The song starts with a beautiful humming that is deep and crisp.

This was also S.P.Shailaja’s first song for Raaja. The song is ‘Solaikkuyile’from ‘Ponnu Oorukku Pudhusu(1979). Generally,one would expect a folk melody for this situation(though this kind of a situation itself is a rarity in the present day movies!).īut the Emperor of Film Music has composed the song in a pure Carnatic Ragam, Madhyamavathi. On this day as we step into a new year, let us look at one of his most beautiful compositions that sees the beauty of a village through the eyes of a city-bred young girl. He would have become a musician but I doubt if his music would have had this much of impact on all of us. If only he was born in Madras or even Madurai. And for this, we must all thank his rural upbringing. Though there are a variety of reasons, I feel that his propensity and proclivity to appreciate nature is the main reason. Only people who feel music everywhere can understand this.Īt times, I have even wondered as to what makes his compositions so special. There is indeed nothing to beat the drone of the Tanpoora. Unable to comprehend what the Maestro meant, the interviewer-a cynic, who considered himself to be an authority in Carnatic Music and Dance- later ridiculed this. Without any hesitation, he said the Tanpoora. Long back, he was asked as to what his most favourite instrument is. Such people are born to make mortals like us also feel poetic.Īnother gentleman who is a living legend and who can be considered on par with Bharati and Tagore sees music everywhere.

In thy service and pluck it while there is time.’īut look how poetic their approach to life was. Though its colour be not deep and its smell be faint, use this flower I may not find a place in thy garland, but honour it with a touch of I fear lest it droop and drop into the dust. ‘Pluck this little flower and take it, delay not! So poetic and of course philosophical was his outlook that even while touching the fire, he felt the pleasure of touching the God(‘TheekkuL viralai vaiththaal Nandalala, Ninnai TheeNdum Inbam Thondruthaiyya Nandalala’).Īnother great poet Rabindranath Tagore describes a flower: This is because there is a Connoisseur in all of us!’’įor some people, this ‘connoisseur’ is dominant. We say ‘The journey was Musical’ or ‘The valley is poetic’.Īt times we also say that the Music is so poetic or that the Poem is so Musical. Whenever we hear something great, we say it is musical.īut we also use these expressions whenever we undergo a great experience… ‘’Whenever we read something beautiful, we say it is poetic. Sometime back I had written in my other Blog Ragaranjani As we grow old, the lyrics tend to bring more new meanings into our lives.Coming to think of it, there is a close relationship between poetry, music, nature and life. Here it is.another inspiring song by Kaviyarasar Kannadasan.

Hey folks!! Greetings to all of you after a very very long break.

Ennangal Aayiram by Kannadasan