Kadhal Oviyam : Vote your favourite song

[nanchil_guy]

select your most favorite song from the movie, Kadhal Oviyam.

I wanted to pick a movie which will compete with the movie like Johny where you will be spoilt for the choices and here we are looking at the list of great songs from the movie Kadhal Oviyam which was a utter flop commercially but marked as one of the great musical of TFM history.

1. Amma Azhagy Ulagin Oliye -- Balasubramaniam S.P.

2. Kuyilae Kuyilae Unthan -- Balasubramaniam S.P., Janaki. S.

3. Naadam En Jeevaney -- Balasubramaniam S.P., Janaki. S.

4. Nadhiyil Aadum Poovanam -- Balasubramaniam S.P.,

5. Nadhiyil Aadum Poovanam -- Janaki. S

6. Poojaikkaaga Vaazhum -- Deepan Chakravarthi

7. Poovil Vandu Koodum -- Balasubramaniam S.P.

8. Sangeetha Jaadhi Mullai -- Balasubramaniam S.P.

9. Velli Chalangaigal -- Balasubramaniam S.P.



Director : Bharathiraja

Lyrics : Vairamuthu ( Yes, all songs )

Year : 1982


Poll will be active for 15 days from Aug 14th.


Please listen all the songs here http://www.musicindiaonline.com/music/tamil/s/movie_name.4579/ , before you decide on your song , chances are there if you listen any other song than your favourite for the first time it might give you some more options as all the songs in this movie are really good.

[Shakthiprabha.]

Very tough :cry:

[crazy]

edhukku puthu thread?

tough

....i like nadhiyil aadum poovanam and velli salangaigal very much :P

[Sanjeevi]

nadhiyil aadum poovanam is not a duet by SPB & S.J?

[raaja_rasigan]

very tough poll!!!!!

I voted for "Poovil Vandu Koodum"... I luv this kind of iyarkayai rasikkum songs similar to "idhu oru ponmalai pozhudhu".

I guess "Poojaikkaaga Vaazhum " was written by Panju Arunachalam.

[sgmsin]

very difficult to find the best among the best
i voted for velli salangaigal, becuase i listen this song frequently

[Shakthiprabha.]

I am listening to all songs...again...I am quite sure which I would vote.... even then... just in case :?

[Shakthiprabha.]

Sometimes its the raagas which the song is based on :) some raagas just steal ur heart

_____

poovil vandu ... :musicsmile:

violin interlude :clap: it simultaneously plays even the strings of ur heart :sigh2:

not to mention the jathis thamthamthamtha namthamthamtha :musicsmile:
_____

[Shakthiprabha.]

veLLich chalangaigaL ... konda kalaimagaL...

(he starts with husky smiling secretive voice, full of love! ... minute things makes huge diff :clap: )

"செவி ரெண்டும் கண்ணாக ஆகும் இனி :clap: (he is blind)
உயிரோடு...சேரும் சுருதி...இ.... :clap: "

Again jathi steals and plays vital part in every song. Its these jathis which gives life to almost all songs in this movie.

Song brims with anticipation and love !

விரலின் ஸ்பரிசம் உயிரை உரசும்! :clap:

..
கண்ணில் ஒரு ... காதல் துள்ளுது பெண்
நெஞ்சில் ஒரு மோஹம் தெரியுது
...
இறுதியில் இணையும் இரு மனது

:clap:

The chorus could have been sung better :|
(Shrill voices are irking!)

[sarna_blr]

I voted for sangeedha jaadhimullai :D

[Shakthiprabha.]

Vairamuthu's lyrisc! for allllllll songs !!

:sigh2: :bow: :bow: :bow:

:clap: :clap:

GENIUS! simply!

[Shakthiprabha.]

amma azhage

Just observe at the variation in SPB's voice in EVERY SONG.

Maturity highlighted in some songs, love in few, pathos in others, HE ACTS the tune :clap:

"தேஹம் கெடாது தீயில் விழாது யாரும் தொடாத சுருதி
அண்டம் பொடிபட நெஞ்சம் உருகிட தேவி வருவது உறுதி"

Here we are able to recollect

"ஆனந்த கங்கை வெள்ளம் பொங்க!.
...நித்தம் நித்தம் உள்ளம் செழிக்க
..முதல் முதல் ராக தீபம்"
(may be same raaga :? )

Good song. Somehow this rated lil lower for me . It had always!

[Shakthiprabha.]

Now comes all my fav songs :D
I mean favs than the ones mentioned above
_____

nadhiyil aadum poovanam :clap: :sigh2:

kuzhanju, neliju, ... epdi ipdi oru tune! IR :bow: :bow: :cant-find-words:

Even when bg starts, it takes u high away from this world.!

"அலைகள் வீ...சும்.. :sigh2: சாமரம்

"அலையின் மிதக்கும் மாதுளை
இவள் பிரம்மதேவன் சாதனை"

Tune makes u literally shake ur head! :swinghead:

The lyrics says she is brahmma devan sadhanai (and he is blind! :) , quite emphasising beauty is in mind, never in appearance)

mruthangam :clap:

The song concentrates on physical urge which both suffer and yet control. Lyrics are quite explicit about the feel though. Hence the tune is kinda seductively intoxicating!

"நதியில் ஆடும் பூவ...னம்... "
ஜானகி at her best!

[Shakthiprabha.]

Poojaikaaga

deepan chakkaravarthi :clap:


"இளம் காற்றை பூவின் ஜாதி
இடி வீழ்ந்து சருகாகி தானோ நீதி
...
பொங்குது மனம் இது
ரகசிய ரணம்
..
பொன்னெழில் சிலை அது
என் வசம் இலை"


"இரு விழி இலை எனும் ஒரு குறை இது வரை
உலகத்தில் இருந்தது இல்லையே"

Plunge deep down and rise up in split seconds effortlessly. Shows his prowess! :clap:

[Shakthiprabha.]

Kuyile kuyile

bg is fine...

SJ rules here than SPB

"வானத்து நிலவை தண்ணீரிலே
சிறை வைத்த கதை தான் உன் கதையே!"

:clap: nice lyrics :)

"அழகே அமுதே வருவாய்...அஆ...."

The fall down is not gliding smooth and somehow so incomplete. :thumbsdown:

The strength for this song is

Raaga! (pathos)
SJ (romba anubavichu paadum sogam kuralil thaLumbugirathu)
She scores more than SPB :clap:


Overall a well tuned pathos, which takes u so low, that it becomes difficult to raise ur spiriits immediately. :( :cry:


and thats IR :sigh2:

[Shakthiprabha.]

Naadham en jeevanE

:clap: simply class!

"மார்மீது பூவாகி விடவா
விழியாகி விடவா! "

:clap:

"விலகிப் போனால் எனது சலங்கை
விதவையாகிப் போகுமே"

"இசையை அருந்தும் சாதகப் பறவை
போல நானும் வாழ்கிறேன்
உறக்கமில்லை எனினும் கண்ணில்
கனவு சுமந்து போகிறேன்"

""வெந்நீரில் நீராடும் கமலம்..."

vairamuthu stole this song!

Explaining the confused plight of one who yearns in love!

:bow:

A perfect song in every way! Scores way above the rest...
...
well....above almost all songs....except...

[Shakthiprabha.]

Sangeetha jaathi mullai

I feel I am WAY MUCH UNDERQUALIFIED to comment on this song!

This song, makes me cry, tears roll down, involuntarily! A lump formed which doesn't clear that fast.

lyrics! bg! spb! jathi! Swarams! Variation in single song! raagam! tune! IR! Verses spoken between! picturisation! Dance! Radha! story!

and....much more which I cant place!

Simply a dance/bg/tune/music towards..... frustration/helplessness/death!

simply EVERYTHING

"
கனவினின் எந்தன் உயிரில் உறவாகி
விடிகையில் இன்று அழுது பிரிவாகி
தனிமையில் எந்தன் இதயம் சருகாகி உதிருமோ....ஒ...
..
திரைகள் இட்டாலும் மறைந்து கொள்ளாது
அணைகள் இட்டாலும் வழியில் நில்லாது..
...
விழிகள் அழுதபடி
..
"
"நெஞ்சில் எங்கும் உந்தன் பிம்பம்
...
இன்னும் என்ன நெஞ்சில் அச்சம்
கண்ணில் மட்டும் ஜீவன் மிச்சம்!"

I SALUTE IR :bow: :bow: :bow:

[Shakthiprabha.]

With just this post, I shall stop monopolising this thread.

I was hardly 13 to 15 or much less :? when this movie was released. I had not watched the movie then. My dad had these songs tape recorded.

It was one fine sunday morning. My tape recorder was playing these songs FOR THE FIRST TIME.

I was 13. Defintiely I did not know the story, movie, actors. NOTHING. I generally never used to watch much movies then (too young to watch).

and...I listened to these songs. I could not do anything but listen again and again and again.

and I cried, NOT knowing, why!

Power of music!
Power of IR!

:clap:

Btw, lyrics of almost all songs speaks about

"impossible or unattainable love"

my 2 (okei 200) cents :wave:

[sarna_blr]

:clap: :clap: very well write-up SP akkaa :bow: :bow:

PS...pls answer my questions in CC :oops:

[nanchil_guy]

I voted for Naadham En Jeevanae, just for that violin bit , which comes at the end of every line. man thats out of the world feeling when i listen this song and esp that violin bit.

If you have noticed , most of the times IR used only KJY for carnatic based movies like sindhu bairavi, moga mul etc, on the other hand he used only SPB for movies based on classical dance/bharata natya like salangai oli, kadhal oviyam etc.

But the great, irreplaceable S.Janaki did both kind of songs with such ease and elegance that i really wondering will there be any female singer in south/north who is as versataile as she was.

I had this feelin that 'Sangeetha Jaathi Mullai' will win hands down, but now i can see the votes are evenly distributed, and i am expecting a close call like johny ,once all other regualr hubbers starts to vote.

[Sanjeevi]

Shakthiprabha :notworthy: great contribution :)

BTW what a classic album, certainly KO will get place in all-time top 10 :clap:

[crajkumar_be]

Perhaps if i don't have a favorite song to vote, i shouldn't be posting here but i have to say i hate everything about this film (except Sangeedha Jaddhi to an extent) :oops: Sorry :yessir:

[Sanjeevi]

Perhaps if i don't have a favorite song to vote, i shouldn't be posting here but i have to say i hate everything about this film (except Sangeedha Jaddhi to an extent) :oops: Sorry :yessir:

Soundtrack- ku Thirushti kazhinchathu :)

[Shakthiprabha.]

Perhaps if i don't have a favorite song to vote, i shouldn't be posting here but i have to say i hate everything about this film (except Sangeedha Jaddhi to an extent) :oops: Sorry :yessir:

Soundtrack- ku Thirushti kazhinchathu :)

:shock: :exactly:

I am heart broken :cry: :cry: :cry:

[app_engine]

'nAdham en jeevanE' - stands out:-)

[equanimus]

Perhaps if i don't have a favorite song to vote, i shouldn't be posting here but i have to say i hate everything about this film (except Sangeedha Jaddhi to an extent) :oops: Sorry :yessir:
Are you kidding?! Anyway, I'd pick 'nadhiyil Adum' as my favourite (also because it's not much talked about), but just about every song is awesome here.

[crajkumar_be]

Perhaps if i don't have a favorite song to vote, i shouldn't be posting here but i have to say i hate everything about this film (except Sangeedha Jaddhi to an extent) :oops: Sorry :yessir:
Are you kidding?! Anyway, I'd pick 'nadhiyil Adum' as my favourite (also because it's not much talked about), but just about every song is awesome here.
Seriously, Eq!
oru inam puriyadha mental block...
I suspect this is in large measure due to the *film* :evil:

//sorry for the dig

[Sanjeevi]

Perhaps if i don't have a favorite song to vote, i shouldn't be posting here but i have to say i hate everything about this film (except Sangeedha Jaddhi to an extent) :oops: Sorry :yessir:

Soundtrack- ku Thirushti kazhinchathu :)

:shock: :exactly:

I am heart broken :cry: :cry: :cry:


First time I see person who didn't like KO songs

[Sanjeevi]

nanchil_guy,

pls remove the two 'Nathil Aadum' and make it one. It will get votes

[entertainment]

I voted Sangeetha Jaathi Mullai. Of course this one too a tough poll.

[Querida]

so difficult to choose!!! :sigh2: This is one of my very fave albums even years before i watched the movie...my father used to play these on cassette...it was on the same one as shankarabharanam...i use to sneak up and press rewind just to hear these songs again....I voted for sangeetha jathi mullai...because yes it made me cry when i finally watched the movie...but still all the songs have a special place in my heart...what lyrics!!!!

Shakti reading your posts was a beautiful balm for the feverish admirer :)
...i too love the beginning of the soft pronouncement of "Vel-li Salan-gai-gal...., kon-da ka-lai-ma-gal....van-thu aaa-dum kaalam-ithu" :musicsmile:

"unthan sangkItha salangkai oli
intha Ezaikku kIthAnjali..."

In Sangeetha Jathi Mullai
just in the middle of the song when he sings "kuyile kuyile, kuyile kuyile" oh how beautiful... :cry:a secret only they too know in song only....the orig. song too is heart stirring...

Nathiyil Aadum you ride upon the waves with them...so heartlifting...the waves cascade as the drops playfully catch the sun...

alright enuff from me and my nostalgia am off to hear the album again! :oops:

[ananth222]

Great album! Tough choice for me between "sangeetha jathi mullai" and 'poovil vandu"... finally went with "sangeetha jathi.."
an interesting snippet about this song:

IR on the ease with which SPB sings - For the movie Kathal Oviyam, IR had requested SPB to come and sing the song "Sangeetha Jaathi Mullai". SPB first refused saying he was very busy that day and had other stuff to do, and finally agreed on the condition that it will be done by 10AM. The recording finally was over at 3pm the same day. The phrase which caused the delay was "Kuyile Kuyile Untha Ragam Nenjil Indru Aadum." If you remember the song - at "Aadum" the tune reaches a crescendo (ri Ri) and then descends (to sa). Originally the descending portion was to be sung as sndpmgrs (avarohanam), but apparently SPB couldn't sing it. IR remaked "Ennapa SNDPMGRS paada mudiyaliyaa." IR had to simplified the tune twice before SPB was able to sing it correctly and the third version is what we hear today.
from: http://thoppus.blogspot.com/2004/06/isaignani-ilaiyaraaja-as-close-as-it.html

[nanchil_guy]

nanchil_guy,

pls remove the two 'Nathil Aadum' and make it one. It will get votes

Yeah, it was my bad, but i can not do anything now, as per the FAQ;

'How do I edit or delete a poll?
As with posts, polls can only be edited by the original poster, a moderator, or board administrator. To edit a poll, click the first post in the topic, which always has the poll associated with it. If no one has cast a vote then users can delete the poll or edit any poll option. However, if people have already placed votes only moderators or administrators can edit or delete it; this is to prevent people rigging polls by changing options mid-way through a poll."

Any moderators or administrators, Please delete the janaki version as there is only a duet available.

Sorry for the inconvenience guys, let us keep the SPB choice as the official one for the time being, befor this thing get edited.

[Shakthiprabha.]

so difficult to choose!!! :sigh2: This is one of my very fave albums even years before i watched the movie...my father used to play these on cassette...it was on the same one as shankarabharanam...i use to sneak up and press rewind just to hear these songs again....I voted for sangeetha jathi mullai...because yes it made me cry when i finally watched the movie...but still all the songs have a special place in my heart...what lyrics!!!!

:( Even without seeing the movie, the tempo and music is enough to make ucry :(


..i too love the beginning of the soft pronouncement of "Vel-li Salan-gai-gal...., kon-da ka-lai-ma-gal....van-thu aaa-dum kaalam-ithu" :musicsmile:

:)




In Sangeetha Jathi Mullai
just in the middle of the song when he sings "kuyile kuyile, kuyile kuyile" oh how beautiful... :cry:a secret only they too know in song only....the orig. song too is heart stirring...

:) :( :yes:

[Querida]

Shakti reading your posts was a beautiful balm for the feverish admirer :)



Shakti hope you read this truth too! :)

[Nazir sultan]

All are wonderful songs how we can choose one

Thanks

[Shakthiprabha.]

Shakti reading your posts was a beautiful balm for the feverish admirer :)



Shakti hope you read this truth too! :)

:D :ty:

[tvsankar]

Nadham en jeevanae

What soulful song from IR and SJ combo.

Indha padathin kavidhai - Vairamuthu - Migavum pidithu rasithu ketpen eppodhum....

Vizhiyagi vidava......... enna oru varthai.......

isaiyai arundhum
sadhaga paravai
polae nanum vaazhgiren



Beautiful Swara Dabala...

Nice sarangi sarod......

Cute lead guitar.....

Nadham en jeevanae.................

[Nerd]

one can count the number of days in which vividh bharathiyin varthaga oLiparappu did not play a song from this movie. The songs are that popular. The movie is disgusting though. Voted for naatham en jeevanE for the orchestration and the tune. What an album!

[jaiganes]

much like johnny, this film too had both BGM and songs competing feverishly with each other and the songs win by a whisker - what with SPB simply elevating the value of songs to add meaning to the movie. We have heard classical music in movies - mostly they add value but hardly convey any emotion and help movie carry forward - in this movie, the classically tuned songs were all
1 - in thamizh
2. rendered with so much emotion that the actors lip syncing it had to do simply nothing - because SPB and S.Janaki with Raaja had done everything in the recording studio itself.
3. One album where I felt Bharathiraaja could have done more than his best effort (which he had put in) to do justice to the songs. Offcourse a big turn off is to see Radha as a classical dancer and the blind lead played by some lanky guy(not that I have anything against Lanky guys) with no acting experience - hashing all the efforts of SPB and Raaja. In spite of Velli salangaigal and Sangeedha jaadhi mullai (simply recollecting the song - the way SPB catches the aeroplane with a slow raise of the volume in voice!!! causes the hairs along my ears and cheeks to stand up in awe!!) I voted for Nadhiyil aadum.. thats due to SPB for teaching me how to sing the word 'Thaamarai' with a gentle sway and glide - a hindusthani way of singing a carnatic based song... DELIGHTFUL!!!

[app_engine]

One album where I felt Bharathiraaja could have done more than his best effort (which he had put in) to do justice to the songs.

I cannot even imagine how it would have been had BR accepted the offer to direct shankarAbharaNam (which then went to K Viswanath who made it phenomenal and followed up with sAgara sangamam / swAthi muthyam, nice treats for both music & visual lovers). My cousin used to remark that had BR directed that movie, the minor love-thread involving Rajalakshmi would have been blown to 75% of the time neglecting the Somayajulu part, thus killing the whole jeevan.

After losing that opportunity, BR perhaps wanted to show-off that he can also do a great classical-musical and failed miserably (despite great support from IR / SPB / SJ). This is one of the movie genres where BR totally failed (and KB proved >> BR with sindhu bhairavi later).

[app_engine]

Digression-
Is there any Thamizh movie with a love story involving a blind person that was a commercial success?
End-digression

[Shakthiprabha.]

My cousin used to remark that had BR directed that movie, the minor love-thread involving Rajalakshmi would have been blown to 75% of the time neglecting the Somayajulu part, thus killing the whole jeevan.



:yes:

[Shakthiprabha.]

Digression-
Is there any Thamizh movie with a love story involving a blind person that was a commercial success?
End-digression

Raajap paarvai :huh: ?

[Sanjeevi]

I love Sangeetha Jaathi Mullai song very very much for two reasong 1) IR :cool: 2) SPB :notworthy:. And voted for the same song to make it leads........ :)

[Nerd]

Digression-
Is there any Thamizh movie with a love story involving a blind person that was a commercial success?
End-digression

Raajap paarvai :huh: ?
raajapaarvai wasn't a success I believe. But pErazhagan was (blind jothika)
//end dig.

[Shakthiprabha.]

I love Sangeetha Jaathi Mullai song very very much for two reasong 1) IR :cool: 2) SPB :notworthy:. And voted for the same song to make it leads........ :)

:ty:

[rajasaranam]

Digression-
Is there any Thamizh movie with a love story involving a blind person that was a commercial success?
End-digression

Kaasi was a success though not a love story in that sense.

[DeepTrance]

Digression-
Is there any Thamizh movie with a love story involving a blind person that was a commercial success?
End-digression

Wasn't Kasi a hit?

[vasanth2006]

As everybody told, it is very tough poll....

My Hot favorite is "Nadham en jeevane"......

Unthan raaja ragam padum neram.....
Parai or palai (?) baluruthey.......

But ennoda manathai urukkum tune....Love Raja.....

[nanchil_guy]

As expected this turned out to be the photo finish. Infact 'Nadham en jeevane' and 'Sangeetha jaathi' share the top sopt.

Thanks guys for taking your time to come over here to vote and discuss about these wonderful songs.