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Full Credit to the MD

Topic started by CHAN (@ svr02-p17.ppp.umb.edu) on Sat Mar 6 11:46:23 EST 1999.
All times in EST +10:30 for IST.

Recent advent in technology and also the increased awareness of the directors have brought a new perspective in making and picturing the songs. So
sometimes we end up liking the song for its other aspects instead of the MUSIC.

However there have been instances when we liked to watch the video though it was mediocre mainly due to the music.I would like fellow tfm listeners to discuss this aspect in this thread.

To make a start..En vettu jannal etti ean pakkura.
I think the pic wasn't all that good...but the song made me see the video again.

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Responses:

• From: karthi (@ lab6.theatrium.net) on: Sun Mar 7 01:41:49 EST 1999
  
  I think most of MGR movies belong to this category!
  
  
• From: Shankar (@ webgate0.mot.com) on: Sun Mar 7 04:11:17 EST 1999
  
  EdhO ninaivugaL ,kanavugaL manadhilE .... from agalk viLakku has one of the worst picturisation in TF.
  
  sinna puRa onru .... (imagine this great number being sung by .....of all the people , thEngAi srinivasan!!!!!!!!!)
  I do see these songs just for music.
  
  more later....
  
  
  
• From: bb (@ schubert.crhc.uiuc.edu) on: Sun Mar 7 05:51:38 EST 1999
  
  several of bharathiraja's songs are badly taken. adhuvum indha 40+ extras veLLai dress pOttundu guthichu varumbOdhu, mahaa erichal.. poonkadhave thaazhthiravaai.. enna arumaiyaana song, adhukku andha rendu pErum maram maadhiri ninnundu.. paattaiyE keduthuttaanga;-)))
  
  
• From: Geetha (@ gatekeeper.oracle.co.uk) on: Mon Mar 8 07:54:55 EST 1999
  
  The picturisation of those wonderful songs from Nizlalhal was quite 'shocking', as one's imagination of what the song will be picturised with is totally different from what was shown....
  
  
• From: Geetha (@ gatekeeper.oracle.co.uk) on: Mon Mar 8 07:56:39 EST 1999
  
  In the case fo the above explanation, the full credit goes to IR, I forgot to add, please padron me.....
  
  
• From: chandy (@ 209.125.83.228) on: Mon Mar 8 11:23:54 EST 1999
  
  BB,
  
  I liked your posting.
  
  Kannodu Kanbadhellam sounded extremely good to me when i heard the album before the movie was released. IMO, the best part of the song is the final swarams. But the niceties of the swarams got lost in the computer-simulated-technical-jugglary in the picturisation. The audience start lauffing at the skeleton-dancing etc, and the impact of the swarams is lost!
  
  
  
  
• From: dorai (@ gateway7.ey.com) on: Mon Mar 8 12:13:46 EST 1999
  
  Shankar,
  I believe the picturization of "Poonkathave Thaalthiravai' is not bad. What else do u expect. Some fast beat dance for that?.
  
  BR's picturization of songs in late 70's and 80's use to be perfect. Be it Ponmalai Pozhuthu or Kovimani Osai thanai, or Aayiram Thamarai mottukale..'. His camera angle use to be very imaginative and innovative.
  
  
  
• From: dorai (@ gateway7.ey.com) on: Mon Mar 8 12:14:21 EST 1999
  
  BB,
  I believe the picturization of "Poonkathave Thaalthiravai' is not bad. What else do u expect. Some fast beat dance for that?.
  
  BR's picturization of songs in late 70's and 80's use to be perfect. Be it Ponmalai Pozhuthu or Kovimani Osai thanai, or Aayiram Thamarai mottukale..'. His camera angle use to be very imaginative and innovative.
  
  
  
• From: pg (@ gate02.merck-medco.com) on: Tue Mar 9 09:26:38 EST 1999
  
  IMO 'ponmAlai pozhudhu' in nizhalgaL is one of the best picturised songs in TFM. Madras in evening is so exquisitely picturised.
  Portions on madai thiRandhu was good (could have avoided the half-clad group dancers).
  
  
• From: chandy (@ 209.125.83.228) on: Tue Mar 9 11:12:37 EST 1999
  
  Theres a song with Radhika and Sudhakar in kizhake pogum rail? Lovely number, but the picturisation is really bad. Radhika and sudhakar both have done a terrible job.. radhika tries to do some bharatnatyam pose etc in that song.. sakikaadhu! Can someone identify the song i am referring to?
  
  
• From: dorai (@ gateway7.ey.com) on: Tue Mar 9 13:50:33 EST 1999
  
  Chandy,
  Its "Manjolai Killi Thano...Maanthaano". Its a nicely picturised song. The fact is Radhika, did not know Bharathanatiyam at that time. Inspite of that, the song came out well. The lack of knowledge of bharatnatyam of Radhika, is compensated well by the nice picturization of the song, nice camera angles, excellent background...
  
  
  
• From: chandy (@ 209.125.83.228) on: Tue Mar 9 14:47:18 EST 1999
  
  Dorai,
  
  Thanks for that info. I like that song very much, but IMO, the picturisation is pathetic. Both sudhakar and radhika stand like stones and that asattu grin on sudhakar's face is quite irritating.. And I also found Radhika's dance movements worse than an amateur.... our opinions differ :)
  
  
  
• From: vijay (@ 129.252.27.29) on: Tue Mar 9 18:50:18 EST 1999
  
  bb,
  iam angry at bharathiraja for NOT picturising certain gems at all, leave alone badly picturising
  some of them. the songs include 'putham puthu kaalai' - a real gem, whenever i listen to this song i can easily visualise a lot of scenes in a beautiful village setting, but was shocked not to see the song in the film at all.
  
  thoorathil naan kanda un mugam- a beautiful number by SJ from nizhalgal.
  
  oru kanam oru yugamaaga from nadodi thendral.
  
  
• From: eden (@ 202.54.71.158) on: Wed Mar 10 08:50:55 EST 1999
  
  Vijay!
  Add `Raasave onna nambi' in Mudhal mariyadhai
  
  
• From: chandy (@ 209.125.83.228) on: Wed Mar 10 10:02:20 EST 1999
  
  Another one of those unfortunate numbers which didnt get picturised is "puttham pudhu poo poothado" in Dhalapathi!!
  
  
• From: karthi (@ lab3.theatrium.net) on: Fri Mar 12 23:40:05 EST 1999
  
  A great old number by PS in 'Marakka Mudiyuma': Vasantha Kaalam VarumO is not there in the movie.
  
  
• From: karthi (@ lab3.theatrium.net) on: Fri Mar 12 23:40:43 EST 1999
  
  But I doubt if all this should appear in this thread? :-))!
  
  
• From: Muralidharan (@ host035.databahnsoft.com) on: Mon Mar 15 17:58:34 EST 1999
  
  "Pani Vizhum Malarvanam" from Ninaivellam Nithya is one particular case. The song is too good. But the picturisation, dance, facial expressions were just horrible. Another such song unbearable to watch : "Poove Sempoove Un Vaasam Varum" - the dance and the dancers in particular :-(
  
  - Murali
  
  
• From: nakkeeran (@ inet-fw3-o.oracle.com) on: Mon Mar 15 18:59:05 EST 1999
  
  how about 'konji pesu kannamma' from kaadhal kavithai? of all possible situations one could imagine for picturising this song, the director chose to PLAY it during the titles! i was disappointed.
  but then, didn't he choose to play 'alai meedhu' from the same movie as a song from someone's walkman?! Reminds me of those tea-kadai scenes where some MGR song is invariably used as the BGM!
  
  
  
  
• From: SM (@ nat01smurugap.sgum.mci.com) on: Tue Mar 16 15:26:23 EST 1999
  
  Shankar,
  
  > sinna puRa onru .... (imagine this great number > being sung by .....of all the people , thEngAi > srinivasan!!!!!!!!!)
  
  This great song is being sung by ThEngAi Srinivasan in the film!!!! I can't imagine. I thought it was Sivakumar. Are you sure? (Just curious:-))) Can you give me some more details about the film?
  
  And one more song that wasn't picturized, "un nenjath thottu sollu en raasa en mel aasai illayaa" from 'Raajaadhi Raaja'.
  
  
• From: Shankar (@ webgate0.mot.com) on: Wed Mar 17 00:17:45 EST 1999
  
  SM,
  ayyO ,sathiyamA solrEn!!! andha song a orukkA nAn oliyum-oLiyum il pAthadhA njyAbagam ,enga veettil appa, chithappA ellArum sirichuNdE idha discuss paNNinAnga :-))
  
  The heroine is rAdhikA and that's all I know about it.
  
  
• From: rajba (@ socks1.rochester.ibm.com) on: Wed Mar 17 15:28:19 EST 1999
  
  Chinna Pura ondru is from the movie Anbey Sangeetha.. What a masterpiece from IR..
  
  
• From: rameshb (@ interlock.itthartford.com) on: Wed Mar 17 15:52:42 EST 1999
  
  There are some more melodies with which one might be flabbergasted on knowing the reality of its picturisation with comedy/villain actors
  
  1. oRayiram pArvayilE (vallavanukku vallavan) which is picturised with asokan. I was under the impression that it was picturised with jaishankar untill i saw the song/dance sequences in DD few years back when i was in india.
  2. manthirapp punnagai miNNidum mEnagai (maNal kayiru). It has been picturised with SVS and i was laughing my guts when i saw the movie on DD .
  
  

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