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Song of the Day # 364

From: bb (@ 12.234.176.52) on: Tue Jan 13 00:46:36 EST 2004

Song of the Day: summaa kedantha nelaththaik koththi from naadodi mannan.

http://www.tfmpage.com/cgi-bin/stream.pl?url=http://www.dhool.com/sotd/summaakedantha.rm

- Sung by T.M.S and Banumathi. Music by S.M.Subbiah Naidu. Lyrics by PattukkOttai KalyanaSundaram.

- I was wondering what song to feature during this Pongal time, cycling through usual candidates like 'thaip pongalum vandhadhu' and 'thai porandhaa', when Era. Murukan suggested this song. This song is written by PattukkOttai Kalyanasundaram for the Pongal malar of the Communist Party magazine Janasakthi. The lyrics of this song is quite fitting for the biggest festival of the farmers. Read on about how he feels about the sad situation of the farmers:

summaa kedantha nelaththaik koththi
sOmbalillaama Er nadaththi
kammaa karaiyai osaththik katti
karumbu kolaiyil vaaikkaal vetti

sambaa payirai paRichchu nattu
thaguntha muRaiyil thaNNeer vittu
nellu veLainjirukku
varappum uLLE marainjirukku

ada kaadu veLainjenna machchaan
namakku kaiyum kaalum thaanE michcham
kaiyum kaalum thaanE michcham

ippO kaadu veLaiyattum poNNE
namakku kaalam irukkudhu pinnE

- The more famous PattukkOttai song in the movie is 'thoongaathE thambi thoongaathE'. There is a Seergaazhi Govindarajan song too in the film, I forgot how it starts. Naadodi mannan was the first film directed by MGR.

- PattukkOttai himself was born in an ordinary farmer family in 1930. He wrote a lot of thought provoking songs showing his sympathy to the Communist agenda. He died at a young age of 29, probably the biggest loss to TFM.

- Pazhaiya Paadal Pakkam on PattukkOttai: http://www.tfmpage.com/ppp/pattukottai.html

- Check out the excellent discussions in the thread 'thiraippAdalgaLil samudhAyak karuththukkaL' here: http://www.tfmpage.com/forum/174.11.41.09.html .

Discussion Pages in TFMPage on this Song

http://tfmpage.com/forum/18546.20880.03.21.22.html

http://tfmpage.com/forum/24106.20880.03.21.22.html

http://tfmpage.com/forum/563.20880.03.21.22.html