Naayaki naayakanidam irunthu piriyum pozhuthu sonnathu ( Read more... )

There are many of what I call "algorithm songs" in old tamizh film music....and this beautiful, melodious song from

"pArthAl pasi theerum" (hunger will be appeased with just a look)

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For the most of the song, the lines go, "Did X happen because of Y? Or did Y happen because of X?" with several things being X and Y...starting from the moving of ( Read more... )

I've heard this song so many times, and liked it a lot, but somehow, it's become so specially beautiful, and I'd like to share it....it touched my heart so deeply.

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O sAthI rE, tErE binA bhi kyA jInA ( Read more... )

Franz Lizst is a composer whose works (I mean, those that I know of!)I like...and one of my great favourites is this wonderful cartoon of Tom and Jerry, which uses Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2, S.244/2, the second in a set of 19 Hungarian Rhapsodies...the others are, alas, not very well-known.

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Imagine the creativity that lets animation and all those ( Read more... )

I find that lyrics that speak of the love between a man and a woman are very beautiful indeed, and in my language, Tamizh, it is as true as for any other language ( Read more... )

When I was about to go to my tent at JLR Bannerghatta, I looked up at the full moon, serenely riding the night skies.

And the next night, when I looked out of my balcony, the moon was rising, still looking full:


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Here's a video of a lovely song, from the movie

Server Sundaram

a melodramatic tear-jerker from 1964.

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It shows the prolific and prodigiously talented music director,

M S Viswanathan (click on the wiki link to see what kind of adversity he has battled in life...it's amazing ( Read more... )

I am, right now, teaching two friend this Hindi song, that Latha Mangeshkar sang... "O SajnA" in 1960, for the movie "Parakh":

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I don't need to write down the Hindi words as the words are clear, and the translation, a pretty good one, appears on the video ( Read more... )

For many months, KTB used to listen to this song every day...let me post it before a copyright violation takes away this one, too, as happened to "poo pOla poo pOla pirakkum"...

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I love the soft voice of A M Raja....the actor is

Gemini Ganesan

(that's a fairly sketchy biography on the Wiki!)

and the actress is

Vyjayanthimala who was ( Read more... )

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(When you watch the video on Youtube don't forget to see the hilarious and irrelevant commments underneath ( Read more... )