Remembering Devika and her songs.

Madi Meedhu Thalai Vaithu...

One of my favourite songs. I remember seeing this Annai Illam, long back, in Doordarshan days. The peculiarity of the song is its short Pallavi. In fact, this is one such song where Charanams are so good than Pallavi.. the song hits the spot, the moment TMS sings Mangala Kungumam Nenjilie.... In the interludes, there is a subtle but beautiful orchestration and the singers TMS and P Suseela stealing the show completely.

Devika is one of my beloved heroines in the Black and White Era. In that melodramatic period, she was one of the very few actors who gave sensible acting in the movies like Nenjil Vor Aalayam. Interestingly, she was blessed with some greatest songs in Tamil Cinema.

Song of the Day : Thol Kanden Thole Kanden.... - K.V. Mahadevan - Idhaya Kamalam.

Chanced to see this beautiful song on TV yesterday. K.V. Mahadevan who is generally known for heavy carnatic numbers has also given some great guitar-soaked western numbers like Gnayiru Enbathu Kannaga, Unnai Arindhaal.

Thol Kanden Thole Kanden is yet another Guitar gem from the late Veteran Composer. Song starts in the Western and shifts to folk in Charanams. The USP of this song is lovely Guitar chords, Orchestration in the Pallavi and nice rendition by P.B. Srinivas.

That once-in-a-life-cinematic-moment!!!

Impressed with Polladhavan then, I was desperate for Aadukalam's arrival.No wonder, I rushed to Innovative for FDFS.Within 15-20 minutes, I was literally cut off from Bangalore and transported to Madurai.Almost, the intensity in each scene went up and up and finally reached its peak in the pre-interval sequence, where I went into an extreme point of excitement with no words could summarize that.I came out of the hall dumbfounded;heading towards toilet I started replaying the rooster-fight scenes wondering how brilliantly those scenes were executed.

The Pre-Interval scenes forms the crux of the movie: They show the depth of the Ego-Clash and how it turns into a deep jealousy.The best part was, the entire ego-clash/generation-gap,down-deep-emotions between KARUPPU and PETTAIKAARAN were conveyed visually through the form of Rooster-Fight Sequences rather KARUPPU and PETTAIKARAN coming face-to-face in a single frame.The way the Pettaikaraan expressions change, when his ego takes a beating after the outcome of each rooster-fight, shows his stellar Performance! Those scenes easily takes the cake in one of the best scenes ever made in Indian Cinema History.

Its been 3 years after Aadukalam;but still, none of the movie thereafter failed to amaze me either in terms of making, content and performance-wise.Even in a DABBA theater like Innovative Multiplex, it was one of the best movie-experience in my life.When could I get that pure Cinematic-Magic again ?

Waiting for that-aadukalam-moment!!!