Pick of the week: 1 Mar to 5 Aug 2006

[Naaz]

Oftentimes, I am unsure if I am familiar with POTW when I read the scripted first line on the right hand corner at this portal...but with a click, a forgotten world of melody is opened anew. This has happened innumerable times, and it happened again this morning.
Madhu Malargale is a cotton candy of a song from the baton of IR. Thanks for this sugar high, Ramki.

[Ramki]

Pick # 88

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



Song: thanga therodum azhaginile
Film: Raghupathy Raghava Rajaram
Singers: PSuseela, SPB
Lyrics: kaNNadasan
Music: Shankar Ganesh

SG pair never cease to surprise me. Though many of their songs are less than ordinary, they often come out with nice surprises like today's pick. This was a popular vividh bharathi song in late 70s?(could be early 80s). As always SPB and PS give their best.
I believe this film had 3 heroes. Could it be sivakumar,srikanth and jaiganesh??I think sumithra is one of the heroines.

[RC]

Ramki: I dont think its Sivakumar. I remember seeing Rajinikanth in the cassette cover..

[Ramki]

I'm familiar with Rajini's 'shankar salim simon' but his part in RRR is a news. Thanks RC.

[balaji]

Ramki

Thanks for the nice song. An Ilangai Vanoli Favorite.

SG have given several hit songs with the above pair, 'Aval oru pachai Kuzhandahi' and 'Naan Kattil Mele' were among the highly popular ones.

I think it was neither Sivakumar nor Rajini. It was Major witH Srikanth & Jaiganesh..

Ramki, if you have Aval oru pachail kuzhandai song, please do include in the future..

Bala

[madhu]

Hi !

I think Sumitra is the only heroine!
and one among the hero is Jayachandran... ( I think he acted in some more movies around that period )
with whom sumitra dances in a rocky area ..without balance! :P )

[SN23]

Nalladoru kudumbam song (Manju bargavi dances) is KaNNa un leela vinOdham

Ramki, I happened to see the film RRR in K-TV some time back. It featured a 3 brothers story (Ragupathy-Vijayakumar, Raghavan-Ramkumar (sema gundu), Rajaram-Jayachandran). One of them seduces Sumitra, whose Maman is Rajinikanth (insignificant Gramathaan role, with a arivAL in hand). Sumitra goes to the house and seeks nyayam, but Ramkumar who seduced her gets killed. At that time, she rejects the arm extended by Jayachandran who loved her (oru talaia kadhal; this song is kanavu song for Jayachadran) as well as elder brother Vijayakumar's compassion. She takes that veLLai udai and joins a Sarvodhaya ashram. Ok movie. There is a nice PS solo (with chrous singing R-R-R), Sumitra singing the song with rAttai in her hands.

One news: One "n" was added as censor borad objected to the title. Ragupathy Rghava(n) Rajaram.

[Ramki]

Thanks to all for the details

Balaji i will soon upload 'avaL oru pachai'

SN23 thanks for the story details.

[Ramki]

Pick # 89

http://tfmpage.com/stream/songs/unnai_rp1.rm

Song: unnai enni ennai
Film: ragasiya police 115
Singer: PSuseela
Lyrics: Vaali?
Music: MSV

This beautiful ghazal type song is one of the best song from RP115. The song is picturised on venniraadai Nirmala. Though MSV made LRE sing other songs for VN, he reserved this wondrous melody for PS. I kind of remember this song had the beautiful VN with a weird hairdo dancing to a live orchestra. I have not watched the movie but i guess VN had a negative role(die at the end like every second heroine in Tamil cinema?)

Here is a thread on PS solos

http://www.tfmpage.com/forum/23522.14753.04:45:24.html

[rajeshkrv]

Music was by V.Kumar