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TFM Stories, Tit-Bits and Anecdotes

Topic started by Sathiya Keerthi (@ panorama.nus.edu.sg) on Mon Apr 6 02:26:53 EDT 1998.
All times in EST +10:30 for IST.

The aim of this thread is to collect, at one place, interesting
stories, anecdotes, tit-bits etc, related to TFM. A newcomer to
the forum will find this collection very interesting to read. For
example, Ramki mentioned the following story in another thread:

Do you remember the 'vizhiyil vizhundhu' (alaigal oyvadhillai) song?
Andha situation BRkku suddenaaga thondra, VMkku outdoor shootingil irundhu
phone seidhu kettuLLaar. VM phoneliye lyrics solla adhai tape seidhu
udanae IRkku anuppa, IR Janaki, Shailaja, PS ellariayum koppitturkkar
but no one was available. BSS mathram dhan mattirkkanga so avangalukku
adichadhu adhirshtam. The whole song was done in just 2 hrs time.
Annikke song shoot panni mudichittaangalaam.

Folks, please share any such stories, anecdotes and tit-bits that
you know, in this thread. If TFM Group thinks it is sufficiently
interesting, they could even place it in Permanent Topics.

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Responses:

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• From: rameshb (@ spider-tr074.proxy.aol.com) on: Thu Mar 11 22:32:59 EST 1999
  
  SM,
  first of all let me make my stand clear, i am NOT taking any side here on this issue. I just put myself in the position of an artist , TMS, and am making an attempt to understand his emotions. Raja needs no certification for his credentials , even from TMS though he may be his senior, for his proven track record in the field. If TMS has indeed said that his songs for Raja were only hit because of his voice, does it necessarily have to raise to the level of any dubious opinions on Raja's calibre per se?. NO. Everyone of us have the right to condemn his remarks as being derogatory of raja's image, but certainly not to the extent with a tit-for-tat attitude , thereby saying that some were felicitated by an abrupt end of his career.
  
  
• From: Shankar (@ webgate0.mot.com) on: Tue Mar 23 04:04:37 EST 1999
  
  Saw an ad of "hE rAm" in SUN-TV. The MD for the movie is not being shown in the ad. All it shows is "kamalhAsan, nasirudeen shah ,rani mukherjee and shah rukh khan in an important role ".
  
  It also says that the m,ovie will be released this year :-))))
  
  It shows kamal wearing a pooNal (sacred thread)and with a beretta in his hand. Is he playing nathuram godse ????
  
  
• From: Shankar (@ webgate0.mot.com) on: Tue Mar 23 09:21:16 EST 1999
  
  It seems Raja didn't attend the marriage of R D Bhaskar's son and deva's daughter.
  
  
• From: Dorai (@ gateway7.ey.com) on: Tue Mar 23 13:57:47 EST 1999
  
  Anyone knows the reason why Raja didn't attend the marriage of R D Bhaskar's son and deva's daughter.
  
  
• From: Raj (@ master.hyd.deshaw.com) on: Tue Mar 23 14:08:46 EST 1999
  
  Because during Nalangu, they might ask Raja to sing and Deva will use it for his next film:))
  
  
• From: Srinath (@ s05.austin.ibm.com) on: Tue Mar 23 14:30:19 EST 1999
  
  Raj:
  :-))))))))))))
  
  
• From: vaidy (@ 12.20.58.67) on: Wed Mar 24 15:02:55 EST 1999
  
  Raj,
  
  I thought "Anyway deva is paying the royalty he owes to IR by getting his daughter married to bhaskar's son".
  
  As far as the deva's earnings reaches the right person(in this case some one related to IR) it is good..In fact, thinking about it...How many people shud receive royalty fees from deva?
  
  Whats the idea behind Sabesh-Murali doing BGM for ESK? Have they started sub-contracting/outsourcing in TFM too? Soon we will have a song in which all greats participate like:
  Drum loops - ARR
  String instruments - IR
  Tunes - MSV
  
  
  
  
  
• From: Shankar (@ webgate0.mot.com) on: Thu Mar 25 01:03:07 EST 1999
  
  Vaidy,
  
  that means arr has indirectly accepted the fact that his BGM is pathetic (he may say he doesn't have the time- a standard excuse)and that , even sabesh-murali is better than him.
  
  Of course, this is a view of an HCARR Basher :-)
  
  
• From: nakkeeran (@ inet-fw5-o.oracle.com) on: Thu Mar 25 01:41:46 EST 1999
  
  no time for BGM? yep! I agree! b'coz making 20+ songs a year is no easy task you see!
  
  - HCARR BGM Basher :-)
  
  
• From: Raj (@ master.hyd.deshaw.com) on: Thu Mar 25 02:38:23 EST 1999
  
  Vaidy: Well, if this is the way Deva will repay his debt/royalty, I bet he has a lot of work to do..I mean, does he have enough daughters yet?:)))
  
  
• From: v (@ chme111pc13.ecn.purdue.edu) on: Thu Mar 25 12:31:01 EST 1999
  
  Raj:-)
  Daughters can always be procured.. what say?
  
  
• From: Lollu (@ master.hyd.deshaw.com) on: Thu Mar 25 12:36:01 EST 1999
  
  v: neenga enna solreenga. Deva pattu thaan sondhama produce panna mudiyalai..copy adikkararunnu ninaichaen. Neenga sollaradhai paartha....:)))
  (NOM:)))
  
  
• From: Lollu yadav (@ master.hyd.deshaw.com) on: Thu Mar 25 12:36:12 EST 1999
  
  v: neenga enna solreenga. Deva pattu thaan sondhama produce panna mudiyalai..copy adikkararunnu ninaichaen. Neenga sollaradhai paartha....:)))
  (NOM:)))
  
  
• From: rameshb (@ interlock.itthartford.com) on: Thu Mar 25 13:38:48 EST 1999
  
  An interview with kamal on his next venture 'hey ram' in AV 03-28-99 issue
  http://www.vikatan.com/4_3_99/kamal.htm
  
  
• From: Dorai (@ gateway7.ey.com) on: Fri Mar 26 11:34:24 EST 1999
  
  Can some one clarify what is the meaning of the sanskrit slogan preceding the song "kuttu
  Kuyilai pattu Pada .." from MVU.
  
  IR's voice and pronunciation is "Atchatha Sutham". I really love it
  
  
• From: MS (@ 129.252.22.112) on: Tue Apr 6 19:44:58 EDT 1999
  
  As we can infer, there had been a heavy appreciation for GURU. I am giving the clip on the film.
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  NEW DELHI (IPS) - A movie that offers spiritual answers to the touchy issue of religion and caste which has been the cause of much conflict in India - is a candidate for top honours at this year's Academy Awards.
  
  Guru, is the first Malayalam-language production chosen by the Film Federation of India to be included in the best foreign language film category of the annual Oscars - although Malayalam movies, from the southern state of Kerala, have enjoyed a reputation for technical brilliance and sensitive handling.
  
  According to Guru's producer Herbie Siddhu, the film seeks to restore the guru or preceptor as the fountainhead of spirituality rather than organised religion. The guru concept was popularised in the West by the Beatles who came into contact with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and immortalised it in a pop tune.
  
  The guru concept is similar to the idea of a Messiah or redeemer so central to the Islamic and the Judaeo-Christian traditions, says celebrated Indian author, O. V. Vijayan who turned to spiritualism after a long career as a Marxist writer.
  
  "The film highlights the evils of caste atrocities, communal violence and finally spiritual blindness," he said, after seeing the film at a preview in the Indian capital.
  
  Guru, the film, begins with the grim business of cleaning up after a typical communal riot. There are stark images of street dogs fighting over dead bodies, familiar enough to 'Midnight's Children' who learned no lessons from the large-scale violence that marked the Partition of India half a century ago. Although the warring Hindus and Muslims are reduced to living in refugee camps, they continue to plot each others destruction.
  
  The protagonist, Reghuraman, is a mild mannered Hindu who, turns vengeful and undertakes a mission to destroy a Muslim camp. He is intercepted by police but escapes by diving into a river. He is rescued in an unconscious state downstream by the inmates of an ashram or monastery run on truly spiritual and therefore secular lines and thus shelters all refugees regardless of denomination.
  
  Reviving, Reghuraman joins a suicide squad which secretly plans to slaughter Muslims. But the plot is discovered by a woman inmate of the ashram who, because or her heightened spirituality, possesses the gift of extra-sensory perception.
  
  She fails to convince Reghuraman that his mission is evil but succeeds in getting him to touch the sandals of the ashram's guru - the symbolic short-cut to enlightenment. Reghuraman lapses into a dream fantasy which forms the core of the film.
  
  In his dreams he is sucked into the vortex of a snow storm and plunges headlong through time and space into a lost valley of blind people - a representation of his elevation to a higher level of consciousness through contact with the guru.
  
  Works of intricate are strewn around the valley makes Reghuraman suspect that the people were not always blind but rendered so. He finally discovers that the cause of blindness in the valley is a bright, delicious fruit which grows there. Because orthodox priests in the valley have ordained the fruit sacred, the people ritually gorge themselves on the ilama fruit and even feed it to newborn infants.
  
  Sight thus never has a chance in the valley. When Reghuraman points this out to the ignorant and despotic king of the blind, he is condemned to die for blasphemy and is made to eat the seeds of the sacred fruit, believed by the people of the valley to be a deadly poison.
  
  But instead of dying an agonising death, Reghuraman (and through him the people of the valley) makes another discovery - the seeds actually contain the antidote for blindness caused by the fruit.
  
  Reghuraman now becomes the messiah and finds that his first mission is to convince people that sight might not be such a bad thing after all and that none are so blind as those that will not see. He soon has a following.
  
  The messiah's next task is to prevent the people whom he empowered with sight from slaughtering others who were yet to get the message. He is himself stoned in the process. And he awakens from his fantasy a changed man with an understanding of the why of communal violence and the pitfalls of religion.
  
  "The valley is an allegorical representation of mankind enmeshed in a spiritual blindness," says Vijayan, a bilingual author (English and Malayalam) who considers his own best work to be Gurusagaram, (ocean of grace) which he says he experienced at the Santhigiri Ashram near Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala state.
  
  Many of the early scenes in the film were actually shot at the same ashram. But Reghuraman's fantasy has the quality of "another time and another place," because it was shot in an abandoned stone quarry with the people wearing "out-of-this-world" costumes and backgrounded with haunting Hungarian music.
  
  Director Rajiv Anchal said the idea was to give the film a universal appeal so it could have meaning wherever there was strife in the name of religion - whether it happens on the sub-continent or in distant Bosnia. "The message is simple - the nearer to church the further from God."
  
  Because the film was conceived as a dream fantasy, it allowed room for experimentation and free use of metaphor, Anchal said.
  
  The film starts surrealistically with the cracking of a giant "primordial egg" to reveal a human eye for an embryo.
  
  The film, said Indian President K. R. Narayanan, a native speaker of Malayalam, has great relevance for contemporary India. After a special screening at the presidential palace, he asked the producers to ensure that the film gets translated into other Indian languages.
  
  With relations between Hindus and Muslims emerging as a central issue in campaigning by major political parties fighting elections, the presidential request carries special significance
  
  
• From: SM (@ nat01smurugap.sgum.mci.com) on: Thu Apr 29 15:50:59 EDT 1999
  
  
  Just now read this in Kumudam - Arasu compares IR and ARR :
  
  http://www.kumudam.net/apr08/arasu.html
  
  

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