Vinyl ("LP" record) covers speak about IR (Pictures & Details) - Thamizh

Rajini's mAveeran was a remake of AB movie 'mard'.

Both 'odhungu odhungu' & 'nee koduththadha thiruppikkoduppEn' are my all-time-fav songs!

app_engine wrote:Rajini's mAveeran was a remake of AB movie 'mard'.

Both 'odhungu odhungu' & 'nee koduththadha thiruppikkoduppEn' are my all-time-fav songs!

RK productions is a proxy for Rajini's own production house.. whatta bgm for this movie - everytime dhara singh and sujatha come on... that

theme is one of the best rajini themes...

app_engine wrote:Starting the year 1986...let's have one NT movie, thAykku oru thAlAttu by Balachandra Menon.

The movie that had 'pazhaya pAdal pOla pudhiya pAdal illai' remix of 'unnai onRu kEtpEn', sung by TMS-PS

KJY sung the 'ArArirO pAdiyadhArO' song that was very popular those days. VM wrote all the songs as per the disk. (It seems IR recorded a few lines with Vali for the title song or something like that and made the VM name come below the senior in the titles on-screen, because of their fresh ladAi, as posted in one of the hub threads)...

an adaptation of king lear.. the movie also had Rohini. Paandiyaraajan is the wastrel son who ends up

saving his father sivaji.. second half is cry baby cry..

rAsA did music for another NT movie in 1986 - sAdhanai (where he also appeared on screen, as MD composing for the director character NT played)...

athi marappoovidhu by SJ is my big favourite

Rajini did another movie with IR in this year as well - Mr Bharath (AVM productions). Sathyaraj, I think, acted as his father.

ennammA kaNNu is popular to this day - even a remix came in recent years. That fridge song is a big comedy on-screen

Apart from Vikram, it appears Kamal did 4 other movies with rAsA in 1986!

Well, let me get the duds out first and host the great one at last...

harE rAdhA harE krishnA - not a single song I've heard prior to my SPB-IR exercise

I think this was the last movie for the illustrious Kamal-Sridevi combo

akramam, aniyAyam!

Next one is that 'meeNdum sooryOdhayam' turned into 'nAnum oru thozhilALi' ('nAn pooveduththu vaikkaNum pinnAla' song):

Third one is 'punnagai mannan' - fantastic score by IR, nice lyrics by Vairamuthu but below-average movie IMHO.

KB cannot be excused for tossing my most fav 'EdhEdhO eNNam vaLarththEn' as a listless title song The whole movie was a big bore for me when I watched on a DVD some years back (never watched in theater)...

And now, the fabulous movie - though a dubbed one from Telugu!

thuLLiththuLLi nee pAdammA seethaiyammA!

lAli lAli lAli lAlee!

sippikkuL muththu (swAthi muthyam) by K Viswanath!

ada machcham uLLa - chinna veedu.

KBR in his typical elements

thiraippAdal lists this as 1986 but my memory says it came out in 1985, I could be wrong...

Now, a musical biggie - by R Sundarrajan...

amman kOvil kizhakkAlE!

Vijayakanth-Radha starrer, with that lovely 'chinna maNikkuyilE'

Add kAlai nErappoonguyil, un pArvaiyil OrAyiram...lovely album! All songs were huge hits in patti-thotti of TN and the movie was a success too (silver jubilee IIRC)...I didn't like the movie

GA was the lyricist for all songs

musicalaya does not seem to have the vinyl cover of the other R Sundarrajan biggie from this year where MSV joined with IR, mellath thiRandhadhu kadhavu

Well, that rAsA lyricist blog has a picture and let me repost it here



One thing I want to highlight here is GA's contribution - the 'ooru sanam' song

This song has been selected by me for the #100 spot in the GA thread

Well, only 50 have got posted so far and it will be after 49 more songs in that thread

rAsA did a terrific album in 1986 for the remake of Malayalam Shyama. 'unakkAgavE vAzhgiREn' was directed by K Rangaraj and the heroine was Nadhiya who did the same role in Malayalam too. Mammootty replaced by Sivakumar.

I didn't know all these in the 80's. Not even during most part of 90's. Only after coming to tfmpage in the late 90's I knew such a movie existed in Thamizh.

However, right from the time of arrival, 'kaNNA unaiththEdukiREn vA' was a big favourite with me and I listened to this song exclusively on buses (and thus never knew the name of the movie it was from; never had any doubt it was by IR).

Another wonder from this album is SPB's 'iLanjOlai pooththadhA'.

Both songs got penned by Vairamuthu! GA did the 'kaNgaL reNdum sandham solla' song which BRangan recently recalled in his blog when commenting on 'kARRaikkonjam niRkachchonnEn' of NEPV...

Another movie by the same director K Rangaraj in this year was 'manidhanin maRupakkam', with Sivakumar.

I guess this must be another remake from some famous Malayalam movie. (I don't know the details and too lazy to search for).

'kallukkuLLE vandha eeram' is one song I can quickly recall...

Now, let's get to three "director's special" movies

First one, AN pAvam (not sure if this was a 1986-er or came in 1985 itself, thiraippAdal says 1986 and I don't clearly remember where and when I watched it...well, IIRC, watched in theater more than once and loved that 'dumb charade' scene where Revathy does a BR act)...

kAdhal kasakkudhaiyyA , kuyilE kuyilE, ennaippAdachchollAdhE...situational songs of interesting kinds

Pandiyarajan,

Second, MR's MR - now considered a classic!

Came without much fanfare to steal the hearts of TN-ers!

Loved the songs, loving the songs, will love the songs!

manRam vandha nilAvE vA, pani vizhum iravil!

chinnachchinna vaNNakkuyil konjikkonjippAdudhammA, OhO...mEgam vandhadhO?

Among the top from IR-Vaali combo, without question!

Third one (i.e. for today), is BR's kadalOrakkavidhaigaL!

Can't help but repeat - the songs always remind me of my first monsoon in Kerala...they bring rain in my mind each time I hear them!

kodiyilE malligappoo...adi AththAdi! iLa manasonnu Rekka kattippaRakkudhu sari dhAnA? podi nadaiyAppORavarE, pOguthE pOguthE en paingiLi vAnilE...

Lovely thread app. My mistake that I did not visit this earlier.

'Hare Radha Hare Krishna' I think was originally a Telugu movie, 'Oka Radha Iddaru Krishnulu' and got dubbed in Tamil. One reason why it would have failed. Not sure if it was a hit that time in Telugu. I don't think so. The songs are superb though. I have not heard the Tamil version but the Telugu version has a few gems.

All the songs in Manidhanin Maruppakam are gems. Love this album though I 'discovered' it only a few years back.

வாங்க சுரேஷ்ஜி, நல்வரவு!

I'm trying to get these covers yearwise (as much as possible)

Unlike other threads, this one should be pretty easy to swim thru as there's relatively less text but more graphics

There had been three other rAsA albums for Vijayakanth in 1986 besides amman kOvil kizhakkAlE. (None of them were for biggie movies, however. AKK was a biggie as also the Manoj-Gyan MD'ed oomai vizhigaL.)

enakku nAnE neethipathi, SAC film (I'm not familiar with any of the songs...the MV song in MKT-style is the only one I've possibly heard before)...

karimEdu karuvAyan songs are crackers!

Lovely album

I don't know what happened to this movie at BO - but for sure it wasn't as big a hit as the first of such genre in 80's (malayur mambattiyAn)!

R Sundarrajan did another Vijayakanth movie, thazhuvAtha kaigaL.

Some sweet songs but nowhere near vaidhEgi or AKK (PJ the only male voice - 'onnA reNdA thAmaraippoo' is the hittest)...I don't know why rAsA did the 'kudumbaththai uruvAkkachchonnA' song in an existing, very familiar tune which was often used by students with vulgar words

SJ has her trademark mukkal munagal number 'thottuppAru, kuththam illa'

app_engine wrote:I don't know why rAsA did the 'kudumbaththai uruvAkkachchonnA' song in an existing, very familiar tune which was often used by students with vulgar words

LOL! First time listening to it. "Rajinikkum Kamalukkum Sandai?" The same tune was used by GVP in Oram Po. What's the original? Surely, not the students version?! Or did they uruvify this Raaja song?

Even otherwise what an embarrassing song. Chandrabose / SG have done better.

Karimedu Karuvayan has superb songs. Love that album.

'onna renda' from 'Thazhuvaadha Kaigal' is the Tamil version of the song Raja did in Malayalam, 'veene veene veena kunje' for the film 'Aalolam'. That Malayalam movie had outstanding songs. Especially the Chakravakam based 'thanl virikkan'. Here is the link for 'veene veene'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-VVMc4Pn_k