Pick of the Week: Aug 2006 - Sep 2007

[RC]

azhagE vaa kEkkum pOdhu kaalam ponnaanadhu paatu gnabagathukku varudhu..

en kaadhali arumayaana paadal... neeNda naatkaLukku pin kEttalum tune manadhil appadiyE irukku... indha paatu kEkkum pOdhu naaLai namadhE paatu gnabagam varudhu..

[SN23]

Ramki: Can't resist repeat listen of En kadhali. Somehow I feel, KJY could not show that thuLLal in his rendition, as SPB steals (even overshadows KJY) the song.

BTW, SK with Jayachitra and Kamal with Sripriya. Jayasudha did not act in this movie.

[tvsankar]

Dear Ramki,
Thanks for the nice song..

With Love,
Usha Sankar.

[gingerbeehk]

Ramki,

Thanks for post such unforgatable and nice song. I think SG done wonderful job in this song.

Jack

[Ramki]

Thanks everyone.

SN23 thanks for the correction. KJY tamizh ucharippum konjam nerudhalthaan indha paatile

[Ramki]

Pick #459

http://tfmpage.com/stream/pow07/naanoru_nn.rm




Song: naanoru medai paadagan
Movie: naaLai namadhe
Singers : TMSoundararajan, LREswari, SPBalasubramaniam
Lyrics: vaali
MD: MSViswanathan
Year : 1975

Remaking a magnum opus like yaadon ki baaraat is not an easy task. The film had a novel storyline(first of the seperated family reuniting by song genre) and had superhit songs.
Creating songs for the remake without an iota of resemblence to the original should have been a difficult task. But MSV did it with his own style and fashion.
Allmost all the songs were good in the remake. Todays song and 'en idaiyilum' song were the least popular among the 6 .
The original had Dharmendra, Late Vijay arora(passed away this 2nd Feb), Tariq, Zeenat etc. Since MGR *ed in the remake he chose to act in both the characters of Dharam and Vijay.Chandramohan(odd choice) played Tariq's role. Latha did Zeenat's.
Was sripriya in the cast too?

[SN23]

Ramki: you know...YKB had Aamir khan in the cast as the third son (iLavayadhu Taariq). Cast also included Neetu Singh as jodi for Taariq. One Anamika acted as pair for Dharmendra.

Do you know who acted in Tamil version in place of Neetu? Anamika's role was played by V.Nirmala (in black costumes) pairing periya wig MGR

This song is spoiled due to LRE's overplaying. Should have been given to some other singer.

The best of the lot always goes to Neela nayanangaLil

[balaji]

Senior hubber Murali Srinvas on NN from an old post:

"Naalai Namadhe: As you know it was a remake of the evergreen hit Yaadon Ki Baarat. YKB was making waves all over TN in 1973-74. Sethu Madhavan of Malayalam film world (A great director who had done some excellent films in Mal. Also directed some Tamil films, the last of which was Nammavar) got the remake rights and approached MGR. The initial plan was MGR will do Dharmendra’s role, Sivakumar will do Vijay Arora’s role & Kamal for Tariq’s role. But MGR again as his wont did not accept and he dictated his own terms and made it happen. Since the eldest did not have Jodi and songs, he took the second son’s role also and brought Chandramohan (Sankarabharanam fame- though it was released much later 1979) for Tariq’s role. This clearly affected the movie and moreover when it was released on 4th July 1975, YKB was still fresh in the minds of the people and if you remember NN had no such elements that would satisfy a MGR fan. The supposedly long run of MGR’s films in normal circumstances can be contributed to another factor. The Gap between two MGR films will be big and for hard-core MGR fans who used to repeatedly view the movie, they had no other go and this helped the movies to run for more days. Compared to this NT’s movies always had a short gap between them. In the case of NN, the MGR fans had nothing to cheer about and moreover on 22nd August 1975 (just after of 49 days of NN’s release), Idhyakani was released and so MGR fans dropped NN and it bit the dust at the BO. After it’ release (it was not announced before) the ad came out stating that NN is MGR’s 125th movie, but it did not help. "

Kamal in Tariq's role would have been a WOW! Ofcourse knowing MGR, he would have not have allowed that. Sivakumar in VA's role is as bad/or even worse as MGR in that role.
(Sivakumar after acting in zillion movies with the same expressions, Zero acting and same voice modulations finally got salvation in Marupadiyum or something with Sedhu Madhavan as the director)


"Ennai Vittal" in NN to me is the best song...

Bala

[gingerbeehk]

Ramki,

Thanks for Another gem...Naanoru Medai paadagan. Ippo enna iruvar specialaa....kalakkunga thalaivaa. Letme list down few more iruvar songs.

1. Nanbhaney..Enathu Uyir...........Sattam......S.P.B & M.V.
2. Naanoru Koyil Neeyoru.............Nellikkani.......S.P.B & M.V
3. Maama Maama .......................Thaai Veedu......S.P.B, K.J.Y & S.J
4. Maami Sivakaami.....................Ilanjodigal......... .S.P.B & M.V
5. Ennamma Kannu..................Mr.Bharath...........S.P.B & M.V
6. Pattukottai Ammalu.............Ranga.................S.P.B & M.V.
7. Enakkoru Kaathali............Muthana Mutthalavo......S.P.B & M.S.V

Thanks,
Jack

[MP]

few more iruvar songs.
8. paadinaal oru paatu paal nilavinil netru(MGR, muthuraman)
9. ramu i love you raja...(Sivaji,gemini)
10. kavalaigal kidakkatum maranthuvidu(same pair)
11. pon onru kandean pen angu illai(sivaji and balaji)
12. paradi kanne konjam paithiyamanathu nenjam(manohar.....)

MP