Top 100 Greatest Tamil movies Sountracks Ever

[smss_engineer]

100 Greatest Tamilmovie Soundtracks Ever

Criteria:
The film sound track should have atleast one point ( )

Good BGM supporting the film
Have at least two or three songs that were superhit
Have been etched into our memories forever
Musically Great (Classical/light/Western/folk)
Orchestration(arrangements/layer) in songs

Order/ranking is not important, since ranking is really a tough job

100. ROJA (1992) ( )

Music director: A.R.Rahman Lyrics: VM
A.R.Rahman's debut in TFM roja have reveloutioned the tamil film music once again after the Maestro's Era.This movie has some amazing tracks such as "Kaathal rojave enge", "Puthu vellai mazai" and "Tamizha Tamizha". Though it has crap like "Rukumani" and rhymic "Chinna chinna aasai", songs were well received by audiences and had remarkable sound engineering. ARR got his first National award for this film

99. MINNALE (2001) ( )

Music director: Harris Jayaraj Lyrics: Thamarai, ???
Minnale was aimed for Younger generation, It had hit songs like "Vaseegara", "Aye azakiya theeye", "Nenjai poopol" and pathos "Venmathi".Songs were hits in the market commercially.

[raaja_rasigan]

where is "mudhal mariyadhai" in the list.

As far as tamil film industry people, even now they say that, M M re-recording is the best & cannot be reproduced in future.

Basically for good bgm, u need a good story & screenplay, which is not available in today's trend.

Another notable film is "Mullum Malarum" (another M M)

[smss_engineer]

100 Greatest Tamilmovie Soundtracks Ever
List (91-100)

CRITERIA:
The film sound track should have atleast one point ( )

Good BGM supporting the film
Have at least two or three songs that were superhit
Have been etched into our memories forever
Musically Great (Classical/light/Western/folk)
Orchestration(arrangements/layer) in songs

Order/ranking is not important, since ranking is really a tough job

100. ROJA (1992) ( )

Music director: A.R.Rahman Lyrics: Vaira Muthu
A.R.Rahman's debut in TFM roja have reveloutioned the tamil film music once again after the Maestro's Era.This movie has some amazing tracks such as "Kaathal rojave enge", "Puthu vellai mazai" and "Tamizha Tamizha". Though it has crap like "Rukumani" and rhymic "Chinna chinna aasai", songs were well received by audiences and had remarkable sound engineering. ARR got his first National award for this film .

99. MINNALE (2001) ( )

Music director: Harris Jayaraj Lyrics: Thamarai, ???
Minnale was aimed for Younger generation, It had hit songs like "Vaseegara", "Aye azakiya theeye", "Nenjai poopol" and pathos "Venmathi".Songs were hits in the market commercially.

98. Nandu (1981) ( )

Music Director: Ilayaraja Lyrics: ????
An Mahendran movie unnoticed by many of us. This movie has great numbers such as "Alli thantha bhoomi", "Manjal veyyil" and two hindi numbers "Kaise kahoon" and "Kum akkele". And Great duet "Manjal veyyil sevvanathil". A must listen album!

97. Oru thalai Raagam (1980) ( )

Music director : T.Rajendar/???? Lyrics:T.Rajendar
Indeed a great album by T.Rajendar and another person(?). The album is packed with 7 tracks, with amazing 3 numbers "Vasamilla malarithu", "Idhu kuzainthai paadum", "naanoru". though others are just craps.

96. Rythm (2000) ( )

Music director: A.R.Rahman Lyrics: Vaira Muthu
ARR's one of the greatest albums.Tracks such as "Thaniye", "Nadhiye", "Katre" were hits and with explicit lyrics.

95. Enga veetu pillai (1965) ( )

Music director: M.S.Viswanathan/K.V.Mahadevan Lyrics: Kannadasan
A good film with mesmerising numbers. This albums "Naan aanaiyittal" have travelled each and every corners of Tamil nadu. Other hit tracks are "Kumari pennin" and "naan manthoppil".

94. Pagalil oru iravu (1979) ( )

Music director: Illayaraja Lyrics: Kannadasan
Illayaraja's one of the best album during his earlier days. This movie is an average movie,But with some scintillating numbers. "Illamaiyennum Poongatru", "Ponnaram poovaaram", "Thaamtha dheemtha", "Kaliyo" and "Thottam konda". Ilamaiyennum poongatru was far ahead of its times with great guitar chords and piano.All the songs were popular, even the gana sytle folk song "Thottam konda".

93. Darling Darling Darling (1984) ( )

Music director: Shankar-Ganesh Lyrics???
Good album by SG,Film had 2 hit numbers "Oh nenje" and "Azakiya".

92. Karagattakaran ( )

Music director: Ilayaraja Lyrics: Gangai amaran
The one and only tamil film that ran in all A,B,C centres. Good album with folky numbers."Mankuyile poonkuyile" was an instant hit. Other tracks such as "Intha maan", "Kudagu malai", were super hits.

91. Uyire (1998) ( )

Music director: A.R.Rahman Lyrics: Vaira Muthu/vaali
Uyire had some dancing numbers such as "Thaga thayya", "Nenjinile", "En uyire" and melodies "Poongatrile", "Santhosa kanneere".

[Sanjeevi]

En uyirae is dancing number

[smss_engineer]

Here is the list in brief without description not in the order


1. Roja(1992)

2. Minnale(2001)

3. Nandu(1981)

4. Oru thalai ragam(1980)

5. Rythm(2000)

6. Enga veetu pillai(1965)

7. Pagalil oru iravu(1979)

8. Darling Darling Darling(1984)

9. Karagattakaran(1989)

10. Uyire(1998)

11. Man vasanai(1983)

12. Jeans(2001)

13. Anbe vaa(1960)

14. Kaathal kondein(2003)

15. Mounam pesiyathe(2002)

16. Priya (1978)

17. karuthamma (1994)

18. Moodu pani(1980)

19. khakka Khakka(2003)

20. Payanangal mudivathillai(1982)

21. Alai payuthe(2000)

22. Aayirathil oruvan(1965)

23. Bombay(1995)

24. Eera vizhi kaaviyangal(1982)

25. Kannathil muthamittal(2002)

26. Avargal(1977)

27. Mella thiranthathu kathavu(1986)

28. Dum Dum Dum(2001)

29. Idhaya thamarai(1990)

30. Amaravathy(1993)

[smss_engineer]

And the next 30

31. Little jhon(2001)

32. Adimai pen(1969)

33. Jhony(1980)

34. Nenjathai killathe(1980)

35. Vaali(2001)

36. Aarathanai (1982)

37. Pani malar(1981)

38. Sigappu Rojakkal(1978)

39. Vikram(1986)

40. Mouna raagam(1986)

41. Nayagan(1987)

42. Geethanjali(1988)

43. Sindhu bairavi(1986)

44. Agni Nakshathiram(1988)

45. Salangai oli(1983)

46. Udhaya geetham(1985)

47. Raja paarvai(1981)

48. Anandha kummi(1983)

49. Kozhi koovuthu(1982)

50. Chinna thambi(1990)

51. Guru Shisyan(1989)

52. Kaathal oviyam(1982)

53. Kandukondein Kandukondein(2000)

54. Muthal Mariyathai(1985)

55. Kadalora kavithaigal(1986)

56. Haridas(1944)

57. Kakki sattai(1985)

58. Mullum malarum(1979)

59. Karumbu vil(1980)

60. Thendrale ennai thodu(1985)

[swathy]

hope u won't forget guna

[raaja_rasigan]

hope u won't forget guna

Thalapathy, devar magan, sathriyan, captain prabakaran, chinna kounder, Ramanaa also

[Hulkster]

Btw should not this thread be in current topics?

Anyways that would be hard as each album lets say the good ones might be done to suit the film and of a different genre and you cant really compare and rank them. Somemore older movies (Pre IR) had some brilliant soundtracks usually semiclassical which were good. Quite hard for me

[umaramesh]

I think THIRUVILAYADAL &THILLANNA MOGANAMBAL sound tracks are ever green. Even today sound track of these movies are popular and aired most number of times.

regards
ramesh