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TFMin isai kuyil PSa, SJa, Chithravaa?

Topic started by Shanmugam Murugappan (@ ifmxmenlo.informix.com) on Thu Dec 3 16:32:36 EST 1998.
All times in EST +10:30 for IST.

Hi all,

I just surfed thro' the net and happened to see the profile of PS. She was heralded as the "Lata Mangeshkar" of TFM. Does she deserve that crown more than SJ and Chithra?

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• From: Kutty (@ 212.138.47.22) on: Sun Apr 8 10:53:19 EDT 2001
  
  Has Sujatha not got a national award even once?Can somebody clarify ?
  
  When I listened to the song "Oru patte naan ketten",I got a wonderful feeling about the melody and the way it was sung.The song really looked like one which deserves an award. I heard sujatha singing that song in a program called SARIGAMA in Asianet anchored by M.G.Sreekumar. Was it Sujatha who sang that song originally in the film?
  
  
• From: aruvi (@ 209.197.168.188) on: Sun Apr 8 13:37:54 EDT 2001
  
  She never got one.
  
  
• From: karthi (@ 63.21.181.157) on: Sun Apr 8 23:27:45 EDT 2001
  
  Speaking discouragingly of Bhavatharini getting a national award only shows you all guys' narrow mindedness...she has definitely satisfied the jury if not anyone else...so why the big hoopla against it? If you think about it, even Janaki getting a national award for "Inji iduppazhagi" is not fully deserving...infact, Kamalahasan has sung better than her in that song...
  
  
• From: aruvi (@ 209.148.146.157) on: Mon Apr 9 01:11:22 EDT 2001
  
  ???!!!!
  OK:-)))
  
  
• From: MS (@ 129.252.222.2) on: Mon Apr 9 02:41:39 EDT 2001
  
  karthi:
  
  "she has definitely satisfied the jury" - did you think twice before making that statment ? It gives rise to dangerous connotations in my innocent mind :-))
  
  
• From: MS (@ 129.252.222.2) on: Mon Apr 9 02:49:11 EDT 2001
  
  hmm..I realize with an itch that the previous post of mine was is in bad taste. Sorry folks :-(
  
  
• From: rajaG (@ 207.43.195.201) on: Mon Apr 9 11:53:26 EDT 2001
  
  karthi: dhideernu vandhu don't try to put a guilt factor into our minds regarding our views on this topic. IMO National Awards should be deserving to a performer or a performance, preferably both. As an example, SJ's inji iduppazhaga may be an ordinary song, compared to the other fantastic renditions by SJ (before and after). It also might not be the best female song for that year. However, one chooses to ignore this fact, considering SJ's other achievements. In the ideal situation, you may not want this but atleast the candidate has other deserving performances. But, Bavadharini? C'mon gimme a break. Maybe you have a soft corner for her, because she reminds you of P.Susheela of yester years, but engaLukku appdi thONaliyE:-)
  
  
• From: hihi:-) (@ 134.124.160.10) on: Mon Apr 9 12:30:50 EDT 2001
  
  dangerous connotations in my innocent mind. MS: leave the itch aside :-), didn't you notice the contradition? :-)))
  
  
• From: MS (@ 129.252.222.2) on: Mon Apr 9 13:54:18 EDT 2001
  
  Need I say it was deliberate ? :-)
  
  
• From: shaNmugam (@ 63.101.96.1) on: Mon Apr 9 15:43:24 EDT 2001
  
  
  rAjAG,
  
  Maybe you have a soft corner for her, because she reminds you of P.Susheela of yester years
  
  AnAlum, nInga PSai ivvaLavu mattam thatta kUdAthu:-) In an interview, bhavA mentioned her favourite female singer as PS. Maybe, that is the reason why kArthi is defending her;-)
  
  
• From: rajaG (@ 208.24.179.202) on: Mon Apr 9 15:54:23 EDT 2001
  
  shaNmugam: Does that mean, we need to give national award to Karthi too? :-) (Who knows? Maybe he is more deserving than Bhava):-)
  
  
• From: SL (@ 63.253.7.143) on: Mon Apr 9 20:43:52 EDT 2001
  
  karthi, for a change respond to other's post's now. We are all really tired of your 'disappearing when convenient' act.
  
  
• From: Neel (@ 64.3.192.67) on: Mon Apr 9 22:09:53 EDT 2001
  
  Whether it deserves a national award or not is upto the jury. I still wonder what was so great about last year's male singer's performance, the Malayalam song. I personally would have given the award to Anuradha for Karupputhan. I don't know if karupputhaan was even nominated. But Bhavadharini did give a good performance with Mayil pOla. She had powerful delivery, decent uccarippu, azuththam and thiruththam which Sujata very very rarely has and Chitra rarely has.
  
  
• From: karthi (@ 63.21.181.153) on: Mon Apr 9 22:39:44 EDT 2001
  
  I said that out of a general kindness for someone who has won an award. I still maintain what I have said. It's not at all good to discourage someone like this.
  
  And rajaG, I don't understand what you are trying to say! "In the ideal situation, you may not want this but atleast the candidate has other deserving performances" - neenga solradha paarthaa, oru singer 1 paattu asingamaa paadi, 9 paattu nalla paadiyirundha, andha oru paattukku award thandhaa OK pOlarukkE? That is not the point here at all. Award song jury-ku pidichu pOchu - avLOdhaan. And Bhava was lucky to get it. And I'm yet to hear that song to pass a comment on it. Even if I don't like it, I will never ridicule an artist like you all do. That is the point.
  
  Enakku National Award kidaichaa...ungaLukku maal vettarEn rajaG, OK-yaa? SL, unakkum konjam tharrEn pOnap pOgudhunnu!
  
  
• From: sriram (@ ) on: Sun Sep 30 08:36:04 EDT 2001
  
  I think PS is without any query could be
  adjuded as the Uncrowned queen of south
  indian playback singing.
  that is why she is respected than any other in
  the field
  susheela is one only tradefront singer in female
  side who enthralled all front and given life to
  the songs of the celebrated heroines of the south
  india film industry.
  sriram
  
  
• From: saravan (@ 203.200.15.20) on: Thu Oct 4 08:13:07 EDT 2001
  
  Sriram you are wrong
  PS is not the queen of South
  Her voice is only suitable for few situations
  But S JANAKI still doing well
  S.JANAKI is the queen of south indian playback
  music
  
  
• From: raj (@ 198.151.230.253) on: Tue Oct 16 07:04:23 EDT 2001
  
  IF PS's Voice is suitable for few situtaions how she can be in field for 50 yrs & How MD's Called her to sing all situations..
  While janaki clicked only in 70's!!
  
  SO PS IS THE ONLY QUEEN OF SFM..
  
  
• From: saravan (@ 203.200.15.20) on: Thu Oct 18 01:01:00 EDT 2001
  
  Not exactly 50 years ok
  PS Dominated Tamil field only for about 20 years(60's & 70's).See Now also Janaki singing for big MD's like Rahman ok. You should accept this. Janaki is the QUEEN of SOUTH INDIAN PLAYBACK
  
  
• From: RSK (@ 203.200.144.135) on: Wed Nov 14 04:44:30 EST 2001
  
  I know to read/write/speak all southindian languages and no one other than S JANAKI is perfect in rendition. Chithra is the only one who can come some what near her. SPB is bad in Malayalam, KJY not so good other than malayalam, Vani Jayaram and Susheela are not at all good in malayalam even though they has sung too many songs
  
  
• From: NVSRIRAM (@ 61.11.79.189) on: Wed Nov 21 02:43:20 EST 2001
  
  SHE THE MELODY SONGS OF THE YESTERYEARS
  AND COUNT FOR THE SONGS OTHER THAN PS
  THAT ITSELF WILL SHOW THAT SHE WAS FOR THE
  PERIOD OF GOOD TALENTED ACTRESSES AND
  SJ WAS FOR SILK SMITHA AND OTHER VAMP CHARACETER
  IN A VERY SHAMELESS MANNER.
  PS ALSO SANG FOR ALL BUT NOT COMPROMISING IN
  TASTEFUL RENDITION
  SRIRAM
  
  
• From: murari (@ 202.56.249.75) on: Sun Dec 2 08:14:50 EST 2001
  
  kindly hear ps songs in malayalam and then
  come to the conclusion
  murari
  
  
• From: pet (@ 210.186.82.215) on: Sat Dec 8 21:20:37 EST 2001
  
  chitra is the best and just try to listen to neethan en thesia geetham.Her performance in that song is really very very very well.
  
  
• From: rajesh (@ 202.54.89.103) on: Sat Dec 29 03:09:58 EST 2001
  
  S Janaki is the only Kuyil of Tamil Film music
  
  
• From: AVR (@ 203.197.81.202) on: Sun Apr 7 07:54:29 EDT 2002
  
  and how come everyone forgets Vani Jairam in the list of nightingales?
  
  
• From: srirama (@ 203.195.180.85) on: Sun May 12 11:47:42 EDT 2002
  
  see the years doesnt make difference in singing.
  when ps has sung nearly 40000 songs usage is more
  but sj with almost same no of years as experience
  had completed only 15000 which is less than chitra
  and mano number.
  so numerically she should and can sing for another
  10 years atleast to cover 25000 as numbers.
  please dont quantify and qualify ps songs with
  because at any point of time ps had more hits
  and more awards and more memorable solos than
  anyother singers in tamil and telugu.
  see in kannada she sung little and most memorable
  songs in kannada are within that little
  
  
• From: nirmala (@ 203.200.7.148) on: Thu May 30 02:52:30 EDT 2002
  
  hi do not judge them by number of songs sung
  do u know how many songs Asha Bonsle Sung
  it is just 10000 songs
  Still Janaki gives hits
  
  
  
  
• From: sivadhasan. (@ 202.9.152.200) on: Tue Jul 2 04:57:04 EDT 2002
  
  In my opinion, Chithra is top among all other South Indian female play back singers. From the very beginning of her music carrer, she got the national award in Tamil movie, Sindhu Bhairavi. Altogether she got 5 national awards including one in Hindi. She is the one and only one singer (both in male and female) who won all the 4 South Indian State film awards. These awards she got so many times in which in Malayalam, she got 13 times state award. More over her voice is so melodious that nobody will bore and that will continue atleast for 2 decades more.
  
  
• From: prnav (@ 202.142.68.94) on: Sun Feb 2 23:51:45 EST 2003
  
  can anyone tell me how many songs have chitra have sung?
  
  
• From: sridhar (@ 61.3.70.48) on: Fri Feb 21 09:25:26 EST 2003
  
  chitra had sung about 14,ooo songs so far..she is reaching the heights of s.janaki.
  
  
• From: pranav (@ 202.142.68.94) on: Wed Apr 9 04:10:24 EDT 2003
  
  No any singer can reach a high position by singing 1000s of songs. She/He should be verstaile. Versatile = Janakiamma, no one else Janaki is versatile.
  
  
• From: pranav (@ 202.142.68.94) on: Fri Apr 11 04:53:54 EDT 2003
  
  Chitra has got 11 Kearal State awards, not 13.
  
  
• From: pranav (@ 202.142.68.94) on: Sat Apr 26 01:34:44 EDT 2003
  
  S.Janaki is the best singer ever in the world. She is the Isai Kuyil, Kaviya Kural Rani. Ilavarasi,,,, Ellame Janakaimma thaaaaaaaan.No comments on this.
  
  
• From: Mouli (@ 61.1.146.116) on: Mon Jul 28 07:13:14 EDT 2003
  
  The most beautiest, sweet, heart touching voice I ever come across in the music world is one and only Chitra.She sung in all the south Indian languages and ofcouse in hindi also.The most important aspect in her songs is she pronounces the words of any language in a very sweet manner.
  She feels the song.
  
  
• From: suganthi (@ 220.247.250.93) on: Sat Jan 24 03:12:27 EST 2004
  
  Chitra is a complete good singer.
  
  
• From: dr tc mark-andoo (@ 80.0.169.143) on: Sat Jun 5 20:34:10 EDT 2004
  
  THE GREATEST FOUNDATIONS IN INDIAN FILM PLAYBACK WAS SET BY THE MANGESHKAR SISTERS..FROM THE 1940'S. ALL INDIA WENT THROUGH THE NEW REVOLUTION SET BY THE SISTERS.P. SUSHEELA MIMICKED LATAJI AND LR EASWARI WAS THE ASHA OF THE SOUTH..S.JANAKI WAS BOTH THE LATA AND ASHA OF KANADA AND MALAYALAM PLAYBACK..SOMETIMES ALSO SANG IN TELUGU AND TAMIL FILMS..NEARLY ALL HER SONGS WERE HITS. SHE HAS SUNG SONGS THAT PS AND LRE WERE DEEMED UNSUITED. AS TAMIL AND TELUGU LANGUAGES WERE HARSHER AND THE ACTRESSES WERE BULKY AND AT TIMES HEAVY WEIGHTS PS AND LRE SUITED BETTER. PS REIGNED FROM 1962 TO 1970. 70'S SAW SJ REAPPERING AND MSV WAS PROMOTING VJ AND LRE AND SO WAS KVM. AT THIS POINT PS WAS CONTRACTED LESS. MID 70'S SAW SJ BEING SHOT UP TO THE TOP BY IRAJA. SJ DOMINATED FROM MID 70'S TO THE EARLY 90'S.
  ITS A RECORD THAT SJ HAD SUNG FOR MORE ACTRESSES THAN ANYONE ELSE.
  SJ HAD THE GREATNESS OF LATAJI AND ASHAJI ROLLED INTO ONE.
  PS WAS GREAT BUT HER RANGE WAS CERTAINLY LIMITED. HER PLUS POINT WAS THE RENDITION OF SAD SONGS. THERE HAS BEEN NO VAMP GREATER THAN LRE IN THE SOUTH. LRE HAS ALSO SUNG SOME GREAT SONGS DEPICTING OTHER EMOTIONS.
  CHITRA IM SAD TO SAY DOES NOT QUALIFY IN THIS GROUP OF GREAT SINGERS.
  IN CONCLUSION: S.JANAKI IS THE GREATEST OF THE SOUTH INDIAN FEMALE SINGERS.
  
  
• From: Anjali (@ 4.229.9.52) on: Wed Sep 15 21:59:35 EDT 2004
  
  All JanakiAmma fans are cordially invited to join JanakiAmma's (unofficial) fan-group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SJanaki
  
  Any questions about the group? I'll be glad to answer.
  
  Warm regards,
  
  Anjali.
  
  anjali@sjanaki.com
  
  

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