karuthamma - an extended review

[narayanan sundararajan]

en inniya thamizh makkalukku, (??!!, hope its not copyrighted by
bharathiraja !)

i got the cassette of "karuthamma" recently and i thought that i will add
my opinions to a review posted by thiru senthooran rasaratnam. this is my
first attempt at any sort of reviewing and so please if there are any
mistakes, porutharulga !

so, here goes :

bharathiraja as usual starts off with "en inniya thamizh makkale" and has
talked at the start of each song and making one desperately wait for the
start of the song ! in the intro to the team, he says "rehman computer
kuyil ena koovi irukkirar !!" and praises his cinematographer kannan and
etc etc.

the first song "pacchakili .." is for some reason named as the 'kozhi song
?!!'. ok, accepted that it has lots of kokkarakkos in it, but if one starts
naming songs like this as kozhi song, mattu song etc ??!, probably they
thought that its goin to become famous as the kozhi song and so well name
it in the beginning itself.
coming to the song itself, it is a catchy tune with a nice beat running in
the background all the time with 'ok types' interludes.

the second song is a bit song and as bharathiraja puts it, its a
thaalaatu-turned-oppaari. sung by t.k.kala and kunjarama (kollangudi
karuppayi type voice).

the next song "poralae (sad)" sung by swarnalatha is a great piece. the
thing is that it doesnt have background music at all except string-pulls
(doying doying type) and relies entirely on the vocal chords of the singer
and she has sung it really well and its set on quite a high pitch and
swarnalatha suits high pitches i suppose. the flute interlude is also very
good.

the song "thenmerku...." is undoubtedly the best among the lot. its set on
a fast beat (which reminded me of the beat in boneym's "nightflight to
venus" ??" with melody interwined beautifully which is one of rehman's
traits (imo) and also the base guitar suddenly coming in the background (he
does that often in duet esp in the solo sax piece of kadari in kalyana
vasantham ??). chitra and unnikrishnan (? new probably, btw he has a
jayachandran like voice) have sung it very melodiously.

the next is "kaadu potta kaadu" which is sung by malaysia vasudevan and
bharathiraja himself ??? (or should i put it as he says "koozhukku uppai
pola naanum konjam kural kudithirukiren"). the song might catch on u if u
hear it a number of times bcos it has some very good flute interludes (i
think rehman loves to use the flute). but as a friend of mine put it,
"bharathiraja een thannaiyum kashtappaduthindu mathavangalaiyum
kashtappadutharar ??!!". he sings on a high pitch and abaswaram ! een intha
vibareetha parichai ?

the last song is the happy version of the "porale" and it is a duet. it
starts off with a good flute piece and this also is a good song.

so, overall a good cassette to have.

i also got another cassette of bagyaraj's "oru urile oru rajakumari" (meena
is the heroine). illaiyaraja has scored the music. all the songs are so
pathetically mediocre !!! and i didnt like it at all. probably one song
might become a hit. and btw, all the songs are sung by mano and spb is not
featured at all ! is there a rift again between illaiya and spb ?

that's it
cheers
narayan

[Jagannadhan Annamalai]

|> i also got another cassette of bagyaraj's "oru urile oru rajakumari" (meena
|> is the heroine). illaiyaraja has scored the music. all the songs are so
|> pathetically mediocre !!! and i didnt like it at all. probably one song
|> might become a hit. and btw, all the songs are sung by mano and spb is not
|> featured at all ! is there a rift again between illaiya and spb ?
|>

IMO, Mano tries to imitate SPB. Over the years he has learnt to do it very well, thanks to Illaiyaraja. In recent years, Illaiyaraja has tended to use Mano for his better tunes while giving the ordinary ones to SPB.

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[prithiv...@gmail.com]

I found your review which was written 22 years before where many people wouldn't have known there is a virtual world present and I was only 6 at that time.

Thankfully,
Prithiviraj