T.Rajender's Music

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SM,
Same sentiment here. Either he should write lyrics for other MDs or he should MD+lyric writing.
Its a pity he does not seem to be contributing to TFM anymore.
Udhaya, well-written. TR has been a very good influence. I enjoyed his songs those days. Probably will even now.
As a lover of the music by IR, I wish he would ask TR to write lyrics for him, as I like the poetry of TR.

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My posting is not about TR's music. It is about his dialogs. I would watch his movie just to listen to his Tamil and the word games. It is like watching old movies where heaviness of the script was very important.

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TR had qualitative achievements, no doubt on that (I have even said somewhere that ARR is a refined TR, esp. on use of percussion that is very different from IR's approach), but he (like ARR) had limited stuff which probably got exhausted in 10 or 15 films... his later contributions were not very imaginative, often repetitive, IMO!

His best, according to me, are
1. vasantha kAlangaL (Rayil payanangalil)
2. vAsamilla malaridhu (OT rAgam -could have avoided the repetition in interludes)
3. vizhikaL mEdaiyAm (kiLinjalkal)
4. indhira lOgaththu sundari (U Usha)
5. vaigaikarai katrE nillu (U Usha)
6. idhu kuzhandhai pAdum (OT rAgam)
7. indha malliga manasa (film's name forgotten..SJ sings energetically)

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And there was this song from one of the Sivaji films in late 80s (co *ed by Sathyaraj), Sivaji acting as a Father, good music by our TR.

Devan Kovil Deepame, pAvam indha jeevane,
kazhuvai yetru nee siluvai sumakkiray,
undhan vazhiyil nAnum nadakkirEn.
...
ThattungaL thirakkappadum, kElungaL kodukkappadum
pAvangal mannikkappadum

Can somebody tell me the movie name?

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Venkatesh,

The name of the movie is "MuthukkaL Moondru".

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Thanks SM

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i think the following lines were penned by TR. anybody know what song/film the lines appeared?

"taNNIrukkuL mInazutAl kaNNIrinai yAraRivAr".

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this is from mythili ennai kadhali

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I think TR scored for another movie Pookkalai parikkadhir or something. Also Koolikkaaran was also tuned by TR

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....also the harish starrer pookal vidum thoothu