The Golden Era of Dr.IR and Dr.SPB

[jaiganes]

You must be kidding, surely
Yeh Zindagi, while being a very good song by itself, is not even in the same planet as "Poongaatru". Any comparison is blasphemy. The orchestration of the latter is at a totally different level

There is some convenience Raaja had in "Yeh Zindagi" that he did not have in poongaatru - it is the language.
Urdu in its abstract form offers a lot more scope to have "breezy" free wheeling phases in a song that thamizh with its strict meter doesnt allow.
This is one reason, why a rock song in thamizh is near to impossible (you can bring in some rock elements - but the language will not bend itself for music - period). That is the difference between yeh zindagi and poongaatru. Raaja uses the relative freedom and does some freewheeling which he was not allowed to do in Thamizh version - finally it ends up sitting well on both the songs - the only odd one is "En vaazhvile" - that song ends up like Mohinder amarnath asked for a second run by dileep vengsarkar only to end up stranded - Run Out... no fault of his..