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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: B.P. Thiagarajan (@ 61.11.27.190) on: Tue Jul 20 04:46:11 EDT 2004
  
  This is a good melodious song. As supplemented by rediff, the film was produced and directed by Thankappan Master. Of course, Kaml was the asst. director. This is a multi starrer movie. KR Vijaya, Padmini, Muthuraman, Demini, Jayalalita. Major, Thenkai, Mater Sekhar, Prabakar, Surulri rajan and lot of junior artists.
  
  In those days standard of B&W movies, this stands out to be aan Exastman colour film. It was well appreciated by the audience. Good songs by Devarajan and KD.
  
  This particular song was a dream song for Gemini (doctor)and JJ (nurse). In this dream song, the pair will have a dream due to Math's blessing and the pair could identify themselves as the future couple. KJ and Madhuri sang fittingly to Gemini and JJ. Though the movie is some sort of propaganda in nature, the way it was told was more appreciated. The music was the big booster for the movie. Later it was dubbed into Malayalam and Telugu and was successful. It is also to be pointed out after this movie, the general population to visit Velankanni has increased a lot. The cultural assimilation, rural life, finishing sentiment touch with crusade shown in the movie were really nice. This song was a repeated song in the late night in all radio staions.
  
  B.P. Thiagarajan
  
  
• From: muarbalu (@ 210.187.121.166) on: Tue Jul 20 04:54:28 EDT 2004
  
  surya,
  
  VAYASU PONNU ....stars MUTHURAMAN,JEIGANESH,SRIVITYA,ROJA RAMANI
  music by msv
  hit song.. KAANJI patthuduthi kasthoori pottu vaithu devathai pol nee nadanthu varavendum..antha thirumagalum un arulai pera vendum.
  
  
• From: raj (@ 61.246.255.3) on: Tue Jul 20 06:53:23 EDT 2004
  
  karunai mazhaye mari madha by PS is an excellent song in Annai Velankanni
  
  
• From: Cinema Virumbi (@ 220.227.146.4) on: Tue Jul 20 07:47:21 EDT 2004
  
  
  Friends,
  
  I think the exact equivalent of 'lajjaavathiyE!' should be 'naaNum nangaiyE!', some sort of 'sharmeelee!'
  
  
• From: MS (@ 24.168.196.217) on: Tue Jul 20 14:02:46 EDT 2004
  
  Though the song "vaanamenum" itslef is a favorite, P.Madhuri's singing is a sore point. For e.g. She goes off-scale between 1:56 to 1:60. A haunting tune.
  
  
• From: Sriram Lakshman (@ 192.127.94.7) on: Tue Jul 20 19:04:49 EDT 2004
  
  MS, I thought I had told you that Madhuri is a sore point...period !!! IN several songs !!!! A great duet, beautifully crafted by GD. KJY's expressions when he puts through 'nenjOdi vanthathenna' .....a treat
  
  
• From: 2:00 (@ 148.87.1.171) on: Tue Jul 20 19:20:33 EDT 2004
  
  MS- 1:60 ?! :-)
  
  
• From: J Sreedhar (@ 171.64.128.215) on: Tue Jul 20 20:07:52 EDT 2004
  
  I think Rediff is way off the mark in claiming that Kamal never set out to be an actor. He has wanted to be nothing else ALL HIS LIFE!!! The only reason he did sundry stuff like Asst dance master etc., is because he did not get many acting chances. It was Malayalam filmdom which gave him his first breaks (as an adult), something he is still grateful for.
  
  
• From: Saravanan (@ 213.42.2.10) on: Tue Jul 20 23:56:39 EDT 2004
  
  Wonderful song! Thanks, bb.
  
  Yes, Madhuri was Devarajan's favourite singer, though other MDs too have given her a few songs. S-G (Kaalam Vellum) and Kunnakkudi Vaithyanathan (Thirumalai Thenkumari), for instance. In Malayalam, Salil gave her the haunting 'neela ponmaanE' (Nellu)
  
  
• From: bb (@ 24.6.251.57) on: Wed Jul 21 00:36:14 EDT 2004
  
  Song of the Day: oru OsaiyinRi mounamaaga from pareetchaikku nEramaachu.
  
  http://www.newtfmpage.com/cgi-bin/stream.pl?url=http://www.dhool.com/sotd/oruosai.rm
  
  - Saravanan writes:
  
  ‘oru OsaiyindRi mounamaaga’ from pareetchaikku nEramaachu. Sung by P.Jayachandran. Lyrics by Vaali. Music by MSV.
  
  pareetchaikku nEramaachu (14.11.1982/ Mukta Films) starred Sivaji Ganesan, Sujatha, Y.G.Mahendran, Poornima Jairam, ‘VA’ Moorthi, Manorama, V.Gopalakrishnan, Silk Smitha and others. It was produced by Mukta Ramaswami and directed by Mukta Srinivasan.
  
  The film was based on a play having the same name, staged by United Amateur Artistes. Founded in 1952 by Y.G.Parthasarathi and his versatile friend Pattu, UAA is among the oldest surviving Tamil theatre troupes today. Varadakshinai (1952) was the first play that was staged by UAA, and over the years, besides Pattu, others who wrote plays for UAA include PYV Raman, Vietnam Veedu Sundaram, Mouli, Venkat, Visu, and YGM. Nagesh, Cho, Jayalalitha, Lakshmi, Srikanth, and V.Goplakrishnan were some of the many artistes who learned the basics of acting at UAA. Many of UAA’s landmark plays are remembered to this day - It Happened At Midnight, Oh, What A Girl, Dial Mr.Sanjeevi, Under Secretary, Imperfect Murder, nalanthaana, Flight 172, ragasiyam parama ragasiyam, Paatti & The Naughty Boys, seithigaL vaasippathu UAA –the list goes on---UAA celebrated its golden jubilee in 2002, and has successfully staged its latest offering ‘upadhEsam seivathu UAA’ this year.
  
  pareetchaikku nEramaachu was not the first instance of a UAA play was being adapted for a Sivaji film; it was UAA’s play ‘petRaalthaan piLLaiya’ written by Pattu, that became ‘paar magaLE paar’ and ‘kaNNan vandhaan’ written by Vietnam Veedu Sundaram that became ‘gouravam’. pareetchaikku nEramaachu was a play jointly written by Venkat & YGM and first staged in 1978.
  
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  Venkatachari Ramaswami (1925-1988) and his brother Srinivasan were born in an impoverished family near Nagappattinam. Forced to eke out a living at an early age, Ramaswami couldn’t dream of a college education and gradually settled as a typist in Modern Theatres, Salem. Winning the confidence of the legendary T.R.Sundaram by his diligence and honesty, Ramaswami rose to become Sundaram’s executive assistant. Srinivasan too stared working in the accounts section of Modern Theatres. Later drawn towards filmmaking, he worked as assistant to directors like K.Ramnath and S.Balachander. He turned director with mudhalaaLi (1957/ MAV Pictures).
  
  Sensing his brother’s keen inclination, the enterprising Ramaswami came to Madras and formed his own company called ‘Mukta Films’. Starting with panithirai (1961), over a period of nearly 40 years, 40 films have rolled out from the Mukta banner. And though generations of actors from Gemini Ganesh to Vikram have acted in Mukta’s films, it was with Sivaji that the Mukta brothers shared a special relationship. Ramaswami, like Balaji, remained a Sivaji loyalist till the end, and was counted among Sivaji’s closest friends.
  
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  pareetchaikku nEramaachu was a family drama, revolving around the upright Narasimhachari (Sivaji), his understanding wife Vedha (Sujatha), and their dunce of a son Varadhu (YGM). Ragothama Rao (VA Moorthi), his wife Subhadra aka ‘Noon Show Mami’ (Manorama) and their daughter Jayanthi (Poornima Jairam) are their immediate neighbors and close friends. How fate repeatedly deals the same cruel bow, first by snatching their beloved Varadhukkutti, and then his look-alike whom they adopt, forms the crux of the tale.
  
  Those were the years of decline for the thespian; even his ardent fans were filled with indignation at most of the insipid films and ludicrous roles that came his way, roles that were ill-suited considering his advancing age and girth. However, there were a few instances where the ‘nadigar thilagam’ could still cast his unparalleled spell and rekindle the magic a bygone era.
  
  In 1982, a year which unleashed a series of unmitigated miseries like Hitler Umanath, sangili, oorukku oru piLLai, garuda soukkiyama, thyagi, nenjangaL, oorum uRavum---, two films came as welcome breaths of respite: Durai’s thuNai was one and Mukta’s pareetchaikku nEramaachu was the other; in both the films Sivaji had roles that suited his age, and he played them with majesty. True, pareetchaikku nEramaachu had more than a reasonable share of melodrama, nonetheless, Sivaji’s heartwarming performance had riveting moments of sheer brilliance---eagerly inviting his boss (Goplalakrishnan) for lunch while secretly hoping to lure him into offering Varudhu a job; trying to illegally buy a question paper for Varadhu’s forthcoming exam though filled with misgivings, and then the humiliation at being caught red-handed; valiantly coping with the twin calamities of losing Varadhu and Vedha becoming a living corpse; shamefacedly going to a ‘military’ eatery to buy ‘Chicken-65’ for the new Varadhu—oh, the King was in his elements here, and seemed to ascend his throne for a brief while again, after years of mortifying exile!
  
  Today (July 21st), as we observe the anniversary of his demise, let us remember the great ‘nadigar thilagam’ and how his magical presence lit up the screen for decades. We salute his revered memory.
  
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  Not counting the two short Sanskrit verses that were heard in the voice of PBS, ‘naan aaththuppakkam kuLikka pOnaa’ (LRE), ‘maaNikka veeNaiyai meetugiRaaL’ (TMS), ‘malligai poocharam manjaLin mOhanam’ (PS/VJ) and ‘oru OsaiyindRi’ (JC) were the songs that MSV set to tune for pareetchaikku nErmaachu.
  
  The late 70s and early 80s were some exultant years in Paliyathu Jayachandran’s unfairly unfulfilled tryst with tfm; MSV, IR, S-G, GA and TR reaped repeated successes in his enchanting voice in that brief period. ‘kaNNan mugam kaaNa’, ‘udhadugaLil unadhu peyar ottikkoNdathu’, ‘amudha thamizhil ezhuthum kavithai’, ‘raja vaada singakkutti’, ‘kalaimagaL malaimagaL’, ‘mazhaikkaalamum panikkaalamum’, ‘nee varuvaaiyena naan irundhEn’, ‘kavithai arangErum nEram’, ‘thendRaladhu unnidathil’, ‘mottu vitta vaasanai malli’, ‘naan thaayumaanavan’, ‘kaNgaL pEsum inba iravugaL iLamaikku sugam’, ‘endhan kaNNana kaNNaatti’ are some memorable instances where MSV and JC created combined magic during that period.
  
  ‘sumaithaangi saaindhaal sumai enna aagum?’ fretted an anxious Inspector Choudhary as he attended to his ailing Lakshmi. The same scene is enacted again, here Narasimhachari has lost his only son, and a benumbed Vedha has gone into shock. Putting aside his own sorrow resolutely, he takes care his wife; like a mother would tenderly nurse her infant, he attends to Vedha’s daily needs with solicitude and fortitude--thaaram ennum aadhaaram saaindhidum nEram, adhai thaangum baaram perum baaram thalaivanai chErum—Vaali’s evocative lines find moving delineation in JC’s gentle, mellifluous rendition.
  
  
• From: MS (@ 24.168.196.217) on: Wed Jul 21 00:41:01 EDT 2004
  
  Wonderful song. First time kEkkarEn. MSV ku salaam.
  
  

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