One of the special qualities of MGR and the reason for his immense popularity is probably the Positive Energy that seems to radiate from him even if it is on just the small screen. There can be no doubt that the success of his movies and songs were a result of the immense hard work from the great team of legendary Directors, Composers, Lyricists, Singers, Co-Artists and other extremely talented Technicians. But beyond all these, no one can deny the natural charisma and positive energy that MGR had! Movie :Paasam, Directed by T. R. Ramanna, Produced by T. R. Ramanna & T. R. Rajakumari, Starring M. G. Ramachandran, B. Saroja Devi, Kalyan Kumar, Sheela, T. R. Rajakumari Music by M. S. Viswanathan & T. K. Ramamoorthy, Lyrics: Kannadasan Distributed by RR Pictures, Release date(s) 1962.
Showing posts with label Tamil Movie Songs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tamil Movie Songs. Show all posts
A Rare Song from the 1976 Movie "Mayor Meenatchi"
This rare song is from the movie "Mayor Meenatchi'. This film stars Jai Shankar, K R Vijaya and V K Ramaswamy. Certainly K.R.Vijaya was once the herione of a decade in Tamil Film Industry. It is a hero dominating industry where heroines are mostly just part of it. I dont remember any other eroine hvaing had a chance to create a series of movies in her name. But K.R.Vijaya movies awere an exception. Movies like Mayor Meenatchi, Thirudi, Vaayadi, Gaslight Mangamma, etc are good examples. Even Namma Veetu Deivam can be included. Mayor Meenatchi directed by Madurai Thirumaran was based on a novel in which a scavenger girl becomes a mayor. Jaishankar played the hero role in the movie. M.S.Viswanathan scored music and Kannadasan penned the lyrics.Without any doubt this song tops among all the songs of the movie. The movie also has "Evalo Oru Pennam" by P.Suseela, "Thirumurugan Aruginile Vallikkuraththi" by PJ and VJ, "Kodi vitta chirumallip poove" by VJ.This movie was released on 1976 in which Ilayaraja was introduced to Tamil Movies through Annakkili.
Another Comedy Song - Vaa Vaathiyare
This is a comical song featuring Cho and Manorama from the film Bommalattam. This movie was directed and produced by Muktha Srinivasan. Cho had written the dialogues for the movie. The movie was mostly a comedy movie with a suspense thriller ending. Jaishankar was the hero and Jayalalitha the heroine. This song featuring Cho and Manorama is really hilarious.
Vikram Hits - Aasai Aasai Ippozhuthu
This is a hit song from the movie Dhool starring Vikram, Jyothika, Vivek, Reema Sen and others. The comedy strip in the movie involving Vivek, Mayilsamy and Reema sen is hilarious. Vikram had a series of Hits during that period and of late he has been doing just one movie in two years and even those movies have not been doing that well. He must soon be coming out with a hit though.
Vikram Hits - Un Samayal Araiyil
This is a hit song from the movie Dhil starring Vikram and Laila. The movie had been a hit and this song too had been a big hit. The movie was directed by Dharani and the music for this song had been composed by Vidhyasagar. Sujatha and Unni Krishnan had sung this song.
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.
Madhavan Hits - Vaseegara
This is a superhit song from the movie Minnale starring Madhavan and Reema Sen. Incidentally this is Harris Jeyaraj's the music composer's first movie. The movie had also been made in Hindi with Madhavan and Diya Mirza.
Comedy Song Featuring Sivaji and Chandrababu - Aasai Kiliyey
This is a hit comedy song from the comedy movie Sabaash Meena starring Sivaji, Chandrababu and others. The playback for this song has been done by TMS and Seerkazhi Govindarajan. Chandrababu had sung for himself in most of his other songs. Sivaji and Chandrababu had been good friends. Chandrababu's role in Pudhayal, one of Sivaji's hit movies had been an important one. In this movie Saroja Devi had been the pair for one of Chandrababu's roles. Chandrababu had played a dual role in this movie, the pair for the other role having been Manorama.
Jaishankar and Nagesh Hits - Poovaa Thalaiya
This song is from the comedy movie Poovaa Thalaiya starring Gemini Ganesan, Jaishankar, Nagesh, Rajashree, S. Varalakshmi, Venniraadai Nirmala and others. An actors calibre can be judged by his ability to perform good comedy. There were several such actors during the yesteryears resulting in some good comedy movies.
Ravichandran Hits - Maadi Mela Maadi
This is a hit song from the super hit evergreen movie Kaadhalikaa Neramillai starring Ravichandran (Debut), Muthuraman, Kanchana, Rajashree, Balaiah, Chacchu and the one and only Nagesh. The movie was directed by Sridhar. The interesting background to this song is that Dance Master Sundaram (Prabhu Deva's) father is one of the dancers in the group (the one in the white shirt who dances with Ravichandran in the beginning of the song).
Thiyagarajan Hits - Pillai Nilaa
This is a hit song from the movie Neengal Kettavai starring Thiyagarajan and Silk Smitha, directed by Balu Mahendra. The music is by Illayaraja.
Mohan Hits - Vaa Vennilaa
This is a super hit song from the movie Mella Thiranthathu Kathavu starring Mohan, Amala and Radha. The unique thing about this movie and songs is that the music had been jointly composed by MSV and Illayaraja!
Illayaraja Hits - Velli Chalangaigal
This is super hit song from a super flop movie directed by Bharathiraja. The song was a hit no doubt due to the music composed by Illayaraja and the effortless rendering of the same by SPB.
Illayaraja Hits - Senthazham Poovil
This is a super hit song from the movie Mullum Malarum starring Rajnikanth, Phataphat (who in his own words had been Rajnikanth's favourite co-star), Sarathbabu and Shoba. This song features Shoba and Sarath Babu and has been sung by Yesudas. The music is by Illayaraja.
Bhagyaraj Hits - Oh Nenje Neethaan
This is a hit song from the movie Darling Darling Darling starring Bhagyaraj and his then wife to be Poornima Jayaram. The fairly simple music and catchy tune of this song had made it a favourite of the performers of several school and college music troops of that time!
Bhagyaraj Hits - Pesu Yen Anbe
This is a hit song from the movie Vidiyum Varai Kaathiru directed by K Bhagyaraj. Bhagyaraj had been one of the most successful Actor/Directors of the 1980s. The initial few movies which he had directed were all of different genres (Family, Comedy, Thriller, etc.). This movie had been the Thriller variety. Later on he had also composed the music for his own movies. But this one from his early days had been composed by Illayaraja.
Muthuraman Hits - Ambigai Neril Vanthaall
This is a song featuring Muthuraman and K R Vijaya. This pair had starred in several hit movies of the 7os. The song has been sung by SPB (in his yet to mature young voice) and P Susheela.
Mohan Hits - Raja Raja Chozhan
This movie was the Tamil remake of the hit English movie Micki and Maude (Dudley Moore), starring Mohan, Radhika and Archana directed by Balu Mahendra. The music is of course by Illayaraja. This song had been one of the greates hit of those times.
Kamal Hits - Ninaivo Oru Paravai
This is a hit song from the movie Sigappu Rojaakkal starring Kamal and Sridevi directed by Bharathiraja. Kamal himself had sung this song. Both Kamal and Sridevi had been successful child artistes in the Tamil movie industry before they had both gone on to become superstars.
Mohan Hits - Illaya Nilaa
This song from the movie Payanangal Mudivathillai had been one of the greatest hits of the eighties. Mohan was called 'Mike (microphone) Mohan' for the simple reason that he had acted as a singer in several movies which featured great hits of Illayaraja. The Hindi version of this son gNeele Neele had also been a great hit.
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