Pon Ondru Kanden

This next song has been in planning for a while though executed just recently.

From the Tamil movie Padithal Matum Podhuma, this is probably one of the most quoted songs when referring to friendship (more so in a satirical way). The composers for this song were Vishwanathan & Ramamurthy for Kannadasan's lyrics, sung by TM Soundarajan & PB Srinivas.

My nephew is an aspiring singer and we were thinking of performing a duet for at least couple of years. Well, here we are with this song. While I honestly felt this could have been better, I still wanted to post it and maybe encourage him to do more.

The beauty of this recording was that we did this sitting remotely (in our respective towns) as separate tracks and eventually synced it in my software.

As always, please listen, enjoy & comment.




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Kannale Pesi Pesi...

Happy New Year! to all of you.

Since the dawn of 2010 I haven't had a chance to blog and the primary reason for that being busy work schedule; anyway, I am back with a new song to begin 2010.

This song is a golden oldy from the hilarious film Adutha Veetu Penn. Staring TR Ramachandran, Anjali Devi & Thangavelu, this amazing movie was made in Hindi as well titled Padosan. This melodious song was sung by PB Srinivas and music was composed by Adi Narayana Rao.

I was recently watching Jaya TV and the program was an interview of Mr. PB Srinivas; I was really awe struck at the range of songs he has sung most of them remain popular even till this day.

This particular one was such a great song, that it will remain evergreen and I thought it will bring back memories to folks from earlier generation and I am sure youngsters from current generation will be able to appreciate the simplicity of this song. The original score sung by PB Srinivas in his inimitable melodious voice really captivates our imagination.

As always, listen, enjoy & please comment.



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Unai Arindal Nee Unai Arindal

As we are fast approaching the end of year 2009 given my schedule at this time of the year, I am not sure if I will have time to make another blog post before 12/31. So I decided to end 2009 postings on a philosophical note and some food for thought. Thus, I came about making this song.

While Late MGR was a great actor, I always thought his movies got that extra lift from social themes and some catchy songs. This song from the original movie Vetaikaran was sung by TM Soundarrajan for KV Mahadevan's music and as you might have guessed the lyrics was penned by Kanadasan.

Those were the days when MGR was an active Dravidian moment disciple with political ambitions and a number of his social and philosophical songs captured the hearts and imaginations of the general Tamil population more specifically the economically and socially backward ones.

Considering the new Vetaikaaran movie starring Vijay came out recently, I thought this would be an apt moment to do this golden oldy.

Let me take this opportunity to wish all my listeners "Happy Holidays and a Prosperous New Year"

As always, enjoy this song and please comment.




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Nejukul Peidhidum

In my profession there are 2 words that are very important, "logic" and "rationale" akin to "disease" and "cure" for doctors; having said that its only logical that after having recorded "En Iniya Pen Nilave" I had to do this song since in the movie Vaaranam Aayiram "En Iniya Pen Nilave" is sung by Surya as a prelude to this song. Anyway, I wanted to do a karaoke of this song and was looking for a pretext and/or a opportune moment. Harris Jeyraj does very few movies every year and though some of his songs sound very similar he has a great sense for melody and understands the pulse of today's youth. This is one of his catchy number gently sung by Hariharan.

The different thing about this karaoke is that there are several humming, chorus & interjections that it gave me an opportunity to understand the basics of voice mixing. My older daughter provided me support in a small way by lending her voice in one place which I thought came out well.

I hope you enjoy this karaoke and as always provide you feedback / comment.




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En Iniya Pen Nilave

I don't think you'll hear me sing too many Jesudas songs, but there are millions of his fans who wouldn't believe if you tell them there are other singers as well (you know what I mean). However, one of my favorite Jesudas song is from this movie "Modu Pani" with Prathap Pothan and Late Shobha in lead roles. Besides Jesudas's voice, the greatness of this song is its simplicity. In those years when very little technology was prevalent, Illayaraja had to entirely rely on his brilliance when it came to handling / mixing instruments. The melody of this song and its cinematography was just too good.

I think I have made a decent attempt in bringing back memories for some of you and I hope to continue doing the same with few other forth coming songs.

As always, enjoy and please leave your comments.




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Pani Vizhum Malar Vanam

By now millions of people would have sung this song as a karaoke, on a stage, in their bathrooms...just amazing song! As I had mentioned in one of my earlier blogs, Illayaraja is very kind to certain producer / director wherein music in their films stand out. One such director who happens to be that lucky person is yesteryear Producer-director Sridhar. Most of the songs in his movies become a superhit and end up being chart busters composed by none other than our "Mr. Raja".

This song brings back memories from 80s wherein this was one of my favorite solo number that I very often sang in various competitions (and won as well!). Easy on the ears with a feet tapping rhythm. While this movie Ninaivellam Nithya didn't turn out to be a hit, it introduced actor Gemini Ganesan's daughter Jiji as co-star opposite to Karthik (another actor Muthuraman's son).

Once again as it has happened before, I am not too very impressed with the karaoke track that I was able to get to perform this song, but have made my attempt with what I got.

Enjoy and please comment.



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Kal Ho Na Ho

I rarely watch Hindi movies, but few years ago this one (Kal Ho Na Ho)was recommended to me by few friends. I made an effort to pick this up from my video library and watched this movie with my family and was touched. In this day and age where there are very few movies that you could watch as a family (you know what I mean), this one is a safe bet.

Except for the star cast, this movie otherwise is quite simple and to great extent same old drama; but, the powerful performance of Shahrukh, it’s awesome locales and effective supporting crew added to its glamour and neat narration. Some of the background score from this movie (though might sound repetitive) they were soothing to our ears and was very supportive to the storyline.

This title song sung by Sonu Nigam was at the top of the charts and if you haven't heard the original score before, I am sure after you hear this karaoke you'll be able to appreciate its top position.

As always enjoy & please leave comment




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