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Song of the Day # 955

From: bb on: Thu Jul 10, 2008 4:47 am

Song of the Day: MSV and Jolly Abraham- Part IV.

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- Saravanan writes:

MSV and Jolly Abraham- Part 4



Let us take up today the next 2 MSV-Jolly Abraham collaborations, both of them delectable Jolly Abraham- Vani Jairam duets.

The first is ‘mayangum uLLangaL’ for the movie ‘mahalakshmi’. Jaishankar, Sangeetha, Asokan and Major Sundararajan were the actors in the movie that was produced by Aruppukkotai S. Arumugam and directed by R. Pattabhiraman.

Listen to ‘mayangum uLLangaL’ from mahalakshmi (1979/Arumugam Arts)
Sung by Jolly Abraham & Vani Jairam
Lyrics by Kannadasan
Music by M.S. Viswanathan

Filled with the master’s famed flourishes, this song was another Radio Ceylon favourite that found itself consigned unfairly to the dustbin of history.

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We now progress to 1980. We find Jolly Abraham singing for T. Rajendar and A.A. Raj, and the song ‘ada manmathan ratchikkaNum’ (oru thalai raagam) was a runaway hit. Jolly also sang for Vijayabhaskar this year; the song ‘iravil iraNdu paRavaigaL’ (soundharyamE varuga varuga) in which Jolly’s co-singers were P. Suseela, SPB and Vani Jairam, was put up as SOTD here:

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Resuming our trail of MSV-Jolly Abraham collaborations, we look first at the Malayalam songs that MSV reserved for Jolly Abraham this year. The song that comes to mind at once is the lilting duet with P. Suseela ‘kannipoovinnu kalyaaNam’ for the movie Lorry. Another popular Malayalam song that Jolly sang for MSV in 1980 is ‘ponnunkula pookkula’ with L.R. Anjali.

In Tamil, 1980 saw Jolly Abraham singing 2 songs for MSV, and let us take up the first one in this chapter. The song is ‘gangai karaiyil viLaindha kavithai’ from the movie ‘geetha oru seNbagappoo’. The movie was produced by T.R. Krishnan and G.M. Mani, and directed by S.A. Kannan. The story revolved around Geetha (Lavanya) whose marriage has been predetermined with her maternal uncle Thyagu (Srikanth). However, Geetha is in love with Saravanan (Jaiganesh), a tenant in their house. Saravanan in unaware of Geetha’s feelings; and he finds himself drawn to his superior at his workplace - Lalitha (Subhashini). Things move along predictable lines, with Geetha uniting with Thyagu in the end.

This song finds place as a dream sequence of Geetha… she imagines Saravanan carving her face on the riverside rocks, and from there they are transported to a distant time in history when as lovers they strolled across continents and centuries…

Listen to ‘gangai karaiyil’ from geetha oru seNbagappoo (1980/Rajeswari Movies)
Sung by Jolly Abraham & Vani Jairam
Lyrics by Kannadasan
Music by M.S. Viswanathan

Kannadasan dips his pen in a magic potion of joyous romance, and the verdant verses flow on….Jolly Abraham gives the song an arresting opening. The master designs an intricate structure with the lines taking a captivating convoluted path marked by staggering turns. Vani makes a bewitching entry with a caressing humming. The interlude that follows is truly magnificent. A remarkable composition.




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