The Golden Era of Dr.IR and Dr.SPB

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yAr thoorigai was featured in tfmpage's SOTD when dhool was part of it

I'm doing some ctrl-c / ctrl-v from there :

Sung by SPB and Uma Ramanan. Music by Ilayaraja.

- I didn't know that I had this rare song till today. I was searching for it all over! I like the way the song starts with Uma Ramanan's humming and a guitar prelude, like a hindi number. This is a delightful song, one that will probably bring back memories for quite a few of us.

- I don't know much about the movie. It was released in the mid 80s

I had the misfortune of suffering through this movie. Starring Mohan, Ranjani (?), and Vinu Chakravarthi. It was penned by Vinu Chakravarthi and if I remember correctly, preached about the evils of believing in josiyam. For some reason I remember this dappaguthu from that movie - 'thiravaay nee kannE'. I guess the trauma runs very deep.

While seeing this on screen, I remember mistaking Ranjani's arms at extreme closeup as Vinu's arms. ).

(was this R the blogger Rosavasanth?)

Wonderful song! Thanks bb! There is also a solo version by SPB, which is also good. I love the place in the charanam where it goes 'Or aayiram', and also the beautiful charanam endings. 'Thendral varum' (SPB/SJ) is another excellent duet from the film, with IR's piano notes adding to the allure.

Paaru Paaru Pattanam Paaru (1986/ Kalaimani Movies) starred Mohan & Ranjini. It was directed by Manobala & produced by Perumal.
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Nothing great about the film except for the songs.

I saw it in Chenglepet's Srinivasa theatre, when along with my cousin, I had gone to my uncle's house for quarterly holidays. I remember going to see this film on Aayudha Poojai day, when the two of us sitting behind my uncle on his Yezdi, had a nasty fall as the bike stumbled upon one of the many Aayudha poojai special giant size poosanikkais that were treacherously littered on the road--aana appadiyum vidaama indha (dhanda)padathai poi paarthom )

wanted to share some facts about the song Yaar Thoorigai seitha
ooviyam.

In the year 1991 (i think it is 1991 Jan 1) there was a musical
programme in Narada Gana Sabha in Chennai. The title was Thirai
Isaiyil Carnatic Ragangal. It was by Raja.
I was one of the fortunate to attend this live programme. Chitra,
Mano,Gangai Amaren, TV Gopalakrishnan, Balamurali, all participated
in this program. All the songs were based only on the carnatic
ragams.

Raja was mentioning about this yaar thoorigai song. He said there
was a debate with someone and the topic was In the Sarasangi Ragam,
make rishabham as sadjamam, then it is very difficult to compose or
sing, something like that. So Raja said he took it as a challenge and
composed a song in sarasangi ragam with the rishabam as sadjamam. And
that song is Yaar Thoorigai..

Needless to say, yet another master piece song from the Maestro..

was overwhelmed by your piece of information which shows another
ingenuity of IR. But for a minor correction, you are right, I think
he should have told that by making Gaandharam of Sarasangi as
Shadjam, the raga of Yaar Thoorigai is reached..! (because I tried
your version and not getting the Yaar thoorigai.. so extended the
research..)

There follows more technicalities / analysis.

Looks like some thillAlangadi song

[groucho070]

App, lovely songs, both. Yeah, he does sound different in yAr Thoorigai song. This one, he sounds normal though, for me. The scenes are decently shot.

Ranjani = Singapore import. Big hoo-haa at our neighbour's side (we get Singapore TV and radio, so there you go. When Rafee sang for ARR, he got big coverage where he revealed that he was (probably forcefully as I keep hearing this story) served with Briyani by ARR.).

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Amaamam TMS paadinaar, Kannadasan paattu adhu

அய்யோ கடவுளே, அது கண்ணதாசன் இல்லீங்கோ, மகாகவி பாரதியார் எழுதியது.

[groucho070]

I was waiting for this. Plum was pulling Params leg-u, or am I overestimating Plum's cruelty?

[PARAMASHIVAN]

What ever happened to this Actress called "Ranjani", ivange yEn Revathy/Nadia range la Famous aagala

[PARAMASHIVAN]

I was waiting for this. Plum was pulling Params leg-u, or am I overestimating Plum's cruelty?

enakku Damil weak endrathal unagl ellorukum comedy ah poichu

[Plum]

Au contraire Grouc, you cannot over-estimate my cruelty. Sorry Faramu - ungala paarthaale, cruelA EdhAvadhu paNNanumnu thONudhu(I mean, only pechu pechula dhaan. KOttai thaanda mAttEn )

[PARAMASHIVAN]

Au contraire Grouc, you cannot over-estimate my cruelty. Sorry Faramu - ungala paarthaale, cruelA EdhAvadhu paNNanumnu thONudhu(I mean, only pechu pechula dhaan. KOttai thaanda mAttEn )

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yAr thoorigai was featured in tfmpage's SOTD when dhool was part of it

There follows more technicalities / analysis.

Looks like some thillAlangadi song

It looks like challenging, but i never seen he acknowledged for any particular ragam for a song, for example in one of the interviews i remember he was asked "which one is his favorite ragam and do you set your mind before composing a song to be in that ragam, and he replied i don't purposefully compose a song in a ragam, i set the tune and it automatically get assigned to that ragam" something in that angle was his reply

[RR]

buggle,
He did say something like 'raagam athuvaa vandhu vizhum' but he has also acknowledged composing in ragas like rasikapriya. Though ragas sometimes tend to fall in places, I would think all composers do voluntarily go after specific ragas/scales sometimes. For example, I would be hard pressed to believe that the ragas for 'thom thom' or 'ananda nadanam aadinaal' (sindhu bairavi) and 'oru kaatril' (naan kadavul) fell automatically.