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Thalattu in TFM

Topic started by eden (@ ) on Sat Feb 27 07:50:05 EST 1999.
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Friends!
Please write about the Thalattu songs in TFM in this thread. (Please revive from Archives if there is any old thread on this sub). This does not mean songs starting with the word `Thalattu'. It should be functional. My all time favourite is `Thenpandi cheemaiyile' from Nayakan. (IR)

Of course, ARR /Deva bashing is allowed as these two have not contributed any thing to this category of music at all! (Some may cite Chikku Bukku Railu?)

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• From: g (@ 164.164.161.201) on: Fri Mar 12 06:13:37 EST 1999
  
  '16 vayathinilae 17 pillayammA
  thAlattu pAduginraen thayAgavillayammA'
  
  To suit with the situation the song sounds like a combination of 'thAlAttu' and female solo.
  
  
  
  Udaya has mentioned about 'kannAna pOmaganae'. Vairamuthu has mentioned this song as 'ennai uranga vaikkatha thAlAttu'. I think this is the only 'thAlAttu' expressing a social problem.
  
  
  'kAlamagal kanthirappAl sinnaiya
  nAm kankalangi kavalaippattu ennaiyA
  
  ....aekkam ennada thambi thOkkam kolladA'
  
  
  
  
• From: eden (@ 202.54.71.154) on: Fri Mar 12 22:54:54 EST 1999
  
  I'm not sure whether `Azhagiya Kanne' qualifies in this list, but it is very effective foar making the child sleep.
  
  In fact, I feel thalattu is the most `everyday usable' product of all TFM. No other category of songs can that much fit into real life situations IMO. It is used generations after generations in households. Have you ever seen lovers playing duets and running around in real life, or sad ones singing pathos sitting lonely? But every one of us have experienced Thalattu in real lifes and that makes this category of music sort of exclusive.
  
  Sad that this category is quite ignored in current movies by and large. There may be exceptions but there seems to be no one around to carry IR's mantle in this category.
  
  
• From: eden (@ 202.54.71.154) on: Fri Mar 12 23:30:07 EST 1999
  
  Typo corrections:
  foar - for
  in fact - infact
  lifes - life
  
  
• From: karthi (@ lab3.theatrium.net) on: Sat Mar 13 00:08:15 EST 1999
  
  Point, Eden!
  
  BTW,
  
  some more....
  
  A Veera thaalattu - aalappirandha en kaNmaNiyE endhan aasaiyai kElada veNmaniyE
  
  A nadana thaalattu - Singaara KannE Un Thenoorum - does this belong in this thread...?
  
  g,
  
  Thanks for quoting chellak kiLiyE mella pEsu and 16 vayadhinilE 17 piLLaiyamma!
  
  Ragapriyan, I feel like hearing the Mahadevi number because I haven't heard it!
  
  
• From: Ragapriyan (@ 202.54.37.18) on: Sat Mar 13 01:05:17 EST 1999
  
  Karthi:
  
  If you send your email I will write to you about
  the singaara punnagai song of Mahadevi. It
  is a beautiful song.
  
  I feel paalum pazhamum kaigaLil Endhi of
  Paalum Pazhamum will also qualify as a thaalaattu:
  a concerned husband trying to induce sleep in a
  sick wife.
  
  
• From: karthi (@ lab3.theatrium.net) on: Sun Mar 14 00:06:23 EST 1999
  
  Exactly Ragapriyan!
  
  
• From: Ragapriyan (@ 202.54.37.18) on: Sun Mar 14 00:28:53 EST 1999
  
  Karthi:
  
  If you also give some thought, the ending part of
  kaadhal siRagai kaatrinil viriththu also is
  pretty much a lullaby-type. If you recall, the
  movie picturization is also wonderful.. S.Devi
  singing the song from Switzerland with the final
  humming, and SivajiG sleeping on a rocking chair
  and swinging perfectly in tune with the humming,
  and sleeping in the process, conveying, without a
  word, that the heavenly lovers are in some kind of
  telepathic communication and the wife is inducing
  sleep in the eyes of the restless husband, from a
  far-far-off distance. The picturization of this
  last part of the song has never failed to impress
  me whenever I see it on Video.
  
  
  
• From: karthi (@ lab5.theatrium.net) on: Sun Mar 14 21:58:29 EST 1999
  
  Oh naa parthadhillaiyE Ragapriyan.
  
  
• From: Ragapriyan (@ 202.54.37.18) on: Sun Mar 14 22:45:20 EST 1999
  
  Enna Karthi!!! Paalum Pazhamum padam paarkkalai
  endru sollureengaLE? idhu ungaLukkE nyaayamaa?
  
  
• From: g (@ 164.164.161.201) on: Sun Mar 14 23:53:23 EST 1999
  
  It is interesting to note that edan has mentioned thAlAttu as more realistic form of music. Sure it is more realistic than some types of music.
  'sanna thAlAttin muthal varikkAe thOngi vidugirathu sinna kuzhanthai'. Piragu athu yarukkAga pAdappadugirathu?
  
  vayalil vAlai saibavargal pAdum pAdalgalthAn
  realistic enru solvathu vundu. No selfishness involved in it.
  
  Devenine songs too ask for some material benefits or 'mOkshA'
  
  
  
• From: eden (@ 202.54.71.132) on: Tue Mar 16 07:23:37 EST 1999
  
  g!
  I think you are quoting IR's Frontline interview of the late eighties. Correct? Whether or not, I totally agree with your observartions!
  
  IMO, Thalattu is one of the most melodious forms of music with no unwanted noises, and no overload of instrumental stuff. In many cases, instrument itself may not be needed. Just listen to the IR version of Thenpandi and Kamal's version. Anyday I would rate the IR singing more soulful and thrilling (though there are no instruments around to play)
  
  
• From: vJ Kannan (@ ) on: Fri Jun 21 22:50:19 EDT 2002
  
  Could I get the swarams for the "Vande Mataram"?? One of my friends wanted it so that they could try it on the Veena!!!
  
  Would be appreciable if you could help.
  
  Thanks Very Much,
  vJ
  
  
• From: vinu (@ 12.234.197.159) on: Sat Nov 23 16:04:38 EST 2002
  
  Hi, how about Pachai Malai Poovu
  SP. Balasubramaniam from Kizhakku Vaasal . love to hear this song always. bye, vinu.
  
  
• From: beejay (@ 203.195.195.194) on: Tue Nov 26 03:23:53 EST 2002
  
  Karpoora Mullai ondru, kai veesum thendral ondru...is according to me, by far the best. Susheela's voice is just fantastic in this.
  
  
• From: Beejay (@ 203.195.195.194) on: Wed Nov 27 02:38:07 EST 2002
  
  The right lyrics were "Karpoora bommai" and not "karpoora mullai" as mentioned by me.
  Beejay
  
  
• From: Ahmed Iyer (@ 66.168.62.17) on: Sat Dec 7 10:24:35 EST 2002
  
  I created an album on musicindiaonline.com
  with above thalattal songs.
  
  It felt good to hear this .. and our baby
  also lked some of the
  lullabies.
  
  Someone recently has edited the list without my knowledge and added "usalaampatti pen kutti"
  to the list.
  
  
• From: Kaaviya (@ 203.101.38.125) on: Sun Sep 19 07:45:43 EDT 2004
  
  Have a look at the site
  http://tamilforkids.tripod.com/
  
  
• From: Krishnan (@ 219.64.19.2) on: Sat Dec 18 08:40:46 EST 2004
  
  Looks like no one remembers the beauty of a composition from Moonram Pirai - "Kanne Kalaimale" rendered beautifully by Yesudas??? I guess that was one of the most touching of the Taalaatu songs in TFM. I also love Nila Kagiradu from Indira, but does it qualify in this category?
  
  

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