Meghasandesam
Srinivas Ganti
to dirt.Suresh followed it up with his analysis of Tamil Films.
In Telugu films the deterioration hasn't been so dramatic.70's,80's
& 90's had their share of titanium and platinum musicals.
Many of these movies had glorification of classical music as their
theme.(Director K.Viswanath started this trend and the impact
created by his brainchild Shankarabharam was nothing short
of a revolution.)
Dasari Narayana Rao's Meghasandesam (1982) is one of them.It was
the crowning glory of composer Ramesh Naidu.It won the national
awards for Best Film, Best Music director,Best Male Playback singer
(Yesudas) and Best Female Play Back Singer(Suseela).It was exhibited
in Cannes film festival and International film festival in Moscow.
The movie was dedicated to poet Devulapalli Krishna Sastry who
died just before the movie was made and some of his songs were used.
The soundtrack also includes a couple of adaptations from 12th century
composer Jayadeva.
The movie has the song "pADanA vANi kalyANigA" sung by legendary
Carnatic vocalist Dr.M Balamuralikrishna. It is based on raag Kalyani
and can be heard at http://gantisri.tripod.com/paadana.mp3
http://members.tripod.com/~RKSanka/music/rslist.html gives the
raga info for many Telugu Film Songs.
aa~
ga ma da ni sa ni pa ma
ni ri ga ma ri ga ni sa
pa ma ga ga ga pa da ma
ga ni da ni da pa ma da ni
sa ni ga ri sa ri ga pa
sa ni da pa ma ni da ni da pa ma
ni da ni ga ma da ri sa ni pa ma ri ga
paaDanaa vaani kalyaanigaa
Shall I sing with my voice like "kalyani"
swararaani paadaala paaraanigaa
like the turmeric decorated on the feet of the queen of songs
na puujaku sarvaanigaa, na bhaashaku jiivaanigaa
like the complete sound of my puja, like the soul(life) of my language
sharira manjara sharatprapancha ? madhura gaana sukhavaanigaa
madhura gaana sukhavaanigaa =like the melodious happy tune
paadanaa vaani kalyaanigaa
tanuvanuvu tambura naadamu navanaadula sruti cheyagaa
every part of the body echoes the sounds of the "tambura" in tune with
the
mrudangamai ? jagatudu gamagamulaku jatakudagaa
? becomes a mrudangam and adds to the movements
akshara deepaaraadhanalo swaralakshana aaratuliyyaga
gives the "aarati" of voice during the worship of letters
tarantaramu nirantaramu gaanabhishekamu onarinchi tarinchaga
and always performs the anointment of songs
paadanaa vaani kalyaanigaa
svaramulu ? layalai devi paadamulu kaDagagaa
the tunes become waves and wash the feet of the goddess
gaganamulu meghamai snaanamulu cheyinchagaa
the sky becomes cloudy and bathes people
sangitaamrutasevanale nijaa saahityaavinivesamulai
sangitaamrutasevanale=sangita+amruta+sevanale
absoring the nectar of music becomes the true appreciation of literature
tarantaramu nirantaramu giitaabhishekamu onarinchi tarinchaga
and always performs the anointing of the words
paadanaa vaani kalyaanigaa
sg.
Srinivas Ganti
Legendary composer K.V Mahadevan passed away a few months back.
His work in Tamil Films is being covered by Manisegaran at tfmpage.com
Here's an attempt to showcase his Telugu Musicals.
>Suresh wrote:
> The 1960s saw much lighter compositions with the Western mode orchestral
treatment
> gaining ground. Vishwanathan-Ramoorthy and K.V.Mahadevan were the
> dominant musical personalities of this period.
In Telugu Vishwanathan-Ramamoorthy did only a few movies. KVM was far
more prolific and successful.
> Post 1960s, it was Illayaraja and occasionally KVM who managed to save
> South Indian film music to fall into the sort of abyss that Hindi
> music fell into.
In post 60's Telugu scene KVM and Illayaraja were equally successful.
KVM's first major Telugu hit was probably Manchi Manasulu (1962).
This had the the Bhangra type song "mama mama mama" and since then KVM
got the nickname Mama.
Sometime back Afzal saheb hadpointed out that its tune may have been taken
from a Geeta Dutt number.Satish ji suggested that it cud be "barkha kii raat
men
he ho haa" but after to it in the recent denver compilation, we found that
they
have only a partial resemblance.
Manchi Manasulu was the first in a string of mega hit musicals by KVM like
like Muga Manasulu (remade as Milan in Hindi), Aatma Balam, Dagudu Mutalu,
Tene Manasulu, Sumangali, Buddhimantudu, Adrustavantulu etc all in the 60's.
Many of the songs were written by Acharya Atreya.
One of the songs I grew up with is "chiTa paTa chinukulu paDutuu vunte"
(roughly translates to "rimjhim ke taraane leke aaii barsaat). Atreya was
sitting in the famous garden of Bangalore, Lal Bagh pondering about writing
a song. Even after many hours he cudn't get the write words to fit the
situation.
Then it started raining and that's how the song was made.
Many of KVM's eralier hits were directed by Adurti Subba Rao. K.Viswanath
was
ASR's assistant. That was how K.Viswanath's association with KVM started.
Most of KVM's hits till the mid 70's (including some by K.Viswanath) were
socials
with great music. Presenting classical based songs in a simple form for the
common
man was KVM's forte.
In 1976, K.Viswanath made Siri Siri Muvva.This was the first in a series of
movies
based on classical music. However the trendsetter in the series was
Sankarabharanam (1980). This was a landmark movie in Telugu Films. Infact
parents suddenly started sending their children to learn classical music
after
the success of this movie. Saptapadi was the next success for KVM and
K.Viswanath team.
Later K.Viswanath turned to Illayaraja for Sagarasangamam(1983) and Swati
Mutyam(1986).
KVM returned back for Siri Vennela, Sruti Layalu, Suutra Dharulu and Swati
Kiranam
(1992).
Apart from these KVM had other hit socials like Dasara Bullodu(1971), Prem
Nagar(1971)
(remade in Hindi with the same name), Badi Pantulu, Mutyala Muggu, Adavi
Ramudu,
Goranta Deepam, Prema Mandiram, Mangammagari Manavadu, Mapalle Gopaludu,
Alludugaru,
Assembly Rowdy(1991).
sg.
Ajit
> Legendary composer K.V Mahadevan passed away a few months back.
OH NO!!! he passed away last year in July/August!
He was truly a fabulous MD. Nobody can forget his songs in Karnan (tamil)
and sorgham (tamil). The latter has PSs evergreen "mannavan vanthaanadi..".
What A song! And what terrific singing by PS.
Ket...@att.net
>In post 60's Telugu scene KVM and Illayaraja were equally successful.
Are they many Telugu-only movies by ILR? I am seeking info on movies which were
made only in Telugu for which ILR was the MD, and not those which were made
originally in Tamil but dubbed in Telugu.
>KVM's first major Telugu hit was probably Manchi Manasulu (1962).
>This had the the Bhangra type song "mama mama mama" and since then KVM
>got the nickname Mama.
>
>Sometime back Afzal saheb hadpointed out that its tune may have been taken
>from a Geeta Dutt number.Satish ji suggested that it cud be "barkha kii raat
>men
>he ho haa" but after to it in the recent denver compilation, we found that
>they
>have only a partial resemblance.
You mean the recent NJ meet I think.
>One of the songs I grew up with is "chiTa paTa chinukulu paDutuu vunte"
>(roughly translates to "rimjhim ke taraane leke aaii barsaat). Atreya was
>sitting in the famous garden of Bangalore, Lal Bagh pondering about writing
>a song. Even after many hours he cudn't get the write words to fit the
>situation.
>Then it started raining and that's how the song was made.
Interesting to note that according to one article, this is exactly how SDB came
up with the tune for the song.
Ketan
rkusenet
>
>In article <ajca45$1a97vg$1...@ID-75004.news.dfncis.de>, "Srinivas says...
>
>>In post 60's Telugu scene KVM and Illayaraja were equally successful.
>
>Are they many Telugu-only movies by ILR? I am seeking info on movies which were
>made only in Telugu for which ILR was the MD, and not those which were made
>originally in Tamil but dubbed in Telugu.
plenty of telegu-only movies. I would say upto 40% of ILR's telegu movies
were telegu only. Also many movies were originally made
in telegu and later dubbed in tamil.
ILR had a distinct hip style for telegu movies, which suited well to
telegu style of film making of falling balls/lemons/apples and 10000 extras
in slow motion.
J. K. Mohana Rao
> Nobody can forget his songs in Karnan (tamil)
by Mahadevan. - J K Mohana Rao
Ket...@att.net
>plenty of telegu-only movies. I would say upto 40% of ILR's telegu movies
>were telegu only.
And 60% of his telugu movies were in which language?
:)
Ketan
Surajit A. Bose
doesn't belong there.
-s
Srinivas Ganti
rkusenet <rkus...@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
news:ajdqq...@drn.newsguy.com...
> In article <ajdj6...@drn.newsguy.com>, Ket...@att.net says...
> >
> >In article <ajca45$1a97vg$1...@ID-75004.news.dfncis.de>, "Srinivas says...
> >
> >>In post 60's Telugu scene KVM and Illayaraja were equally successful.
> >
> >Are they many Telugu-only movies by ILR? I am seeking info on movies
which were
> >made only in Telugu for which ILR was the MD, and not those which were
made
> >originally in Tamil but dubbed in Telugu.
>
> plenty of telegu-only movies. I would say upto 40% of ILR's telegu movies
> were telegu only. Also many movies were originally made
> in telegu and later dubbed in tamil.
It's Telugu not Telegu!
> ILR had a distinct hip style for telegu movies, which suited well to
> telegu style of film making of falling balls/lemons/apples and 10000
extras
> in slow motion.
You are generalising it way too much. I will talk about ILR's movies soon
after I am done with Ramesh Naidu and KVM.
sg.
Ket...@att.net
>
>Could all of you PLEASE stop cross-posting this thread to RMIC? It
>doesn't belong there.
Apologies..I should have been more careful. I failed to notice that it was still
being cross posted across to RMIC.
Ketan
Ashok
>>(roughly translates to "rimjhim ke taraane leke aaii barsaat). Atreya was
>>sitting in the famous garden of Bangalore, Lal Bagh pondering about writing
>>a song. Even after many hours he cudn't get the write words to fit the
>>situation.
>>Then it started raining and that's how the song was made.
>
>Interesting to note that according to one article, this is exactly how SDB came
>up with the tune for the song.
>
>
>Ketan
So, SDB not only copies tunes from Telugu films, but also anecdotes
from music directors?
Ashok
Srinivas Ganti
>Ashok <adhar...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:ajfo9...@enews3.newsguy.com...
The Telugu song came after the Hindi one. WE can't accuse KVM of copying
since the tunes are different.
sg.