தாள லய ராசா - ஏழடி சுழற்சியில் அமைந்த பாடல்கள் (misra chApu rAjA) - 64 (muthu thErE thErE) posted & waiting for more

#62 hrudhaya rangOli
(pallavi anupallavi 1983)

ஹ்ருதய ரங்கோலி
(கன்னடம், பல்லவி அனுபல்லவி)

Sureshji had a tweetstorm today of memorable Salilda songs and concluded the thread with this IR number and of course I got pleasantly surprised

For the debut movie of Mani Ratnam, IIRC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qmW-fnk4_Y

Thanks to an accident, there had been a temporary "downgrade" to one of our automobiles (from 2014 model to 2004 model of Jetta ) and this has CD & cassette players, besides radio - no MP3 / HDD / USB / bluetooth - not even "aux" port).

Thus my son is playing a lot of CDs nowadays (his and his friend's) and one of them happened to be in the car when I took it a week back.

I'm not a big fan of Yanni (predominantly keyboard sounds / melody non-existent or one that is difficult to follow etc). However, I let it play on that particular day.

It started from somewhere in the middle - I later found out that the album is named "Devotion" and the track happened to be "Marching Season".

What instantly caught my attention was the "misra nadai" - something that one does not often come across in western songs. Listen to this track here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bbk05TyNq8c


Well, out of curiosity I was trying to find the nadai for rest of the tracks in that CD and was surprised to find that Yanni had misra nadai for 3 out of 15!

The other two are these:

Within Attraction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgDh921e_mE


A love for life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CygGQKQFg_E


I cannot help but play some of these for a few times during the last week - purely for the beauty of the rhythm arrangements (that last portion of "Within Attraction" is very catchy).

Now, on one ride, my daughter was in the car and asked me "What Ilayaraja song is this, only instrumental?"

When I said it's an EU composer called Yanni, the 11 year old remarked "He sounds like Ilayaraja"

I guess it must be because of the "misra nadai"!

Tesla Ganesh article on "misra nadai" in dinamaNi:

http://www.dinamani.com/lifestyle/lifestyle-news/2018/jul/31/%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%9F-%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%AE%E0%AE%BF-%E0%AE%AE%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%B8%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%B0-%E0%AE%A8%E0%AE%9F%E0%AF%88%E0%AE%AF%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%B2%E0%AF%8D-%E0%AE%85%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%88%E0%AE%A4%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%A4%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%B3%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%B3-%E0%AE%9A%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%A9%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%AE%E0%AE%BE-%E0%AE%AA%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%9F%E0%AE%B2%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%B3%E0%AF%8D-%E0%AE%87%E0%AE%B5%E0%AF%88-2971565.html



Of course, our thread has almost double the number (compared to that list) for IR

#63 ambiLikkalayum neeRum
(atharvam - Malayalam)

அம்பிளிக்கலையும் நீறும் 
(அதர்வம் - மலையாளம்)

I have added three YT links in the "Anything about IR on the net" thread where the director of this movie reminisces many things about his film field experiences, that include some special ones with IR. Dennis Joseph, who did this movie was the script writer for many commercial hits during the famous 80's of the MF field, the biggest one being New Delhi - that was a blockbuster and a milestone in Mammootty's commercial career. (The story has some inspiration from Irving Wallace novel Almighty, nicely localized to suit KL sensitivity as well as Delhi politics).

In one of those videos he talks about three hit songs  of atharvam that are popular to this day. I could quickly recall puzhaiyOraththu & poovAy virinju (this one is a thaka-thakita number and got covered in the kanda chApu thread).

I was intrigued, what was the third one

YT gave me the answer and that is this song, which runs in misra nadai. It is funny to see Suhasini's dad in the visuals for this song. There's also actress Jayabharathi who was active in both MF and TF those days (a famous one being MMKR where she is the mother of the quadruplets M,M,K,R ).

Sweet song in a malayALi folk format...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSltYKZ6DgM

There's another #IR_misrA song in puthuppAttu, which cannot be added as an additional number here but should be documented.

This is not in the disk or anywhere else but only in the OST, at the end of the titles.

It starts here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTd-T8_X0Ik&t=245s

பொன்னே மணியே பூவே 
(புதுப்பாட்டு)

Very sweet - IR possibly added this during the BGM work!
(Movie was produced by IR and directed by his mentor Panju - it had terrific songs besides this short and sweet number).

kananda song IR... thedinen.. indha paatu ipadi kedachadhu.......

lalanamani lalanamani is misrachapu.. by Violin Vicky......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsZXAEvxy2I

Usha wrote:kananda song IR... thedinen.. indha paatu ipadi kedachadhu.......

lalanamani lalanamani is misrachapu.. by Violin Vicky......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsZXAEvxy2I

I got the same link earlier and covered this song as #54 in this thread:
https://ilayaraja.forumms.net/t259p50-misra-chapu-raja-63-ambilikkalayum-posted-waiting-for-more#22339

oh.. naan dhan gavanikalai app......... sorry.....

இப்படி ஒரு இளைஞர் பேசுவதைக்கேட்க மிகவும் மகிழ்ச்சியாக இருக்கிறது!

அருமை! சிறப்பு!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGxYAdACIKA


He also sings well some of the songs!

#64 முத்துத்தேரே தேரே பக்கம் யாரே யாரே 
(பார்வதி என்னைப்பாரடி)

First time listen for me - heard the song as I'm trying to list the hit songs of 1992 in the "IR TFM Hits Documentation" thread

Interesting to see from the visuals that this is yet another "மற்ற  / பள்ளியறை" song that IR chose to have in misra nadai
(meeNdum meeNdum vA / manasu mayangum / pon vAnam panneer and some others we've seen in this thread before).

Nice song, in the voices of SPB & KSC :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWs9RItHBVE