The Golden Era of Dr.IR and Dr.SPB

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genesis,
I don't know about kisu-kisoos but deciphering the names for you:

Venu Nagavalli - Malayalam director who did a few movies with Mohanlal
Asha Kelunni - daughter of an ex-service man, known popularly as Revathy of maN vAsanai
Udhayachandrika - mom of 'kO'magaL, sis of 'avan-ivan-suruttu-lady', known popularly as Radha of alaigaL Oyvathillai / mudhal mariyAdhai

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V_S, you're right!

#66-69 will be from the Kamal branded hAththi mErE sAththi

[PARAMASHIVAN]

Pls guys the Digressions are going off the track now, let's keep it low

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#66 வாலிபமே வா வா, தேனிசையே வா வா
(ராம் லட்சுமண், 1981 , ஷைலஜாவுடன்)

IR's first full-blown synth western number with real guitar / trumpet accompaniments. Personally I was so thrilled when this song came out as the pallavi had the "kick drum" sound which was somewhat similar to what was in the "western songs" (BoneyM / ABBA were very popular in India in late 70's and early 80's and there were both sets of people - genuine lovers of those bands and snobs who claimed local music was 10 yrs behind). In any case, though the IR song couldn't claim to have the sounds of popular western bands, at the minimum it was very different from what was heard in TFM till then.

Very popular on radio and other casts (bus / teakkadai) when it arrived. Not so thrilling anymore to listen but not bad either.

[PARAMASHIVAN]

#66 வாலிபமே வா வா, தேனிசையே வா வா
(ராம் லட்சுமண், 1981 , ஷைலஜாவுடன்)

App anna ,

who were the actors in this movie?

[San_K]

Kamal and Sripriya

app, fantastic song. Thanks for remembering. This is the Raja brand Disco (=awesome) song I forget always

[PARAMASHIVAN]

thanks San_k

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#67 விழியில் உன் விழியில்
(ராம் லட்சுமண், 1981 , சுசீலாவுடன்)

Sticking to the IR/Devar films tradition, a Suseela-SPB duet. The best in the album IMO, it hasn't lost the appeal - not a bit - from the time of arrival till now! A guitar sweety, both the prelude and first interlude have so-good-to-ears-guitar sounds. And the dham-dham-dham-dham is quite interesting as well.

It was regular on radios and part of people's 'recording center requests' which was becoming more and more common around this time period as cassette players were becoming more affordable. It was however, mostly imported brands only still (Panasonic the leader) and were available from burma bazaar kind of shops or 'gulf-return' 'ceylon-return' kind of people. The regular electronic shops were still mostly selling only radios and record players. Cassette-decks were also available (from brands like Ahuja which was popular in the public address arena) but not much favoured by households.

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#68 நடக்கட்டும் ராஜா நம்ம ராஜ்ஜியம்
(ராம் லட்சுமண், 1981 )

Few days back I stumbled on the 'AkattuNdA thambi rAjA' youtube when searching around for some children stuff. It had not just the song but five minutes or so of MGR-yAnaikaL-KRV stuff that happens prior to the song (absolutely horrible portrayal by MGR with his drunken-man-like-voice-and-dialogs and funny red suit).

This song seems to have got inspired from that KVM nallA nEram number (not in the melody but general format for yAnai songs) and not a sequel to appanE appanE. The typical jubilant melody, energetic singing accompanied by a lot of trumpet sounds to remind one that this is a hAtthi song

Had its share of air-time when arrived and because of KH, also had its share of casts in other media. Not a big hit but still has recall value.

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#69 நான் தாங்கொப்பண்டா நல்ல முத்துப்பேரண்டா
(ராம் லட்சுமண், 1981 )

Possibly the pioneer to a later saNdaippAttu in dEvar makan. Kabadi-kabadi game in country side used to have the first line as a repeat phrase. The other sounds in the song are really quite majestic and IR seemed to have worked hard but this song was the least popular at the time of movie's arrival. It did have some time on radio and other transmissions / playbacks but the former three enjoyed definitely more time.

Personally I didn't have that much liking for this song those days but now find this quite charming, especially the instrumentals are quite impressive. SPB ofcourse delivers flawlessly and casually what could be a difficult song needing a lot of breath control, but, then, he is a master in that area

If someone had seen this movie (thrashed by all reviewers at the time of arrival IIRC), please elaborate on the song situations, how KH looked etc. It was during my +2 days and my close friends who were KH fanatics were so upset with this movie (and they were typically very unkind to Sripriya so there was definite bias against this Devar films animal movie).