This is the hit song Urvasi Urvasi from the movie Kadhalan starring Prabhu Deva, Nagma, Vadivelu, SPB, Girish Karnad, Raghuvaran and others. This is Shankar's second directorial venture. This movie is Prabhu Deva's debut as a hero and Nagma's debut in the Tamil movie industry. Jeeva, this film's cinematographer went on to become one of the leading directors of the Tamil movie industry. Unni Krishnan was introduced by A R Rahman in this movie and went on to win the National Award for his debut performance. But this song was sung by A R Rahman, Suresh Peters and Sahul Hameed. Suresh Peters went on to become a successful composer in Malayalam. This song was written by Vairamuthu. Though the lyrics and the theme of the song depict the day to day difficulties faced by the youngsters of the 90s, in a humorous manner, the idea of taking life easy is based on the broader philosophy of life 'What will be will be'. When that is the case it is ideal to take it easy while facing the accidental limitations of life is the general idea behind the song. Vadivelu with his 'Needle like body' provides the humorous backbone for this song with his antics and dancing skills. The song was composed by Academy Award winner A R Rahman who has been an inspiration to scores of composers all over the world. In 2014, American hip hop recording artist Will.I.Am and singer Cody Wise, re-created Urvasi Urvasi as It's My Birthday. It's My Birthday topped the charts in the United Kingdom, becoming will.i.am's tenth chart-topper there. The original Tamil song has a combined viewership of less than a million views of its various different uploads on Youtube, whereas the English remake has more than 65 million Youtube views!
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Another Comedy Song
This is a comedy song from the movie Thenali starring Kamal Hassan, Jayaram, Jothika, Devyani and others. This song features Kamal dancing with Jothika and Devyani and has been picturized as a dream sequence. The music for the movie was composed by A R Rehman.
Prabhu Deva - A R Rahman Hit - 1996
This is a hit song from the 1996 Prabhu Deva movie Mr. Romeo. The movie was directed by K S Ravi not to be confused with the other popular director K S Ravikumar. The music for the movie was scored by A R Rahman. The movie saw Prabhu Deva in a double role with Shilpa Shetty and Madhubala as his pairs. This particular song has been sung by Swarnalatha, Unni Menon, Srinivas, and Sujatha. Though the song itself was a hit the movie had not done too well.
Super Hit Song and A Super Hit Dance
This is a super hit song with a nicely choreographed dance sequence performed by Prabhu Deva and Kajol in the Movie Minsara Kanavu. This movie was produced by the famous production house of Tamil Movie Industry AVM, to mark their 50th Year in the Industry. The music for this film was composed by A R Rahman and the Movie was directed by Rajeev Menon.
Hit Song From Uyire - Rahman Hits
This is a hit song from the movie Uyire starring Sharukh Khan, Manisha Koirala, Preity Zinta and others, directed by Maniratnam. The music for the movie was composed by A R Rahman. This was Preity Zinta's Debut Movie, made simultaneously in Tamil and Hindi.
Hit Song from the Movie Indian - Kamal Hits
This is a hit song from the movie Indian starring Kamal, Kaunda Mani, Manisha Koirala, Urmila Matondkar and others. The movie was directed by Shankar and music was composed by A R Rahman.
Rajnikanth Hits - Vaaji Vaaji Song from Sivaji
This is a hit song from the movie Sivaji starring Rajnikanth, Shreya, Vivek and others. The movie had been directed by Shankar and had been produced by the leading production house in the Tamil movie industry AVM. This is the most expensive Tamil movie that has been produced till date. The music for the movie has been composed by A R Rahman. A snap shot of the movie's plot (courtesy Wikepedia) is as follows - The movie revolves around a well-established Software System Architect (Sivaji), who returns home to India after finishing work in the United States
A R Rahman Hits - Pudhu Vellai Mazhai
This is a superhit song from the movie Roja starring Arvind Swamy and Madhubala. The movie had been directed by Maniratnam. The music for this movie had been composed by A R Rahman. In fact this was A R Rahman's debut movie. Rahman's salary for this movie is supposed to have been INR 25000 (approximately $500) ! The movie had been produced by K Balachander and distributed by his production house Kavithalaya. It has taken two big directors of the Tamil Movie industry to have identified and introduced A R Rahman, one as a producer and the other as a director. The rest as we all know is history. This song and all the other songs in the movie had been huge hits.
Prashanth Hits - Anbe Anbe Kollaathe
This is a hit song from the movie Jeans starring Prashanth (double role), Aishwarya Rai, Nassar, Radhika, Lakshmi and others. The movie was directed by Shankar and the music had been composed by A R Rahman. All the songs from this movie had been a huge hit though the movie didn't do too well. The song has been sung by Hariharan and Sadhana Sargam. In an earlier post there is an interesting link about Sadhna Sargam which shows the first song which Sadhna Sargam sang as a child singer for a public service message video telecast in Doordharshan those days. Those days Shankar had been very keen to use Computer Graphics (CG) in his movies and this movie had fully been made with the help of CG in the sense that Prashanth's and Nassar's double roles been realistic because of the CG technology.
A R Rahman Hits - En Kaadhalee En Kaadhalee
This is a hit song from the movie Duet starring Prabhu, Ramesh Aravind, Meenakshi Seshadhri and others. The movie had been directed by K Balachander and the music had been composed by A R Rahman. Balachander had for a long period in his directorial career had worked only with MSV and Kannadhasan. When he changed from MSV to Illayaraja there was a lot written about it in the media. But Balachander has always been some one who adapts himself to the changing times. This movie saw him working with A R Rahman. The movie had been an average kind of success at the box office but the songs had all been huge hits.
Kamal Hits - Swasame Swasame
This is a hit song from the hit comedy movie Thenaali starring Kamala Hassan, Jyothika, Jayaram, Devayani and others. In the movie Kamal had played a mental patient who has all sorts of phobias and Jayaram as the doctor who tries to cure him (thanks to the trick played by Delhi Ganesh). All the songs in the movie had been a hit. Thanks to the scored music by A R Rahman. Most of Kamal's comedy movies have succeeded at the box office. It is only when he tries to do off beat 'intellectual' movies he fails. But it is because of this risk taking ability of his that he is admired by everyone!
A R Rahman Hits - Sotta Sotta Nanaiyuthu
This is a superhit song from the movie Tajmahal directed by Bharathiraja, featuring his own son Manoj and Riya Sen (daughter of Bengali actress Moon Moon Sen). The music of course had been composed by A R Rahman. The movie did not do well but all songs of the movie had been a huge hit. The song had bee sung by Srinivas who had initially been singing 'Track' for A R Rahman. Today you can see Srinivas appearing as a judge in several singing competitions and reality shows based on music and singing on various TV channels.
A R Rahman Hits - Kalloori Saalai
Again a hit song - flop movie routine! This and the other songs in this movie been had been a great hit while the movie (Kadhal Desam) had not done well. The movie had been directed by Kadhir and featured Abbas (debut), Vineet, Tabu and others. The music for the movie had been composed by A R Rahman.
Prashanth Hits - Kannum Kannum
This is a hit song from the movie Thirudaa Thirudaa starring Prashanth, Heera, Annu Agarwal and others. The movie was directed by Maniratnam and music was composed by A R Rahman. Though all the songs in this movie had been huge hits the movie itself had not done too well.
Sharukh Khan Hits - Poongatriley Un
Why did Sharukh come in to a Tamil Songs compilation blog? Well this song featuring Sharukh and Manisha is from the movie Uyire which had been made both in Tamil and Hindi Simultaneously by Mani Ratnam. Again Rahman has excelled himself. The Hindi version of the song seems more apt for these two actors though.
Rahman Hits - Varaaga Nathikaraiyoram
That is two Rahmans actually. A R Rahman the composer and his brother-in-law Rahman the actor. The song was a super duper hit of its time though the movie (Sangamam directed by Suresh Krishna) itself didn't do too well. It was A R Rahman's initial composition fully based on Indian Folk Music (with a Classical touch to it). Tamil Folk Music had until then considered to be solely Illayaraja's Territory. This movie helped to prove Rahman's versatility (if it needs any proving at all!)
Madhavan Hits - Snehidhane Snehidhane
This is a hit song from the movie Alaipayudhey starring Madhavan and Shalini directed by Maniratnam. The music for this movie had been scored by A R Rahman. The movie had not done well though. The same had been the case with the Hindi version of the movie starring Rani Mukherjee and Vivek Oberoi.
Ajith Hits - Sandhana Thendralai
This song is from the movie 'Kandu Konden Kandu Konden' starring Ajith Kumar and Tabu supported by Mammooty, Abbas and Aishwarya Rai. A R Rahman had composed the music. This song had been sung by Shankar Mahadevan.
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