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Topic started by bb (@ 24.4.254.104) on Tue Feb 20 03:21:22 EST 2001.
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Hi! We've made a major addition to newtfmpage, and that is a big song bank. Dhool features thousands of songs for your listening pleasure. This site is a part of the newtfmpage.com - swara.com group. Together with newtfmpage, we wish to make this the best place to listen to tamil film songs online and know about tamil film music. Our collection includes old, new, famous, rare and unheard of songs. We are still fine tuning and fixing the database errors, so please bear with us. We value your feedback, and this will help us build the site better. Please post your comments below or mail to comments@newtfmpage.com.
This work was done by us (bb and RR) with MS and swara.com ravi.

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• From: :)punnahai (@ 24.150.35.51) on: Tue Feb 11 10:17:21 EST 2003
  
  If only I could read before posting;) It is TMS of course!
  
  
• From: :)punnahai (@ 24.150.35.51) on: Tue Feb 11 11:03:33 EST 2003
  
  http://www.chennaionline.com/entertainment/filmplus/susila.asp
  A voice of nectar.
  
  P. Susila. The very name would evoke memories of many a number rendered in her rich, reverberating and resonant voice to the fans of South Indian movies, be it Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada or even Sinhalese. With her mellifluous voice she has breathed life into thousands of lyrics, bringing out the right emotion lying under each word and making the song waft straight into the listener’s heart.
  
  A point to be noted here is the care with which she pronounced the words, though she sang in different languages. That is something we are not able to see in most of our present day singers. Words are the victims of rather constricted rhythms and contorted beats, compacted and deformed between the tongue and the teeth. But it was Susila’s school to render them with effortless ease, as they are pronounced by the people speaking each individual language in which the lyrics are written.
  
  
  Susila started way back in 1952 and has sung more than 25000 songs in the above languages. She was the recipient of the national award for best singer in the years 1969, 1971, 1977, 1983 and 1989. At the state level, both Tamil Nadu and Kerala have honoured her with several awards. The Tamil Nadu Government recognised her genius in the years 1968, 1980, 1981, 1989 and 1919 with various titles, prizes and awards.
  
  Born in 1935 in Vijayanagaram in a music-loving family, Susila had an innate talent in music. The seniors in the family arranged for her training in Carnatic music at a very young age. With a properly nurtured talent, she used to participate any competition in music held in her school or in Vijayanagaram and had always come home with the first prize in each competition. She then went to the Music College in Vijayanagaram and passed her diploma in first class. Her natural taste for music and her voice of gold were finely honed by the training she received and Susila soon absorbed the finest nuances of giving expression to the verses she rendered.
  
  It was in 1950 that music director Nageswara Rao was looking for new talent and approached the All India Radio with a request to refer to him the good singers who used to participate in their programmes. And the radio station sent five persons to him. Susila was selected after necessary audition tests.
  
  ‘Petra Thaai’ was being made in 1953 in Tamil (Kanna Thalli in Telugu) with A. Nageswararao and G. Varalakshmi in lead roles. Susila sang her first song - a duet with A. M. Raja - ‘Edhukku azhaithaai’ for the movie.
  
  She was then an employee of the AVM Studios, receiving a fixed amount as her monthly salary, for several years after her introduction in Petra Thaai. Meyyappa Chettiar, the demanding perfectionist that he was, appointed a Tamil teacher for Susila to train her in proper pronunciation of words. (Hmmmm… keep praying for the arrival of another Meyyappa Chettiar to save our ears from jarring crudities of mispronunciation that the present generation of singers subject them to.)
  
  The songs that she sung in ‘Kanavane kan kanda dheiyvam’ (1955) brought her the popularity that she so well deserved. Especially songs like ‘Endhan ullam thulli vilyaaduvadhum,’ ‘unnaik kan thedudhe’ brought out her talent for rendition. Then came ‘Missiyamma’ in the same year. Susila became very popular with ‘Brindha vanamum Nandha kumaranum’ and ‘ariyaa paruvamada’ set to Karaharapriya. Her name soon spread and was respected among the elite and the masses.
  
  It was a time when several other women had established their talents already and were reigning supreme - like P. Leela who started her career in 1948; Jikki who allured the audience with her lilting voice; the Carnatic music genius M. L. Vasanthakumari; P. A. Periyanaayagi, actress and singer; Jamuna Rani, A. P. Komala; R. Balasaraswati, Sulamangalam Rajalakshmi and Jayalakshmi, K. Rani, A. Rathnamala, S. J. Kantha among others. Each had a unique and distinct character and quality and had a large number of admirers.
  
  Susila made her entry when so many singers were displaying their talents and were very popular. But her entry in 1953 outshone others and soon pushed all of them to the background. Right from 1955 there was not a single movie - for a very very long time - that did not have a song in her voice. Her career was at its best in the 60s and the early 70s. Whoever be the music director, whoever be the lyricist, whoever be the co-singer, the song became popular with her finesse. Her popularity among the masses was just unprecedented in the annals of Tamil cinema.
  
  After her splendid performance in Kalyana Parisu, melody itself assumed a new dimension and soon a trend was set in motion that placed equal emphasis on songs on par with story, scenes and sequence. Susila’s contribution to this trend was considerable. She has given hundreds of golden melodies under the direction of stalwarts Viswanathan - Ramamurthy. That her name is well known and is remembered with feelings of joy for around 50 years now goes to her credit.
  
  Susila came out with the announcement that she would not sing any further in films, recently in a programme organised to honour her. But she would continue to rule supreme in the hearts of her fans through the thousands of numbers she has rendered in a very long and enviable career.
  
  - Madhu
  Translated by Hari Krishnan
  
  
• From: bb (@ 12.234.176.52) on: Wed Feb 12 03:24:17 EST 2003
  
  Song of the Day: innaruL tharum annapooraNi from aathmaa.
  
  http://www.newtfmpage.com/cgi-bin/stream.pl?url=http://www.dhool.com/sotd/innarul.rm
  
  - MD: IR. Sung by T.N.Seshagopalan. Raagam Sudhdha SaavEri. Excellent rendition by TNS.
  
  - The starting reminds one of "saarasa mukhi sakala".
  
  
• From: Peter Pan (@ 57.12.19.241) on: Wed Feb 12 06:56:19 EST 2003
  
  KAla haraNa mEla rA harE also has a similar pallavi.
  I think it was Sesha GOpalan's second film venture after Kunnakkudi Vaidhyanathan's TOdi rAgam, which had Seshu playing the hero opposite Nalini (if I remember correctly, her name was Anandi when she did this movie).
  Sudha SAveri has been handled by IR efffctively many times in the past. Many songs had him shifting effortlessly (using Shruti Bhedam) between Mohanam, Sudha sAveri, MadhyamAvathi.
  Some other Sudha SAveri based songs by IR that come to mind are:
  KAdhal Mayakkam (Pudhumai peNN)
  RAdha RAdha Nee engEy (MeeNdum kOkila)
  MaNa magaLe (Thevar Magan)
  Sithagathip PookkaLey (Rajakumaran)
  
  
• From: vardhini (@ 137.237.12.102) on: Wed Feb 12 09:24:22 EST 2003
  
  There are 2 another lovely sudha saveri numbers from IR
  1. Kovil mani oosai ingu ketadaaro(Kizhakke pogum Rayil)
  2. Maanaadum kuyil koovaadum ilam cholai( Mudhal vasantham sung by SJ)
  
  
• From: bb (@ 12.234.176.52) on: Thu Feb 13 01:34:04 EST 2003
  
  Song of the Day: iLamai enum poonkaatru from pagalil Or iravu.
  
  http://www.newtfmpage.com/cgi-bin/stream.pl?url=http://www.dhool.com/sotd/ilamai.rm
  
  - MD: IR. Lyrics by Kannadasan. Sung by SPB.
  
  - Notes for the song: http://www.newtfmpage.com/notes/ir/ila_poi.txt
  
  - http://newtfmpage.com/forum/10037.1346.20.06.55.html has a good discussion of this song. In this, MS writes:
  
  Let me start "Ilamaiyennum Poongaatru". First of all the song is joint product of Kannadhasan and IR. Hence I would like to discuss it from the point of view of Lyrics .
  
  Situation:
  
  Two lovers are about to make love. The song proceeds as a gentle background for this act. This is as I suppose an "Asariri" song as metioned in the TFM.
  
  Starting slowly with a bell in the prelude with the flute following after the bell goes off, the song generates the romantic air above the two. Once the prelude is over the voice of SPB pops in gently.
  
  "Ilamaiyennum Poongaatru Paadiyathu Or paattu Oru pzhudhu Or aasai sugam sugam edhilum ore sugam"
  
  This line as I interpret tries to convey that the only feeling/thought that the lovers have at that moment is desire to make love and nothing else. No stray thoughts.
  
  I am restricting myself in interpreting the lyrics further. But one point I noted is the following:
  
  "Pesa (Ketka ?) Ninaithaal marandhaall Kelvi ezhummunn vizhundhaall"
  
  This means that she is speechless and probably this is the reason why IR did not use a lady voice to make it a duet.
  
  
• From: sabesan (@ 68.155.224.155) on: Thu Feb 13 07:35:10 EST 2003
  
  bb - a damn good number.... but to see JaiGanesh opposite to Sridevi - hmm.... konjaaam kaashtamaa irundadhu paatu paarkaaa.... in fact in my child hood days' this song was banned to be "watched" in TV :-).....
  
  
• From: Kupps (@ 203.199.209.101) on: Thu Feb 13 08:11:19 EST 2003
  
  nope thats not jaiganesh...i think he is the guy who acted as "bharani" (lover of sujatha) in the film avargaL (the third male, apart from kamal and rajini).
  
  
• From: sabesan (@ 68.155.224.155) on: Thu Feb 13 08:28:46 EST 2003
  
  Kupps - r u sure ??? cause, i still doubt thats JG only..... but whoever it was, the person was untolerable :-)...... both he and SriDevi made look like we were watching a "balaanaaa" paadaaam :-)
  
  
• From: B.Kanagaratnam, Canada (@ 65.95.33.123) on: Thu Feb 13 08:46:00 EST 2003
  
  I will apprecaite if you would kindly include the following songs under "Song of The Day" column:-
  (1).Vaan Mazhai indri vAdidum payir pole - Sung by G.Ramanathan and T.V.Ratnam Music. G.Ramanthan
  (2). Neela vAnum nilavum pOle - Sung by G.Ramanathan and T V Ratnam.Music. G.Ramanthan
  These are memorable songs and still I want to hear them frequently.
  
  
• From: bb (@ 12.234.176.52) on: Thu Feb 13 08:52:18 EST 2003
  
  Sabesan/Kupps, I think the actor was Ravi Kumar (the avargaL guy) and not Jai Ganesh. Sridevi looked so young and sexy in that song.
  
  Kanagaratnam, I will try to see if I can find these songs. I've never heard G.Ramanathan sing.
  
  

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