#1980s tamil hit songs list movie#
When this movie was remade/ copied in Hindi as Vansh, this song became a melodious Main toh deewani hui! Each of its songs is an absolute masterpiece. Directed by Mani Ratnam and starring Prabhu, Karthik and Amala, Agni Natchathiram was a super-duper hit back then. Janaki is from one of my favourite Tamil movies. Thoongatha vizhigal renda (Tamil, Agni Natchathiram, 1988): This sensuous duet based on the Carnatic raga, Amrithavarshini, and sung by Yesudas and S.Izhaya nila pozhigirathey (Tamil, Payanangal Mudivathilai, 1982) An all-time classic, this lovely SPB solo is said to have been okayed by the music director on the 25th take during recording – it was then that the guitarist got the interludes` absolutely right! The song found its way into Hindi cinema the very next year – when it was “borrowed” by Kalyanji-Anandji for the movie’s remake/ copy and remains popular till date – Neele neele ambar (Kalakaar, 1983).This was one of the songs chosen and the end result, the playful, Jaane do na. To rectify this and to bring some of Ilaiyaraja’s best compositions to a wider audience, he selected 4 of the maestro’s tunes and requested him to “recreate” them for his movie Cheeni Kum (2007). Janaki) that has been remade in Tamil, Telugu and Hindi is one of Kannada cinema’s best songs! In a televised tribute to Ilaiyaraja on his 68th birthday, the ad-film maker turned director, R.Balki, who considers him the greatest composer in the world said that since only one-half of the country has heard the maestro’s compositions. Still extremely popular, 38 years after its release, this timeless tune (sung by SPB and S. J otheyali jotheyali (Kannada, Geetha, 1981) : This song, starring one of Kannada cinema’s most talented actors, Shankar Nag (Anant Nag’s younger brother), is an absolute masterpiece.
Gone are the opening notes of the Tamil number (shloka followed by the church bells, indicative of the Hindu-Christian plot line) – the music is different, lyrics and language are different, but the tune is the same. This one becomes the plaintive Asha Bhosle ditty, Meri Zindagi. Balu Mahendra remade his Kannada hit, Kokila (1977), as a tele-film Aur ek prem kahani (1996), he got Ilaiyaraja to reprise some of his old tunes. This song, sung by Ilaiyaraja and Jency, makes an appearance in Hindi cinema in a tele-film in the 1990s. What is interesting is that all the songs of this movie are popular and have been reused in either Tamil cinema or in Hindi cinema.
Karthik went on to become quite the heartthrob of the 1980s starring in Mani Ratnam classics such as Mouna Raagam (1986) and Agni Natchathiram. It was also the debut movie of the lead pair, Karthik and Radha, who went on to make their mark in Tamil cinema.
Here is a list of Ilaiyaraja songs – songs from Tamil and Kannada that have been reused/ recreated or blatantly lifted in Hindi cinema. Burman and Salil Choudhary have reused their Bangla tunes in Hindi to much success – examples are aplenty – and require another list altogether. However, the difference in this case was that the music director Ilaiyaraja used his older tune in a different film, different language and different context. Here was an extremely popular Tamil song (from a movie that is remembered even today – for Rajnikanth and Sridevi’s stellar performances), being reused in Hindi and the result was good but the original was definitely much better! It shouldn’t have been a surprise – the 90s did see a lot of such “inspired”/ plagiarised songs, especially in the case of someone as prolific as as the legendary Ilaiyaraja. And then a familiar, much-forgotten tune wafted through the sound waves – bringing with it memories long forgotten something seemed wrong to me. A few days back, the FM channel was blaring “old” songs from the 80s and 90s – some passable tunes and some not-so-bearable.
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