SOTD #790: poonkaatrilE from paattu paada vaa

bb · First Slip Joined: 19 Apr 2003 Posts: 909

Song of the Day: poonkaatrilE from paattu paada vaa.

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- MS writes:

The movie paattu paada vaa had a few good numbers like "vazi vidu" interspersed with some mediocre numbers like "iniya gaanam". As much as I love SPB for his renditions of his songs and also his usually neat acting, this movie was a torture frame by frame. I could not watch it for more than 30 min. Being an alumni of DAV Gopalapuram, I was naturally interested to see this movie since it featured Lavanya Swaminathan - Ms. Madras - a DAV-G alumni too, but paid the price for the desire.

The song featured today is in my opinion a tuorial in chords progression. I have not heard a song from the Maestro in 90s with so many variations in chords. It is one of the songs that calms the turbulent mind.

- From what I remember, the song featured the heroine jogging and "exercising". "vazhi vidu vazhi vidu en devi varugiraaL" is one song that clearly showed why IR should not sing, at least in a duet with SPB!

mythila

From a layman's POV, though I dont know chord changes etal, I can still feel that it is not such a straight forward composition. Even for a singer, the scale change needed to start the charanam might be a bit baffling , after the pallavi. The charanam has shades of Kalyani . A rare gem unearthed.
"Paattu paadavaa" has "Nil nil nil" which is another complEX song in Vasantha . IR had the audacity to sing these songs

Udhaya

MS,
Nice pick. I've never heard this song. Can you give the singer's name?

bb · First Slip

I thought it was by Chitra.

Guest

MS, lovely pick. Were you DAV-G? Which year passout of 12th? Was in NES(hope you know)-Gopalapuram. Yeah, knew of Lavanya being DAV-G, too - but had enough foresight not to watch this movie, even on TV Smile

This is a lovely song, and part of my playlist since 1996. Listen to it often - very calming, early morning feel to it(which infact is the situation I believe). Like Mythila said, one could feel the complexity even as a layman. Thanks for explaining them.
Controversial statement:One of the few IR songs which maintain a calm tempo throughout. I somehow find many IR songs change tempo often and rarely maintain a calm tempo throughout - in other words, he doesnt make a made-for-calming-effect-Rajneesh-speech-type of songs too often. Ofcourse, people are going to come up with hundreds of counter examples but this is my feeling.
It isnt Chitra for sure. Who is it? MS, have any idea?
Apart from that Rap song(supposedly and as claimed at that time) MS mentioned, other songs are Chinna Kanamanikullae(routine tune saved by SPB's super singing), and Chorus-paadara Ghoshti(atrocious lyrics but a somehow rumbustious feel saves it) and Nil Nil Nil(Mythila mentioned - a big hit and quite an interesting song. This was SUN Music staple -infafct, it still is)

Raj

ssriram · Half an hour at the crease Joined: 29 Oct 2004 Posts: 43

http://www.raaja.com/ric/film/FL000523.html lists it as KSC. but somehow it doesn't sound like her.

bb · First Slip

Saravanan long time back listed this song under a new singer called Sindhu. No more info about her.

natha1729 · Guest

This song is IR' take on Paul Mauriat orchestration. All the instrumental parts are either mind boggling variations on some famous western songs. I liked it instantly i heard it the first time on its release in 1994, since I am nostalgic of the sounds of Paul Mauriat( Abba and so on) that for me is how i remember the 70s and early 80s, but IR' take is a little late though amazing original and I think more dimensional! IR has not left any idiom untouched or signed into his limitlesst dictionary. Though, I must admit that Chaiyya Chaiyya type stuff (the slower, indulgent and with heavy pronounced backbeats) is something IR may have originated ( somehow, IR' own challenger Rakkamma Kaiyya Thattu though far original sounds, lacked strength in the melody lines). Also, I would like to see a song structure on the lines of Max Martin' Everybody BackStreet' Back (a fantastic pop composition, as pleasing as Thriller of Michael Jackson!)

IR can tone down the musical content and focus on "structural and rhythmic surprises", rather than on the patented and only IR can-do melodic twists. That is something I would like to see KR or IR focus, in which ARR is I think has been a visioneer in this arena. Chaiyya Chaiyya is a fantastic and intelligent testimony to this fact.

vinatha · Guest

Never heard of this song, vinatha.

Guest

Just above average song from a pathetic film. The mental asylum scenes were just the cream of the bad cake.

Mid & Late 80s we had some middle class dream girls like Sreenidhi Rengarajan,Sujatha sreenivasan (Coptex),Samyuktha Ramakrishna and Lavanya.

Lavanya despite her S.Balachandrasque forehead and eyebrows that would browbeat "NaaNal" Major Sunderrajan's eyebrows was good looking. She did not look comfortable even in the "nil nil "song.

OISG

Guest

"love SPB for his renditions of his songs and also his usually neat acting"

Guess playback singing is also a form of acting, just as dubbing dialogues also falls under acting. No surprise that SPB is a great actor. The best playback singers no doubt would have excelled as actors if they had chosen to come on screen. Asha-tai mentions in an interview how her older sister would entertain the family with mimicry of actors and actresses and that her didi was so exceptionally good at it. She also mentions how her own mother used to say that her daughters were better actresses (with their voice) than the actresses they sang for. Asha, Lata, Rafi, Kishore have all acted at some point or another on screen. Moral of the story: it perhaps makes good sense for aspiring playback singers to take some acting lessons !!!!!!!

bb · First Slip

Guest

A beautiful melody that was overlooked due to ARR wave . I think if IR had used real instruments instead of synth , it would have been noticed and appreciated by one and all.
Enna kanjathanamo!!!
-------------------------------Visalakshi-----------------------------------------

Shankar

A very soothing song (the song wud've been a classic had those synths been replaced with original instruments) which reminds me of a very interesting comment on a poster of this film in trichy....

The poster read "pAttu pAdava"...and someone had written "dhayavu seidhu vENdAm" right below that Smile

app_engine · Well Set, Batting On Joined: 02 Nov 2004 Posts: 83

Shankar, ROTFL:-))

Guest

Shankar from Trichy? Me too!

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