Prabhu Hits - Aagaaya Vennilaave

This is a hit song from the comedy suspense thriller(!) movie Arangetra Vel(l)ai starring Prabhu, V K Ramasamy, Revathy, Jaiganesh, Anju, Janakaraj and others. The movie had been directed (remade from the original Malayalam movie Ramoji Rao Speaking) by the famous Malayalam director Faazil. Faazil was not the director of the original movie incidentally (Lal & Siddique). This particular song features Prabhu and Revathy and V K Ramasamy and has been sung by K J Yesudas and Uma Ramanan. The lyrics have been written by the evergreen lyricist of Tamil Cinema Vaali. Prabhu has a flair for comedy and the comedy sequences involving Prabhu, V K Ramasamy and Revathi are enjoyable. The movie starts with small playful tiffs between Prabhu and Revathi and goes on to take a twist when a wrong call of a kidnapper is received mistakenly by Prabhu. The movie finally ends with solutions to all the twists and turns with the intervention and generosity of the kidnapped girl's father played well by Jaiganesh.  Eventually this movie had been made in Hindi by Priyadarshan and the movie had been a huge hit.

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.

Karthik Hits - Raajaa Raajaathi Raajan

This is a superhit song from the movie Agninakshatram starring Karthik, Prabhu, Amala, Nirosha and others. The movie was directed by Maniratnam and the music composed by Illayaraja. The movie had been cinematographed by P C Sriram who till date is Maniratnam's friend (as mentioned my Maniratnam himself in a recent interview). The lighting and processing technique used in this movie is supposed to be unique. But honestly it is difficult to watch the movie with all these lights coming from the wrong(?) angles! there is another unique thing about this song. The young boy who is dancing in the front row in a white shirt to the left of Karthik is none other than Prabhu Deva himself! this is the first screen appearance for Prabu Deva!