) to become a big singer. He does and he forgets her and marries a rich lady(Swapna). The storyline was kind of similar to aenipadigaL.
MSV came up with excellent songs and todays pick is one good one.

You can listent to the telugu version here:

http://www.telugubiz.net/songs/searc...al=571&sort=al

(The link says iLaiyaraja which is incorrect)

[rajdes]

CB, S-G, SAR - seeing the sequence, I assumed Sampath-Chelvan would be next. You broke it with MSV

[jmahesh]

Personally I liked SAR's chinna poove song from chinna poove mella pesu than manasukkul mathapoo. In fact it was the same team , isnt it which made both films isnt it?
In manasukkul mathapoo Suhasini was supposed to do Saranya's role & even papers carried ads with her pictures.
I have seen 'aval oru thamizhachi' in maris fort in Trichy.I remember the climax after Rajeev ditches Saritha ,she continues to carry on with her life by sticking cinema posters with the help of another disabled woman.(?blind)
I also remember the review in kumudham or vikatan which said 'ippadi appatamaana thelungu padathukku poi 'aval oru thamizhachi' endru KB per vaithirikiraar.
( this comment was due to the Telugu writings/posters that are seen thru out the movie)

[balaji]

Ramki
Thanks for the AOT song, never heard this!

SPB tries to give life to otherwise often-repeated tune by the Maestro MSV.

Naaz, thanks for the comments..

how about a rare song of SPB by Chakravarthi/KVM/Sathyam/Ramesh Naidu? (the satlwarts of Telugu film songs of the 70s and early 80s, who in spite being very popular in Telugu could hardly make a dent in Tamil)

But one thing is true, your selections have been marvellous!
Bala