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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: raja m (@ 67.87.27.19) on: Tue May 18 08:59:12 EDT 2004
  
  Great SOTD from the golden age of IR. I remember the nadaswaram `pissrrr` discussion.
  
  The last scene in the movie where Ranjnikanth is shown having died in his sleep in his favourite `easy chair' is memorable. What are the other films which have the same theme? Sumaithangi is one, the last scene where Gemini is shown renouncing family life and joining a seminary. Such films leave a sense of futility of existence.
  
  Gem of a song from IR.
  
  
• From: Raj (@ 208.164.98.89) on: Tue May 18 11:23:08 EDT 2004
  
  bb: nice song. A few corrections:
  'jaadaiyil thondridum aasaiyil'
  'sindhum punnagai'
  'kaaraNam nee aRivaai thevaiyai naan ariven'
  
  
• From: bb (@ 206.154.118.2) on: Tue May 18 12:45:45 EDT 2004
  
  test
  
  
• From: bb (@ 24.6.216.148) on: Tue May 18 23:57:31 EDT 2004
  
  Song of the Day: aruL vadivE paramporuL vadivE from vaazhthungaL.
  
  http://www.newtfmpage.com/cgi-bin/stream.pl?url=http://www.dhool.com/sotd/arulvadive.rm
  
  - Saravanan writes:
  
  ‘aruL vadivE paramporuL vadivE’ from vaazhthungaL. Sung by K.J.Yesudas. Lyrics by Thelloor Dharmarasan. Music by L.Vaidyanathan.
  
  Senthamarai Combines’ Vaazhthungal- 1978 starred Muthuraman and Chandrakala. It was directed by C.V.Rajendran. Thelloor Dharmarasan, who also wrote the lyrics and the dialogues, produced the film. I have not seen the film, but have heard that it was an unusual story beginning with a girl’s birthday, and the three bizarre calls that the birthday brings with it: an anonymous caller who threatens to kill her if her father doesn’t part with a specified sum of money, her father’s friend who calls up hinting at ominous consequences if the money borrowed by her father is not returned, and a third call from a persistent suitor, who warns of dire imprecations if she wasn’t given in marriage to him!
  
  There were 4 songs in the film:
  
  poontherE chinna chinna kaaleduthu vaa- SPB
  paadattuma aadattuma mOgathin vEgathil- VJ
  pudhumugam tharum navarasam- SJ
  aruL vadivE paramporuL vadivE- KJY
  
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  Whilst desultorily switching channels some weeks back, I happened to catch the beginning of a film called Mannavaru Chinnavaru (1998/ Kalaipuli International). And I was startled to see the titles crediting the bgm to L.Vaidyanathan, while the songs were composed by an obscure newcomer called Geethapriyan. I fell into cursing tfm and its myopic leanings, for it has callously allowed a genius like LV to languish in oblivion.
  
  Lakshminarayana Vaidyanathan was born in 1942 in Jaffna, where his illustrious father was a professor in the College of Music. Vidwan V.Lakshminarayana Aiyar hailed from Ramanathapuram and was a celebrated vocalist and violinist, he was the Guru for many popular artistes of today like Sanjay Subramaniam. LV’s mother Seethalakshmi was a gifted vocalist and Vainika. His two brothers L.Subramaniam and L.Shankar are internationally renowned musicians.
  
  Is it of any wonder, then, that LV had his arangetram as a violinist at the tender age of 8! His thirst for music knew no frontiers- he was soon learning western classical violin, piano and Hindustani music. When the family shifted to India in the mid 50s, LV came under the tutelage of the great GNB, and very soon made a mark as an able accompanist to the likes of GNB, Madurai Mani Aiyar and DKP. He also ventured into film music by playing for MDs like GR, KVM, MBS, TGL and V.Dakshinamoorthi. He assisted Salil Chowdhry in composing the music for Chemmeen, and later became the assistant of GKV.
  
  LV has composed music for around 30 Kannada films. Thespian Rajkumar is said to ranked LV’s score for Ondu Muththina Kathe (1987/Padmasri Enterprises) as among the best albums that he had sung for. LV has been repeatedly associated with award winning/ off-beat ventures like Thiladanam (Telugu), Hrudayanjali (Telugu), Mane (Kannada), Tabarana Kathe (Kannada), Swaroopam (Malayalam), Kaam Kala Thaandav (Hindi, Ananda Thaandavam in its Tamil/Telugu versions), Stree (Telugu), Kraurya (Kannada), Pushpak and Current (Hindi). His path-breaking non-film albums are too numerous to elaborate, and his score for the TV adaptation of Malgudi Days (including that folksy title track in his voice) remains permanently etched in our memory.
  
  LV’s first Tamil film was Vaazhthungal. The film came a cropper, and the songs were quickly forgotten. Later very few directors found LV fitting into their scheme of things: Ezhavathu Manithan (1982/ K. Hariharan), Lottery Ticket (1982/ C.V Rajendran), Kavithai Paada Neramillai (1987/ Yugi Sethu), and Dasarathan (1993/ Raja Krishnamoorthi) were the few films that came LV’s way. He is said to have composed the bgm for Mugathil Mugam Paarkkalaam (1979, for which IR composed the songs). His wonderful music was the unspoken word and the unsung song in Singitam Srinivasa Rao’s silent Pesum Padam (1987/ Mandakini Chitra) His bgm for award winning films like Balumahendra’s Sandhya Ragam (1989), Jayabharathy’s Uchi Veyil (1990) and K.S.Sethumadhavan’s Maruppakkam (1991) won critical acclaim. The Tamil film ‘Oruthi’ (based on Ki. Rajanarayanan’s Kidai) that was screened in the Indian Panorama of the International Film festival last year, had music by LV. After years of outstanding musical achievements, LV belatedly found place in the list of Kalaimaamani awardees last year.
  
  When asked in a TV interview about the first National Honor that came her way, SJ’s eyes lit up as she reminisced about ‘senthoorappoovE’. However she added wistfully, ‘That very year, I had sung an extremely challenging song ‘shiva shiva ennada naalide eeke’ for the Kannada film Hemavathi. It was an intricate classical composition by L.Vaidyanathan, full of complex passages and breakneck notes. I wish some recognition had come for that song too’. That speaks volumes of the high regard that even leading singers have for LV and his remarkable music
  
  The lilting contemporary hue that cloaks Bharathiar’s ‘kaakai chiRaginilE’ (KJY/ Ezhavathu Manithan), the rhythmic magnificence of imagination that is evident in ‘aavaNiyai koNdaada vandhaan’ (Lottery Ticket/VJ), the gentle flight of romance that ‘kaNNil vandhaai nenjil nindRaai’ (Lottery Ticket/ JC, VJ) takes you on, the wondrous vistas that ‘puththam pudhu ulagam’ (Kavithai Paada Neramillai/SJ, LV) conjures up, the caressing coalescence of KJY and SPB that ‘aaraarO aariraarO’ (Dasarathan) made possible—these samples suffice to bespeak LV’s musical genius . Going by sheer numbers, he may be an insignificant speck in the vast tfm horizon; but in the pantheon of melody makers whose each creation is an exquisite work of art, LV looms large and luminous.
  
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  While searching through my KJY collection for ‘iRaivan ulagathai padaithaanaam’, I chanced upon this song, and listening to it after ages, I felt a familiar rapture engulf me all over again, the same rapture that engulfed me when I listened to it as a child for the first time on Radio Ceylon. I got to listen to it few more times over the years, and one of those times, recorded the song from the Radio.
  
  ‘Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead Thou me on! The night is dark, and I am far from home; lead Thou me on!’ – many of us may remember this stirring hymn by Cardinal Newman. The same complete surrender to the Almighty finds emotive portrayal in this song. KJY’s voice, with its intrinsic undercurrent of sorrow, is as spellbinding as ever, and when piety gets added, the result is a song like this—a repository of serenity and divine harmony.
  
  Two years back I had gone to Thirukkadayoor for a family function. As were walking down the street that leads to the temple, from one of the many shops that line the lane I heard this song being announced on Radio Ceylon’s early morning Sugaragam—I paused and savored the blissful moment, before heeding to the impatient summons from the rest of the group. Some things hadn’t changed---thankfully!
  
  - Other LV songs in SOTD:
  nallathOr veeNai seidhE from 7th man: http://www.dhool.com/sotd2/141.html
  endha nEramum from 7th man: http://www.dhool.com/sotd2/114.html
  
  
• From: Udhaya (@ 204.31.177.30) on: Wed May 19 02:53:17 EDT 2004
  
  LV was also the ghost MD for "Pudhupaadagan". Though the shameless producer announced himself as the MD, my industry sources revealed the truth. That movie had the lovely duet, "adhikaalai naan paadum boobaalamae" and the rousing "aththai ponnu vaadi".
  
  
• From: vengayam (@ 203.197.203.98) on: Wed May 19 04:08:11 EDT 2004
  
  "poonthere chinna chinna" is a peppy no in sharp contrast to this serene song. it is indeed a pity that we have not recognized enough this genius :-(
  Sara, any further info on " Thellur Darmarasan"
  do you mean to say that after Vazthunghal LV's second score was only ezhavathu manithan? Incredible " avan anri veror annu asaiyaathe" or what? I always had doubts but now it is confirmed...
  
  
• From: Da Vinci (@ 128.113.109.185) on: Wed May 19 09:08:34 EDT 2004
  
  Saravanan,
  
  L.Vaidhyanathan is for sure another flower in Tamil Film music that was ‘born to blush unseen, and waste its sweetness on the desert air'. That was a good song. It was nice to hear it after a long time.
  
  That a music director who gave so many wonderful songs like those from ‘EzAvathu manithan’ got into oblivion is sad to know. Whenever I hear anything in ‘Abogi’, I invariably get reminded of his beautiful expression of it in ‘vINaiyadi nI enakku’.
  
  I remember of having heard that he assisted T.Rajendar too in some of his early films. There is a typical guitar usage in a few of T.Rajendar’s songs that makes me feel it could be true.
  
  
• From: Saravanan (@ 195.229.241.183) on: Wed May 19 13:22:31 EDT 2004
  
  Vengayam/ Da Vinci, the neglect of such artistes is a tragedy -- tfm abounds with such unrecognized, under-utilized talents. Many of them are still living, their capacities and enthusiasm undiminished in most cases.
  
  Vengayam, I don't know much else about Thelloor Mu. Dharmarasan. He had written two songs in Kalyana Mandapam(1965/ Dhanalakshmi Theatres/ Anadan, Ravichandran, KR Vijaya). Music was by R.Parthasarathi.
  
  The songs that Dharmarasan wrote in the film were 'poothirukkum vizhiyeduthu maalai thodukkava, punnagaiyil seNdamaithu kaiyil kodukkava' (PBS/PS) and 'unnaithaan thEdi vandhEn, kanni naan OdivandhEn' (LRE)
  
  

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