Saravanan Natarajan writes:
The King’s Treasuries- Part 16
வானம்பாடி ஜோடி சேரும் நேரமடி...
The early 80s had Ilaiyaraja the monarch of all he surveyed in Tamil film music. Friday after Friday, movies were released with his music...How did he manage such a prolific output, even while maintaining the high standards that he had set for himself... Recalling those heady years, S.P. Balasubramaniam once said that Janaki and he rarely went home even for a few hours rest...
Vairamuthu, Vaali and Gangaiamaran had work around the clock... magical collaborations that filled the listeners with delirious joy, even when the sheer volume of output defied imagination... many of the movies found themselves buried hastily in the sands of time...yet if they linger on in our memories, it is only because of the Maestro and his magic...
Take this song as case in point... How many of you, even the most ardent Tamil film enthusiasts, would remember a 1983 movie called 'முடிவல்ல ஆரம்பம்?' If I add that it had in its cast Rajesh, Jyoti and Saratbabu, would that help? No?
But when I mention the bewitching தென்னங்கீற்றும் தென்றல்காற்றும்...
Yes!!! You give a pleased smile of recognition... the bustling mornings when you got ready for school and this song featuring in Radio Ceylon's பொங்கும் பூம்புனல், the sultry afternoons when you curled up with Agatha Christie and this song (now on Radio Ceylon's புது வெள்ளம்) making you pause following Miss Marple for a while, the laborious late evenings when you were engrossed in your homework and the welcome distraction when Shanthi Thanikachalam announces this song in her crisp voice on Vividh Bharati’s தேன் கிண்ணம்... So many wonderful memories come gushing... you remember a long-forgotten classmate who would whistle this tune, you recall a hair-cut in a village saloon when the barber tapped his scissors in enjoyment as this song was played on the radio, you even recall the taste of the spicy milaga bajji that you relished at a roadside eatery in Burliar on the way to Ooty where you heard snatches of this song, you would remember the Akka in the next house who was dismayed that it was Rajesh and not the handsome Saratbabu who appeared in this song when it was featured in ஒளியும் ஒலியும், you will now recall the Kumudam review that wailed 'முடிவல்ல, ஆ....ரம்பம்!'....
How cunningly has the man woven himself inexorably into our memories... the maestro was, is and forever will be an integral part of our lives!Malaysia Vasudevan and P. Susheela have come together for some boisterous Ilaiyaraja carnivals like செவ்வந்திப்பூ முடிச்ச சின்னக்கா, மதனி மதனி and கன்னிப்பொண்ணு கை மேலே and have rendered some catchy Ilaiyaraja creations like பல நாள் ஆசை, ஆப்பக்கட அன்னக்கிளி, பொத்துக்கிட்டு ஊத்துதடி வானம், சீனத்து பட்டுமேனி and மாப்பிள்ளைக்கு மாமன் மனசு, but my leanings are towards the softer duets that they rendered for the Maestro such as ஆசை நெஞ்சின் கனவுகள், அத்தமக தங்கத்துக்கு, அழகே உன்னை கொஞ்சம் and பவழமணி தேர்மேலே.
Vasu, the unabashed rustic reveler of the loud and the racy, has sprung some surprises of gentler, mellifluous kind as well. And with the silken chords of Susheela lending grace and gloss at the other end, Vasu transforms into a dashing, suave gentleman! Listen to this song- note how the earthy tone of Vasu is so caressingly complemented by the honeyed Susheela. The Maestro weaves the notes around a mesmerizing Mayamalava Gowlai trellis and the result is sheer enchantment….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ-9wZrLHzk
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