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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: sriram (@ 163.181.251.10) on: Tue Jun 29 14:17:45 EDT 2004
  
  my pick of the album is "vAnengum". it wins by a photo finish over the SOTD. I must've rewinded & listened to the train-like sounding interlude in a loop a thousand times. try to get a good sound system or decent headphones. the effect is just amazing.
  
  
• From: Kriedler (@ 207.61.221.28) on: Tue Jun 29 15:45:40 EDT 2004
  
  The ultimate dialogue in the movie was ofcourse was Ganthimathi's while introducing a 'soul' mate to YG Mahendran... 'iva thAn ippO flute vAsikka kathhukkarA'.
  
  MS and Naaz, enough of all your self-righteous assertions. Such self/image-projecting exchanges will not be tolerated anymore.
  
  
• From: bb (@ 24.6.231.170) on: Tue Jun 29 23:01:29 EDT 2004
  
  Song of the Day: nee varuvaai ena naan irundhEn from Sujatha.
  
  http://www.newtfmpage.com/cgi-bin/stream.pl?url=http://www.dhool.com/sotd/neevaruvaai.rm
  
  - Saravanan writes:
  
  ‘nee varuvaaiyena naan irundhEn’ from Sujatha. Sung by Kalyani Menon. Lyrics by Kannadasan. Music by MSV.
  
  Sujatha (1980/ Sujatha Cine Arts) was the film from the Balaji stable that followed in the wake of the massive success of Billa. The film starred Shankar, Raveendar, Saritha, Rajalakshmi and others. I believe the film came and bit the dust even as Billa was nonchalantly notching record box office collections. Hastily inspired by Oru Thalai Ragam, Sujatha too was a tale of college romance with a tragic ending- cancer in this case snatches the life of Sujatha (In an interview, Saritha (who played the heroine Sujatha) recalled that she even tonsured her hair to portray the agony of chemotherapy)--but filmgoers refused to be wooed by a pathetic pretender when Oru Thalai Ragam was still running to packed houses.
  
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  The fêted firm of Kannadasan & MSV set about working on a short and sweet album- SPB’s roguish ‘nadaiyalangaram naatiyamappa’ painted an engaging picture of frolicsome campus capers, while ‘engirundhO vandha paRavaigaLE’ (PS) was an emotive farewell paean. The highpoints of the album were, of course, the two versions of ‘nee varuvaaiyena’- the pleasing SOTD by Kalyani Menon, and a shorter pathos version, movingly rendered by Jayachandran—the thogayara that makes up most of the song, ‘antharanganeerkkuLathE poothezhundha thamaraigaL’, should have been a celebrated landmark in JC’s career, as his voice, bereft of any instrumental accompaniment, makes a lingering, haunting statement.
  
  MSV fills this delightful song with dainty guitar bits and lilting flute notes. I particularly fall for the terrace-formation like tempo buildup that commences with ‘kaNgaL uRangavillai, imaigaL thazhuvavillai’; and upon reaching the summit with ‘vaaraayO,’ the gentle decent from the crescendo that the synthesizer facilitates back to the pallavi. The charanams too soar towards the end in similar alluring arrangements.
  
  Towards the late 70s and later in the early 80s, some upcoming singers found themselves singing for MSV. T.L.Maharajan, Jolly Abraham, Seergazhi Sivachidambaram, B.S.Sasirekha, S.P.Shailaja, and even Bombay Jaishree bagged such prized opportunities. Kalyani Menon was among these beneficiaries, and though she has sung for many MDs, the SOTD remains the most popular song in her tfm career.
  
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  Some years back, I was in Madras in December, and found myself, albeit unwillingly, chauffeuring my mother to various concert halls. And thus one balmy morning, we entered the Balamandir German Hall a little after the concert had commenced. I was soon spellbound by the song (‘evarani nirnayinchiri ra’, if I remember right), and was wondering about the vocalist who seemed quite familiar. And glancing at the programme, I was jerked out of my lethargy when I realized that the singer who was effortlessly traversing those intricate Harikhambodhi passages was none other than Kalyani Menon!
  
  Kalyani Menon learned classical music from the famed guru ‘Sangeethabhooshanam’ M.R. Sivaraman Nair. She soon made a mark as a classical vocalist of merit and then gradually branched out into singing for films as well. ‘kanneerin mazhayathum’, the song that Kalyani sang for the legendary composer M.S.Baburaj in Ramu Kariat’s 1977 film Dweep, is a tender, tremulous song, punctuated by moments of moving poignancy.
  
  She made her debut in Madras in 1977, through the famed Dhananjayan’s Malayalam dance drama ‘Magdalana Mariyam’ that was choreographed for Madras DD as part of the Vallathol Centenary celebrations. Kalyani sang Vallathol Narayana Menon’s lines that were set to tune by the Dhananjayans.
  
  Kalyani’s first film song in Tamil was under IR’s baton, and the song ‘sevvaanamE ponmEgamE’, which she sang along with JC, T.L.Maharajan & B.S.Sasirekha in K.Balaji’s Nallathoru Kudumbam (1979), did find frequent airtime. And Balaji continued to ensure that Kalyani sang in some of his films in the early 80s- ‘nee varuvaaiyena’ (Sujatha/ 1980/ MSV), the
  hilarious ‘Devadas’ dance drama (‘thaNNiya pOtta sandhOsham piRakkum’) that she sang along with Kamal (Savaal/1981/MSV), the breezy duet with SPB- ‘aei rajavE un rajathi’ (Vaazhve Mayam/1982/GA) and the reflective ‘vidhi varaindha paadhai vazhiyE’ (Vidhi/1984/S-G). Kalyani also sang a memorable duet with KJY for S-G – ‘naan iravil ezhuthum kavithai muzhuthum’ (Suba Muhoortham/1983). Another song that stays on in memory, thanks to Radio Ceylon, is Kalyani’s wonderful duet with JC ‘thEril vandhaaL dEvadhai, enai thEdi vandhaaL thaaragai’ (from an unreleased film called Mookuthi Meengal).
  
  And Kalyani Menon was soon forgotten by tfm, and would have probably remained so, had not A.R. Rahman brought her back to sing ‘vaadi saathukkudi’ in Pudhiya Mannargal, and followed it up with giving her that ‘omana thingaL’ piece in ‘kuluvalilE’ (Muthu). Her recent songs for ARR include ‘alaipaayuthE kaNNa’ (Alaipaayuthe) and ‘adhisaya thirumaNam’ (Paarthaale Paravasam). Kalyani featured in ARR’s historical ‘Vandhe Maataram’ album; and also in Ussele, the album by Srinivas, in which Kalyani & Unnikrishnan sang Gopalakrishna Bharathi’s ‘eppO varuvaarO’ set to a modern beat.
  
  Her talented son Rajeev Menon has never failed to acknowledge his mother’s constant encouragement and support for all his endeavors. As a mark of respect, when the audio cassette of his magnum opus Kandukkonden Kandukkonden was released in a grand function, Kalyani Menon was called to receive the first cassette from Kamalhasan. Kalyani had also made a brief appearance in the film as Aishwarya’s music tutor.
  
  Rajeev has also gone on record that KK, though inspired from Sense & Sensibility, was also a reflection of their own coming up in life, as his widowed mother had single-handedly brought up her two sons.
  
  More about Kalyani here:
  
  http://www.ezvidya.com/teachersend.asp?artid=Art188
  
  And the music legacy continues too- Rajeev Menon sang a song ‘Kichu kichu moottuRiyE’ in the 2002 film Naina!
  
  - Saravanan has been writing in detail on a song each week for a year now. We've gained a lot due to his immense knowledge and lucid writing style. Thanks a lot, Saravanan!
  
  
• From: vijay (@ 68.51.215.28) on: Tue Jun 29 23:43:30 EDT 2004
  
  Saravanan, congrats! hoping to see many more such wonderful writeups from you.
  
  
• From: OISG (@ 213.42.2.10) on: Wed Jun 30 01:25:39 EDT 2004
  
  In the SPB song "Nadyalangaram" Saritha's Koondhal would get a special mention.
  
  "aaLuyaram 5 adi azhagu koondhal 6 adi
  kaNNagalm 7 adi kanni peNNe keladi
  Intha 2 kaNNai kandu ethani paer sokkinan
  chinna poNNu pinnalile ethanai paer sikkinan"
  
  So Saritha-chemotherapy-tonsure must have been thought of by the Director to mark the pinnacle of melodrama.Was it a remake of malyalam movie? Balaji moved to non-hindi remakes with this one i think.Followed it up with "Nyayam kaavali" (chiranjeevi-Radhika) as "Vidhi".
  
  KM's voice is not all that great,but the song is;the JC version with 3 thogayaras -another attempt by MSV to set pudhukavidhaigaL to tune.(particularly the "KanalilE part).Thats worth an SOTD some other day.Always the "A" got chopped off by AIR in "andharanga neer kuLathil".JC's another outstanding thogayarah in "Dhambathyam oeu Sangeetham" has already been featured as SOTD.
  KM sounded good in "Naan iravil ezhuthum" with KJY.
  
  Shankar acted as a budding(?) poet in the movie and there was a subtle romance.KM sang this song for Big-eyed "Rajalakshmi".
  
  
• From: MS (@ 24.168.196.217) on: Wed Jun 30 02:02:49 EDT 2004
  
  I have been searching for this song long. Thanks a ton.
  
  
• From: vengayam (@ 203.197.203.98) on: Wed Jun 30 03:34:14 EDT 2004
  
  saravanan,
  I do not agree on the" talented "son bit though. talent for what? making music videos and trying to patch a story into it! he is in my list of strictly avoidable directors somewhere near the top vying with R Sunderrajan and P Vaasu for top spot!
  the song in q alongwith sevaaname pass muster. Hummable but does it deserve the coveted Wednesday slot I wonder!
  
  
• From: Lord LabakuDas (@ 202.54.153.21) on: Wed Jun 30 03:49:53 EDT 2004
  
  Congrats Saravanan !! Continue your good work
  
  
• From: raj (@ 203.197.142.162) on: Wed Jun 30 04:11:19 EDT 2004
  
  Congrats Sara!! Keep up the momentum!
  
  
• From: * (@ 161.114.1.181) on: Wed Jun 30 06:47:53 EDT 2004
  
  Good going Sara, your Wednesday gift is a timely refreshment during work-filled weeks!!
  
  
• From: geeth (@ 62.215.3.37) on: Wed Jun 30 07:19:25 EDT 2004
  
  OISG, i think it was a remake of Saalini endre kootikaari (malayalam)
  
  
• From: T (@ 12.33.141.41) on: Wed Jun 30 08:50:17 EDT 2004
  
  nice song... Vividh barathi la romba famous song in the 80s... Kalyani menon also sang the ending neelambari piece in 'en swasa kaatre'..
  
  

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