Kalaya Nizama - Moody Duet
This song of the mid-80s was the first song sung by Raaja in Telugu. A soft moody / romantic / bhodhai / mayakkamaana number. As I do not know much Telugu, I really cannot comment about his pronouncation. The song is a class in this genre tuned by Raaja (Like the "Sivarathiri" number from Michael Madhana Kamarajan). Both Raaja and Susheela renders this song in a very subdued soft voice to bring in the mood. Beginning from the prelude, the orchestra just complements the tune with a very breazy flow thru out the song. The sleepy chorus creates an additional impact. He usually uses a unique rhythm pattern for these type of songs - Ditto in this song for the pallavi part. (Another unique rhythm pattern can be heard in the Sivarathiri song also). I think the song is from the film Surya IPS. I very well remember Venkatesh "lip movement" for Raaja's voice. (By the by, one fact which keeps on haunting me - Raaja has lent his voice for almost all Tamil heroes of 80s. But I do not find a single song which he had sung for Kamalhassan (lip movement). Am I right?)