Simple Lyrics! Profound Lessons for the Journey of Life! Truly Blessed Lyricist! One Outstanding Composer! Great Song!

Kannadasan through the simple lyrics of this song has delivered to the world some great advice and profound lessons for accepting and facing the Journey of Life with calmness and courage. The journey of life begins with your birth which is definitely not in your control. (Aarambathil Pirappum Un Kaiyil Illai). The sequence of events that follow in your life too are absolutely not in your control, though one likes to believe it is otherwise! (Pin Aduthadutha Nadappum Un Kaiyil Illai). The entire course of your life has been designed, pre-destined and laid out before you at the time of your birth. This being the case there is no point in being scared of the future. (Paadhai Vahutha Pinbu Bhayanthenna Laabham). Just look life in its face and live it out with out any fears, guilt or regret, hence this was what you were destined to do during this life time! (Payanam Nadathividu Marainthidum Paavam). These four lines are a perfect and simple extract of the great Bhagavadh Gita! Kannadasan is truly a blessed lyricist! The last part of the song is about hope and faith and belief in the fact that today was a good day and tomorrow will be better day! Apparently when Kannadasan came up with the lyrics of the other song Kelviyin Nayahane, K Balachander had literally fallen at his feet and thanked him for having visualized the climax of the movie in such a lucid manner through the words of the song thereby simplifying the process of shooting the last part of the movie for him! (As told by actor Mohan Ram in a recent TV Interview).

This outstanding composition by the Great MSV is from the movie Apoorva Raagangal (1975) directed by K. Balachander. The film features Kamal Haasan & Srividya in lead roles with Rajinikanth, Jayasudha, Nagesh, Major Sundar Rajan and others in supporting roles. The Kannadasan - MSV pairing is truly an act of God done in order to give the world innumerable timeless classics. There are so many stories behind this song and this movie. This is Rajnikanth's first movie. Srividhya plays the role of a Character inspired by her mother the Great Carnatic Vocalist M L Vasanthakumari. This story is inspired by the 25th story of the legend of Baital Pachisi from 2500 years back.Two creative geniuses have come together to create this timeless classic. Incidentally this song has been sung by Vani Jayaram who came to the Tamil Movie Industry after an initial stint in Bollywood.

Comical Song - Shallow and Materialistic Nature of Societal Relationships!

This is a comical song from the movie Edhir Neechal - 1968 starring Nagesh, Jayanthi, Sowcar Janaki, Muthuraman, Major Sundarrajan, Manorama, Sridhar, M.R.R. Vasu and others. Edhir Neechal was directed by K. Balachander  and music was composed by V. Kumar. This song was written by the versatile and evergreen lyricist Vaali. The movie depicts the materialistic nature of human beings and brings out the shallow and superficial nature of societal relationships in a humorous manner.

Comedy Song - Balachander Hits

This is a comical song from a hilarious movie Edhir Neechal, with a slightly sad undertone that has Nagesh in the lead. The movie was directed by K Balachander and Nagesh had portrayed the character of Maadhu brilliantly in this movie. This particular song features Srikanth and Sowcar Janaki. It is rare to see Sowcar Janaki in a comedy role. This is one of those rare performances by her!

Inimai Niraitha Ulagam Irukku - Ninaithale Innikkum

This fast song is from the movie Ninaithale Innikum. The star cast includes Kamal Haasan, Rajnikanth, Jayapradha, Poornam Vishwanathan, Geetha, Srinivas & Rajappa and is directed by K. Balachander. Music is by M.S. Viswanathan. Ninaithale Inikkum is a 1979 Tamil Movie about Chandru (Kamal Haasan) and three of his friends and their music band. They go to Singapore to perform in a concert. There, Chandru meets Sona and they both fall in love. But there seem to be a lot of mysteries revolving around Sona and she seems to be followed around. Moreover, she tells Chandru that she is suffering from blood cancer. Despite this, Chandru decides to meet Sona's father and ask her hand in marriage. However, her father tells him that Sona has played a prank on him because she is already engaged to someone else. This leaves Chandru devastated. After many twists and turns Chandru marries Sona after which she dies of cancer. Chandru is left with her sweet memories.

A Comical Song from a Great Comedy Movie

This song is from the K Balachandar movie Bhaamaa Vijayam (1967) starring Nagesh, Muthuraman, Major Sundar Rajan, T S Balaiah, Kanchana, Sowcar Janaki, Rajashree, Jayanthi, Srikanth and others. The movie revolves around the drastic change in the lives of the members of a simple middle income group family when a movie star arrives to stay in the neighboring house. The movie is hilarious to say the least. The movie had been directed by K Balachandar and the music for the movie had been composed by MSV. This particular song had been sung by TMS and LR Easwari. The song had been written by Kannadasan. Sivaji Ganesan had referred to Balaiah as one of his gurus the other one being MR Radha. You can see the genius of Balaiah in action in this song!

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A Hit Song from the 1980s

Varumayin Niram Sigappu (Poverty is colored Red) (1980) is a Tamil movie starring Kamal Hassan, Sridevi, Prathap Pothan, S V Sekhar, Dilip, Poornam Viswanathan and others in the lead roles. The movie is a portrayal of the struggles of educated youth and their disillusionment with society in general. Centering around three educated unemployed youth trying to make a living for themselves in the Capital City of India, New Delhi, the story touches several aspects of Indian social norms of the period. The movie had been directed by K Balachander and the music for the movie had been composed by MSV. This particular song features Kamal and Sridevi, the most popular leading pair of the Tamil movie industry during that period. This movie had been the debut movie for Prathap Pothan, S V Sekhar and Dilip.

Jaishankar Hits - Naan Unnai Vaazhthi Paadugiren

This is a hit song from the movie Nootrukku Nooru directed by K Balachander, starring Gemini Ganesan, Jaishankar, Lakshmi, Nagesh, Srividhya, Vijaya Lalitha and others. This song features Vijayalalitha and not Vijayalakshmi as mentioned in this post on Youtube. This movie was released in 1970 almost 40 years back. This movie was sort of a suspense thriller which portrays the unexpected turn of events in the life of a college professor. It shows in the end how he extricates himself from all the false accusations that have been flung upon him. The students are all with the professor through all this in spite of the rest of the society refusing to believe that he is innocent (including his fiance). The music for this movie has been composed by V Kumar and not MSV!

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.

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.